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Clown and balloon animal, take 4
The New Yorker has recently been on something of a run with the cartoon meme of the clown and his balloon animal. One (by Ken Krimstein) I haven’t chronicled before, from the October 3rd issue: Man in...
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The mazel tov cocktail
From the Washington Post on the 7th, “Actually, the Mazel Tov cocktail is real. And it’s delicious” by Maura Judkis, beginning: In what will be perhaps the last great moment of comedy this presidential...
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Penguins among the asparagus
Two Charles Addams cartoons from New Yorkers of years ago: a penguin-themed one from 4/27/57 and an asparagus-themed one from 5/25/63: (#1) (#2) “You telephone ‘Better Homes & Gardens.’ I’ll start...
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A show about nothingness
Or: Seen on the tube, darkly. Two recent Zippys, in which a Dingburg Seinfeld cult re-works episodes from the tv show in dark ways: (#1) (#2) Griffith uses the very same artwork for all eight panels,...
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Word balloons
The Zippy from the 19th thrusts us into the world of word (or speech) balloons (or bubbles): (#1) Caricaturist James Gillray is the star of this strip, in which the figures of Griffy and Zippy are...
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Gender and sexuality in the comics
In today’s comics feed, a Bizarro on paleolithic heterosexual rituals; and a One Big Happy in which Ruthie reflects on projections of masculinity in men’s clothing: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd...
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Cavenips
An Avi Steinberg cartoon in the March 20th New Yorker, combining cavemen, clothing, and nipples: (#1) Cavemen: a cartoon meme. Clothing: one-shoulder garments for men. And of course men’s nipples. And...
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Billy Zane
I first noticed him in some episodes of the tv series Charmed, playing a personable (and hunky) ex-demon named Drake. And now he’s coming past me again, in the second season of Twin Peaks, once again...
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The Ahab-Moby affair
Today’s Bizarro: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.) A new version of the Ahab and Moby-Dick (the captain and the...
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A primate with a pipe
Yesterday’s Bizarro is yet another Ascent of Man evolution cartoon, but this time a guy intervenes at the ape stage to offer a stupid outfit to wear and a pipe to pretend to smoke: (#1) This is an...
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Three more Reapings
The latest bulletin from Pinterest featured a Reaper Jokes board maintained by Kathy-Lynn Cross. More Grim Reaper cartoons, including one that especially caught my eye because of the two idioms in the...
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A cross-comic moment
Yesterday’s Mother Goose and Grimm goes meta, with a scene in the Dr. Seuss Cafe involving Dr. Seuss cartoon characters: (#1) The Cat in the Hat is spoiling for a fight with a Sneetch (on the left) and...
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A scent of man
On Dan Piraro’s Bizarro blog on the 9th, thoughts on cartoon memes, especially the Ascent of Man meme, with this wonderful new cartoon: The Caveman meme, with the paleo guy lounging provocatively in a...
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A pun with death, a dance on the beach
On Pinterest this morning, this Grim Reaper cartoon by Myke Ashley-Cooper (under the name Ashley Cooper): (#1) A pun on death/deaf or a mishearing, take your pick. This cartoon led me to...
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Potato Head Strip Poker
Today’s Bizarro: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see this Page.) Potato Heads, as toys with detachable body parts, are frequent...
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Nudist penguins on parade
Today’s Bizarro: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see this Page.) In the penguin cartoon meme, penguins are in fact wearing “penguin...
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Slow turtle and even slower snail
Today’s Rhymes With Orange takes us to Camp Slowly and the slow snail cartoon meme (which has come up here a couple of times), plus the slow turtle cartoon meme (which is also venerable, but seems not...
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Detached bodyparts in the comics
Remarkably, together in today’s comics feed, two cartoons about detached body parts. One, an instance of the Potato Head cartoon meme in Bizarro: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the...
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Griffy Dimwit
… on cutural memory and the nature of the comics, in two recent Zippy strips: (#1) (#2) Denny Dimwit. In both strips, Griffy the cartoonist presents himself in the form of Denny Dimwit, the dunce...
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