Today’s Bizarro, a Sunday strip from Dan Piraro alone, is a Magritte double play:
The Magritte pipe in panel 1, the Magritte apple in panel 3 (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — DP says there are 6 in this strip — see this Page)
The Magritte pipe is, paradoxically, disavowed in The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images). The Magritte (green) apple conceals its bearer’s face in The Son of Man (Le fils de l’homme) — but seems to be on his driver’s license, so that it, paradoxically, makes him recognizable to the traffic cop.
June 17, 2024 at 9:42 am |
I wonder if for some reason there are multiple versions of this strip. I see it the online edition of the Boston Globe, and I found six symbols, none of which is the pipe. (I was disappointed, figuring he had to use the pipe in this one.)
June 17, 2024 at 12:38 pm |
Oh. When I read this entry the first time the image didn’t display, and the Globe didn’t have that first panel with the cervid.
June 17, 2024 at 1:47 pm
Ouch. Don’t know why there should have been a problem with the display. Or why the Globe removed the Zippy name panel.
June 17, 2024 at 10:58 pm
The display problem was almost certainly at my end. I’m traveling.
June 17, 2024 at 1:39 pm |
For current strips, the versions I post are the ones that come directly from the distributor (doing business as Comic Kingdom). These go out to newspapers and other outlets, which are free to alter the strips in various ways (cropping, eliminating the title, removing a panel, decolorizing, altering text); I assume there are limits to what they can change, but I don’t know what these are. Occasionally, a strip is too hot politically for some outlet (Griffith mocks Helmet Grabpussy from time to time), which then just doesn’t print that strip.
In any case, there are often several versions of a strip — but I see only the one from Comics Kingdom.