Today’s Zippy, another exercise in cartoonization, a transformation of an image (in this case, Magritte’s Le therapeute) by stages into a Zippy scene:
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The Magritte original:
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Archive for March, 2015
More cartoonization
March 10, 2015A note on morning names
March 9, 2015Commenting on my postings on “morning names” (collected here), which are names that come to me unbidden upon awakening, Mike McKinley makes the connection to something else that might come to a man unbidden upon awakening, namely morning wood, which led him to Ed Wood — surely the perfect morning name.
The bookish cartoonist
March 9, 2015
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The work of Tom Gauld, surely the world’s most bookish cartoonist.
PT
March 9, 2015Today’s Rhymes With Orange:
Just a bit of silliness on word-initial PT pronounced /t/ (with a “silent P”).
Reading new names
March 9, 2015Well, names that are new to you. In today’s One Big Happy:
Apparently unfamiliar with Spanish personal names, Ruthie treats FIDEL as the closest word she can read: FIDDLE. And then sticks to that.
The Wikipedia page tells us that
The strip takes place on Buena Vista Avenue and in an unspecified city based on Baltimore, Maryland, where the creator grew up.
Apparently in a very Anglo neighborhood of near-Baltimore.
More on the sports interview
March 9, 2015In a comment on a Bizarro cartoon on the vacuity of sports interviews (#2 here), Stan Carey supplies a fine VectorBelly strip on the subject:
(The verbing sports is entertaining.)
Morning name: salsify (with Swiss chard as a bonus)
March 9, 2015This morning’s name: salsify (the plant and its edible taproot), with Swiss chard (the leafy green) as a bonus.
To start: from Wikipedia:
Tragopogon, also known as salsify or goatsbeard, is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower [Asteraceae or Compositae] family. It includes the vegetable known as salsify, as well as a number of common wild flowers, some of which are usually regarded as weeds.
The vegetable called salsify is usually the root of the purple salsify, Tragopogon porrifolius; the root is described as having the taste of oysters (hence the alternative common name “oyster plant” for some species in this genus), but more insipid with a touch of sweetness. [Many describe the taste as “nutty” rather than like oysters.] The young shoots of purple salsify can also be eaten, as well as young leaves. Other species are also used in the same way, including the black or Spanish salsify, Scorzonera hispanica, which is closely related though not a member of the genus Tragopogon.
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Ed Koren
March 9, 2015From the March 9th issue of the New Yorker, In the Art part of the “Goings On About Town” section:
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Ed Koren’s new show, “Wet Ink.” includes the above lithograph and others from his “Bikes and Beasts” series, as well as drawings published in this magazine. It opens on March 5 at the Luise Ross gallery.
Though Koren is a great favorite of mine, it seems I haven’t posted any of his cartoons in this blog. But here’s my chance.
cruffin
March 8, 2015In yesterday’s NYT, the story “During Bakery Break-In, Only Recipes Are Taken” by Carol Pogash, about the cruffin situation in San Francisco:
San Francisco — It takes three days to make a cruffin, a muffin-croissant hybrid that is the signature of Ry Stephen, a 28-year-old pastry chef. His shop, Mr Holmes Bakehouse, has been open three months and inspired a wild following, with customers lining up early to buy the ice-cream-cone-shaped cruffins, which reliably sell out before the line is gone.
“It creates its own frenzy,” said Rebecca Flint Marx, editor of San Francisco Magazine’s food section, who noted that not only are cruffins a cult item — and at $4.50, relatively affordable — but they are also camera-ready, as photos on Instagram attest. Fillings include caramel, strawberry milkshake or Fluffernutter cream (among other flavors), depending on Mr. Stephen’s mood.
Now, the tempting sweet may have inspired a crime. Overnight last week, a thief stole the recipe for cruffins, and Mr. Stephen’s 230 other recipes, from binders in the bakery’s kitchen. Nothing else in the store was touched: not money, valuable baking equipment, an iPad or other computers. And while Mr. Stephen has copies of the recipes on his office computer, and the store opened almost on time the next morning, he was understandably upset.
Bromancing the Bone
March 8, 2015My current favorite gay porn title of the outrageous pun variety: Romancing the Stone > Bromancing the Bone. We start with the portmanteau noun bromance. From Wikipedia:
A bromance is a close, emotionally-intense, non-sexual bond between two (or more) men. It is an exceptionally tight affectional, homosocial male bonding relationship that exceeds that of usual friendship
This can then be verbed and (separately) sexualized, to refer to what are sometimes called brolovers (there’s a brolovers site on tumblr, which has sexy images, many with a definitely romantic cast to them, as below).
That gets us to bromancing. Then the object bone, slang for an (erect) penis, which echoes the stone of the title Romancing the Stone and throws in some alliteration as well.