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Special counsel appointed
Informed opinion has been very positive about the appointment of Mueller as special counsel to investigate allegations in the semolina affair. Commenters are generally agreed that Mueller is a...
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Marco, Marco, Marco
(Men’s underwear, but nothing hard-core.) The Daily Jocks ad from the 9th, featuring the Marco Marco brand, with my caption: (#1) Maximum Marco in boxer briefs. Middle Marco in briefs. Minimal Marco in...
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Squid Pro Quo
This Non Sequitur cartoon by Wiley Miller: (#1) squid / quid. And squid as a source of ink, squid as food. . Hat tips to Chris Hansen and Josh Simon. On the cartoon, see this Page. Two crucial pieces...
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Brainless Tales, with more news for penises
#4 in my “Squid Pro Quo” posting is from Marcus Connor’s Brainless Tales, a new webcomic for me, but one largely devoted to language play. And immediately I came across this cartoon, with a portmanteau...
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“Farley”, the dog said, “get me a slice”
Three cartoons in today’s feed: a Bizarro with a talking dog; a One Big Happy with a slice that OMG might grow into a pizza; and a Zippy riff on Farley Granger and They Live by Night: (#1) (If you’re...
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Quesadilla benjamina (or something)
The One Big Happy in today’s comics feed, a charming 11-panel Sunday special: The panel I’m interested is the one right in the middle, panel 6, in which the kids’ father says, of the mystery leaf:...
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Not until you’ve fried it
Caught on a local tv station, an ad for Spam: (#1) An easy pun — fried for tried — on a formulaic expression, Don’t knock it until / ’til / till you’ve tried it. In service of an exhortation to enjoy...
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The word came down on Pentecost
Four language-related strips in my comics feed on Sunday the 4th, which this year was Pentecost, the Christian festival celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus after his...
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An old resultative joke
From Wilson Gray on ADS-L on the 6th, in a discussion of a joke that turns on a structural ambiguity, a totally different joke of this sort: A drunk is staggering along the sidewalk muttering to...
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Making fun of Batman
Two Batman cartoons have just come to me. Passed on by Chris Hansen, this uncaptioned (and unsourced) cartoon: (#1) Batman at a bustop with four old women: what to make of the scene? And in today’s...
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For Saul Steinberg
… on the occasion of his birthday (6/15/14; he died in 1999), three cartoons that came my way this morning: a Zits, a Gary Larson, and a Bill Whitehead (new to this blog). Steinberg. Illustrator,...
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More Magrittean disavowals
Today’s Zippy: (#1) One in a long series of Zippy strips about Tod Browning’s film Freaks, the characters in it, and the actors who played them (only some of them posted about here). Also one in a long...
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The Treasure of the Singlet Padre
Or: Happy Trails to You. It starts with a Richard Oliva photo in Steathy Cam Men on the 28th, with the caption “Hello, sexy daddy man!”: (#1) In leather singlet, displaying his furry pecs and treasure...
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POP go the pheromones
Two recent cartoons in my feed that play with language: a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) in Rhymes With Orange, an outrageous pun in Bizarro (a replay from 2009, first posted here on 2/15/14). (#1)...
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Chast, Haefeli, Kaplan
Three cartoons from the latest issue (July 10th and 17th) of the New Yorker, by Roz Chast (heirloom hot dogs), William Haefeli (gay couple with dog and baby), and Bruce Eric Kaplan (a visit from Dr....
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Two artists: Land, Chast
R. (for Ronnie) Land and Roz Chast, two American artists, out of the Art mainstream. Both entertain, both pointedly observe the culture around them. But otherwise they’re quite different: male vs....
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The running of the bulldogs
In the latest series (“It’s Not Surprising”) of GEICO tv ads, “Running of the Bulldogs”, with its silly play on the running of the bulls. A screen shot: (#1) Description from iSpot.tv: Men in white run...
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Vlad 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...
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Brewster 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...
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Amoeba humor
A classic Gary Larson cartoon, which came up on Pinterest this morning: (#1) Pun time at the protist corral, playing on Anglicized Spanish adios, amigos ‘goodbye, friends’ (perhaps better in AmE: ‘so...
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