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A last few in color again
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And while this post was languishing in Draft queue, there were still good new duffies getting published. This one, for instance, which found its way into one of our weekly OY collections:
.. and prompted this intro: OY by virtue of ambiguous parsing of [[comic strip] bar] versus [comic [strip bar]]. But y’know, as Will Rogers is never quite quoted as saying, I never meta man I didn’t like. And also a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a metaphor?
Or similar for this :
Comics I Don't Understand 
The mail fraud comic actually presents a reasonable and important question. The answer is yes, it still counts as mail fraud if you use FedEx, but only if the offense is after the effective date of a 1994 amendment to 18 USC 1341 that extended the section’s coverage to any private or commercial interstate carrier.
The Flam magazine is good. The others… best left unremarked upon.
I like The lamp that ate Tomorrow.
There really are magazines for drummers, including Modern Drummer and DRUM! Modern Drummer has profiles of John “JR” Robinson and Chris Parker, and a review of the ddrum SE Flyer Pitstop Kit. DRUM! has “How to EQ Drums: Ultimate Guide”, “DIY Drum Triggers”, and “How to Transcribe Drum Parts.” Exactly what you’d expect. The articles about Zildjian and the Paradiddle are plausible. Zildjian recently made the TV news here: https://www.wcvb.com/article/zildjian-400th-aniversary-concert-celebrities-music-boston/45210560
I really like the lamp that ate tomorrow.
Also ‘pronounced philtrum’, cute ambiguity. What’s the orange peanut thingy?
‘Have a day’–this is on many T-shirts.
@ Philip (5) – My guess is that it is supposed to be the sun, similarly indented like the lip. (The rest of the background is (sky) blue, except for the grass at shoulder level.)
Are these supposed to be random thoughts drawn out? My sketchbook kind of looks like this, but I wouldn’t publish it.
I did get the lamp that ate tomorrow.
Maggie, Duffy does two different titles on GoComics (and odd bits elsewhere) and while both have elements of his visual style in common, there are differences of general kind. The ones in “Lug Nuts” tend to be as you describe , often with unfinished drawings, and rather rude content. The “Fusco Brothers” is more like a normal strip, with continuing characters and often a clear set-up/punch-line structure. And still rather rude, tho not to the level of Lug Nuts.
George Carlin used to do a bit about things that have no names. He did not know that the ridges under your nose have names: they are “philtrum columns” being next to the philtrum.
Carlin also had a bit relating to the “Have a day” T shirt :
“…That’s the trouble with ‘have a nice day’; it puts all the pressure on you. Now you’ve gotta go out and somehow manage to have a good time. All because of some loose lipped cashier. ‘Have a nice day’…”
Mark in Boston –
Worst thing about knowing things such as “philtrim” (which I did not know – will have to ask Robert as for his first semester, maybe year, in college he was pre-med – his parents/grandparents idea) is that when one uses the word no one know what the heck one is talking about.
Meryl: Oh, by the time you’re a grandparent you know all kinds of medical terms like myocardial infarction and stenosis and dyspnea and presbyopia.
Alright, thank you. I had never read either of those before, so I wasn’t sure what the artist was trying to convey.
Mark in Boston –
Well, turned 70 today so I am in that age range. But – have 3 nieces and 2 nephews, currently ranging from 12 to early 30s in age, but never fortunate enough to have children so will be a heck of a long time (never) before grandchildren.