Author / EditorM

by EditorM

Today I learned

I saw this cartoon on Facebook, and thought there was a little something wrong with the wording of the dialog, or something like that.

Anybody else confused by this?

I made a comment, and got what I thought was a snarky reply. But that commenter added something about “not trying to be snarky” and actually explained something I hadn’t understood. (But that’s what we’re all about here, Not-Understanding Comics.)

(But in the comments discussing the content of the cartoon, Mr. Greenbar did come off as argumentative and rather, yes, snarky.)

Is this convention/technique something that people here know about?

by EditorM

And some MORE retro Duffy, just for fun or frustration

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A last few in color again

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And while this post was languishing in Draft queue, there were still good new duffies getting published. This one, for instance, which found its way into one of our weekly OY collections:

.. and prompted this intro: OY by virtue of ambiguous parsing of [[comic strip] bar] versus [comic [strip bar]]. But y’know, as Will Rogers is never quite quoted as saying, I never meta man I didn’t like. And also a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a metaphor?

Or similar for this :

by EditorM

Chess on earth

Sometimes Life on Earth will seize on some setting or prop or situation to use in several daily panels, without any clear intent to take them together as anything like a narrative sequence or theme-and-variations. All I can come up with about the examples below is that they all involve the game of chess, in one way or another.

(10/07)

Teresa Burritt, creator of the GoCreator designation & pin, has been practicing what she preached, and showed up in the GoComics comments for the “Strip Chess” one. She noted that the guy with the one red sock apparently had matching underpants. Hey wait a minute, just how nude is this guy?!

(10/08)

(10/09)

(10/10)

This would be my choice for “one of these is actually funny”.