JMcAndrew sends this in: “I have no idea what the joke here is. It’s a snowman with a top hat and black cape and the crows like him because they are also black? Why is there fire?”
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I’m not totally sure, but he isn’t a snowman. The Man in Black is a recurring character; he’s just a dude with a pointy red nose, a cape, and a top hat. The crows are part of his bit. They show up when he does.
Not sure about the fire. I don’t think there’s a gag; the joke with the Man in Black is an extended character bit. Strips like this one appear occasionally just describing him with purple prose and a serious tone, interspersed with strips where the description becomes silly, or he’s an awkward buffoon, or the crows are clowning around and annoying him.
See this Wikipedia article on the plague doctor costume. The pictures should make clear that the Macanudo “Man in Black” character is based in that tradition.
“The costume consists of a leather hat, mask with glass eyes and a beak, stick to remove clothes of a plague victim, gloves, waxed linen robe, and boots.[2]”
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I’m not totally sure, but he isn’t a snowman. The Man in Black is a recurring character; he’s just a dude with a pointy red nose, a cape, and a top hat. The crows are part of his bit. They show up when he does.
Not sure about the fire. I don’t think there’s a gag; the joke with the Man in Black is an extended character bit. Strips like this one appear occasionally just describing him with purple prose and a serious tone, interspersed with strips where the description becomes silly, or he’s an awkward buffoon, or the crows are clowning around and annoying him.
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See this Wikipedia article on the plague doctor costume. The pictures should make clear that the Macanudo “Man in Black” character is based in that tradition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume
“The costume consists of a leather hat, mask with glass eyes and a beak, stick to remove clothes of a plague victim, gloves, waxed linen robe, and boots.[2]”
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