Sunday, August 01, 2004

Odalisque & Comic Strips

My beautiful wife and I are in separate states tonight. (I don't mean like the state of fatigue and the state of inebriation: I mean like the state of Kentucky and the state of Pennsylvania -- or are they commonwealths?)

We spent more than half the time apart last year, so you'd think I'd be used to it, but this is the first time this summer and I miss her.

She loves Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller. Like Boondocks, which she also loves, it is stupidly interventionist on some basic economic issues -- but who isn't these days? Still, there's some real intelligence behind both those strips.

My homepage randomly includes comic strips from my collection of favorites. It's full of Boondocks. Non Sequitur is starting to catch up. Here are a couple of recent ones I quite liked. (You can click on the reduced image to see the full-sized image.)







posted by bkMarcus on Sunday, August 01, 2004  

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2 Comments:

feecaro said...

After living in Lancaster, PA for the past two years, I can't look at a picture of a buggy without thinking of both the Amish and tourists to "Amish country." On the weekends, we'd see one tourist buggy for every two authentic buggies, used by the Amish for transportation. One person's fun..., yes. But what's really interesting is how the tourist's fun is ultimately the Amish person's wage. While the commercialization of the Amish --in their own towns and countryside-- is aesthetically dreadful, it has saved the Amish economically. According to The Riddle of Amish Culture (by Donald Kraybill), the Amish live in a strange symbiosis with the kitchsy tourism that commercializes their way of life.

That's kind of a random thought, but that's what the comic strip made me think of!

10:57 AM  
Brumaire said...

Kentucky is indeed a Commonwealth.

10:35 PM  

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