After my recent cartoon posting on legalese, John Lawler was reminded of this cartoon by John Caldwell:
What the two cartoons share is an appeal to an expert in an emergency.
In the earlier Bizarro cartoon, an accident victim is identified as a lawyer, and an appeal goes out for someone who speaks legalese. In the bizarre Caldwell above, a bystander offers himself as an expert in dealing with the victim of a freak accident.
(There are almost surely other accident victim + expert gag cartoons. It’s a trope, though I don’t know what name it goes by.)
The brief word on the cartoonist, from Wikipedia:
John I. Caldwell (born 1946) is a nationally syndicated American gag cartoonist primarily known for his work in National Lampoon and Mad, where he is a member of “The Usual Gang of Idiots.”
August 8, 2014 at 12:03 pm |
Like a Mad Lib. 😀