Paris this week

To coincide with this week's international climate change talks in Paris Amanda has submitted this explainer comic by Richard Monastersky & Nick Sousans:

Walk the world

There's a guy who has built a walk-able map of the world in Verdenskortet, Denmark

Abridged history?

I'm not sure I get this one:

At the center of it all

Architecture critic Oliver Wainwright recently went to North Korea and took photos of colorful, symmetrical building interiors.  One of them included this North Korea-centric wall map.

Mapping terror

Here's a video animation of 15 years of terrorist attacks by designer Milan R. Vuckovic.  Is it more or less discomfiting than this animation of the history of nuclear tests?

The looking glass

Next class

Map of the school hallway:

They will always be there

Owl Turd by Shenanigansen is quite the excellent webcomic.  Enjoy it. 

Introducing Chaos Life

This is a common experience from Chaos Life by A. Stiffler & K. Copeland

If it quacks like...

Here's an interesting observation:

Ninja GPS

I could have sworn I've posted an example of Bug Martini before (by Adam Huber)

Introducing Atomic Robo

Atomic Robo is a webcomic about an atomic-powered robot invented by Nicola Tesla.  It often has maps.  This one is funny because it shows a character using a map like it's a mall directory rather than the map of the black market freighter in the middle of the Pacific as our heroes/fugitives prepare to re-assemble the titular character and (once again) save the world.

Other examples:

Mercator truth

Many people have become so used to seeing the Mercator projection of the Earth that there's some confusion about actual sizes of different places on the planet.  Here's an interactive tool to help clarify things.

...and an article to help explain what's going on

Geometric geographical humor

Pacific Northwest joke in Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson

Rule 34

This might be a trigger warning for some.  And if you don't know about Rule 34, here's the explanation

Abducted

So much pun:
So much pun. From Just say eh

Blue marble

Pretty

Really high

From Ahammaday.com.  This one seems a bit off.  Sure, the one astronoaut's looking the wrong way and his buddy is tapping him on the shoulder to turn around, but it just doesn't quite work somehow.

Relieving

This visual trope is a bit familiar (scroll to bottom of that link).  This one is from an article about conservative Canadians screwing up privacy:

 

And isn't the first time we've had a comic involving urine

Jefferson Grid

Thomas Jefferson established the square mile as a foundation for land law in the US.  This instragram account shows images of things found in 1-square-mile crops from Google Earth.  It's pretty:

United States of Westeros

College Humor has put together a map of ... parts of... North America after the manner of Westeros:

Water fall

Apparently some people thought this image/video was what the Earth would look like without water.
 
I't actually just the geoid, which shows the shape of the Earth's surface where gravity is the same (exaggerated for visual effect)

This is what the Earth would look like without water (which we've seen before):

Read it

Halcyon Maps brings you myriad beautiful maps of interesting things, like this map of literary genres

Can't buy me...

Map of London in the style of the iconic tube map showing rents in London and how they're unaffordable.

Geological acne

I swear I've seen this joke before. From Alexander Hoffman's Tales of Absurdity

International comfort zone

Neil Kohney's The Other End

Brassy

Do you need a brass wrist band with a map on it?  Of course you do:

Schoolhouse rant

Maps in this parody:

Introducing OGLAF (Very NSFW)

While this particular example isn't too off-color, virtually every other episode of this webcominc, OGLAF.com, is massively NSFW:

... and the bees

Introducing Things in Squares

Early days

John McPherson's Close to Home

All of Zelda

"Friendly tag-based Javascript animators" JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, also known as the best Zelda.

...simply walk...

This website compares distances in Middle Earth to places in England.... and Europe:

Cartoon countries

This quick video about climate change negotiations from Cicero may have the highest concentration of anthropomorphized countries on the interwebs:

X marks the X

Another treasure map. The guy doing the digging is Dirkjan, a well-known Dutch comic character

Wait a second...

This from Dorkly. We've mentioned the Maurader's Map from Harry Potter before.  As clever as this comic is, it's hardly the only feature in the Harry Potter universe which could have cut short various plotlines.

Bad redistricting?

Loose Parts by Dave Blazek does a gerrymandering comic

Too many wishes

Careful what you wish for:

The river of life

Pie Comic by John McNamee with a mappy comic: