Why is this not a CIDU? Because it clears up when you realize that named artist is real, and learn even the first thing about them. Here’s Wikipedia: ” Lucio Fontana was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He’s known as the founder of Spatialism and exponent of abstract painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases – which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art.”
Diamond Lil departs from their pun-a-day usual practice, and gives us a nicely planned meta.
A well-executed entry in the own-petard category.
Featured Image (at top)
Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1965
Lucio Fontana
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As a nice little side-joke, I like that Diamond Lil has a digital assistant named Surli.
1,967 secret symbols? I found like 4.
I’d call all of these pretty good to quite good!
Maybe my favorite would be the Bizarro. Though I have not personally experienced that fierce of a weighted blanket, it makes a good point.
In reply to Patrick.
@Patrick, Yes, that was a sort of April Fool’s joke on Wayno’s part. It also marks the year when … something-or-other of comics significance took place. (Somebody please link or quote either blog where they explain this?)
@ Patrick (2) – As Mitch predicted @4, Wayno’s blog explains the oddball figure on that panel (calling attention to its date):
”My April Fools’ Day gag includes a bogus symbol count. In fact, there are only four Secret Symbols in this panel. The number wasn’t random, though. This cartoon is the 1,967th I’ve written and drawn since I started doing the Bizarro dailies.”
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a can. (re Fakes comic)
Art like that Franco brings out the curmudgeon in me. I don’t exactly expect art to be ‘pretty pictures’ but I can’t help looking at that and thinking that there are many young houlig…I mean, young men who could do it better.
Oops, meant ‘Fontana’, not ‘Franco’. My bad
Especially with the help of the local pets….
Indeed, my cats could do a great job.