Paradise Found

Here's an article and gallery showing maps of Biblical Paradise from Maps of Paradise, a new book by Alessandro Scafi:

Happy (early) New Year (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.

Berryman - It's certainly a mess, son, maybe you can straighten it out - 1 Jan 1942

The state of TV

The most popular TV show set in each state:

Do you know the way...?

The comic Reality Check by Dave Whamond. how many of you will get this earworm?.

Where to go?

This item from lolnein.com is similar to an older post about throwing darts at a map to decide where to go except :

12 Panel Pitch

There's a series going on over at Slate.com called 12 Panel Pitch where story ideas are drown up in 12 panels and presented to readers.  The latest is called Meek by scriptwriter Todd Alcott (Antz, etc.) and drawn by cartoonist/illustrator R. Sikoryak 

The red suit

Form Scott Kurtz' outstanding Player vs. Player webcomic I bring you this year's installment of the Kringus story arc.  Panel 2 kind of involves navigation (plotting a course, ya'see?) 

But even as fun as the Kringus stories can be, my favorite Christmas map-related comic is this one:
http://blueskygis.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-love-christmas.html

Travel log tattoo

Fill 'em in when they get visited:

Capitalism vs. Communism (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.

Chase - The Poles Apart - 7 April 1950

Christmas cards from Canada (guest post)

Hello! Amanda Murphyao here with a seasonally appropriate cartoon from the 1950s that mentions the Trans-Canada Highway map (last panel):

This one's by John Collins, courtesy of the McCord Museum.

Archie Archambault's maps

This is just a brilliant set of maps by Archie Archambault that provide a radically different perspective on cartography. Read the article.

Solar moon

Another Bond Villain-level project, this time from Japan: Build a band of solar panels 400 km wide around the moon's equator and beam the power back to Earth.  Not exactly villainous... but not exactly practical either.

Weird geese

This item from the people at Test Tube's Don't Be Dumb is very intentionally weird. The globe on the table is to help grant an ironic aire of knowledge.
 

NSA doesn't even care anymore

We've had posts before about octopuses showing up on maps to represent some nefarious global power bent on dominating the world.  Here's an honest-to-goodness logo on the NSA's latest spy satellite:

The close-up:

That's got Bond-level villain written all over it.

Let's finish this one off with Jon Stewart justifiably mocking the NSA for its disgusting bravado:

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Toronto: a lot of work (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here with a map of Toronto by Graeme MacKay:

(25 September 2008)

Catch a bear by its tail (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.

Carmack - Which end can he afford to believe - 1952

Drunk History: Mark Twain

This is an episode of Comedy Central's Drunk History featuring Mark Twain... and maps that set the stage.

More Handy

Like the Michigan tattoos only with Wisconsin.

WiFido

Here's a poop joke with a map and GPS from Draw Brandon Draw

Life on Mars

PBS Digital Studios video about life on Mars which has a representation of the "canals" at about the 0:50 mark and the Earth at about  the 2:20 mark and 3:50 mark.

Weight of a hurricane

An NPR video about the weight of hurricanes, which features the Atlantic Hemisphere at about the 2:27 mark:
 
How Much Does A Hurricane Weigh? from NPR on Vimeo.

Dinosaur juice (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here with a map of North America by Khalil Bendib:

(Image links to source.)

At a snail's p(e)ace (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.

Bimrose - Familiar metamorphosis - 8 May 1953

Beauty of Mathematics

This is a still from a video about the Beauty of Mathematics.  At about the 0:50 mark the example is a weather map.  It's a pleaseent view of math set to pretty music from Parachutes.tv.

BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS from PARACHUTES.TV on Vimeo.

Drifting apart

Geography fart jokes are the best kinds of fart jokes.  This one from the Perry Bible Fellowship:

Earth can be a jerk

A pair from KickingCones.com by Katrina Constantine.

Dream sequence

...or vision quest?  More of things like this and a variety of other artists at Toonhole

Debt load

I'm feelin' it:

Cuba (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here.

This one's from the United States Library of Congress:

Who Said Anything about Driving out Castro? We’re Talking about Kennedy

Washington Post, February 26, 1963. Herbert L. Block Collection.

Tokio / Tokyo (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe from the United States Library of Congress for the next few Mondays.

Berryman - Flight over Tokio - 21 May 1942

Watch out, Tampa

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here with a cartoon map of Florida, spotted at an exhibit in the Tampa Bay History Center:

St. Petersburg Times  - 25 April 1974

Don't change the stars yet

This is where I begin to wonder if the person who posted this was simply being intentionally stupid:

Low blow

This isn't very nice...but it can feel this way when on the job search:
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Nevertheless, an English major might be worse:

Thanksgiving's weird

Here's a Thanksgiving comic debut for Matt Bradshaw's Gerbil with a Jetpack,

Maps and paper sizes

The explanation of paper sizes utilizes several maps to explain the relationship between the earth and (European) paper sizes.
 

USA pup (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up cartoons involving maps for a few Tuesdays (to offset all those Monday globes).

From "Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly"

Struggle over the globe (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here. I'm putting up historical cartoons involving the world or globe for the next few Mondays.

This one's from the United States Library of Congress:

Pease - Has this been "settled in advance" too - c 1939

GPS Seizure

In 500 feet FREAK OUT!

Pale Blue Dot

A Bad Astronomy blog post reminds that it was Carl Segan Day earlier this month and presents the following comic strip from Zenpencils and video in honor of that event.

Can't watch without yawning

TED Talks are fascinating ~15 minute lectures on a huge variety of topics. I've posted some on this blog. The TED outfit has united animators with speakers of some of those topics to create animated shorts about some of the subjects. And some of those have maps. The first is a section on one about yawning that shows a map-like thing on a subway.
 
The other is a short debunking the anti-vaccination nonsense and starts with the Earth getting a shot.

Norman Rockwell maps

Here's a review in Slate of a book by Deborah Solomon entitled American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell.

Here's some Norman Rockwell paintings that are full of maps entitled:

Man Charting Maneuvers

Adventurers

Airplane Trip

Family Home from Vacation