🎄- 1: 12/24, Christmas Eve, and a cold rain’s a-fallin’. But along comes the New Yorker‘s 12/23/24 issue, the annual Cartoons and Puzzles issue, with a section on “cartoons about fine, good, and excellent dining to whet your appetite”, plus a full budget of cartoons sprinkled throughout the issue.
From all of which I’ve selected three memic cartoons:
–from the dining section, a comic turn on one of the great parody magnets of art
— then a Psychiatrist cartoon especially for the Christmas season
— and a Desert Island cartoon, which is at least about gift-giving
The parody magnet. A parody by Colin Tom of the late-night diner scene in Edward Hopper’s 1942 Nighthawks:
(#1) The Tom parody preserves two of the four characters from Hopper’s original, but the place is no longer a scene of urban desolation (and everything’s gone all cartoony):
(#2) The original
A number of other parodies are catalogued in the Page on this blog about my parody postings.
The Christmas Psychiatrist cartoon. Santa himself on the couch in this cartoon by Adam Sacks:
(#3) The terrible burden of knowing who’s been naughty (and how): humor with a sting
A number of readers ended up just hoping it was SAD, a distressing affliction for Santa, but (presumably) more manageable than coping with the entire panorama of human misdeeds.
The Desert Island gift cartoon. More human folly, but more light-hearted, in this Roland High cartoon:
(#4) A novel use for that poor palm tree
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