Tag: Cartoons
I collect cartoons —even wrote a book that had some great ones! Of course, I collect those that have something to do with physical comedy, directly or indirectly. One of my favorite cartoonists is Dan Piraro, whose Bizarro strip is consistently funny, on a daily basis no less. He seems to have a special interest in clowns and variety performers. Many of his cartoons are based on clichés —the clown car, the custard pie in the face, balloon animals, etc.— but a good number of them are still pretty damn funny. Here are some of my favorites. Enjoy!
I sortakinda have this sometimes-but-not-always tradition of using major holidays as an excuse to gift you any cartoons related to physical comedy that I’ve come across since the last time. So here I go again. If you like this kind of stuff, links to previous compilations are at the tail end.
It’s the third day of Christmas and I have a present for you, my loyal blog readers. No, it’s not three French hens. Even better: a free chapter from my new book. The performing arts chapter, of course!
You’ve worked hard all year, you deserve a break. Luckily, another (American) holiday is upon us, and you know what that means. Time to clean out my files and share some more physical comedy cartoons and jokes. And if you like these, then you’ll want to rewind to these earlier holidays goodie bags you may have foolishly missed:
Another holiday, another excuse to share a sampling of cartoons and pics to satisfy your physical comedy appetite. If you like these, make sure you didn’t miss your…
Christmas stocking
Valentine’s Day chocolates
Premio de Primavera
Easter basket
Cinco de Mayo Piñata
As always, click on any image to enlarge…
Holidays have become an excuse for me to share a sampling of physical comedy morsels with you. They’re each too small to merit their own blog post, but delicious and nutritious nonetheless. If you like these, make sure you didn’t miss your…
If you excitedly ripped open your physical comedy Christmas stocking, if you quickly devoured your physical comedy Valentine’s Day chocolates, if you got all giddy over this spring’s Premio de Primavera, then you’ll be hopping like crazy over the dozen goodies the Easter Bunny just brought you. One hundred percent recycled from my private collection and from links that came by way of such usual suspects as Drew Richardson, Lee Faulkner, Greg DeSanto, and no doubt other folks who I am forgetting. As usual, click on any image to enlarge.
It was fun throwing some of my favorite physical comedy visuals at you in my Christmas Stocking post back in December, so here are 14 (get it?) more recent goodies that I’ve exclusively licensed from the finest internet vendors for your Valentine’s Day gift. (Click on any image to enlarge.)
Clowns make great subjects for paintings, but what I like about the clown cartoons of Scapa is that you get the clown in action — perfect for a physical comedy blog. I discovered these over thirty years ago, at the time in the form of a coffee-table book, which has long since gone missing. I hadn’t been able to find a copy since then, but was thrilled when my sweetheart Riley surprised me with a new (smaller format) edition of it for Christmas.
There’s no big present this year, but here are a few items for your Christmas stocking. They’re small, but if you click on them they get bigger!
Having retired from full-time college teaching in May after 26 years, I finally have time to rummage through my archives. Much to throw away, but some goodies I’d forgotten about. Here are a few of my favorite physical comedy cartoons from a few decades ago. Click to enlarge.
As you may have noticed (see above), I am crazy travelling and working this summer. Of course I fantasized having time for some blog posts, but I can barely keep up with my laundry. So until September, here’s a cartoon for a quick laugh….
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My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin