Comments on: New Yorker cartoons redone with literal captions http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 08:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-997153 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-997153 "Our dog is fucking huge." It suuuure is. :D “Our dog is fucking huge.”

It suuuure is. :D

]]> By: YarbroughFair http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995112 YarbroughFair Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995112 My partner get's angry with me when I peer through my glasses at him when he tries to read New Yorker shouting "I don't get it, something's wrong with you if you do." Now the shoes on the other foot. Touche! My partner get’s angry with me when I peer through my glasses at him when he tries to read New Yorker shouting “I don’t get it, something’s wrong with you if you do.” Now the shoes on the other foot. Touche!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995115 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995115 my only critique is that i wish it had the original headline next to the new one for those of us that dont know my only critique is that i wish it had the original headline next to the new one for those of us that dont know

]]> By: freshacconci http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995118 freshacconci Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995118 Those are actually funny. Kind of Far Sidish. Those are actually funny. Kind of Far Sidish.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995377 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995377 This is something like Literal Economist Covers (http://literaleconomist.tumblr.com). Scroll through to see my favourite, "Mr President, That's Not Air Force One" (Obama walking up a boarding ramp into the mouth of a bear). This is something like Literal Economist Covers (http://literaleconomist.tumblr.com). Scroll through to see my favourite, “Mr President, That’s Not Air Force One” (Obama walking up a boarding ramp into the mouth of a bear).

]]> By: carolw http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995126 carolw Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995126 Christ, what an asshole. Christ, what an asshole.

]]> By: Halloween Jack http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995896 Halloween Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995896 Cute, although the "Christ, what an asshole" meme still rules. By the way, does anyone else remember P.C. Vey doing cartoons for Playboy back in the day? Whenever I see his work in the New Yorker, I'm always a little startled to see that it doesn't involve sex or nudity. Cute, although the “Christ, what an asshole” meme still rules.

By the way, does anyone else remember P.C. Vey doing cartoons for Playboy back in the day? Whenever I see his work in the New Yorker, I’m always a little startled to see that it doesn’t involve sex or nudity.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995132 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995132 Now I'm dying to know what the actual captions were. Now I’m dying to know what the actual captions were.

]]> By: wastrel http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995133 wastrel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995133 All due credit, I found it via drawn.ca: http://blog.drawn.ca/post/2731299573/new-yorker-cartoons-with-literal-captions All due credit, I found it via drawn.ca:

http://blog.drawn.ca/post/2731299573/new-yorker-cartoons-with-literal-captions

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995134 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995134 Boing'd Boing’d

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995136 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995136 I laughed, and then boinboing broke the site ...myrelf rotwing? really? I laughed, and then boinboing broke the site

…myrelf rotwing? really?

]]> By: toxonix http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995140 toxonix Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995140 New Yorker cartoons are never funny and often depressingly stupid with their cliche captions intact. For example, anyone can see that this is hilarious without a caption: http://www.bullseyerooster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/contest_p465.jpg There is no caption that could do anything but ruin that picture. New Yorker cartoons are never funny and often depressingly stupid with their cliche captions intact.
For example, anyone can see that this is hilarious without a caption:
http://www.bullseyerooster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/contest_p465.jpg

There is no caption that could do anything but ruin that picture.

]]> By: cynthiab http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995146 cynthiab Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995146 Can't you just imagine them being read by the girl who does "Kittens Inspired by Kittens." Can’t you just imagine them being read by the girl who does “Kittens Inspired by Kittens.”

]]> By: CleanStar http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995148 CleanStar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995148 Sometimes a good cartoon doesn't need a caption at all. A picture says more than 1000 words. Sometimes a good cartoon doesn’t need a caption at all.
A picture says more than 1000 words.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995669 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995669 I used to love New Yorker comics... some of them were masterpieces. but I don't know, lately they just don't seem funny at all. Some of them are quite mediocre. Is it a dying art? I used to love New Yorker comics… some of them were masterpieces.

but I don’t know, lately they just don’t seem funny at all. Some of them are quite mediocre.

Is it a dying art?

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995161 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995161 These are quite funny, but it would be nice to see the original caption for contrast. These are quite funny, but it would be nice to see the original caption for contrast.

]]> By: Andrew Ferguson http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995178 Andrew Ferguson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995178 @wastrel: It's like you found a secret treasure trove of never-before-seen Far Side comics. @wastrel: It’s like you found a secret treasure trove of never-before-seen Far Side comics.

