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Give a frugal cartoonist a donut strip …
… and they’ll use the old cartoon artwork for another strip, with fresh text: a new, improved donut. Case in point: today’s (12/30, New Year’s Eve Eve) Zippy strip: (#1) The big donut by the side of...
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The superhero in green
That would be old original Z-Man, who is now (according to today’s Zippy the Pinhead strip) your flight-empowered guide into the pop-cultural past: (#1) The first of (at least) three incarnations of...
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Hunkawaii moments in great art
From Japanese-born New York artist Naruki Kukita, an art-world three-way: hunky men (some from gay porn) displaying their bodies collide with kawaii-cute manga figures to pose in canonical settings of...
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Today in couples therapy
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with yet another instance of the Ahab and the Whale cartoon meme: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see...
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Out of the water and back again
In the 9/21 issue of the New Yorker, this Lila Ash cartoon “Evolution of Man”: (#1) New Yorker description of the cartoon: The evolution of man from a fish to a human throwing their phone in the water,...
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The penguinocalypse
Circulating on Facebook (and many other sites) recently, this penguinocalypse cartoon: (#1) I call this a cartoon because it’s a marriage of a quite specific text with a quite specific image,...
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The Mankoff rat cartoon
On Language Log on October 5th, Mark Seidenberg, “Cartoonist walks into a language lab”: [Bob] Mankoff’s involvement in humor research isn’t a joke. He almost completed a Ph.D. in experimental...
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November 11th, 2014
… was a banner day for cartoons in the New Yorker. Waiting a few minutes to get called in for routine blood tests at the Palo Alo Medical Foundation this morning, I chanced upon this particular issue...
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Cartoon characters’ self-awareness
Yesterday’s Bizarro, way meta: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbol in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there’s just one — see this Page.) The conceit here is that the characters that appear in comic...
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Peter Kuper
It starts with a single-panel gag cartoon in the April 2016 Funny Times: (#1) First, things you need to know to get this cartoon. Then, information about cartoonist and graphic novelist Peter Kuper and...
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Between the desert and the couch
The May Day Bizarro, in Cartoon Cliché Land: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.) This time Piraro has done my work for me,...
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The Ascent of Bruce
In the February issue of Funny Times, this cartoon by political cartoonist Taylor Jones: The third figure in the progression is Bruce Jenner, the fourth Caitlin Jenner. Some words about Caitlin Jenner,...
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Ahab and the whale
It started innocently enough, with a Jack Ziegler cartoon in the January 11th New Yorker: (#1) Captain Ahab, identifiable through his peg leg and harpoon, is apparently looking for his whale in a book...
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manga/anime hair
Yesterday’s Zippy: (#1) This follows on the previous day’s posting on (among other things) manga eyes. Note the verbing of the adjective surreal in the second panel: surreal it ‘make it surreal’....
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A query on comic conventions
A query from regular reader Andy Sleeper on the 15th, about conventions in the comics. Andy reported on two cases where he’d seen flanking punctuation used to indicate that what was inside the...
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Thought balloons
In the July 2015 Funny Times (p. 10), a cartoon about cartoon conventions, which I’ll have to describe to you rather than show to you (for reasons I’ll explain). It shows a man standing by a sidewalk...
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Obscenicons
Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm: Ralph understands what symbols are, and even that in this context only symbols that aren’t alphanumerics count, but he hasn’t figured out that obscenicons are a...
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Miss Peach
In response to my Zippy posting earlier today in which I looked for the source of the strip’s title, “Peachy Keen”, Drew Smith suggested that the peach part came from the strip Miss Peach rather than...
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From cute to creepy
Today’s Zippy: (#1) The strip is both entertaining and instructive on its own, but then Bill Griffith would be unlikely to just invent a creepy cartoon character. And then there’s the title, “Peachy...
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More cartoonization
Today’s Zippy, another exercise in cartoonization, a transformation of an image (in this case, Magritte’s Le therapeute) by stages into a Zippy scene: (#1) The Magritte original: (#2) The story so far:...
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