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Two parrots and a pear tree
On Pinterest recently, a board devoted to Bizarro cartoons, including a fair number relevant to this blog but not previously posted here — from which, the three below (all the work of Dan Piraro alone,...
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The bull validates Peter’s family
Three more Bizarro cartoons from the past, from another crop on Pinterest, with: an allusion you need to catch to understand the cartoon; a complex pun; and laugh-inducing names. From 6/9/09, the bull....
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Taming the bull
In the New Yorker issue of 2/15&22/21, the winning caption to a drawing by Joe Dator: (#1) ‘Twas commissions tamed the bull Well, yes, the cartoon has the bull talking and taking orders and...
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Smell the roses in a field
Two cartoons in my comics feed on 2/25 (otherwise known as Yay! Pfizer1 Day! at my house) on language play: a Wayno/Piraro Bizarro playing on formulaic language (the metaphorical idiom / cliché stop...
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By their consumer products you shall know them
The Zippy strip from two days ago (3/9) on the roadside culture of working-class (and largely white and male) North America: (#1) By their consumer products you shall know them: gas, energy drinks,...
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Tramp stamps
and odalisques (with their erotic lumbar regions, aka lower backs) and rhyming disparagements (like tramp stamp and slag tag). It starts with the Zits comic strip of 3/26: (#1) The rhyming (and...
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Mind-Blowing Theories
Tom Gauld cartoons from New Scientist magazine, in a 2020 collection: (#1) — with three cartoons that especially caught my interest. One on science vs. journalism over de-extinction (already posted on...
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With knitted brows
(Significantly about sex between men, often in street language, so thoroughly unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest.) On 5/1, e-mail from HUNT magazine (which hawks gay video porn) featuring a...
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More bears in the woods
A Leigh Rubin Bears in the Woods cartoon from a few years ago: (#1) A follow-up to my 11/1/19 posting “Bears in the Woods”, which had 5 cartoons on the theme of bears shitting in the woods, including a...
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proofreading
The One Big Happy strip from 5/28: We all, from time to time, come across a word we haven’t experienced before (or didn’t register having experienced it), and just guess, often tacitly, at its...
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Zippy exits, pursued by a board
(Warning: high fecality content, which some may find unpleasant.) Todays Zippy strip, in which Zippy is subjected to stoner / surfer verbal abuse: (#1) Zippy and his surf iron As usual, there’s a lot...
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A stone solid pro
(Largely about male prostitution, so distasteful to many, but not, I think, actually over any lines.) A stone solid pro, a street hustling boy, plying his trade for a better grade of customers,...
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9/9: not a non-event
(Astonishingly, this silly posting will devolve into references to male pubes (NOAD entertains both /pjúbìz/ and /pjubz/ as pronunciations, by the way, so do as thou wilt) and photos of hunky young men...
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Powerfully eruptive, yet respectful of his anatomy
(Men’s underwear and its symbolic values, frank talk about male sexuality, but otherwise not over lines; use your judgment.) Powerfully eruptive, yet respectful of his anatomy: the vaunted twin virtues...
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Death on the couch
… or, The Grim therapist ‘therapist for the Grim (Reaper)’: today’s Rhymes With Orange cartoon, with its compounding of two cartoon memes, Grim Reaper and Psychiatrist” (#1) The crucial element in the...
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Flipping with the cowboys
(Substantial section on English syntax and semantics, but even that is about raunchy sexual vocabulary — so it’s pretty much wall to wall about sex between men, in street language, with photos:...
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Office zombies
The New Yorker daily cartoon for 10/11 by Navied Mahdavian and Asher Perlman commits an unusually long POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau): “We both have work in the morning.” The ingredients: the...
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Now we’re cooking with carrots
From Ann Gulbrandsen (in Sweden) on Facebook today, a wonderful still life of earthy carrots: Ann wrote (in Swedish; what follows is the Google Translate version in English, which is, um, flatfooted,...
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Pissing and moaning with Ed Koren
From the 2018 cartoon collection Koren in the Wild (my copy of which arrived today), this New Yorker cartoon (published in the magazine on 9/6/99): Working-class masculinity — the bar, pissing and...
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Break, break, break
In the 11/2 One Big Happy, Joe fails to honor a promise, which of course makes Ruthie think about hyphenating printed text: (#1) NOAD on the verb break (Joe: sense 3a; Ruthie: sense 1a) and the noun...
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