Morris Keesan: ”Not a CIDU, but apropos to CIDU”

Cidu Bill on Aug 23rd 2010

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13 Responses to “Morris Keesan: ”Not a CIDU, but apropos to CIDU””

  1. Elyrest Aug 23rd 2010 at 12:52 pm 1

    I think this is perfect for here. The unneeded captionization must have started early in cartooning. Too little and we don’t understand it. Too much and you’ve ruined your own comic.

    Thanks Morris.

  2. James Schend Aug 23rd 2010 at 01:23 pm 2

    Yeah, I have this comic on my RSS reader. I think it’s brilliant. Especially the little label that reads “dead”, as if it wasn’t obvious what happens to a snake cut into pieces.

  3. Elyrest Aug 23rd 2010 at 01:25 pm 3

    James Schend - And the little XXs on the snake’s eyes too.

  4. paperboy Aug 23rd 2010 at 02:21 pm 4

    Tom Meyer has a cartoon yesterday with a giant octopus with a cowboy hat and gas-pump nozzles on the ends of its tentacles, and he still feels he needs to label it “Texas Oil $”

  5. Lola Aug 23rd 2010 at 05:00 pm 5

    I could be wrong, but it seems the person adding stuff didn’t understand the message to begin with so he’s not over explaining it he’s wrongly explaining it.

  6. Frank the curmudgeon Aug 23rd 2010 at 05:35 pm 6

    @paperboy I wonder how much of the “Texas Oil Money”is from Texas. How much from London, Amserdam, Moscow, Zurich, Caracas, New York
    and Riyadh ?

  7. mitch4 Aug 23rd 2010 at 06:24 pm 7

    Really good choice to appear here!

    There have been a few posts recently mentioning comics the posters were made aware of thru CIDU — and I’d like to join in the chorus and thank the CIDU community for showing me “Hark A Vagrant” and much else — recently I’ve been enjoying “Get Fuzzy” quite a lot, and recall complaining about the drawing style on here and some posters encouraging me to stick with it: glad I took your point and did!

  8. Powers Aug 24th 2010 at 07:15 am 8

    I’m surprised the Editor didn’t try to expand those captions on each individual piece of a snake. Readers might not know that “V.” means “Vermont”, after all.

  9. Powers Aug 24th 2010 at 07:15 am 9

    And when I say “Vermont”, of course I mean “Virginia.” Oi.

  10. chuckers Aug 24th 2010 at 07:47 am 10

    Thus, proving your point there, Powers? hehehe

  11. mitch4 Aug 24th 2010 at 08:03 am 11

    Now that Powers has pointed it out, I realize I was tacitly making the same mistake — maybe because VA for Virginia is so firmly fixed in our minds that we look for another state for the V. (This doesn’t explain why we don’t also reject Vermont as quickly.)

  12. Mark in Boston Aug 24th 2010 at 07:47 pm 12

    Vermont was not one of the original 13 states but kept its independence for a while. I thought everyone knew that.

  13. Kay Shawn Aug 25th 2010 at 11:40 am 13

    Kate Beaton–one of my favorites! Unlike Ben’s editor shown above, she doesn’t worry if her readers don’t always get it…and I think that’s the best attitude for an artist. [Otherwise, we wouldn’t need CIDU.] Thank you for this, and good luck in NY, Kate!

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