CSotD: I never meta cartoonist I didn’t like
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It's kind of flattering to see my numbers take a small but noticeable dip during the Reubens, which are going on in San Diego as we speak. I guess.
The flattery part, I mean. I'm quite certain that the cartoonists are gathering. And for those of us who can't be there, Ruben Bolling has profiled some of the talented folks who make Super Fun Pak Comix possible.
Given that he has just launched Super Fun Pak Comix as a daily feature at GoComics, and the cheeky insouciance of the promo with which it has been launched, this is all awfully darned meta.
Quasi-Juxtaposition of the Day
This isn't really a "Juxtaposition of the Day" so much as it is two cartoonists breaking away from the pack.
The victories of mainstream Republican candidates in this week's primaries over Tea Party-backed challengers has been met with a lot of cartoons which, to a greater or lesser degree, riff on elephants having stomped Tea Partiers.
Rogers and Horsey are not the only ones to point out that absorbing a platform is not the same as triumphing over it, but they do feature the most amusing takes on the topic.
A helluva lot more amusing than this view of the current iteration of American Exceptionalism, courtesy of Macleans and our neighbors in the Great White North. O wad some gift indeed, and by the next elections if possible.
Not holding my breath for that wish to come true.
Meanwhile, when a Canadian points out your obvious shortcomings, I'm not sure that getting all pissy and defensive about it is a terribly constructive response.
Then again, it's better than just standing there like a dope.
(Fun fact: John Vernon, who played Dean Wormer, was Canadian.)
Anyway, that wasn't a Juxtaposition of the Day
That's a 'Juxtaposition of the Day.'
Presented for your consideration:
Finally and without further ado, the actual Comic Strip of This Day, which requires you to go to Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, because I'm unwilling to run the entirety of something that extensive, of which the above is only a taste.
SMBC always brings with it a spirit of "whoa," as if perhaps it were being written by the team of Edgar Allen Poe and Rod Serling. Just as xkcd is generally accessible and amusing even if you aren't a math/stats/computer science geek, but then again sometimes isn't, SMBC is generally something that can be enjoyed even if you haven't studied philosophy.
This riff on Dr. Seuss is a good test of the border between accessible humor and stuff to disrupt your sleep. I don't know if it has any actual meaning, but, then again, I felt that way about metaphysics when I was in college.
(W)e stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.' — Boswell's Life of Johnson
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