Fall equinox tomorrow, September 22.
Dirk the Daring sends this in: “Not a CIDU, but this can’t possibly be a coincidence, right? I’d guess Mr. Pett is knowledgeable about music. At least one commenter besides me noticed it.”
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Comics I Don't Understand 
I don’t get what’s up with 4:33. Can someone let me out of the cage?
John Cage, 4 minutes, 33 seconds of silence.
How many other comics are a time or a time duration?
Twenty Five Or Six To Four
Five Minutes More
It’s Three O’Clock In The Morning
I’m not sure I’ve seen the Collins panels before. The faces and some of the line art remind me of Kliban’s style.
Darren–I was thinking the same thing. It just needs a bit of cross-hatching.
And speaking of style similarities, I can’t tell what creator credit goes with the Work Chronicles comic, and when I look at their home site all it reveals is “Bob”. But I really thought the modified-stick-figure approach, with large full-circle heads and stylized facial features atop smaller bodies, closely matches that of a panel comic I see fairly regularly, but can’t bring to mind right now.
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@Mitch4, I can’t get closer than “Bob” either, so there’s no creator credit. Should I just put Bob?
@zbicyclist, I sure don’t know. Maybe someone can name the similar-style comic I’m thinking of, and we could see who’s credited for that one …
Wikpedia sez:
4′33″ is a modernist composition by American experimental composer John Cage. It was composed in 1952 for any instrument or combination of instruments; the score instructs performers not to play their instruments throughout the three movements.
@Mitch: I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Cyanide and Happiness, but I don’t think this is the work of one of the four people who do or have done that one…
@larK, oh yes, quite likely that is the one I was thinking of. But then, as you suggest, it doesn’t seem thematically enough like that.
you could always email them at (hello)(at)(workchronicles)etc and ask
Work Chronicles doesn’t have the same NSFW edge as Cyanide and Happiness. I did note the art style was similar, but the writing style is not, to my view. But I decided to edit this to credit “Bob”. That’s the best I can think of.
Equating Cage with music is like equating a blank canvas with painting.
4’33” isn’t about silence. While the performers are motionless, the sounds of the room (or environment outside) itself become the performance. No two performances will be the same.
Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock… comics 3 and 5 for should commiserate together.
Thank you, Grawlix. If we take the point of the piece to be more about noticing ambient noise at a performance, this comic can suggest that audience gastro noises are bound to be a part of it!
More generally,let’s not reduce Cage’s contribution to music to the one piece 4’33”. He wrote a lot of music, and a lot of words in philosophy of art/music.
I think the only time I went out of a concert hall humming the tune was after a performance of 4’33”.