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I trust all of you had a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day this week, and by “wonderful” I mean “drank until you puked and made a complete public nuisance of yourself.” While wearing too much green. For that is what St. Patrick would have wanted.
On a lighter note, in 1912 a very big boat sank in the North Atlantic and over 1500 people drowned. The cartoon above is a humorous look at that event. As the old saying goes: Comedy is tragedy plus time. Perhaps 99 years from now, someone will make a frivolous cartoon about the recent tsunami that struck Japan. Hahahaha. But not yet.
I’ve had a rough week myself – nothing to do with tsunamis or boat sinkings or St. Patrick’s Day, just a generally rough week – so I’m not feeling wordy today. Maybe that’s a good thing. I’m not complaining, mind you. At least I wasn’t floating 10 miles off the coast of Japan for four days on what used to be the roof of my home like this guy.
P.S. The idea for this cartoon was sent to me by the Gorban family, who came up with it over dinner one night.
P.P.S. Here are some products with this cartoon on them. Share the tragedy with friends! Titanic
It’s never to soon to make fun of the people who cause a tragedy. I’m with you on the rough week thing. My remedy is old Bugs Bunny cartoons and a trip to the local bar to watch the drunks argue politics. Love your work.
This cartoon is particularly funny at my house, as the hub and I are quibbling over how to use the damn GPS. My hub never gets it right. Capt. Titanic should have just let his wife set the course.
This was hilarious. You insensitive bastard.
I like the picture of the Gorban’s. You can really see the family resemblance.
It’s funny until somebody loses an eye.
Then it’s still funny, just not around that person.
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Here in Tokyo, we get some good laughs. They may be more funny to people who live here, though. For example, one foreign Tokyo resident twittered, “Wow! I scored two loaves of French bread! I didn’t know there was anything French left in Tokyo!” (The French embassy was the first to urge its citizens to flee, and reportedly up to 75% of them have done so, to the chagrin of other foreigners in Tokyo.)
Among Japanese, a popular joke seems to be, “Obama called Prime Minister Kan, and asked if he can talk to Edano.” Edano is the guy giving all the pressers on the Fukushima crisis, and Kan is certainly not impressing many people here.
Not howlers, but certainly worth some hard-earned chuckles in an otherwise somewhat stressful time.
We also love hearing about how much western media people are wusses. Their reporting has been so over-the-top in a sensationalist way, it’s making all of us gag–but they appear to believe that Japan is a death trap. So when Soledad O’Brien heard a tsunami was coming and screamed and fled off camera when no water was even in sight, that was funny. Hearing about the western news team which took a bullet train to the far coast, snaked their way up north, and then crossed back over again to the flooded areas, all so they could avoid the imaginary radioactive area they report so often is deadly, we got a good guffaw out of that one, too. The idiots were exposed to more radiation from the airplane flight to Japan than they would have gotten from walking through most of Fukushima.
By the way, is it intentional that you still advertise “bizarrocomic.blogspot.com” in your recent comics?
Well, yes and no. Those comics were drawn, submitted and sent to clients before this new blog existed. My comics are submitted and distributed a few weeks ahead of print date so pretty soon all of the daily comics will have the new blog date in them.
Yes, I thought so, and you mentioned it before. I was just irritated because the date drawn on the comic is 3-20-11.
Dear Sir:
My great-grandfather was a North Atlantic iceberg and was cut in half by the Titanic. His grieving widow drifted aimlessly and alone off the coast of Greenland for 26 years, so I fail to see the humor in this cold piece.
This is OT, but with the recent air strikes on Lybia, does it bother you to find out that Obama is no different than Bush?
I’ve given up caring about or following politics entirely, but I still think there is a difference between air strikes and an all-out war with ground forces under intentionally false pretenses.
Hey found you through the mumbai mirror. Hope you know you are being printed there. But anyway excellent excellent love your take on things. Best regards and dont be suprised if you recieve some of my own observations on life here in india. All the best from robin
Thanks, Robin. One of my good friends from NYC moved to Mumbai a few years ago. I’ve been meaning to visit.
Hey thanks for responding. So may i throw this at you. Thinking of a school reunion of evolutionary scale. Eg the crocodile has not changed for 60 million years. Wasn’t the dolphin a land animal? Etc just a thought hope you have fun with it :-) R
Hilarious! Brilliant as usual. Hey Dan, your mom assures me you did NOT get your sense of humor from her! Leland, from Tulsa.
call me a nitpicker but the lifebelt says “London” It should say “Liverpool”
I agree with your logic but I used an actual picture of the Titanic’s bridge as reference for this drawing and apparently they said, “London.”