Offered to me recently, from different sources, two cartoons on the season and death (or Death, the Grim Reaper). Two cartoonists new to this blog, as well.
Passed on by Juan Gomez, the 10/15 Take It From The Tinkersons, by Bill Bettwy:
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And from several Facebook posters, this direct confrontation with the Reaper in a Jim Benton cartoon:
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Yesterday I posted about (among other things) the song “That’s Amore”, as made famous by Dean Martin. Immediately friends began providing plays on the title: That’s a Moray”. Eels! It turns out that there is a small industry in this bit of linguistic playfulness. On to the parodies, and then some words about morays.
Some time back I was assauted by the Dean Martin recording of “That’s Amore”, a hymn to love that includes the ugly lines
When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool / That’s amore
The word drool just doesn’t belong in a song about love; nor for that matter does the line “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie”. And what’s pasta-and-bean soup / stew doing in there?
The song is a play on all things Italian-American, including Martin using an Italian-American accent in English (which came to him legitimately, from childhood), where the Italian in question is the language (with its accompanying peasant culture) of Italian immigrants to the US, that is, primarily the Neapolitan language (and its accompanying culture), of the Italian south, and not by any means something approaching standard Italian. Along with the linguistic features come the peasant foods of the south, in particular pizza and pasta e faglioli (Ital.) / pasta fasule (Neap.).
Today’s Zippy, at a diner in New Jersey:
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Griffy contemplates vegetarianism, while Zippy throws out a series of off-center comments.
The Bizarro from the 14th:
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(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.)
The Cody mentioned by the bartender is “Buffalo Bill” Cody, the renowned bison hunter, and it looks like he has Jerry, the bison in the cartoon, in his crosshairs. (Since this is CartoonLand, we don’t shrink from the idea of a bison tossing back a drink in a bar.) Two cartoon puzzles: what’s the figure in the foreground doing in the cartoon? And why is the bison called Jerry?
Yesterday’s ad from Daily Jocks:
Supaman has only to rub his
Hands together, or grind his
Crotch against a hot guy, and
Sparks will fly. His energy can
Drive a roomful of men into
Heat… Plus, he knows everything
About renewable power.
Today’s Rhymes, in which a scarecrow gets a medical diagnosis:
As a one-time gardener, I thrill to the word loam, and of course I’m tickled by the idea of the scarecrow’s straw stuffing composting into dark, loamy soil, but my immediate focus here is the POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) in the side comment below the title.
This morning’s name, which I couldn’t immediately place. Turns out I’d posted about her once, as the artist of a cartoon about English teachers. Now more information, and some dog-related cartoons.
The Rhymes With Orange cartoon of the 11th:
A play on the ambiguity of the noun help. Among its senses in NOAD2 are these:
[1] the action of helping someone to do something; assistance: I asked for help from my neighbors | thank you for your help.
[2] [in sing.] a person or thing that helps: he was a great help.
Lassie is trained to assist people (the first sense), so she leaps (literally) to the rescue here (yes, we need to assume that the dog can read and understand English, but this is CartoonWorld, not the real world). The sign in the window, however, is seeking help in the second sense, specifically someone to work in the place.
More following-up on an AZBlogX posting on some physical characteristics of penises — angle of incidence and curvature — that I posted about here on 9/21/15, in “The angle of your erection”: two more AZBlogX postings:
of 10/7/15, “Angle and curvature, again”, with two illustrations (one from the net, one in an ad for a TitanMen gay porn flick)
of 10/13/15, “More angle and curvature”, with two illustrations from the Channel 1 Releasing gay porn flick Splash. with more discussion of angles and curvatures
The images are all X-rated, and the text is in very plain language, so this material is not for the kiddies or the sexually mdest.