gag cartoons
Literal New Yorker cartoon captions
In the vein of literal videos, Garfield Minus Garfield, and Christ, What an Asshole comes The Monkeys You Ordered, a blog that takes the dry, clever, and/or inscrutable punchlines of New Yorker cartoons and makes them straightforward, and therefore somehow much more hilarious. Which stands to reason, when you think about it: Aren’t talking animals in bars, explosions in board rooms, pirates on analysts’ couches and so on weird enough as it is?
(Via Tom Ewing)
- January 10, 2011 @ 10:00 AM by Sean T. Collins
Comics Cavalcade: Bob and … Swab??
Alexander by George Herriman
- December 2, 2009 @ 12:00 PM by Chris Mautner
Comics Cavalcade: Cigarettes and Supermice
The Meanest Man in Town by Milt Stein
- November 20, 2009 @ 11:20 AM by Chris Mautner
Comics Time: Giants and Pooches
Love Punishes the Guilty by Tim Hensley
- November 10, 2009 @ 12:00 PM by Chris Mautner
New Yorker holds yet another cartoon contest
One of the cartoon entries
In addition to that neat Chris Ware strip in this week’s New Yorker magazine (I should note he did the cover too), the venerable magazine is holding a do-it-yourself cartoon contest. Using the cartoon kit provided on the Web site (using art by Alex Gregory), simply create as many gags as you like and send them in by Nov. 22. The top five winners will be featured in a slide show. Yeah, I know, that’s not much of a prize, but still, it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, as my father used to say. Oh, if you register the kit (which you have to do anyway to use it) you’ll enter a sweepstakes to win a trip to New York City. Now that’s more like it.
- October 30, 2009 @ 11:28 AM by Chris Mautner
Bob Mankoff thinks big
Thinking Big With Robert Mankoff is a series of video interviews with the New Yorker Cartoon Editor in which he talks about the role and history of humor in society. In the one below he talks about how he became a cartoonist and what makes things funny. (found via Drawn)
- October 9, 2009 @ 08:16 AM by Chris Mautner
New Yorker cartoonist comments on Marvel/Disney deal
The Beat, er, beat me to this Lee Lorenz cartoon in this week’s issue of the New Yorker (I always seem to get my subscription issue several days late), but it’s amusing enough I think to warrant reposting here.
- September 11, 2009 @ 10:30 AM by Chris Mautner
Enjoy a taste of Mahler’s ‘Spam’
Illustration from Mahler's 'Spam'
Cartoonist Nicolas Mahler (Lone Racer) has a new book out entitled Spam, where in he illustrated … well, I’ll let him explain it:
hello. i collected 15.000 spam-mails. i illustrated some of them. you may buy the collection in book form. or just follow this blog. if you`ve got a small dic`k, don`t blame your parents.
- March 26, 2009 @ 09:00 AM by Chris Mautner
Freaky Friday: The Jim Woodring edition
Some Woodring sketches
ART
Jim Woodring has been posting some amazing drawings from his sketchbook over on his blog. Scroll down slowly to take them in fully. Continue Reading »
- February 13, 2009 @ 08:09 AM by Chris Mautner