Explain this cartoon to me?

[Senegoid]

@colander

I swear, the New Yorker must have a policy of rejecting all cartoon submissions that are actually funny.

OTOH, it was the New Yorker that gave us On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog (Peter Steiner, July 5, 1993).

[GuanoLad]

I thought heliotrope was a colour.

[Grrr]

Isn’t the New Yorker something pretentious people like to share with each other to show off their mental superiority?

I imagine this is something they talk about as they sip their cup of tea with their pinky finger stuck out.

Kind of like a real life Buzz Killington.

[SCAdian]

@GuanoLad

I thought heliotrope was a colour.

Yes. It’s the colour of heliotropes.

[GuanoLad]

Oh. Like oranges.

I think.

[Two_Many_Cats]

@CalMeacham

colander nailed it.
It’s a cartoon by Booth, many of whjose cartoons aren’t subtle or “ha ha” funny. The joke in this one is her agitation and the looks and reactions from the others in the cartoon. It’s really a bit of drawn slapstick, and as subtle as a sledgehammer.

All I can say is, Booth is no Jack Davis.

[colander]

@Two_Many_Cats

All I can say is, Booth is no Jack Davis.

Hell, he ain’t even Jim Davis.

[Dag_Otto]

My first reaction was:

HOLY FUCK! 125 dollars?
If they actually sell any of those, I think I found the joke.

[AncientHumanoid]

@Dag_Otto

My first reaction was:

HOLY FUCK! 125 dollars?
If they actually sell any of those, I think I found the joke.

That’s my thought, too. The joke is whoever actually wastes his money on a print.

[SirGalahad]

@colander

The joke is that the woman is getting very upset over a trivial gardening problem that does not warrant such a reaction.

I swear, the New Yorker must have a policy of rejecting all cartoon submissions that are actually funny.

I like the cartoon. As to funny New Yorker panels, didn’t they:

http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/They-were-bred-originally-to-be-hors-d-uvres-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8544642_.htm

?

David Sipress. I think it’s hilarious, and every time I see a Chihuahua being walked out in River Oaks, I think of this cartoon.

[SirGalahad]

P.S.

Shouldn’t a cartoon thread be in Cafe Society?

Just asking.

[Two_Many_Cats]

@colander

Hell, he ain’t even Jim Davis.

Oooooh, that’s gotta hurt.

[JKilez]

@Trinopus

For decades!

@Senegoid

OTOH, it was the New Yorker that gave us On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog (Peter Steiner, July 5, 1993).

@SirGalahad

I like the cartoon. As to funny New Yorker panels, didn’t they:

http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/They-were-bred-originally-to-be-hors-d-uvres-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8544642_.htm

The hell with it! I find all three of these to be hilarious. The one in the OP, not so much.

[jz78817]

New Yorker cartoons become funny once the caption is changed to “Christ, what an asshole.”

Try it, it works for almost all of them.

[Drunky_Smurf]

@RealityChuck

As I said, it’s the drawing of the animals that’s funny.

No. That shitty ass drawing of the dog biting it’s ass is not funny.

[CookingWithGas]

Before I even opened the link I was going to guess that the OP was talking about a New Yorker cartoon. It is a different brand of humor that is sometimes funny because of the sheer absurdity. But not to everybody.

[drewtwo99]

Now that it is pointed out to me, it does work as a sort of meta-humor. It’s funny because it’s exactly the kind of pretentious, unfunny cartoon you’d find in the New Yorker. So it works on that level.

[Bootis]

@Senegoid

OTOH, it was the New Yorker that gave us On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog (Peter Steiner, July 5, 1993).

Wow, he drew the most reprinted comic in the history of the New Yorker, and has earned just $50,000 from it? you can earn that much from 1 viral Youtube video. I guess that says something about how often people feel the need to reproduce New Yorker cartoons.

[gigi]

Cartoons are like gossamer and one doesn’t dissect gossamer.

[AncientHumanoid]

@gigi

Cartoons are like gossamer and one doesn’t dissect gossamer.

Unless you’re really really hungry.