The terrible truth about bubble wrap
A Joe Dator cartoon in the June 19th New Yorker: (#1) which will lead us to today’s Mother Goose and Grimm: (#2) Along the way we’ll visit the naugas and their hides. Daddy, where does bubble wrap come...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Clark and Bruce: SuperBat of Pink Steel Forever
Not a bit shy, Their desire Writes its name In the sky. Batman and Superman, locking together, man to man: (#1) Madrid wall art by Ze Carrión Image from my superhero-sex posting, which also has an...
View ArticleOffice Goofiosity cuisine
Yesterday’s Zippy: (#1) Themes here: cooking, masculinity, cartoonishness / cartooniness, the Disney cartoon character Goofy, funny laughs, office supplies. Background: cartoonish Goofiosity. From a...
View ArticleToonies and their toons
Yesterday a Zippy posting took us to the cartoony district of Dingburg, where the Pinheads are flagrantly cartoonish rather than “normal”. Now two more strips have followed, showing us more about...
View ArticleVlad the Employer
A Jason Chatfield cartoon in the July 10&17 New Yorker: (#1) The cartoon is amusing as the working out of the absurd pun in Employer vs. Impaler. But it also manages to allude simultaneously to the...
View ArticleBrewster Rockit to the rescue
[revised version] From David Preston, yesterday’s Brewster Rockit comic strip, in a male character attempts to mansplain mansplaining to Pamela Mae Snap (aka Irritable Belle): (#1) (Note strategic use...
View ArticleAugust 21st: two cartoons
… in the New Yorker. By Tom Toro (cartoon meme and self-referential as well) and Sara Lautman (pun!): (#1) (#2) Tom Toro now has a Page of his own on this blog., with links to other cartoons and...
View ArticleSpeaking, writing, bubbles
The Mother Goose and Grimm for the 23rd: When Grimm speaks in a cartoon bubble, what he says appears in printed English — because, after all, a cartoon bubble (aka speech bubble) is piece of visual...
View ArticleClowns and their balloon animals
Yesterday’s Bizarro: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.) The old cartoon meme of the clown and his balloon animals, but...
View ArticleThree kinds of cartoons
In an old New Yorker (from 7/6/15), two cartoons that especially struck me: a Mick Stevens meta-cartoon, and a Liana Finck with a playful word transposition. The second led me to a Finck from this...
View ArticleMoby Chick, Moby Duck, Moby Dip
… and more, starting with Moby Chick in today’s Bizarro: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 8 in this strip — see this Page.) Watch out for the big...
View ArticleMemory and the power of diner food
Yesterday’s Zippy (“The flying bucket on Sepulveda”) took us to Dinah’s Fried Chicken on Sepulveda Blvd. in LA. Today, Zippy continues the narrative with remembrances of diner foods past — rice...
View ArticleGeorge Booth at 90: elephants and holidays
The 1/1/18 New Yorker cover, by George Booth: (#1) To come: about this cover; Booth covers for the holidays; the metaphorical idiom elephant in the room and its exploitation by artists and cartoonists....
View ArticleOut of the Inkwell
Wednesday’s Zippy takes us back to a delightful animated meta-comic of almost a century ago: (#1) Check out the Koko Cartoon Factory animated short here. The character Koko comes out of an inkwell,...
View ArticleMore George Booth
A follow-up to my 12/29/17 posting “George Booth at 90: elephants and holidays”: five of my favorite Booth cartoons. (#1) A Dog In Bar meme cartoon (#2) Married life, and the writer’s life (#3) One of...
View ArticleFour more recent cartoons
Four cartoons yesterday that present interesting challenges in understanding. Now a mixed set of four more — a Zits, a Zippy, a One Big Happy, and a Dilbert — that have accumulated in my posting queue....
View ArticleTell them you haven’t seen him
Today’s Bizarro (another Piraro/Wayno collaboration): (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see this Page.) To understand the strip,...
View ArticleDeath’s end
Mick Stevens in the February 26th New Yorker: (#1) The Grim Reaper reaped I was immediately reminded of the 5th verse of the Isaac Watts 1707 hymn text “Lo! what a glorious sight appears”, which is set...
View ArticleFamiliar cartoon themes: Waldo and sugar bombs
In today’s cartoon feeds, a new Bizarro/Wayno collaboration, with another Waldo strip, and a Calvin and Hobbes replay (from 3/5/88), with another in a series of sugar bomb cereal strips: (#1) (If...
View ArticleThe scythe in the casket
The cartoon caption contest in the latest (March 12th) New Yorker: The Grim Reaper laid to rest. The Grim Reaper is a well-worn cartoon meme, amply illustrated in postings on this blog. Startlingly, a...
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