Yesterday’s Zippy, a reflection on art and architecture:
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Not too far off Gehry’s own house in Santa Monica.
Archive for the ‘Linguistics in the comics’ Category
Ruin or architectural masterwork?
December 13, 2015The merry prince
December 13, 2015A Kaamran Hafeez cartoon in the December 14th New Yorker:
The magazine’s description: A flamboyant young prince comes out to his parents.
The secret life of superheroes
December 13, 2015Passed 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.
Russian dolls
December 12, 2015In 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.
Victoria’s Secret Agent
December 12, 2015Yesterday’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).
animated gay werewolf boyfriend movie
December 11, 2015On 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.
Barsotti dogs, plus
December 11, 2015From a Facebook friend, this dog cartoon by New Yorker artist Charles Barsotti for Christmas:
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The Christmas connection: who’s been naughty and who’s been nice.
Barsotti (who died last year, after doing nearly 1400 cartoons for the New Yorker) did an enormous number of dog cartoons, reliably showing great sympathy for the dogs — many of them puppies, as here, and some of those weeping , as here.
Existential Risk
December 9, 2015A friend writes to ask about this Paul Noth cartoon in the December 7th New Yorker:
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My correspondent got the wordplay, on risk / the game Risk (the board game that they’re playing), but he was puzzled by the hooded figure. Once again, it’s about what you need to know to understand what’s going on in a cartoon, and in this case, you need two big pieces of background. Item 2 is: Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal.
On your day off
December 9, 2015The PHD Comics from the 7th:
Deep sighs. A long-standing tradition for me: using the hour or two before going to bed for necessary academic work (like entering data) that doesn’t require real mental effort.
Hat tip to Nathan Sanders, who is of course an academic (a linguist, in fact), at Swarthmore.
Supermarionation
December 8, 2015Mentioned is a Facebook posting that went by me a while ago, this name is a combination of super, marionette, and animation.
