Clean out the fridge!

Last month we had a comic from Twistedspeedo by Henrik Tomenius.  Here's another:

Creator's block

Christopher Weyant had this in The New Yorker recently: Another God-considering-His-creation gag

Meanwhile Robert Mankoff's God found a different solution:

New rules

This is from Free Range by Bill Whitehead

Opposite sides two-fer

Phill "Spratti" Spratt kicks off today's two-fer with a reference to global warming, flat earth, Atlas, and either Disc World's cosmic turtle mythology or whatever human mythology that may have derived from.  

After that, for some unbalanced balance, we have Bruce Tinsley's Mallard Filmore in full-throated climate change denial, as per usual:

If you'd like a refutation, it's here.

I'm not intending to do a monthly two-fer on climate change.  There's just a LOT of applicable material out there because... c'mon: global warming? It's almost harder to do a global warming editorial cartoon without using a globe. 

Atlases? Atli?

We'll do a two-fer today with the Atlas theme again.  The first is by New Yorker regular, Farley Katz.  The other two are covers, also from The New Yorker, the first from 1937 I think, and the other from 2010.

Bailout

This was topical humor a few years ago by Tom Cheney in The New Yorker

God's creation two-fer

God in a foul mood (the caption, in case you can't read it says: "I hate my fans"). Published in a recent issue of The New Yorker by Alex Gregory of

Actually, to make up for that one, here's another along the same artistic theme by Mick Stevens, but with a much more light-hearted result:

Hell in a handbasket

For today's Two-fer Tuesday here's a pair of comics illustrating the oft-repeated of "The world is going to hell in a handbasket":

 

This first one is by Mike Puckett and is the classic interpretation of the concept.

This second one is from The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn.

The last one is by Ronaldo Dias... although it's not a "Hell in a handbasket" theme, but rather simply a little devil at play.... it does kinda make one wonder how and/or why would it be sitting in heaven doing that?  And what's with the triangular halo?

I do want to mention here that I don't care for the "Hell in a bandbasket" type sentiments... that attitude that the world just keeps getting worse and worse.  It turns out that the opposite is true... and this can be factually demonstrated in any number of ways.  A good place to start would be Steven Pinker:

Fun with depth perception

This would be a brilliantly fun experiment to try out, albeit somewhat complex. From Randall Munroe's XKCD.

At the actual webcomic, hovering over the image reveals this additional message in the "title-text":

I've looked at clouds from both sides now.

Heavenly Parents

 

I very much believe in the concept of Heavenly Parents and I very much like that Wiley Miller has now depicted Heavenly Mother in cartoon form in newspapers across the nation in his Non Sequitur strip. I also like God's male-symbol-shaped Pangaea continent that he's got going there on the pre-Eve-Eden proto-Earth.

Hungry hippo overlords

This human experiment has gone on long enough. Give the hippos control.

Farley Katz had this published in  The New Yorker last June.  It's another in the category of "God contemplating His Creation" gags that include a lonely Earth floating in cold space.  When I first saw this cartoon I didn't see God facing the Earth.  I saw his ear as the eye of a fish-like deity facing the angel dude.  I don't know whether that might've made the joke a little better. 

Richard B. Cheney National park

This is from Mike Stanfill's "Far Left Side" webcomic, which admits to being "inspired" by Gary Larson's famous Far Side comics, and to having a very left-leaning tilt.  This ran last month and either ties in to recent Cheney antics, or to the artist's understandible dislike for the man.  I just think it's impressive that Cheney has no pulse.

Vanity project

Cartoonist Alex Gregory had this in The New Yorker in April of 2003.  Truth be told, I do believe that it is a kind of vanity project, albeit a remarkably... um... charitable one.

Not yet

Farley Katz had this in The New Yorker in December of 2008.  It shows a slightly less disappointed God than the one he got published a few years later.

Warm enough for ya?

Gahan Wilson gives us this alien-themed map-related commentary on global warming from an October 1995 issue of The New Yorker.  Coincidentally, 1995 is still in the list of 10 warmest years on record (either 2005 or 1998 tops the list depending on different calculations... though one study claims it's 1934 for various detailed technical reasons).   If things keep going as they are so far, 2010 promises to kick 1995 out of the top 10 listing and stands of good chance at hitting the top, or near the top of the list. Will that mean these guys in the UFO will be back soon?

Fore!

This is from Danny Shanahan, from The New Yorker in December of 2004.  I'm not a big fan of golf.  This is part of a decent-sized grouping of map-related comics that deals with God on a cloudy perch interacting with and/or contemplating His Earthly creation. I didn't notice at first that it's a lightning bolt on the tee.

Too soon

As far as I'm concerned, we didn't get out a moment too soon. 

I had to change the comments on this one.  I set these up to publish before my father died a couple weeks ago.  It's odd that so many of these are Heaven-related.  However, in reference to this one, I think my dad did get out too soon. 

This is from Arnie Levin in The New Yorker in February of 1990. 

Stranger in Paradise

Here's another cartoon by "Kes".  The stranger gag has been done.  Map-related angel comic has been done.  Even lost in Hell has been done. 

Conflicting migrations

This is by a cartoonist who goes by S. Harris.  Migration, requires navigation, directions... this qualifies as a map-related comic, right?

Deadwood

Charles Barsotti had this published in The New Yorker in March of 2005, at the height of the popularity of HBO's "Deadwood" show which, if you don't remember it, became known for it's foul language.  But the language is also rather well written, or so I'm told.  I never actually saw the show.