haven’t stopped in for a while (been reading C&G via my RSS doo-hicky) but I wanted to say how much I’ve been enjoying the recent presentations of the comic. in the frame, on the wall, etc. I like the juxtaposition of the B&W comic with the color of the “real” world.
This one is especially funny to me. I’ve never been able to sit through a live opera without laughing out loud and pissing off the pretentious people around me. I can’t help it, I’ve told my escorts that the opera reminds me of soap operas and I find them hilarious.
Shakespeare seems more like it’s about working on multiple levels. The groundlings are laughing at the fart joke and the people sat on benches under cover are laughing at a topical political reference.
Fast forward a few hundred years to the modern Globe, and the groundlings are still laughing at the fart jokes, but now so are the people who paid a hefty price for seats since 16th century politics isn’t something they’re familiar with.
Cultural distance is as good as temporal distance for this purpose. Americans get tattoos of Chinese, Japanese, or Hindi characters they don’t fully understand, while Asians wear clothes imprinted with nonsense or obscene English phrases. Since we don’t have to worry about an object’s literal meaning or cultural baggage, we can appreciate it simply for how it looks and sounds.
June 30, 2011
haven’t stopped in for a while (been reading C&G via my RSS doo-hicky) but I wanted to say how much I’ve been enjoying the recent presentations of the comic. in the frame, on the wall, etc. I like the juxtaposition of the B&W comic with the color of the “real” world.
June 30, 2011
Jazz, rock & roll… heck, even videogames in a few years (if not already).
June 30, 2011
Which will be classy first: Red Man chewing tobacco or the UFC?
No one alive today will ever know.
— MrJM
June 30, 2011
Wait. Didn’t two major day-time soaps just end their runs?
They should have had a membership drive, like the opera.
June 30, 2011
This one is especially funny to me. I’ve never been able to sit through a live opera without laughing out loud and pissing off the pretentious people around me. I can’t help it, I’ve told my escorts that the opera reminds me of soap operas and I find them hilarious.
June 30, 2011
Thanks a lot, Mad Men.
July 1, 2011
I can’t help wondering who is in the picture behind the panels, but my instinct tells me ‘whoever came with the frame’.
The masses would have to lose interest in video games before they become popular with the elite… which is never going to happen.
But if anyone does ask, I love old Amiga games because of nostalgia, not because the masses have lost interest.
And nostalgia is a whole other strip.
July 1, 2011
webcomics
July 2, 2011
I liked it after it stopped being popular.
July 3, 2011
Shakespeare seems more like it’s about working on multiple levels. The groundlings are laughing at the fart joke and the people sat on benches under cover are laughing at a topical political reference.
Fast forward a few hundred years to the modern Globe, and the groundlings are still laughing at the fart jokes, but now so are the people who paid a hefty price for seats since 16th century politics isn’t something they’re familiar with.
So, OK, maybe Dorothy does have a point.
July 4, 2011
Anything of real substance is never popular nor elite.
July 5, 2011
Does the frame create the distance that legitimizes the portrait?
July 7, 2011
Cultural distance is as good as temporal distance for this purpose. Americans get tattoos of Chinese, Japanese, or Hindi characters they don’t fully understand, while Asians wear clothes imprinted with nonsense or obscene English phrases. Since we don’t have to worry about an object’s literal meaning or cultural baggage, we can appreciate it simply for how it looks and sounds.
July 10, 2011
Burlesque ain’t classy. Not if they’re doing it right.