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 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)...
View ArticleThe 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)...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleHigashi 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...
View ArticleHigashi 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...
View ArticleHigashi 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...
View ArticleHigashi 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...
View ArticleChez 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...
View ArticleThe 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 —...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleQuick 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTwo 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,...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleForce 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...
View ArticleDeath 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...
View Articletribute 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...
View ArticlePavlov’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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