Author Archives: Quizzer

Future Food

05 Thursday May 2016

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You are probably familiar with barbecue-friendly animals like cows and alligators. These sit high up in the backyard food hierarchy. Lower on the ladder, but no less tasty, lie edibles like corn, shrimp, and the meat-like-mystery-paste that hot dogs are made of. We are all about to become intimately familiar with an even lower layer in the grilled-food web. And by “intimately familiar” I mean in the husbandry sense. And by “husbandry sense” I refer to the raising, caring, killing, and eating cycle of said food.

I don’t mean “husbandry” in the marrying sense. Marrying your next meal is still illegal. Probably. Continue reading →

The Semi-Obligatory Comicversary Post

03 Tuesday May 2016

Posted by in Behind the Frames, Pop Culture

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Comicversary is a word. Really. You are allowed to make up words nowadays. Society is truly lurching toward utopia. We’ve been making comics for an entire year. This is nothing compared to professional cartoonists, but it isn’t bad for us wanna-bees. We cherish our amateur status, and hope to win cartoon-related medals in the upcoming Brazil Olympics. Olympic medals would garner us the attention and publicity we seek. So would catching the Zika virus. Continue reading →

Scott Adams: How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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Fellow cartoonist Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has written a book called How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big. Despite containing so few cartoons, I read it and immediately started to reap the benefits of his wisdom. In fact, this opening paragraph is a testimony to the advice he freely gives. For $9.99 eBook format, anyway. We’ll circle back to this opening. Continue reading →

Bones: The Murder of the Meninist

26 Tuesday Apr 2016

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The television show Bones aired “The Murder of the Meninist” last week. Buzzfeed found the episode problematic, because the issues raised by the Men’s Rights Activists in the show were neither sufficiently debunked nor were the feminists portrayed in a flattering enough manner. Normally I’d move on to the next story, but, as a former viewer of the show, I was intrigued. Continue reading →