Today’s Rhymes With Orange (guest cartoon by Rina Piccolo) plays on double and gang, incidentally threading into a bit of etymology:
Archive for the ‘Linguistics in the comics’ Category
The gang double
May 14, 2016Brill me tomorrow, Zippy
May 14, 2016Today’s Zippy takes us to an alternative (olfactory porcine) version of 1619 Broadway (at 49th St.) in NYC, where Goffni and Knig cranked out their hits:
Yes, another Zippy burlesque.
Ed Fisher across the Atlantic
May 14, 2016The cartoonist Ed Fisher (who now has his own Page on this blog) is most closely identified with the New Yorker (which published over 700 of his cartoons), but he drew for other publications as well, including the British weekly Punch. William Cole’s 1969 anthology The Punch Line: Presenting Today’s Top Twenty-five Cartoon Artists from England’s Famous Humo(u)r Magazine has a section devoted to him, in fact. From this volume, three cartoons of linguistic interest.
Gentle mockery
May 11, 2016Today’s Calvin and Hobbes:
Calvin in one of his roles, as a 6-year-old boy in love with the clash of titans and destruction on a massive scale (he also has his moments of knowledge and opinion beyond his years, about art, for instance), and Hobbes in one of his roles, as an affectionate older-brother figure (he also has his moments as a tiger with tigerish instincts and as a playmate for Calvin). But what is Hobbes’s gently mocking speech act here.
Shirtlifter
May 8, 2016A series of gay comics by Steve MacIsaac, using the slang shirtlifter as its title. The cover of issue #4 (2011):
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The two burly characters are Matt (on the left) and Connor (on the right). This posting is moatly about them. (more…)
Art or cartoon?
May 8, 2016The usual form of the question is about cartoons / comics: are they art (or Art)? Today’s Zippy inverts the question: are well-known pieces of “fine art” (here, by Picasso and Duchamp) actually cartoons / comics (possibly, graphic novels)?
Calvinesque humor
May 7, 2016Today’s replay of an old Calvin and Hobbes:
Classic humor: idiots, explosives, and falling anvils. Who could ask for anything more? Well, at least on Saturday morning, in front of a television set. If you’re a 6-year-old boy.
[Correction: my original posting said “falling animals”, rather than (the correct) “falling anvils”. Yes, I have a reading problem. I got new glasses last week, prescribed last October but only arrived last week, and they did indeed sharpen my vision, but they were also bifocals rather than the ordered trifocals. Missing the bit for viewing my computer screen. While my optometrists rage at and revile the firm that grinds the lenses, they told me to use the bifocals. But it turns out that with then I can see my computer screen only by taking off my glasses and getting really close to the screen. I’ve been making a lot of reading errors, like the “animals” one. Ok, now I’ve gone back to the old, somewhat fuzzy, glasses, which at least give me a better chance. (Almost surely TMI, but there it is.)]
binge-bingeing
May 7, 2016The wonderful creation of Pierce in Zits:
binge-bingeing is the PRP form of a verb to binge-binge, which is an instance of one or the other of two different compound V constructions of the form to N + V, whose semantic and pragmatic differences are small enough to ignore here.
More tiki!
May 6, 2016By fortunate coincidence, today’s Zippy, with its tiki figure transformed into a salt shaker, comes on the heels of my posting of the 2nd, on Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker and the pop culture phenomenon of Tiki Art:
Above, tikis turned into household objects (like salt shakers); in my Brad Parker posting, tikis turned into design elements — notably, as decorative elements in tiki lounges (where you can get killer cocktails and Polynesian/Chinese food), but also in Parker’s Lowbrow Art (as he calls it).
Peter Kuper
May 6, 2016It starts with a single-panel gag cartoon in the April 2016 Funny Times:
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First, things you need to know to get this cartoon. Then, information about cartoonist and graphic novelist Peter Kuper and his other work.