Earth surfing

"Earth surfing" seems like an activity one could do with Google Earth, no? Over the Hedge by Michael Fry & T. Lewis,

Werepuppy

There's a big globe in the corner so this counts.  Dan Piraro's Bizarro. Oddly not the first post to involve a puppy.

Vanishing Point road 2

Tom Toles, editorial cartoonist, makes jokes at the expense of his local transportation authority with some regularity. The little artist line in the lower right-had corner that Toles always does says: "Focuses the attention"

Earlier in the month we had a version of this from a Beetle Bailey strip:

Tattoo map

Artist Paul Noth had this published in The New Yorker in April of 2008.

Map directions scaled

Cartoonist Andrew Toos has this guy giving directions as if they're both looking at the same map... which isn't there. And it's in metric, so I'm guessing this is British?

You are bear

James Stevenson got this cartoon published in The New Yorker in June of 1990. I'm almost wondering why this is only a "You are here" gag rather than also a "Bear poops in the woods" gag.

Eeny meeny miney mo highway

Cartoonist Ed McLachlan presents this road joke.  It's only kinda map-related... but kinda funny.

Saul Steniberg's walk

In June 1992 Saul Steinberg did this cover for The New Yorker mapping a short walk that he took. 

Old growth forest map

Ray Jelliffe gives us this cute little tidbit on hiking through old growth forests, something we still have a number of here in Oregon.

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.

Driving Frazz

This Frazz strip by Jef Mallet was from 2008. It's a tad perplexing I think... Frazz is a cycling freak so maybe the joke is that he sort of zoned out while driving and "woke up" to the fact that he'd started driving one of his cycling routes instead of going to his intended destination.  I thought Frazz had adopted a GPS before this one ran.  I dunno.

First choice: Little Richard

Donald Reilly had this oddity about Little Richard in The New Yorker in June of 1989. I think it only barely qualifies as map related. 

The fog of maps

I have a feeling we're walking in circles...", "I'm sure we're not!  It's only the fog that looks the same everywhere..."

Anna Gawrys gives us this funny little item. Due to the androgynous nature of the characters I can't tell whether this might possibly be another "spouses arguing about directions" gag. 

Is alien celebrities redundent?

This is a cartoon by Mick Stevens that was submitted to The New Yorker, and possibly even accepted and paid for, but is listed as unpublished... which is odd. Maybe it was part of the The New Yorker's "Rejection Collection" anthologies of unpublished cartoons?

Grim Iraq

Bill Greenhead, also known as Stik, did this editorial cartoon on the war in Iraq (note the map in the reader's hhod).  This is considerably darker than some of the other examples of his work I've posted.

Recession map

2008 saw the beginning of editorial cartoons about the current recession.  This one included a map.  I don't know that Mr. Bush was quite this clueless.

You are updated daily

Rex May Baloo gives us this "You are here" gag, updated daily. 

Unfolding solar panels

Remember back in 2006 when the International Space Station had trouble with a solar panel array that wouldn't unfold? Bruce Beattie of the Daytona Beach News-Journal made a nice little map-related editorial cartoon about that.  How nice!

Map to secret elephant graveyard

Artist Hagen drew this cartoon of elephant spouses arguing about directions to the fabled secret elephant graveyard. It's kinda 19th century. 

Sorghum Corners, Ohio

Roz Chast had this published in The New Yorker in May of 1988.... so I'm not sure why she labelled it a 1989 map.  The labelled are hard to read even if one clicks on the cartoon to make it bigger, however they are ripping of typical New York City neighborhood names for areas that are likely unpopulated fields in rural Ohio... or at least that's what I understand the intended joke to be. 

Serious dog walking

Artist Gerard Whyman depicts a map-carrying dog that is very serious about taking a walk.

Vanishing point road

Beetle Bailey by Mort Walker. This joke would work better if the first panel had the road going to a vanishing point rather than simply over the horizon.  You'd think the artist would know that.