Cosmopoetica

This comic (from The Believer – Vol. 8, No.2)  made me laugh (click for a larger view):

You might also want to check out Eric’s short comic series: Tales to Demolish

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The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads of All Time – maybe there are worse, but I have yet to see them…

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The Rejection Collections (vol. 1 – Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in the New Yorker and vol. 2 – The Cream of the Crap) have many cartoons that rival anything the New Yorker found fit to publish. It’s obvious why some of the entries were rejected, while many serve to illustrate the particularly finicky approach of the New Yorker… which has its strength and weaknesses.

This is my favorite of both books—I don’t know why, exactly, except the spirit so aptly represents most of my days:

There’s almost nothing better than a sly dog cartoon:

Or a bit of devilishness:

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Recently it was reported that Nikolas Kontanakas, 27, was severely injured by a large, falling albatross that (doctors surmised) suffered from a heart attack in mid-air. In fact, Nicolas, 17, was issued a citation for speeding in a school zone.

We reported on the breaking news of the indictment of Mayor McKenna on charges of corruption and racketeering, but our facts weren’t in order and we’d like to retract that story and instead send the Mayor our congratulations on the birth of his new baby boy.

Mount Rainier is in Washington state, not Washington D.C.

Transvestites and transsexuals are not the same.

The new river recreation area is being named in honor of Adolf Tauzen, long-time local ophthalmologist and community organizer, not Adolf Hitler, the former German fuehrer who attempted to exterminate the Jews.

Correction of yesterday’s correction: the plural of the word ‘fetus’ is ‘fetuses’ not ‘fetii.’ The new flower beds at the women’s clinic were funded by anonymous donations and are not now, nor have they ever been, fertilized with aborted fetuses.

Our story on alleged illegal payments to scholarship athletes on the University baseball team may have been premature. Further investigation has revealed that we have no baseball team… or university.

While it’s true that the new Ocean View condominiums were designed by a graduate of East Valley High School (go Running Rebels!), there is no evidence that their foundations are insufficient making them likely to fall suddenly into the sea.

Sympathy and empathy are not synonymous.

Odds of a planet-wide extinction triggered by an asteroid– technically a meteoroid– impact are significantly less than the 1 in 12 estimate given in our story "The Myth of a Global Financial Crisis."

Valentine’s Day was not invented– or celebrated– by the Ancient Greeks.

Madonna and The Madonna: very different. We apologize for the misleading illustration.

If a storm forms over water, it’s a hurricane; over land, it’s a tornado. Cyclones and typhoons remain hazy.

The gematria of "Prince Charles of Wales" in both English and Hebrew is 666, but there’s been no definitive demonstration proving him in possession of the powers of the Anti-Christ.

Our research continues.

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John Stewart calls shenanigans on the recent White House Poetry Jam. And rightly so… this cringe-worthy event appears to have rolled up many of the worst aspects of the contemporary scene into one bundle destined for mockery:

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Coming soon to a theater near you?

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I guess the one thing Rick Santelli has over Jim Cramer is that he doesn’t expose his vapid ridiculousness quite as regularly…

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Talk about revenge…

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The Terms of Service brouhaha doesn’t even make my own list.

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Explaining just why you have to love Journey…

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Via Darren Barefoot comes this Ze Frank video. Not safe for work, but it made me laugh. “Brain Crack” indeed…

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The Mac ads quickly started making me clench my teeth, but John Hodgman is brilliant. The Areas of My Expertise is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read and I have high hopes for More Information Than You Require. This video from TED captures him in full-on storytelling mode, the way I first discovered him…

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[from the New Yorker]

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Remove Garfield from the picture (literally) and you turn a bland comic into one that is strange, delusional, desperate, lonely, and often hilarious.

Kudos to Jon Davis, creator of Garfield, for being cool with the idea and saying so.

[subconscious linktribution: CogDogBlog]

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Another comic I forget because I can’t subscribe to it (though that is supposedly going to change real soon) is the almost always amusing– and often scary– Get Your War On. A pair from late last month:

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Actually, Drew Dee’s own comics are also pretty funny:

toothpastefordinner.com

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Two of the funnier comics I discovered recently have two things in common… both are at least partly the creation of Natalie Dee and neither have RSS feeds. The samples I’ve chosen here are pretty mild. Most of the entries I prefer are a bit more biting– but I’ll let you find those for yourself!

First, from Natalie’s own series:

nataliedee.com

The second from a strip Natalie does with a partner, this time chosen especially for Victoria:

marriedtothesea.com

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The teachings of Phistophicles, lesser known ancient Greek philosopher, are now available for all to learn from…

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I’ve been enjoying pictures for sad children and came across a couple of literary-ish comics worth sharing since they reference a couple of my favorite authors and works.

First, David Foster Wallace:

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Then T.S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”:

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