Obscenicon postings

obscenicons and avoidance characters on LLog and AZBlog

Walker, Mort. 2000. The lexicon of comicana. Lincoln NE: iUniverse.com. [orig. publ. by Museum of Cartoon Art]

☛ ML, 7/17/05: You taught me language, and my profit on’t/Is, I know how to curse:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002336.html

☛ AZ, 9/6/05: Call me… unpronounceable:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002461.html

☛ ML, 6/7/06: Wh�tever:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003231.html

☛ ML, 6/10/06: The history of typographical bleeping:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003244.html

☛ ML, 6/15/06: The earliest typographically-bleeped F-word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003253.html

☛ AZ, 6/20/06: In China It’s ******* vs. Netizens:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003267.html

☛ ML, 6/22/06: Beetle Bailey goes positively meta:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003278.html

☛ ST, 6/23/06: More @!%!**#~@#!! wisdom from Beetle Bailey:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003281.html

☛ BZ, 6/23/06: Everybody’s going meta:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003282.html

☛ BZ, 8/24/06: Obscenicons in the workplace:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003500.html

☛ AZ, 12/20/06: On the track of the squean:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003942.html

☛ AZ, 3/20/08: Spiral thingy lightning bolt!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005478.html

☛ AZ, 3/21/08: Reading the ampersand comics!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005480.html

☛ AZ, 3/23/08: A little more on obscenicons:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005488.html

☛ AZ, 7/4/08: Seven words you can’t say in a cartoon:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=319
Roz Chast

☛ 7/16/10: Country obscenicons:

Country obscenicons

☛ ML, 7/17/10: “Pound sign question mark star exclamation point”:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2455

☛ BZ, 7/17/10: Obscenicons a century ago:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2457

☛ BZ, 7/24/10: More on the early days of obscenicons:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2483

☛ 8/1/10: The obscenicons vs. the grawlixes:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/01/the-obscenicons-vs-the-grawlixes/

☛ 10/13/10: Two obscenicon cartoons:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/10/13/two-obscenicon-cartoons/
Zits, Bizarro

☛ 1/18/11: Two political cartoons:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/01/18/two-political-cartoons/
#2: John Cole cartoon with goofy mock-taboo vocabulary

☛ 2/19/12: Punnies #21:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/02/19/punnies-21/
Bizarro with Men’s Swearhouse

☛ ML, 5/11/11: Another meta-obscenicon strip:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3135

☛ ML, 10/11/12: Asterisk Man:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4245

☛ 10/17/13: The cat in the $!☆#ing hat:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/10/17/the-cat-in-the-☆ing-hat/
Bent Pinky cartoon

☛ 3/8/14: Three cartoons for Saturday:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/08/three-cartoons-for-saturday/
#3 Pearls Before Swine with clever use of obscenicons

☛ 3/13/14: Three for Thursday:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/13/three-for-thursday/
#3 Zits with an obscenicon password

☛ 6/3/14: Word art:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/03/word-art/
obscenity spelled out in obscenicons

☛ 6/13/15: Obscenicons:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/13/obscenicons/
MGG cartoon

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