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Fropm the recent comics crop, two Bizarros (one old, one new) and (via Arne Adolfsen) two recent New Yorker cartoons, a Roz Chast and a Tom Cheney,

A Bizarro from 6/2/07:

(#1)

Like various evangelical sects, but with no message.

And very recently:

(#2)

A pun on pronounce / pronouns, plus the actual pronouns.

Then the Chast, with a play on the familiar children’s rhyme:

(#3)

Finally, the Cheney, with a pun on strike:

(#4)

Chast is an old friend in these precincts, but Cheney is, I think, new. From Wikipedia:

Tom Cheney (born 1954) is an American cartoonist. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia and grew up in Saranac Lake, NY, and later in Watertown, New York. A staff cartoonist with The New Yorker, his work has appeared in over 500 publications in the United States and other countries, including National Lampoon, The Harvard Business Review, Mad Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Punch, Barron’s Magazine, and the “Commies From Mars” comic book series.

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