Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for January 21, 2011

Whoa, she created a Dick Tracy villain!

http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2011/01/onomatopoetic-f-words.html

This list is incomplete without:

FLOOOM - The sound an explosive violin makes when Dick Tracy throws it in a pool and it detonates under water.

In a similar vein, it should be noted that Godzilla’s distinctive roar has been spelled in comic books as “kreeeeeonk!”

Blankety blank!

I take today’s strip to mean: after all of her editing and erasing, there is nothing left of what she originally wrote and drew (blank)

That pea problem is no petty matter.

So has she reached enlightenment?

Or is it writer’s block?

I often find the difference hard to distinguish.

Can’t help noticing she’s a lefty. You know we’re the only ones in our right minds…

J2P2 - Amen, my fellow lefty! Or as my Mom, who was born in Brooklyn, would say, southpore.

Art imitates life?

Self-portrait?

What the blank are you doing?

Since Teresa’s gender (is she really a man?) has come into play in recent days, today’s strip makes me wonder if Teresa is shooting blanks.

I was all gaga over the girl in white in the 1912 photo until I took in Tina Louise and then suddenly I wanted to put myself in her hands.

Re: “staring contest”

“Hi birdie, are you from around here?”

I’m viewing today’s strip as an important message about self-censorship. If you worry too much about the effort, you won’t have anything at all.

Except for the erasing part, I feel like these panels could be snapshots of me when I was younger. :) Thanks, Teresa!

Dear Mother Thalweg,

I wish him much luck in his new venture. I can’t bear to think of those poor girls just sitting around, unable to marry, because of their unfortunate condition.

Sincerely,

Marg. Employment Counseler at Large

No collection of obscene sound effects is complete without reference to Don Martin.

   

Old Wolf, Thanx for the link! Nice tribute with your avatar as well!

I lost the staring contest three times - I quit!

Young Drummer is amazing!

I can’t imagine what he’ll be like in 10 years.

Kid will be touring before he reaches 15.

I agree, Old Wolf. Never so happy to pick up the complete works of Don Martin in two volumes; what a trove of zaniness in drawing and memorable sound effects.

Nice blog today.

Are those samurai pizza cats?

Dear Marg

I am back from Guam. The job didn’t work out. I was overqualified.

Rotifer

Roitfer, are you going to torture me with tales of the food you had on Guam (heh heh)?

Saw that Don Martin collection the other day… almost picked it up. I don’t think it’s complete, but it is very representative.

I’m sorta waiting for a complete Dave Berg collection, myself.

Dear Rotifer,

I’m sorry to read that. Your Mother must be so disappointed. She was hoping you’d find steady employment. I do know several others who left for Guam at the same time that you did, perhaps their qualifications might be better suited to the task. I’ll have to look around for something more in tune with your special qualifications.

Margueritem Employment Counselor at Large

Took me a day to get it, but I finally put this strip together with Teresa’s comment.

sad chuckle

A comic about writer’s block, and then not being able to publish a comic for a couple of days. Ha!

Still unsure whether it was meant to be funny or whether she really has writers block. Perhaps she’ll start posting sooner now that some one “got it”?

I miss my FA!!!! Must have it….. pant,….,pant…., pant….. GAAAAK!, UFARBBT!

Having withdrawal symptoms!!!!

Help!

I have a problem with that Chinese sign - it’s photoshopped. The giveaway is that the Chinese is mirrored, but the “English” is correct.

It should read:

司机注意请不要扔窗外危险物品. 谢谢.

sījī zhùyì qǐng bù yào rēng chuāng wài wēixiǎn wùpǐn xiè xiè

Literally:

driver listen - please not want throw window out dangerous article thank thank

Or:

Note to drivers: Please do not throw dangerous objects out the window. Thank you.

Now, it’s entirely possible for a bad translation like that to take place - but the character for “anus” is 肛 or 肛門 - gāng or gāngmén - and 物品 (goods, articles, material or commodity) doesn’t come close in any dictionary I’m familiar with.

Very interesting, Old Wolf. My guess would be that “thank thank” = “thanks”?

I Love tennis. Have I ever told you how much I love tennis?

Love, thirty!

I can’t find Vlad’s e-amil/I’m scared of him so

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vHq3UYQYLr7fP9lBe

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vvM9uxy6KueTyZtLx&recipient=bigwavedave@mail.com

June 13, 2010

I thought Vocaroo would involve voice recordings being combined with pictures.

You all want to impress me? Figure out how to use Slideshare.net and make Teresa’s comics into slide presentations with voice-overs.

It can be done.

Oxnate, that’s because even if we can’t score we still have love.

“Hey Yank, You Got Guam?” - National Lampoon

From the Hobo Book- Gunsel- a boy who is the victim of assodomy (nice)

In the Maltese Falcon, Elisha Cook Jr. (who was very short) plays a tough guy with a gun following Bogart. Upon meeting Sidney Greenstreet, Bogey refers to Cook as a ‘gunsel’. To hobos and criminals, an in-joke. To the rest of us is just sounds like slang for guy with a gun.

Dashiell Hammett wrote that joke; the movie was filmed verbatim from his novel.

I dunno, Radish. I don’t think the bubble girl looks as demented as Danae.

But you could be right.