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Comic Strip of the Day

CSotD: Gadzooks!

Published: May 21, 2010 1 minute 4 comments

Nemi

Nemi not only cracked me up several places in this panel, but made me feel even older than usual, given that I was already a little beyond hip by the time Phil Collins came on the scene. Okay, I'm not middle-aged anymore, kid, I get it. 'Zounds!

(See anything in this cartoon that probably wouldn't have gotten past an American editor?)

In other news: Speaking of foreign female cartoonists, I featured Rina Piccolo's new web cartoon, Velia, Dear, the other day, but have only recently begun reading her blog. If you are curious about the cartooning life, there are several good blogs by cartoonists that you should keep up with — Sandra Bell-Lundy (another foreign female cartoonist, as it happens) and Mike Lynch, for instance. But Rina has an entry on submitting cartoons to the New Yorker that nobody who cares about the medium should miss, and an overall directness that is worth dropping in on.

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  1. Re:”(See anything in this cartoon that probably wouldn’t have gotten past an American editor?)”
    It must be the woman trying to smuggle out some balloon animals hidden in her sweater (oops, I mean “jumper”).
    Nick

  2. That’s what those are! Of course! (If you’ve got a plausible explanation, the editor has to give you a pass. It’s a rule.)

  3. The t-shirt gave me a bit of a pause, too — Phil Collins is one of those guys the youngsters like, right? Could have been worse, I suppose — it could have been an Oasis t-shirt. Really. It could have been.
    (Speaking of generations’ rock icons: Richard Starkey is going to be performing at a venue just a few miles from Ft. Harrington — actually, at a winery that’s along my daily commute — in August. Sadly, Mrs. Fort and I will be out of the country then. I’d actually like to have been able to see Ringo’s effort, if only because of curiosity about WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD PAY THAT MUCH TO SEE HIM now.)
    As for the prehensile breasts snaking their way past American editors: maybe not, but poor Jeremy’s mom over on “Zits” always makes me think that Borgman envisions her as having had a terrible accident involving a mammogram machine.

  4. I’ve always suspected that there was a winery on your daily commute. At least one.
    Sometimes, seeing the old folks play can be fun. I saw Arlo Guthrie and John Sebastian on an acoustic double-bill and it was very intimate and chatty and fun. Just the sort of thing we old folks like, though I was only 40 at the time. However, I also had the experience of flipping around the dial one New Years Eve to find the falling ball so I could go to bed, and stumbling across the Rolling Stones. My reaction, I’m afraid, was that it would be very cool if they hadn’t played together in 20 years, but that this was kind of odd, really.

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