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:

Seven words you can’t say in a cartoon


Roz Chast

☛ 7/16/10: Country obscenicons:

Country obscenicons

☛ ML, 7/17/10: “Pound sign question mark star exclamation point”:

“Pound sign question mark star exclamation point”

☛ BZ, 7/17/10: Obscenicons a century ago:

Obscenicons a century ago

☛ BZ, 7/24/10: More on the early days of obscenicons:

More on the early days of obscenicons

☛ 8/1/10: The obscenicons vs. the grawlixes:

The obscenicons vs. the grawlixes

☛ 10/13/10: Two obscenicon cartoons:

Two obscenicon cartoons


Zits, Bizarro

☛ 1/18/11: Two political cartoons:

Two political cartoons


#2: John Cole cartoon with goofy mock-taboo vocabulary

☛ 2/19/12: Punnies #21:

Punnies #21


Bizarro with Men’s Swearhouse

☛ ML, 5/11/11: Another meta-obscenicon strip:

Another meta-obscenicon strip

☛ ML, 10/11/12: Asterisk Man:

Asterisk Man

☛ 10/17/13: The cat in the $!☆#ing hat:

The cat in the $!☆#ing hat


Bent Pinky cartoon

☛ 3/8/14: Three cartoons for Saturday:

Three cartoons for Saturday


#3 Pearls Before Swine with clever use of obscenicons

☛ 3/13/14: Three for Thursday:

Three for Thursday


#3 Zits with an obscenicon password

☛ 6/3/14: Word art:

Word art


obscenity spelled out in obscenicons

☛ 6/13/15: Obscenicons:

Obscenicons


MGG cartoon

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