The cartoon blog of Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. He discusses his cartoons, cartooning, comics and, oddly enough, LEGO.
Ran across this via TweetGrid the other day…
While watching a Donald Duck cartoon from 1935, The Band Concert and some others, I noticed he did not have quite such an explosive temper as in later cartoons. With a little research on Wikipedia I found out Donald had served as a paratrooper and commando in World War II who saw fairly intense combat. This made me wonder if perhaps Donald suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) related to his wartime service.
Saw this on CNN the other day:
According to new research, women rate funny guys as more intelligent than guys who are not so funny. The research was presented this week at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference in Brighton, England.
OK, I think it’s commonly agreed upon that humor is a sign of intelligence. Nothing too surprising there.
(The researcher) invented the fictional lives of 10 men and then created a funny and not-so-funny vignette from each of their perspectives. Then, participants read all 20 descriptions and rated them on qualities such as likeliness of friendship, likeliness of long-term relationship, honesty and intelligence.
Again, OK, but this is what got me…
One example the study designated as high-quality humor was this: “I was standing in a mental illness ward the other day when I heard a doctor speaking to a new nurse on the ward. He was really giving her a telling-off, and his parting words were, ‘And remember, when it’s busy, don’t go around saying it’s a madhouse,’ ” McCarty said.
Seriously? That’s high quality humor?! I saw that joke coming before I read the article.
And you’re going to tell a potential date that you were just hanging around in a mental illness ward?
Note to people researching humor – next time give me a call.
Technorati Tags: andertoons, cartoon, cartoonist, cartoons, comics
The Mrs. and I are just back from a much needed weekend sans children (thanks grandpa & grandma!) in Galena, IL.
Some pics:
Grant's home
Grant's home's sitting room
Grant's home's town's shopping
Checking my iPhone while pretending to use an old switchboard
Apparently a lot of grease used to be made in Galena…
…and this guy was the man! (You'd think he'd be happier about it.)
Requisite silly photo of me.
Technorati Tags: andertoons
interesting little discussion here about comics and cartoons on the iPhone.
Can I just say that gag cartoons, the redheaded stepchild of cartooning, seems best positioned to take hold in this medium?
Just sayin'…
Technorati Tags: andertoons, apple, cartoon, cartoonist, comics, tech
