A few New Yorker cartoons from just after the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970.
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Boise Ed sends this in: “LOL doesn’t quite do it, but I don’t see a “Simply wow!” category. This one nearly makes me want to pay for a print.”
A video to Weill away the time.
Mitch4 sends this in:
“On April 26, 1954, [70+1 years, -1 day ago] six-year-old Randy Kerr was injected with the Salk vaccine at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. By the end of June, an unprecedented 1.8 million people, including hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, joined him in becoming “polio pioneers.” For the first time, researchers used the double-blind method, now standard, in which neither the patient nor person administering the inoculation knew if it was a vaccine or placebo. Although no one was certain that the vaccine was perfectly safe—in fact, Sabin argued it would cause more cases of polio than it would prevent—there was no shortage of volunteers.”
JMcAndrew sends in a few old Beetle Baileys, noting “Mort Walker was a weird guy.”
Putting some spring in his step?
Why would Sarge have done that? Or was this Beetle’s practical joke?
JMcAndrew: “At some point I’m going to write a thesis on all the homoeroticism in Beetle Bailey. This happens too often to be a coincidence. Here’s a sample.”
JMcAndrew: “I’ve been on somewhat of a Beetle Bailey kick lately but it really is a fascinating comic. This one is some nightmarish body horror on the level of David Cronenberg.”
And then there’s Sarge’s famous gourmand appetite:
JMcAndrew: “A 4000-gallon pot would have a diameter of 96 inches (8 feet) and a height of 140 inches (approximately 11.67 feet).” Would that cook properly?
No tour of Beetle Bailey would be complete without one in which Beetle slacks off:
JMcAndrew commented: “Apparently Beetle Bailey has been murdered and his body has been stuffed inside this filing cabinet. How else could he get inside of it and close the drawer?”
We can’t entirely ignore Easter!
This may have been posted on a previous Easter. If so, it’s doubly a zombie comic.
Celebrating the end of tax season:
This one’s a real bell-ringer.
We haven’t actually seen a star fall in since we invented telescopes, but I have a list of ones I’m really hoping are next.
The opposite of gravity is levity, so of course it’s okay to laugh at black holes.
Is it possible cartoonist Randal Monroe has been watching Philomena Cunk’s mockumentaries?
Boise Ed sends this in: “The comic itself is okay (or would have been, 48 years ago), but I laughed out loud at the squirrel’s quip.”
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