(To see this cartoon bigger, click the ear with the hair coming out of it.) (To see it upside-down and backwards, click here.)
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As a man who has lost a bit of protein real estate on my north forty, I feel I can honestly critique the “comb-over”. Gentlemen; it looks terrible. Just go with what nature gave you and “own it,” as they say. Confidence in who you are is so much more attractive than any amount of hair flowing over, hovering above, or swirling across places where it no longer grows. We live in a time when being completely bald is not only acceptable, it is fashionable. Embrace it.
That said, I don’t really care what anyone else does with their hair. I just thought it would be funny to draw people with hair coming out of bad places. So did my buddy, Cliff Harris, who constructed this gag with me. Cliff is over forty but still has all his hair. The bastard.
And, for extra gits and shiggles, here is yesterday’s gag: History of the Pinata. (Sorry, I don’t know how to make the little squiggle mark [tilde] appear over the “n”. Maybe I need a Spanish keyboard?) I grew up in the southern U.S. where pinatas are a standard birthday party accessory and I’ve always loved them. What kid doesn’t enjoy putting on a blindfold and swinging a bat in hopes of knocking the stuffing out of something and being rewarded with candy? On my 11th birthday it was Doug Enevoldsen who got the stuffing knocked out of him but it wasn’t candy that came flying out, it was teeth. Still, a good time was had by all. Except Doug.
Me also no have hair. I had a balding friend who suggested that if we put our heads together, we’d make an ass of ourselves.
Check out this website for keyboard shortcuts for symbols such as vowels topped by the tilde, umlaut and whatnot: http://www.alt-codes.net/
Thanks!
I’m bald and while not happy about it, I “own” it… because nothing says “serial killer” quite as much as the creepy comb-over.
Flesh domes unite!
if you have a mac, just hold “option” and “N” then press n, and you’ll get ñ (spanish: “eñe” where ‘e’ is pronounced as the long ‘a,’ and I’m sure you know how the ‘ñ’ is pronounced.)
if you have a PC, though, Google is your friend.
For the record, if you have a PC, hold down ALT, and type 164. You can also get all Frenchy by typing ALT-130. Then you can eat French oñon soup at the café.
Tha˜ks. I have a Mac and I just tried it and it didn’t work. Just got the tilde. :o(
Dan, if you hold down the ‘Alt’ key and type 164, you get the lowercase tilde n, ñ. Hold down Alt and type 165, an you get the uppercase tilde n, Ñ.
Do a google search for “special alt characters,” and you can find lists of hundreds of them, such as, ♂, Æ, ╩, and ®, produced by Alt 11, 146, 202, and 0174, respectively.
¡§¢ Nope. That didn’t work either. This is what I get: ¡§¢
I am 42 and still have all my hair:
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runs in the family….
On my Mac, the tilde is created by hitting option-n first, followed by hitting the letter you want to be tildefied. Thus, (option-n) + n = ñ
There used to be a function called ‘KeyCaps’ on Macs which let you discover all the ways you could create variations of letters. I miss it.
ñ HEY! It WORKED! Now if I can just remember it. Thanks!
Great job with the combover… Killed me, my pops used to have a terrible combover and when the wind would toss it around like a flag, I used to laugh me ass off at him! Ah, memories!
The worst one I EVER saw (and this is absolutely true) was a guy who combed over from back bottom right to front left AND from back bottom LEFT to front right !!!!! Who the hell did he think he was kidding ????
Love the Pinata gag! LOLOL
Good stuff. For extra fun – fill the piñata with bees !
(PS Alt+164=ñ)
Hair comb-over is hilarious! You can do a tilde-thingy by finding it someplace on the web and then doing a copy and paste. Like this: Dañ Piraro.
Hola, Dan.
To make an ñ: in a Mac, hold the ‘option’ and ‘n’ keys, this will create a tilde to display over the letter you type next, so type ‘n’ if you want ñ, type ‘a’ if you want ã, etc; in Windows, use the number keys on the right hand side of the keyboard and, while holding the ‘Alt’ key, type ’164′ for ñ or ’165′ for Ñ.
