On the left : Matthew Sutter (The Superest). On the right : Scott C.

Lyle Tucker spotted the above caption competition in this week’s issue of the New Yorker. And quickly found out what it reminded him from…

I guess that caption is found, then.

(with thanks to Tom Lammers of the KirbyComics Group, and to Van Reid; Tales To Astonish art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, © 1962, Vista Publications)

In its Man campaign, Mazda promotes its new RX-8 model as an ideal vehicle for getting out of a sticky situation, such as a commitment.  It’s what all blokes want, right ?  For some reason, it reminded me of bad strips from the sixties.

(via Ads Of The World)

We mentioned the animation that Chris Ware did for This American Life before. Here’s a new one, from season two, which is quite nice as well.  And recognisable.

(via Coudal Partners)

Jeffrey Brown’s poster for this week’s Emerald City ComiCon (which is begin held in Seattle this weekend) may be a tad too focused on the alternative scene, it’s an impressive line-up nonetheless.

(via Colleen Coover)

(from Unknown Worlds, Vol. 7, issue 2 - not my scan)

ShaBot 6000 by Ben Baruch (pseudonym for William Levin) chronicles the daily life of a Jewish robot and his mentor and their daily struggle to find “logic in a religion that does not compute”.  It’s quite hilarious, it’s like the Jetsons meet Woody Allen.

I don’t understand a lot of Spanish, but I do have a pretty good idea of what this short comic by Venezuelan cartoonist and film maker Carlos Caridad Montero, is about.

What I particularly like about this short piece, is the fact it basically only uses four different images, but is still able to create a narrative experience through cropping, repitition and juxtaposition.  Additionally, the apparent contrast between the subject on the one hand, and the chosen images on the other, adds to the
persistent nature of the story.

Incidentally, I came across this comic through a Tweetscan I set up as an experiment.  It was only the first day I had it run, and bang, already a winner !

Over on the drawn and quarterly website, Tom Devlin offers a wonderful preview of John Porcellino’s upcoming portrait of Henry David Thoreau.  As Tom,  I’ve been a big fan of Porcellino’s work for a long time.  His King Cat comics are a rare example of how practice perfects art, and of how much you can say with only a few lines.  I for one really look forward to this book.

Art Spiegelman has provided the cover for the Spring 2008 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, which, as you see, also features new work by Chris Ware.