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Here in this discreet corner of the universe, a couple of things have happened this week worth noting. One is that we’re trying out the new website again. We’ve still got some bugs to work out here and there but think we’ll have it solved pretty soon. Let me know if you’re experiencing weirdness, in case it’s a variety of weirdness we’re not yet aware of. I’ll get to the other new thing in a moment.
Meanwhile, today’s cartoon is about photobombing and art history. If you’re having trouble understanding it, it could be that you don’t know enough about art history to recognize the image on the laptop, or that you don’t know what a photobomb is, or that you’re just drunk. Depending on which category you think you fit into, try googling, “define photobomb,” “famous painting with apple in front of face,” or “Hw dikd i gats o drnk?”
And now the other new thing: Back by popular demand, we’ve added the original Jazz Pickle #1 shirt to our store! (Take a moment to catch your breath.) No, you’re not dreaming, this is real. This shirt will protect you from imaginary threats of all kinds, plus make you substantially more attractive to certain types of people. Get yours now before the apocalypse ends all commerce!
If everyone has sobered up enough to continue, let’s take a peek at what Wayno has been scrawling on the walls of his undisclosed location this week. By the way, this week marks six months since he took over my Monday through Saturday cartoons. Big congrats, amigo!…
A dog magazine would likely have some very interesting fragranced cards in it but none that I would care to sniff. Those fragranced cards intended for humans smell enough like roadkill to me, already.
Over on Wayno’s weekly blog, he tells a cute story about his cats that served as something of an inspiration for this cartoon. URL at the end of this post.
In Scotland, bagpipes actually play a big role in dating: if you own some, you’re not going to get a date. On Wayno’s blog, he talks about the difficulty in drawing bagpipes. Even more challenging is drawing bagtubas.
Can’t you totally see wood-fired, bacon-stuffed Pop-Tarts becoming a huge fad in America? Perhaps the Cheeto Mussolini will toss boxes of them into a crowd of imprisoned children.
If you’re big into counting the Secret Symbols, you may notice that this is perhaps the first time the dynamite has appeared without being lit. Wayno must have been lit when he drew it. (Another detail I just noticed: is that Alex Trebek on the parole board? “What is, Get out of here, you knucklehead and stay out of trouble?”)
Recently, for reals, I read something about there not being any evidence that octopi and squids evolved on this planet and many scientists are now thinking they may have arrived here from elsewhere. I’ve also read they are insanely intelligent. (Octopi and squids, not scientists, who are also usually pretty intelligent.) I’m no scientist, but the absurd way that octopi spell their plural form is evidence enough for me.
To finish up the week, here’s an old cartoon of mine that I posted on Instagram this week for Throwback Thursday. (As I say every Thursday, no reason to throw it back, let’s just make the best of it.)
That’s the roundup for this week, Jazz Pickles. Don’t neglect to get your Bizarro enamel pins and the original Jazz Pickle #1 T-shirt available for a limited time! Do those things here.
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Until next week, be smart, be nice, and resist ignorance and bigotry.
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I see 3 symbols in the sloth cartoon. Dynamite, K2 and hanging bird. To my old eyes the number by the signature is 2.
Do I win something?
Good eye, Tony! You win the right to tell me what a lousy counter I am. :^}
Hola! I’d love one of your new T-shirt’s—since I live here in SMA, can I just pick one up or does it need to be shipped from the states?
Hola, vicino! Sadly, I don’t have any of those shirts here. The company that operates our store website prints them as they are ordered and ships them out from wherever-the-hell they are. Sorry I can’t be of more help!
BTW: Just read the bio on your website. I used to do freelance illustration for TracyLocke and David Carter Design back in the 90s. We likely know some of the same folks. :^}
Everyone knows that two- and three-toed sloths are just sorry leftovers from the Cartoonists Wars of the late 1800’s…
I was not aware of that but am grateful for the knowledge!
Just to clear the octopus thing up (and hope I am not being annoying):
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/octopi-octopuses/
That’s actually super fascinating about the Latin/Greek confusion. Thanks for the link, Jeff!
My Hello Shitty pin is the bomb. Thank you. And the others are awesome too, but people look at them and smile, the Hello Shitty gets the laughs.
So happy to hear it, Edward!
Actually the word being greek, the correct plural is octopodes. Not that anyone uses it! /nitpick
I see 8 symbols in the Art History Cartoon:
Rabbit
K2
Eyeball
Dynamite
Upside-Down Bird
Crown
O2
Pie
😉
There are actually 7, so I did miscount. The one you’re mistaking is the crown, which doesn’t appear in that image to the best of my knowledge. I know that symbol on the laptop looks a bit like one but it isn’t. Good eye, though!
I don’t see the pie or the rabbit. Are you talking about the Sloth cartoon?
New website glitch: On my laptop (Chrome browser), the text is billboard-size at 100% zoom. Zooming down to 75% makes the text human-size, but the comics rather small.
Can you tweak the website to show full size comics and human size text at the same time? Thanks.
I’ll report this and see if the powers that be can fix it. Thanks, Mike!
I counted 8 symbols in yesterday’s Sunday strip. Is that a crown on the computer screen above the O2? If not then I spotted 7
That’s not a crown on the screen but you’re right about there being 7 instead of the 6 I put by my signature. This is definitely “Doh!” territory.
Thank you for the confirmation. I always enjoy your strips 🙂
So much to comment on…
1) Loved the “While you were Alf” message pad gag. (Although I hope to never be
Alf!)
2) I went to Amazon to confirm and, yup Scotch brand clear adhesive tape still uses that green tartan plaid on their tape dispensers. (Had to look up “Slotch”, on the other hand. Now that I know what that word means, I don’t think I’ll be using it too much around the office.)
3) Looks like you might be a Macintosh computer owner. That still tends to be the most popular choice for creative professionals, and I can tell you as a software engineer they have the best operating system. I just wish Apple would stop their relentless march to produce increasingly more non-repairable hardware. You can’t even replace the damn battery in their laptops any more.
4) Why do bagpipe players walk while they play? To get away from the noise.
5) As someone from Boston might say, octopuses are indeed “wicked smaht”.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-octopuses-smart/
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/speedy-octopus-sets-record-for-jar-opening/
1)Thanks for noticing! 2)Never heard that word before, probably because people who are young enough to achieve the moniker now ignore me because of my age. 3)Yup. I love Macs but they’ve gone downhill a bit since Jobs died. Never used to ever have a problem with anything ever, not kidding. Not true anymore. 4)Love the bagpipe joke! (Although I actually like bagpipes in limited quantities) 5)I won’t eat squid or octopus because I’m convinced they are as smart or smarter than chimps.
Hey lucky mail day today. Got my Jazz birthing a pickle tee. Didn’t even know it’d have so many other Bizaro icons. Got the beefy men’s so it’s a comfy lounge tee for moi. Now if I can just get our big furry all white Husky Eddie the Yeti to stop shedding, I can get it to stay black so the ART shines. Love it!!
Happy to hear it, MtP! Thanks for your support an may it give you many years of coverage!