Scammers certainly are getting more creative. I got a “reimbursement” from my Jane Doe, the condo property manager, with the email Jane.Doe@propfirm.com, which was suspiciously close to her actual email of Jane.Doe@propfirm.net, and this is a person I occasionally get reimbursements from (luckily as old-school physical checks)
From Dan Piraro’s subscription newsletter, “The Naked Cartoonist“. I’ll conclude with an early collaboration with Wayno; a Bizarro cartoon about red flags in relationships. If only they were this obvious in real life!
Comics I Don't Understand 
Shouldn’t the other two “talking heads” be running away in the third panel?
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They’re not equipped to run.
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We didn’t do much to include explicitly “Cinco de Mayo” cartoons — but then again, there weren’t many jumping out in advance. Well, here’s one from today’s feed.
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I did not initially realize that the first strip is a reference to the song Psycho Killer, by the Talking Heads. I still do not understand the reference to a section being for traitors. Also, are the traitor heads supposed to be anyone in particular? The clown I take to be Pennywise from It.
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@ Usual John (4) – According to Wikipedia, “In England, the heads of criminals, especially those convicted of treason, were mounted for display on London Bridge from about 1300 until about 1660…”
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@ Mitch (3) – The obvious place to look for a “Cinco de Mayo” comic would be “Baldo”, but Cantú & Castellanos seem to a have a sensibility that the “holiday” is somewhat artificial, and is in fact “more popular in the United States than in Mexico” (to quote Wikipedia). References in Baldo are less common than I expected (occuring every three or four years), and range from obscure:
… to ironic:
… or even political commentary:
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Thanks, Kilby (5), but I knew that. It does not seem to answer my questions.
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P.S. @ Mitch (3) – Foxtrot confirms that cartoonists like tequila:
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“… were mounted for display on London Bridge from about 1300 until about 1660”
Surely they will be in very bad shape after standing there for 360 years!
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I was oblivious to the reference on the Talking Heads strip, too. I think the “traitors” line is just a bit of a clumsy way to establish the setting and explain why there are heads mounted on pikes at all – but is irrelevant to the band and song references. The framing of the wordplay is a little tortured (heh), but I think that’s all there is to it.
The choice of a clown was. . . well, it was a choice. Perhaps John Atkinson isn’t quite up to drawing Norman Bates, maybe Pennywise was the first thing to come to mind, or it could be that he just sort of wanted to draw a clown head. I guess he had to pick something, to the extent that he had to draw the strip at all.
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I didn’t realize that the heads were mounted on pikes. I thought they were balloon heads tied to the wall.
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PSA: The property manager, Jane.Doe@propfirm.net, probably had their system or email account hacked, giving a scammer access to previous emails re reimbursements. Encourage Jane to start using a password manager, and to change all their passwords, using a unique string in each, which the password manager makes easy! Extra point for looking up “credential stuffing” which is how hackers can use one compromised account to compromise other accounts.
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I just discovered a very interesting piece about National Cartoonist Day at The Daily Cartoonist, with a bunch of relevant comics. It’s well worth reading.
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Yet another way a cartoonist found to locate a Star Wars holiday on the fifth. (This is DeFlocked by Jeff Corriveau)
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There was some discussion about whether it should be “Revenge of the Fifth” or “Revenge of the Sixth”. Either way, it’s not connected with the month the way “May the Fourth be with you”. You could have revenge any month.
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Heads mounted on London Bridge – in the past the idea was not only to get rid of the criminal, but also to use his/her public death or torture to deter future crimes by others.
Hmmm, maybe my reenactment unit needs a pillory? We have an July event of the reading of the Declaration of Independence to the public - event on a Sunday in mid July which is when it arrived in the township – and there are records of it being read to public and the result of same – a riot which included pulling the British coat of arms off the local community’s flag. One of our more slight female members has been to known to be someone who is extremely excited about the news and start arguing with others, etc. “a bit too much” and one of our stronger men will carry her away to be punished for her actions. (Which is never done of course.) We could put her pillory if we had one – I will bring up the idea at the next board meeting.
(Since we have the records of the day we also blow up an effigy of King George as was done – luckily someone else took over the job of making the effigy from me.)
See history can be a lot of fun!!
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