From Facebook friends, this cute cartoon by Wayno:
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The composites electric eel and electric guitar, both with the pseudo-adjective electric, but in two different senses. Then there’s electric guitar vs. the retronym acoustic guitar (for what, until the introduction of electric guitars, was known simply as a guitar). Then
electric guitar : acoustic guitar :: electric eel : X
and X is acoustic eel.
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Yesterday’s Zippy:
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This follows on the previous day’s posting on (among other things) manga eyes.
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Four things: an interview with Bob Mankoff; two recent Zippy strips; and a piece on background color in comic strips. (Eventually there are also a couple of items of gay interest.)
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A Liana Finck cartoon from the November 30th New Yorker:
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Self-awareness has evolved to such an extent that man is able to look back in regret.
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Yesterday’s Zippy, a reflection on art and architecture:
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Not too far off Gehry’s own house in Santa Monica.
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A Kaamran Hafeez cartoon in the December 14th New Yorker:
The magazine’s description: A flamboyant young prince comes out to his parents.
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Passed on by several Facebook friends, a superhero parody by Kerry Callen, with Wonder Woman dealing with the jiggle problem:
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Not a problem Superman has.
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In the December 14th New Yorker, this cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh:
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A Russian doll, from a set of nesting dolls, is unwrapping a Christmas gift box, from a set of nested gift boxes. Lovely wordless cartoon, though of course it depends on your recognizing Russian dolls.
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Yesterday’s Bizarro, with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau):
(Dan Piraro says there’s just one of his secret symbols in this cartoon: the eyeball. For an explanation, see this Page.)
In any case: Victoria’s Secret (the women’s underwear stores) + secret agent (or maybe Secret Agent, the Joseph Conrad novel or any number of films and tv shows with that name).
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On the website for Instinct magazine (aimed at gay men) on the 6th, a piece “‘Dirty Paws’ Is The Animated Gay Werewolf Boyfriend Movie We Need”:
Karina Farek wrote, directed, and animated Dirty Paws as her thesis film for her BFA in Animation at the School of Visual Arts! [in NYC]
Check out this adorable peek at what it would be like to have a werewolf boyfriend on the night of the full moon!
A very sweet film, only 5 minutes long.
Farek has managed to make the two characters believably, even identifiably, gay with some subtlety.
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