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The Long Hello
(Warning: after the McPhail, there will be some tasteless jokes, including two sexual ones) By Will McPhail, a delightful Ascent of Man (in this case, a self-possessed young woman) cartoon in the...
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A Biblical moment at the therapist’s
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, a Psychiatrist cartoon with a Biblical theme: (#1) Wayno’s title:”Revised Translation” (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4...
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Never-ending rock & roll
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro is a Sisyphus cartoon — the Greek mythological king (punished by having to endlessly roll a rock uphill) made into in a cartoon meme (many examples listed on the Page on...
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Promissory note: a cascade of fishy puns
(I am wretchedly sick again and in great pain, for complicated reasons I won’t explain here. Had nevertheless hoped to show that I could do a posting using only my damaged right hand. This is as much...
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Who will read the readers?
The new issue of the New Yorker (dated 11/20/23) brings us a Psychiatrist cartoon by Elisabeth McNair, one of a special subtype I’ll call In-Group Psychiatrist (in which a patient from some...
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Sense-shifting pun jokes
A common joke form exploits an ambiguous expression E. Prior likelihood or the preceding context in the joke favors one understanding for E, but then fresh context (in the joke) brings out another,...
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I’ll take Manhattan
An Ellis Rosen pun cartoon (which came by me on Facebook this morning) in which ER manages to treat Manhattan, the name of the island that’s one of the boroughs of New York City, as a pun on Manhattan,...
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Two formula comics
Nishi Day, 12/15, the day when I traditionally set off driving west from Columbus OH to Palo Alto CA for the winter quarter; and the day before the December Birthfest (celebrating Ludwig Beethoven,...
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A proto-Magritte
Artists — cartoonists included — rarely preserve and exhibit the drafts of their work, their proto-art. So we should be grateful to cartoonist Dan Misdea (in the latest, 2/26/24, New Yorker) for...
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Hold the mayo
Today’s Rhymes With Orange, a Psychiatrist cartoon in which a ketchup squeeze-bottle treats a mayonnaise jar: with a surprising pun on the verb hold, a pun that’s possible only because of the nature of...
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An AZ icon?
Thanks to a pointer from Jeff Bowles, this first panel from a Peanuts strip (dated by Charles Schulz as from 2/16/60), now a candidate for my on-line icon: (#1) Schroeder at his toy piano, on which...
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Something in the way the pun unfolds
The Pearls Before Swine strip of 4/21 has cartoonist Stephan Pastis committing a formula pun joke, a genre of humor at which he’s a master: (#1) Pig assembles, for Goat as his straight man, the parts...
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Shrink me, doctor!
Today’s Sunday Bizarro by Dan Piraro, yet another Bizarro Psychiatrist cartoon, this time with a guy in need of a shrink ‘act of shrinking’, appealing to a shrink ‘headshrinker, psychotherapist’ (so...
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In the can
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro takes us to the world of talking tennis balls, where one of them commits a bathroom pun on the noun can ‘cylindrical metal container’: (#1) Cylindrical metal containers...
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Snail, asleep
An Amy Hwang cartoon in the latest — 10/23 — issue of the New Yorker that I found hugely funny, for reasons I couldn’t at first explain: (#1) Well, there are people who can fall asleep (pretty much)...
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Former Frog in Fableland
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, in which a prince grouses, over a tipple, about his amatory career, to a nobleman, one of his courtiers: It seems the prince was once a frog and could rake in the chicks...
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Harry’s scaffolding
From New Yorker bob (Bob Eckstein) — a regular visitor on this blog — in the West Side Rag (in NYC), as reproduced in his 8/9 newsletter The Bob, this charmingly absurdist cartoon: (#1) Into an...
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Phaethon, Sisyphus, Putin, Darwin
It started with this rich (but baffling) painting on Pinterest a little while back: (#1) A young boy, standing in a lake or river, holds up a fish he has caught on a line, while a band of intense light...
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Ambiguity day in the comics
Complex ambiguities in the 9/25 comics: a Piccolo / Price Rhymes With Orange turning on the ambiguity of sham; and a Wayno / Piraro Bizarro turning on the ambiguity of tom: (#1) sham conveying fraud,...
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An underwater Psychiatrist cartoon
… in yesterday’s (10/16) Bizarro (Wayno’s title: “Subaquatic Psychology Session”): All about the noun favorite: an implicit superlative, denoting a top-ranking element in some comparison set, but it’s...
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