Today’s Zippy, another exercise in cartoonization, a transformation of an image (in this case, Magritte’s Le therapeute) by stages into a Zippy scene:
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The Magritte original:
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Archive for the ‘Linguistics in the comics’ Category
More cartoonization
March 10, 2015The bookish cartoonist
March 9, 2015
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The work of Tom Gauld, surely the world’s most bookish cartoonist.
PT
March 9, 2015Today’s Rhymes With Orange:
Just a bit of silliness on word-initial PT pronounced /t/ (with a “silent P”).
Reading new names
March 9, 2015Well, names that are new to you. In today’s One Big Happy:
Apparently unfamiliar with Spanish personal names, Ruthie treats FIDEL as the closest word she can read: FIDDLE. And then sticks to that.
The Wikipedia page tells us that
The strip takes place on Buena Vista Avenue and in an unspecified city based on Baltimore, Maryland, where the creator grew up.
Apparently in a very Anglo neighborhood of near-Baltimore.
More on the sports interview
March 9, 2015In a comment on a Bizarro cartoon on the vacuity of sports interviews (#2 here), Stan Carey supplies a fine VectorBelly strip on the subject:
(The verbing sports is entertaining.)
Ed Koren
March 9, 2015From the March 9th issue of the New Yorker, In the Art part of the “Goings On About Town” section:
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Ed Koren’s new show, “Wet Ink.” includes the above lithograph and others from his “Bikes and Beasts” series, as well as drawings published in this magazine. It opens on March 5 at the Luise Ross gallery.
Though Koren is a great favorite of mine, it seems I haven’t posted any of his cartoons in this blog. But here’s my chance.
Three cartoons
March 8, 2015For Daylight Saving(s) Time in the U.S., three cartoons having something to do with discourse organization: One Big Happy, Bizarro, and Dilbert:
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Cartoonists
March 8, 2015
eunuchs
March 7, 2015Following up on my posting yesterday of a Dilbert strip that ended with Alice apparently bent on castration, David Preston resurrected a droll Dilbert of 11/9/93:
UNIX, eunuchs, what’s the dif?
miss not
March 7, 2015A Pickles cartoon posted by Andy Rogers on Facebook:
Andy’s comment: “Negation is SO CONFUSING!” Actually, most people seem not to be confused by such negation examples, and in fact tend not to notice that there’s anything notable about things like “I miss not having the morning newspaper”, which they read as just emphatic negation.