Arnold Zwicky's Blog

In yesterday’s mail, this cartoon card by Glenn McCoy:

  (#1)

Inside:

Arnold —
From the motssisi in
Ann Arbor
XOXO!
We miss you

(with signatures and messages from lots of people attending the motss.con in Ann Arbor last weekend). Very sweet.

And from the 10PerCent company recently, the same sentiment, but with a commercial purpose (and a smiling muscle hunk):

  (#2)

On Glenn McCoy, from Wikipedia:

Glenn McCoy is an American conservative cartoonist, whose work includes the comic strip The Duplex and the daily panel he does with his brother Gary entitled The Flying McCoys. McCoy also produces editorial cartoons.

Another language-related cartoon from McCoy, this time from The Flying McCoys:

  (#3)

This one turns on the ambiguity of do one’s business.

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