Saludos – Guillermo
Thañks! It’s great to finally solve this. :o)
EEEEwwwwww those combovers are truly disgusting! Gross!
Shave it, own it, look HOT!!!
Were you tempted to have a combover come out of the wart on the chin, too? Gross, gross, gross! :)).
Basically the Spanish N is just a regular N wearing a hairpiece… ñ
:o)
A bit over-the-top wouldn’t you say ;-)
For some gr8 tattoos 4 a balding head: http://reducethepanic.com/2011/11/06/10-freakin-funny-tattoo-designs/
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I really like the piñata comic — very clever and perceptive. The combover one is mildly gross, but reminds me of a comic I read in one of your early books, in which I guy wins a trophy for most creative use of a combover (or something like that).
Love that the 2011 kid is chubbier than the others. Sad, but true.
Oh, that was what I was going to say. So much for an original comment. I need to visit more than once a week.
And re “owning it”. I couldn’t agree more. The most attractive people, physically and more, are the ones who are comfortable with what they’ve got.
Their might be a parallel for happiness somewhere in that, too.
We’re in the same camp there, my friend. There’s nothing more attractive to me than a woman who is aging with confidence, nothing less attractive than one who is aging with surgery and hair dye.
Hah! I am not a bald person, but I do enjoy that joke. I also love that you made the child playing the video game somewhat overweight, hah.
Dan… and other Mac owners,
To find a tilde, upside down exclamation point and other Spanish-language stuff, do this:
Click on the Apple
Click System Preferences
Click Personal, Language and Text
Click Input Sources
Check Keyboard Character and Viewer
Check any keyboards you want to use… in this case Spanish and US (assuming you live in the US, type in American English and want an American flag on your screen at all times (insert Republican joke here)
The US flag is now on your taskbar (top right of your screen). When you want to type in Spanish, click the US flag and a dropdown menu will appear. Check the Spanish flag and check “show keyboard viewer.”
Now you can see what keys appear when you hold down the control, option, shift and Apple buttons as well as combinations of these buttons.
When you see the letter or symbol you want to insert in your document or email, hold down extra keys (if necessary) and press that letter or number on your keyboard or use your mouse to click that key on your onscreen keyboard. Voilà! (Note: I had to install and click on the French keyboard to find that à).
Note that when you use the Spanish keyboard, the ñ lives on the US colon/semicolon key and the ¡ is accessed at Shift 1.
To get back to your US keyboard, click the Spanish flag, check US and check “hide keyboard viewer” or click the red x button on the top left of the keyboard viewer.
Happy typing!
Late to comment, but if you are running OS X Lion, just hold down the n key, and instead of a repeat a little bubble pops up that lets you select alternate characters for that key. So holding down the n I get ñ and ń as choices. Ñ and Ń with the shift key. Wow, the o key gives me ô, ö, ò, ó, œ, ø, ō, and õ. Fortunately when the bubble pops up you can hit the number shown below the character to select it in stead of mousing to it. Easy peesy (fresh and cheesy).
lolz its realy funny i cant stop my smile by seeing this pictures
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Love your work, Dan.
I’m particularly taken by your great use of colour.
I’m sure you’ve covered this elsewhere, but I’m curious as to how you originate your pics.
Do you draw them (dip pen/brush/other) and then scan them or do you draw directly on your computer?
I assume you do all the colour work yourself, too.
Anyway, I really just popped in to say, keep on keeping on and thank you.
Sam.
Thanks for the kind words, Sam! Up until recently, I inked with a brush on bristol board, then scanned the image into Photoshop and did the rest there. Since Jan of ’12, I’ve been drawing them directly on computer with a Wacom Cintiq screen. Still the same look and feel of drawing, but far faster and more versatile than actual ink on paper. I color in Photoshop.