Introducing Wilde Life

Pascalle Lepas draws Wilde Life.  I've only just started it.  It's an engaging story so far, what with ghosts and werewolves and all.  Have a look:

Moby Dick 2014

Here's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic by Zach Weiner with a modern take on Moby Dick.  Makes for a much shorter story.

Red Rover

I love comics that send up plate tectonics as thie xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe does.  Incidentally, there's a new paper out that postulates that the Cambrian explosion may have involved a major plate tectonics event.

The "title-text" at the actual webcomic says:

I just learned about the Slide Mountain Ocean, which I like because it's three nouns that sound like they can't possibly all refer to the same thing.

Thanksgiving 1998

In Foxtrot, by Bill Amend, there's an annual tradition of making fun of the oldest son Peter's infamous gluttony:

Introducing Velabas

Velabas, the webcomic.  There's more travel comics there so more maps to be found in them. 

GIS: Wonder of the world

Slate.com is doing a series on the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.  Item #2 is effectively GIS.  Item 1 is actually air traffic control (which has a major GIS component).

Guest poster Amanda Murphyao here with some cartoon maps of Arizona:

Hot sauce, where are you?

Here's one way to prevent theft of hot sauce bottles.

Maternity leave

Here's a map-saturated look at maternity leave:

Run away!

Alaska-Hawaii hiway

Some people... ya just gotta wonder:

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the public domain

Dave Kellet in his Sheldon webcomic is celebrating the long-overdue arrival of Sherlock Holmes into the public domain.  Can Mr. Holmes survive in the world of Apple & Google?  BBC and Benedict Cumberbatch are betting yes. 

No Ebola

Here to address yer Ebola worries: 

Australia Asylum Seekers (guest post)

Guest poster Amanda Murphyao here with some more cartoon maps (carto-caricatures) of Australia. These are all from 2009, found more or less around the internet, but www.inkcinct.com.au seems to the original source. I guess the cartoonist is not particularly keen on asylum seekers:

Where's the UK?

Enterprise car rentals in the UK has a new ad that features a geography joke (below).  Their tag line at the end ("UK car hire... with US customer service") doesn't do much for me as it reminds me of the  hell part of the joke about European heaven and hell:

Heaven is a place where:
The lovers are Italian
The food is French
The cars are German
The humor is English
The government is run by the Swiss

Hell is a place where:
The lovers are Swiss
The food is English
The cars are French
The humor is German
The government is run by the Italians

TedEd on Climate Change

Here's a TED Ed video that explains some aspects of climate change.  It uses maps (or at least globes) and billiards:

Run, Freak, Run

Here's another debut webcomic for the blog: Run, Freak, Run by Silver Saaremaeel and Kaija Rudkiewicz. It's pretty intense.  Here the finger of Saint Dominic revives him whereupon he reveals the important coordinates for finding... something...
a baby I think:

High up

The Ahammaday.com webcomic gives us this astronaut joke:

Portuguese explorers mosaic

This mosaic is in front of the Padrão dos Descobrimentos monument in Belém, Lisbon. The map shows the routes of Portuguese explorers and was a gift from South Africa in 1960. Ti was taken by Bernt Rostad

OK Go up

We've posted an OK Go video before where they used some globes in a Rube Goldberg machine.  Here they are again, this time using a drone to film a synchronized display which becomes more impressive with altitude.

Australia (guest post)

Guest poster Amanda Murphyao here with some cartoon maps (carto-caricatures) of Australia that I've come across in my research:

Texas sunset

Here is a  Texas-shaped sunset in Texas:

Unique geographic location

Here's a geography lesson about Boston from Ruben Bolling's "Tom the Dancing Bug":

You are infinity

We haven't had a You are here gag in a long while.  Here's one from Dan Piraro's Bizarro.

Across the US, 31 communities have joined forces to make the dream of fast, affordable, and reliable gigabit-speed broadband a local reality. The Next Century Cities program, launched this week, hopes to defeat the forces holding broadband back. Is your community one of them?


The 31 inaugural signatories are:
• Ammon, ID
• Auburn, IN
• Austin, TX
• Boston, MA
• Centennial, CO
• Champaign, IL
• Chattanooga, TN
• Clarksville, TN
• Jackson, TN
• Kansas City, KS
• Kansas City, MO
• Lafayette, LA
• Leverett, MA
• Louisville, KY
• Montrose, CO
• Morristown, TN
• Mount Vernon, WA
• Palo Alto, CA
• Ponca City, OK
• Portland, OR (HUZZAH!)
• Raleigh, NC
• Rockport, ME
• San Antonio, TX
• Sandy, OR
• Santa Cruz County, CA
• Santa Monica, CA
• South Portland, ME
• Urbana, IL
• Westminster, MD
• Wilson, NC
• Winthrop, MN

RV-ing with Judge Parker

Some time ago we did a post with a Judge Parker strip by Woody Wilson & Mike Manley. I'm sorry, but there's an opportunity to do that again... this time showing the gang actually using a map rather than just talking about using one.  That last storyline about a kidnapping ended with a wedding. Who knows where this one's headed... or why they're using a hardcopy map rather than a GPS that's almost surely built into the ridiculously expensive "Road Queen" that they've purchased for this adventure.

Spawn of Gerrymander

For voting day we have "Spawn of Gerrymander" where Rob Walker over at the Design Observer has curated a collection of illustrations of wildly gerrymandered congressional districts.  Gerrymandering is arguably far worse today than when the beast first reared its ugly head.

West Germany eats East Germany (guest post)

Today's the third in a series of Germany map cartoons by your Monday guest poster, Amanda Murphyao.

Really wish I could find the citation on this one, but I suppose it's self-explanatory:

Based on the file name, this is form 1990, but further information would be appreciated!

Mapping the ocean floor

Here's an episode of SciShow with information about mapping the ocean floor.  Nifty!:

Halloween bonus

Here's one of the photos from a series of a month's worth of Halloween costumes on an infant human:

Day 11: Noah’s channeling his favorite rapper, Ludacris (he’s got hoes in different area codes)