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Revisiting 42: stalked by a giant anthropomorphic squirrel

When we last saw Mr. Peanut (in my 1/13/20 posting “Just one peanut”), he was tortured by nightmares of being buried alive by an anthropomorphic squirrel: (#1) That squirrel has now come alive in a...

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The missing

The Rhymes With Orange on the 1st takes us into two worlds, the somewhat fantastical Laundry World and, in the parallel everyday world, with the missing persons bureau in a city police department: (#1)...

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The Dread Pirate Swisserhand

A Dale Coverly Speed Bump cartoon from 2012: (#1) Not just the pirate captain of legend — Captain Hook from Peter Pan — with his hook, but one with a whole Swiss Army knife of tools as his (right)...

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A priest, a rabbit, and a minister

… walk into a bar. And into a Walk Into Bar joke, which then goes doubly meta. The rabbit brings a really big beer to the event. The joke has been around in print, in one form or another, for maybe 20...

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Higashi Day cartoon 1: grim Bliss surprise

Here at Ramona Electronica, the cartoons have been piling up haphazardly, making awkward barriers to even the smallest simulated movements around the labyrinth of virtual rooms. So now, a modest effort...

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Higashi Day cartoon 1: grim Bliss surprise

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Higashi Day cartoon 2: the stigma of striphood

The last two panels of the Doonesbury for March 8th, one of Trudeau’s pointedly political strips, about people whose reputations have been soiled by their association with Helmet Grabpussy: what does...

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Higashi Day cartoon 4: tending the stone

(Yes, “Higashi Day cartoon 3: sentence-initial anymore” is still on its way; it’s just turned out to be gigantic.) From various Facebook sources, a JAK (Jason Adam Katzenstein) cartoon on his Twitter...

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Chez Le Fourmilier II

The Wayno/Piraro Bizarro of 3/25 returns us to Restaurant Row in Anteaterville: (#1) The chef of Chez Le Fourmilier brings an ant farm to the table for the delectation of an enthusiastic diner wearing...

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The Desert Island Psychiatrist

Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro combo is also a cartoon meme combo: Desert Island + Psychiatrist: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 7 in this strip —...

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The labors of Corónsyphùs

Bob Eckstein today in Wired: (#1) The Sísyphùs of the corónavìrus, always at his labors A natural cartoon idea, which many have latched onto. Bob posted #1 on his FB page today, eliciting this...

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The Grim Mouser

The 4/13 Rhymes With Orange brings us the Grim Reaper and his cats (we know from Terry Pratchett that Death is fond of cats): (#1) We don’t know if this Grim Reaper is a general operator, reaping souls...

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Quick shot: no creme for Godzilla

Yesterday’s Weekly Humorist cartoon “Missing Something?” by Bob Eckstein: (#1) In the Godzilla cartoon meme, saurian movie monsters exhibit their famous appetite for pieces of the urban landscape,...

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The therapist is in French

The following cartoon, in French and unattributed, has been making its way around Facebook in the last few days: (#1) “How do you [polite] feel this week?” – “Much better.” Therapist and patient, both...

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Two cartoons for late April

In the world of annually recurring dates, Wednesday was Earth Day, Thursday was St. George’s Day, and tomorrow is World Penguin Day. Into this olla podrida of holidays walk a pastor, a priest, a rabbi,...

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A pandemic meta-cartoon

By JAK (Jason Adam Katzenstein), the New Yorker daily cartoon from yesterday: “Personally, I worry that, with everyone wearing masks, readers won’t be able to tell who in the cartoon is speaking.” The...

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Force Cor

Passed on by Jeff Bowles on FB today, this Pearls Before Swine cartoon from 2017: By far the most outrageous elaborate pun I’ve seen from Pastis (others can be found in the Page on Pearls Before Swine...

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Death trap

The 5/27 Wayno/Piraro Bizarro collabo brings us two Grim Reapers confronting what might be a trap for them: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in...

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tribute time

Annals of pandemic vocabulary: the N + N compound tribute time ‘a time (moment in a day) for tribute’, specialized for a specific form of tribute (largely, clapping) to a specific group of tributees...

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Pavlov’s novelist

Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro collabo, with a groaner pun on the name F. Scott Fitzgerald (the American writer) plus an instance of the Pavlov cartoon meme: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in...

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