Category / CIDU

by EditorM

These are not the ginks you’re looking for

McEldowney’s meaning for gink must be quite different from the one I am most familiar with!

The Urban Dictionary of course gives some dozen unrelated entries of varying plausibility, some of which could work in this cartoon context. (But none of which are exactly mine.) The slang section of dictionary.com is more sober, but the main American entry could work with the cartoon:

noun Slang: Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.

a person; fellow.

Is that all there is to it? Or do you see a better fit for one of the other definitions?

by EditorM

Hey, Computerworld?

Thanks to Ken the Tutor! He says: “What are those things escaping from her TV? Is that a joystick in her hand? Could you even connect a joystick to a regular TV then? Especially wirelessly?”

Ken scanned this from an OMNI magazine that surfaced in his storage (April 1984 issue) — does anyone recognize the signature, or can figure it out from that info? We’re putting Art Cumings as the tag, on the basis of some memory pages saying he did some work for OMNI; but there doesn’t seem to be enough of a similarity of style. http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2012/09/art-cumings-june-9-1922-august-28-2012.html

by EditorM

“Topkapi”, right?

All the commenters at GoComics suggest this would be a scene from a heist story, but among those who suggest particular titles there was a mix of Mission Impossible, Leverage, and Topkapi.

But what’s the joke? I hope it isn’t that this is a bird so it could be flying instead of using the harness. Since this doesn’t seem like the kind of bird that can do precise flying, let alone hovering.

by EditorM

Wait, is this meant to be encouraging or completely defeatist?

Defeatist, that is, in that the only solution is to give up and do something else. *Not* “do some lateral thinking and that could help” . Or simply “why don ‘t you take a break, and get refreshed”?

But then again, it could be trying to get a little meta, with “the box” also meaning the borders of the cartoon strip panels. But projected back to the realism layer, that means … what? The cartoonist will yank you from your toils?