North Dakota teaches democracy to the rest of us

North Dakota! That pioneering leader in the concept of democracy.  Amanda gives us this inspirational editorial cartoon about the northernmost Dakota.  46 down, 4 to go:

Oregonian Suffrage

Our friend Amanda has found cartoon maps of most of our remaining states.  We'll have them here over the next few days.  First up: Oregon (and Washington)... in which, 100 years before Washington beat Oregon to legal pot Washington beat Oregon to Women's Suffrage.  45 down, 5 to go:

A 1912 editorial cartoon shows an Oregon man standing alone while men in the neighboring states are standing happily together with their wives. This cartoon was shown before movies and theater productions across the state. Oregon suffragists accused Oregon voting men of lagging behind neighboring states on woman suffrage. Idaho women gained the vote in 1896, followed by Washington in 1910 and California in 1911.

Sunny-side up

Even though the imagery of the globe on fire is usually related to global warming, this submission by Amanda  is another from John Collins from 1944 and is about the fledgling UNRRA's efforts to help a battered world.

Mouse scale

Skylock Fox by Bob Weber, Jr. still appears in some newspapers' comics section.  In this one the vulpine hero demonstrates that his detecting skills are so amazing that he can solve crimes over the phone.... or possibly so lazy that he sends his dimwitted mouse sidekick to do all the legwork and map work?  Whatever the case, this is a cartoon I encounter through the sarcastic Comics Curmudgeon site.

Animated walkability study

This is an animation over at the ExSciEd YouTube channel of a study by Jana Hirsch (et. al.) about walkability.  It's very map-y, but interestingly GIS-averse:

Florida Adventure

Oh, Florida! Will you ever be anything less than disturbingly odd? From Ruben Bolling's "Tom the Dancing Bug"

Cannonball

Let's have a look-see at a cartoon from illustrator Jaco Haasbroek:



Fun, huh?  He's got a lot more very cute illustrations on his site.

Solution to gerrymandering

A solution to gerrymandering from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic by Zach Weiner. Click on the image to embiggen for legibility.
 

Not in Kansas anymore?

Dorothy needed these shoes created by Dominic Wilcox

Convention spill

This submission by Amanda is again from John Collins for the 1967 cartoonists convention. Photos of spills that look like maps abound on the internet.

United States of New York

This 1978 Tony Graham Graphics 'United States of New York' poster was found by some people cleaning out a basement.      

Where's the North Pole?

From the folks at "Minute Physics", where's the North Pole?

Problem # 2 of 99

Ever wondered what Jay-Z's "99 problems" are all about? Artist Ali Graham is doing his best to figure them out in his new Tumblr blog 99 Problems, where he showcases color illustrations of Hova dealing with first world rapper problems (as often referenced in his lyrics).  Problem #2 is figuring out "where Brooklyn at." So far, more than 40 of the rapper's problems have been illustrated, with the rest on the way..

Seal porn

A little farther along in the plotline at the webcomic "Powernap" by Maritza Campos we have our hero Spencer making up some deeply lame story about looking at maps to avoid being caught looking for his team-mate/attempted-killer (remember the guy with way, way too many teeth from the last Powernap post?  I suspect that's actually his boss there ... but that might be too easy). The seals? Inside joke from a couple episodes back.

Animated Empires

Animated GIFs of empires past?  We gots 'em right here.  I like the Mongol empire the best because it's ridonkulously massive. :

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New rules

This is from Free Range by Bill Whitehead

American Advance

This submission by Amanda is a WWII-era cartoon by Frank Duggan entitled "American Advance".

South Korea's got Seoul

A painfully obvious geographic pun t-shirt design from Busted Tees.

Heliocentrism

This is more astrophysics than cartography, but it's still an important principle in both fields: Jef Mallet's Frazz

Sabbatical

There's never enough cartoons about the earth complaining about the effects of humans on its health.  Eldon Dedini in The New Yorker.

Something beautiful

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis sometimes goes in for these depressing fables with the conceit that they're authored by the strip's "Rat" character rather than Pastis. The glob-looking thing in panel seven qualifies this as a map-related comic... kinda.

Buyer's remorse

This is from an early caption contest cartoon by Tom Cheney for The New Yorker published in 2005..  

Leash P. S.

Speed Bump by Dave Coverly

Get it right this year.

This item from Amanda is another John Collins cartoon from about 1946, the globe in the corner being utilized to symbolize a place of learning.

Disturbance in the frost

Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley makes fun of Canada cartographically.

Bathroom break

Greg Cravens comic strip The Buckets on a family road trip with a TomTom.  Remember the TomTom?  That was a navigational device used by people in the ancient world of like 5 years ago before smart phones conquered the consumer-grade navigation marketplace.

Laugh them off the map

Here's an old 1940's-era cover for Harvard's storied parody magazine National Lampoon with an arguably racist response to the war.

Party

This may be from a 1972 New Year's Eve issue of The New Yorker, but I think it still works well for a 4th of July theme.

On me

Remember when the US was big and powerful enough to do something like this?  This is from a 1993 New Yorker cartoon by Mischa Richter.  Who knows which crisis this was in reference to.  The '90's were a pretty swell decade for the US. 

New "Map" technology

Percy from my local open source GIS user group passed around this funny video about a "new" technology sweeping the location-based industry:

Lost the spare

This item from Amanda is another John Collins cartoon, this time referencing Canadian economic woes in the 1960s.  Collins references the Canadian everyman with a character he calls Uno Who.