This is part six of our look at comics, cartoons and language– today focusing on panel and editorial cartoons “When I saw them together at the beach, that’s when the light bulb switched on: they were having an affair! The origin of this metaphor– the light bulb moment- for a sudden realisation or a [...]
This is part five of our look at comics, cartoons and language– today focusing on the comic book Art by Don Newton and Alfredo Alcala “Jeff and Tom are an item? Isn’t that cradle-robbing?” “Oh, total Batman and Robin, you know.” That same online gay and LGBTglossary consulted in part 4 gives the following definitions: [...]
“The New Year reviving old desires, The thoughtful soul to solitude aspires; Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES ON THE BOUGH Puts out: and Jesus from the ground suspires.” –Omar Khayam
And on to comic books, in part four of our series on language from the comics and cartoons! “No, I haven’t finished clearing out the barn! I’m up to my eyeballs in chores– I’m not Superman, you know.” Art by Joe Shuster The creators of the Superman comics character didn’t invent the word ‘superman’, but [...]
This is part three of our look at comics’ contributions to colloquial English. Another prolific contributor to the language was Al Capp, creator of the strip Li’l Abner. “My Mom and Dad met when she picked him out at a Sadie Hawkins dance.” Sadie Hawkins is one of Capp’s memorable characters; she first appeared in [...]
Jeep! Jeep! This is part two of our survey of language spawned by comics and cartoons. Here’s a strip that, in comics, is one of the richest contributors to the language: Thimble Theatre, better known worldwide by the name of its protagonist, the sailor Popeye. The strip’s creator, Elzie Segar (1894– 1938) is credited with several coinages, some [...]
Art by Rube Goldberg As you raise spoon of soup (A) to your mouth it pulls string (B), thereby jerking ladle (C) which throws cracker (D) past parrot (E). Parrot jumps after cracker and perch (F) tilts, upsetting seeds (G) into pail (H). Extra weight in pail pulls cord (I), which opens and lights automatic [...]
Swamp Thing is the uber-incarnation of “wallowing in familiar tropes.”
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