In the pits

Here's a New Yorker cartoon from Christopher Weyant.  It showed up on the Comics I Don't Understand site because some people don't get it.  And I have to admit,  I'm not sure whether i don't get it or it's not that funny.

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:

DEFCON

An item from The New Yorker by Christopher Weyant which uses the maps-on-the-wall graphic short-hand to indicate a war room command center.

Super later primary two-fer Tuesday

While we're still in Primary season I figured we should do at least one more election primary two-fer. I have no idea how many more of these we'll have an opportunity to present, but as always, if you see any map-related comics during this primary season let me know.

The first is from Gingrich's Super Tuesday win in Georgia drawn by Mark Streeter. Anthropomorphizing a state can be difficult. Doing so in a way that makes it identifiable as a particular personality doubly so:

Chris Weyant gives us this take on the earlier primary in Michigan. The Mitt Romney - mitten-shaped state of Michigan relationship was an easy gimme. The trick is making it funnier than the simple sight gag:

Bill Day does a similar take on the same sight gag:

... but Day simply copy-pastes a gag he's done before during this primary season:

Christo two-fer

Here's another in our collection of map-related comics with artist themes. Y'know this post would have been perfectly topical back in 2005 when Christo [and Jeanne-Claude] did [their] installation in New York City's Central Park. However it's fun enough now to see two completely different cartoonists doing two completely different jokes using almost the same exact imagery.  I just wonder why the one has the tied-up part on the North Pole while the other has it on the South Pole.  

Christopher Weyant in The New Yorker (which ran in August of 2004, six months before Christo's Central Park installation)

Mike Peters' Mother Goose & Grimm