Five cartoons from recent days. Not one of them seems to have anything to do with (US) Mothers Day (but maybe tomorrow, on the day itself, Mom will surface). A daydreaming Jeremy in Zits; a Calvin and Hobbes on following rules; a Rhymes With Orange with a groan-inducing (but learnèd) pun; and a Bizarro and a Zippy on different aspects of modern communication.
Archive for the ‘These modern times’ Category
Party of five
May 10, 2014For National Cartoonists Day
May 6, 2014This morning I discovered that yesterday was not only Cinco de Mayo, but also National Cartoonists Day. In honor of the occasion, three cartoons for today. Then some account of Cartoonists Day, which leads to the early newspaper cartoon featuring the Yellow Kid.
Three more for Friday
May 2, 2014Three cartoons today, on diverse topics: Calvin and Hobbes on explanations, Zits on means of communication (again), Bizarro on word play turning on ambiguity.
Annoying auto-correct
April 5, 2014Dennis Lewis pleads on Facebook:
Dear God, is there any way to tell Android that I don’t need any help with spelling? I was texting my cousin … highlights of the Palace Kitchen’s Seattle Restaurant Week menu, and I just noticed that my little Kyocera 4G phone changed “arugula salad” to “Caligula salad” and the malted milk “chocolate panna cotta” to “chocolate panda cotta.”
Wonderful substitutes, but nevertheless very irritating.
(Dennis did get advice for turning off auto-correct on his particular cellphone.)
Monday quartet
March 31, 2014Four cartoons today: a Dilbert, a Bizarro, a Mother Goose and Grimm, and a Scenes from the Multiverse:
Constraining communication
March 1, 2014From a numer of sources on Facebook, this 2/11/13 New Yorker cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh:
Walsh’s website here. And here (on the New Yorker blog) he talks about how the cartoon (which has been very popular on the net) developed.
[Addendum: the device here is known as a dog cone, designed to keep dogs from biting or gnawing at themselves.]
Voicemail deadlock
October 27, 2013Today’s Pearls Before Swine:
I’d suggest voicemail deadlock or voicemail standoff.
The written word
September 1, 2013A Chuck and Beans webcomic from the 16th:
Texting is, of course, the written word. But then there are emoticons.
Off to school
September 1, 2013A Joy of Tech webcomic about a currently topical matter, going off to college:
A frequent theme in these days of cellphones: you can stay in touch with someone all the goddam time.