Makes you want to share the word toroidal with them!
Speaking of pen names:
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Old joke:
Jim: “My father is a trustee at Penn State”
Joe: “Well, my dad is a trusty at state pen”
I genuinely was confused about those two words at one time. And when I read the Neville Shute novel “Trustee From the Toolroom” I had a moment of doubt by the end, along the lines of “But where were the prison scenes?”
Re: “Bacön” – I’m not sure whether Millsap meant it this way, but it sounds like “holed” was supposed to be a pun on “whole“.
Re: “Gordo” – The elaborate monochrome shading made me think that this strip might have been a lot older (mid-50s?) than it actually turned out to be (1972). Arriola retired in 1985. How did this example end up here?
Re: “F-Minus” – I thought the quote usually referred to the “winners” rather than the “victors“, but both terms may just be alternate translations of “die Sieger“.
P.S. During the protest marches in 1989 which ultimately led to German unification, the crowds began to chant “Wir sind das Volk!” (“We are the People!”), prompting a couple of humorists to wear signs declaring “Ich bin Völker!” (“Völker” is a fairly common German name, but the literal translation would be: “I am the Peoples!“).
And of course if you can pull off a Swedish accent without too much offense, you can tell that story in terms of “I see your boy Sven is back! Where was he for these last four years?” “Oh, he vent to Yale!”
But we will be a lot more familiar with a guy named Victor than a guy named Winner.
Mitch4 @4: A friend’s Swedish wife once gave my dad directions: “You go to jail and look for the yimnasium”.
The first one (bagels/donuts) reminds me of an article I read and can’t find on the web, in which someone railed against the RBOs — Round Bread Objects — that most places sell as “bagels”. It was a fun rant; if anyone else remembers where it was, please let me know!
Though it didn’t come up in this clip performance, I have a recollection of Anna Russell in her Ring “lecture” declaring that Sieglinde can be called Vicky.
@ Dana (5) – That is perfectly true, but the thing that amused me the most was that when I searched for my “familiar” version of the quote (“The winners write the history“), most of the references that turned up cited “victors” instead.
@Kilby — Like you, my guess is that Bacön was attempting to pun “holed” and “whole“. I do know it wasn’t a “refined” pun.
They both have holes – the bagels and the doughnuts. So they are part of the “holed” community of carbs.
Is Gordo the owl and the chihuahua? It looks like a Pogo strip – lovely!
@ jjmcgaffey (11) – Exactly right. I was only able to identify it by process of elimination, matching the signature to the names listed in the tags. Once I had “Arriola“, a quick search in Wikipedia led to “Gordo“.
I very much loved “the autumn of her gears.”
if I remember correctly, Gordo was a human, (with a lot of stereotypical features that wouldn’t pass muster today). The chihuahua was another main character. The animals all talked, but I don’t think they interacted with the humans. I don’t remember the owl, but there were a lot of secondary characters.
Just outta curiosity, is there a term for the omission of background detail surrounding characters in a strip (re: Bizarro)? I would think The Lexicon Of Comicana would have something to say about it. :-)
@ Grawlix – That “halo” effect does not appear anywhere in Mort Walker’s “Lexicon”, but the technique is more sophisticated than the stick figures and “parts” that make up most of the book.
P.S. I’m glad I looked it up, I was not aware that the full book is available at archive.org (see the embedded link).
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Old joke:
Jim: “My father is a trustee at Penn State”
Joe: “Well, my dad is a trusty at state pen”
I genuinely was confused about those two words at one time. And when I read the Neville Shute novel “Trustee From the Toolroom” I had a moment of doubt by the end, along the lines of “But where were the prison scenes?”
Re: “Bacön” – I’m not sure whether Millsap meant it this way, but it sounds like “holed” was supposed to be a pun on “whole“.
Re: “Gordo” – The elaborate monochrome shading made me think that this strip might have been a lot older (mid-50s?) than it actually turned out to be (1972). Arriola retired in 1985. How did this example end up here?
Re: “F-Minus” – I thought the quote usually referred to the “winners” rather than the “victors“, but both terms may just be alternate translations of “die Sieger“.
P.S. During the protest marches in 1989 which ultimately led to German unification, the crowds began to chant “Wir sind das Volk!” (“We are the People!”), prompting a couple of humorists to wear signs declaring “Ich bin Völker!” (“Völker” is a fairly common German name, but the literal translation would be: “I am the Peoples!“).
And of course if you can pull off a Swedish accent without too much offense, you can tell that story in terms of “I see your boy Sven is back! Where was he for these last four years?” “Oh, he vent to Yale!”
But we will be a lot more familiar with a guy named Victor than a guy named Winner.
Mitch4 @4: A friend’s Swedish wife once gave my dad directions: “You go to jail and look for the yimnasium”.
The first one (bagels/donuts) reminds me of an article I read and can’t find on the web, in which someone railed against the RBOs — Round Bread Objects — that most places sell as “bagels”. It was a fun rant; if anyone else remembers where it was, please let me know!
Though it didn’t come up in this clip performance, I have a recollection of Anna Russell in her Ring “lecture” declaring that Sieglinde can be called Vicky.
@ Dana (5) – That is perfectly true, but the thing that amused me the most was that when I searched for my “familiar” version of the quote (“The winners write the history“), most of the references that turned up cited “victors” instead.
@Kilby — Like you, my guess is that Bacön was attempting to pun “holed” and “whole“. I do know it wasn’t a “refined” pun.
They both have holes – the bagels and the doughnuts. So they are part of the “holed” community of carbs.
Is Gordo the owl and the chihuahua? It looks like a Pogo strip – lovely!
@ jjmcgaffey (11) – Exactly right. I was only able to identify it by process of elimination, matching the signature to the names listed in the tags. Once I had “Arriola“, a quick search in Wikipedia led to “Gordo“.
I very much loved “the autumn of her gears.”
if I remember correctly, Gordo was a human, (with a lot of stereotypical features that wouldn’t pass muster today). The chihuahua was another main character. The animals all talked, but I don’t think they interacted with the humans. I don’t remember the owl, but there were a lot of secondary characters.
Just outta curiosity, is there a term for the omission of background detail surrounding characters in a strip (re: Bizarro)? I would think The Lexicon Of Comicana would have something to say about it. :-)
@ Grawlix – That “halo” effect does not appear anywhere in Mort Walker’s “Lexicon”, but the technique is more sophisticated than the stick figures and “parts” that make up most of the book.
P.S. I’m glad I looked it up, I was not aware that the full book is available at archive.org (see the embedded link).
There was a strip about “Gordo” in “Baldo”.
Interestingly, while searching for it I ran across an old arc that featured the character Gordo in a flashback from Tia Carmen starting here:
Part of the strip is a fast-food place called “Gordo’s”. No idea if it was named from strip, but probably.
@ Brian (17) – The placement of the first strip puzzled me for a bit, until I noticed (duh!) that it was a birthday tribute.