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The Sunday Funnies (12/27/09)
December 27, 2009 12:05 am
Our weekly survey of recent comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Once again we begin with The Princess and the Frog being used as a metaphor to comment on the Health Care Reform Bill (via Mike Luckovich in the Atlanta Journal Constitution):
Next, Tim Rickard’s sci-fi spoof Brewster Rockit presented a Christmas Special in serialized form:
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The spleen is definitely one of the more comical body organs. That was a great strip.
It had to be either ‘pancreas’ or ’spleen’ and Tim Rickard probably sensed the former was overused as a comical internal reference. The cameos in this strip are drawn so much better than the rest of it, but that’s part of its charm.
I’ve rarely have heard the pancreas used as a punchline. The spleen is old.
Heck yes, Rankin/Bass.
Warner Bros cartoons used it all through the 90’s.
I read Brewster Rockit regularly and loved this past week of strips.
So, instead of slapping buzzwords on an ostrich sticking its head in the sand, they now slap ‘em on a frog about to be kissed by Tiana?
Political cartoonists are so clever.
The dream mash-up of Xmas specials was done better by The Venture Bros.
He should have wrote “Box Office Results” on the frog.
So Health Care reform is a wacky singing and dancing ambiguously foreign prince who turned into a frog after messing with a witch doctor from 1920s New Orleans.
Finally, it all makes sense.
The one about christmas was hilarious! Also I agree with Lamont.