]]> By: pidg http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995954 pidg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995954 Reminded me of The Far Side too. In particular the "<a href="http://springcitychronicle.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cow-tools.jpg?w=300&h=375">Cow Tools</a>" one, which apparently Larson got hundreds of complaint letters about from people who 'didn't get' it. Reminded me of The Far Side too. In particular the “Cow Tools” one, which apparently Larson got hundreds of complaint letters about from people who ‘didn’t get’ it.

]]> By: Mark Frauenfelder http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995194 Mark Frauenfelder Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995194 Some of these made me laugh out loud. Some of these made me laugh out loud.

]]> By: Guillaume Filion http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995210 Guillaume Filion Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995210 They were cartoons in the caption contest, they didn't have any captions. It was up to readers to submit their own captions. They were cartoons in the caption contest, they didn’t have any captions.
It was up to readers to submit their own captions.

]]> By: Jonathan Badger http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995246 Jonathan Badger Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995246 Actually a *lot* of great New Yorker cartoons are as literal as these. My favorite had two people looking at a big sign that says "Stop and Think" and the caption was "It really makes you stop and think, doesn't it?" Actually a *lot* of great New Yorker cartoons are as literal as these. My favorite had two people looking at a big sign that says “Stop and Think” and the caption was “It really makes you stop and think, doesn’t it?”

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995533 penguinchris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995533 What I don't understand, is people who claim to not understand the humor in New Yorker cartoons. They're very similar to The Far Side, and few people regularly claim to not like The Far Side. I think people just like to feel smug about not liking them. As a kid, I quickly tired of the comics in the newspaper - they were lame as hell, lowest-common-denominator kind of stuff. Web comics weren't around yet, and I could never get into comic books. But I loved comics, and loved the cartoons in the New Yorker, which my grandmother subscribes to and always has huge piles of lying around. They really appealed to me at a time when no other comics I had access to could satisfy me (now, there are lots of webcomics I enjoy). What I don’t understand, is people who claim to not understand the humor in New Yorker cartoons. They’re very similar to The Far Side, and few people regularly claim to not like The Far Side. I think people just like to feel smug about not liking them.

As a kid, I quickly tired of the comics in the newspaper – they were lame as hell, lowest-common-denominator kind of stuff. Web comics weren’t around yet, and I could never get into comic books. But I loved comics, and loved the cartoons in the New Yorker, which my grandmother subscribes to and always has huge piles of lying around. They really appealed to me at a time when no other comics I had access to could satisfy me (now, there are lots of webcomics I enjoy).

]]> By: Raj77 http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995281 Raj77 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995281 I... don't see where the funny is. And I grew up on Thurber. I… don’t see where the funny is. And I grew up on Thurber.

]]> By: lewis stoole http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995282 lewis stoole Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995282 very funny! very funny!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-996316 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-996316 Halloween Jack: Yes, I remember! Also, Mr. Gross has been appearing in the New Yorker, and I can't help remembering the truly obscene cartoons he did for the National Lampoon back in the '70s. By the way, when did James Thurber fall off the map? No one seems to remember, or reference, or care about him anymore. His career spanned decades, his books were wonderful, he fought McCarthyism in the '50s, and is forgotten today. I thought I'd see "The Unicorn In The Garden" or "The Last Flower" or "The War Between Men and Women" in BoingBoing, but it's like he never existed. Halloween Jack:

Yes, I remember! Also, Mr. Gross has been appearing in the New Yorker, and I can’t help remembering the truly obscene cartoons he did for the National Lampoon back in the ’70s.

By the way, when did James Thurber fall off the map? No one seems to remember, or reference, or care about him anymore. His career spanned decades, his books were wonderful, he fought McCarthyism in the ’50s, and is forgotten today.

I thought I’d see “The Unicorn In The Garden” or “The Last Flower” or “The War Between Men and Women” in BoingBoing, but it’s like he never existed.

]]> By: sean http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-996061 sean Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-996061 "I asked for a TUNA, not a tune-up!" Oh sorry, that's not the way you're supposed to do it. “I asked for a TUNA, not a tune-up!” Oh sorry, that’s not the way you’re supposed to do it.

]]> By: blueelm http://boingboing.net/2011/01/14/new-yorker-cartoons.html#comment-995312 blueelm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-995312 I like these! I like these!

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