I like The Oatmeal

A funny man, with funny things to say about Valentine’s Day:

See the rest of the cartoon here.

But wait! That’s not all! Peruse his choices of erudite Valentine’s Day cards — only for the very discerning lover.

“I’m not loving our current product — it may not hunt for you.”

Garry Trudeau is (IMO) the finest political cartoonist of the 20th and 21st centuries. Here is today another fine example:

(The title line made me laugh out loud the first time I read it.)

I, oo, a i uaae ae

Anyone want to guess what the “hidden” message is in the February 7, 2012, edition of Dilbert?

It was nothing but net for Mike Stanfill.

And, like Mr. S., I too stand in unabashed awe. This has got to be some kind of “first” for syndicated comics.

Why *do* we fall in love?

A quick and dirty post today — Christmas business awaits me:

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Thanks to Questionable Content for this rather potent thought-provoker. Why indeed do we fall in love? Is not being alone enough?

Published in: on 20 December 2011 at 10:22  Comments (1)  
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Comic without comment

(Well, one comment. Thanks, Bizarro.)

Published in: on 19 December 2011 at 16:45  Leave a Comment  
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My dream protest

The family is watching/enduring the latest Republican presidential candidates’ debate. All I can think of is this:

Randall Munroe to the rescue!

“No one loves me, so why should I be nice?”

The first frame should have been the last one here, but the lesson is still there.

From today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

“exigology” doesn’t exist as a word (as far as I can tell), but it should.

The corollary: If you don’t vote, you can’t win.

“How do you thank the woman who buys you that William Forster cello?”

Art follows life, in so many ways…

Published in: on 12 December 2011 at 9:37  Leave a Comment  
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Rorschach vs. Marv

Frank Miller, the comic artist well-known as the creator of the Sin City series, 300, and highly significant reboots of the Batman and Daredevil, recently wrote a bitterly disappointing scree plastering terms such as “louts”, “thieves”, and “rapists” to the Occupy movement.

” ‘Occupy’ is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the ‘movement’ – HAH! Some ‘movement’, except if the word ‘bowel’ is attached  is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.”

I’ve very much enjoyed his work in the past, but I was saddened by his blind fear of one of the most significant social movements in the last 50 years.

How refreshing it was to see someone of Alan Moore’s stature who has stood up and rebutted Miller’s grotesque distortions:

“Frank Miller is someone whose work I’ve barely looked at for the past twenty years. I thought the Sin City stuff was unreconstructed misogyny, 300 appeared to be wildly ahistoric, homophobic and just completely misguided. I think that there has probably been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller’s work for quite a long time. Since I don’t have anything to do with the comics industry, I don’t have anything to do with the people in it. I heard about the latest outpourings regarding the Occupy movement. It’s about what I’d expect from him. It’s always seemed to me that the majority of the comics field, if you had to place them politically, you’d have to say centre-right. That would be as far towards the liberal end of the spectrum as they would go. I’ve never been in any way, I don’t even know if I’m centre-left. I’ve been outspoken about that since the beginning of my career. So yes I think it would be fair to say that me and Frank Miller have diametrically opposing views upon all sorts of things, but certainly upon the Occupy movement.

“As far as I can see, the Occupy movement is just ordinary people reclaiming rights which should always have been theirs. I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for generations, when the people who have got us into this have been rewarded for it; they’ve certainly not been punished in any way because they’re too big to fail. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who’s too big to fail. It’s a completely justified howl of moral outrage and it seems to be handled in a very intelligent, non-violent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it. I’m sure if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman make-up on their faces, he’d be more in favour of it.”

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Published in: on 8 December 2011 at 21:57  Comments (1)  
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“You mean” *gasp* “Harold Camping was **wrong**??”

For Russ and his Spam:

Thanks to Abstruse Goose for another early morning laugh.

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Just remember to keep your priorities straight

Sam keeps Zed’s that way.

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Chris Muir has two knacks. The first is that he drives me crazy (good crazy) when he flips between his views of the Left and of the Right.

The second is that he effortlessly combines politics, humor, and pantingly sexy characters (of both genders).

There’s nothing like a family Thanksgiving. Fortunately.

medium-large.com. Read it.

Now.

 

The true meaning of Christmas

Thanks to Rundes Nettes for the tip.

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It’s what Sparky would have wanted.

Published in: on 14 November 2011 at 13:05  Leave a Comment  
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The best Steve Jobs tribute yet

Lars and Ryan have outdone themselves.

Paul and Clara would be proud.

Published in: on 28 October 2011 at 9:09  Leave a Comment  
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The Patriarchy

Read this Sinfest comic carefully. This is some well thought-out stuff. (Click on the image to enbiggen.)

I love it when well-written comic art takes a serious turn. Thanks, Mr. Ishida.

Published in: on 9 October 2011 at 15:07  Leave a Comment  
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