Category Archives: Comics Wonkiness

The funny papers are dead, long live the Funny Pages!

Insert your favorite Thomas Edison-bashing joke here.

Who invented and popularized AC electricity (overridden by Thomas “Whole-Hearted Thief” Edison and stolen from by George Westinghouse)?

Who invented and explored X-rays (credit taken by William Roentgen)?

Who invented radio and radar (credit for radio taken by Marconi, and radar for the Navy blocked by Edison)?

Who investigated the effect of cryogenic temperatures on electronics (a precursor to superconductivity)?

Who invented an earthquake machine that really worked?

Who invented neon lighting, and the modern induction electric motor, the spark plug, the remote control, and developed the fundamentals of radio astronomy?

For The Oatmeal, it’s nothing but net again.

Occupy! comes to Sinfest!

One of the most inspirational cartoons I’ve run across in a long time. (Click to enbiggen.)

Thank you so much, Mr. Ishida!

(MILD SPOILERS) There are some back-stories you may not know about — Blondie is fighting the Patriarchy from within (ala The Matrix), the little devil (in the last frame) is Lucifer’s outcast son, the woman with the megaphone has been made aware (by Blondie) that the Patriarchy is everywhere, and the Devil *is* the Patriarchy.

“God says, ‘Black people are scary!’ “

From the wisest of political cartoonists…here is today’s creation by Mr. Trudeau:

Just remember, kids. When you have a president who has a list of accomplishments as long as this, and the barking ignorant (birthers, neocons, Republican Party nominees, etc.) claim that he’s done little or nothing, what other possible reason is there for denigrating him?