Toon In, Drop Out: JuicyCampus as Oozing Gremlin
Among the more bizarre institutions of daily newspapers is the idiosyncratic world of op-art, where people and objects frequently wear labels and the metaphors are thick. The Ivy dailies are, of course, no exception, their readerships gathering ’round the lunch table to marvel at the incomprehensible images produced daily in their pages. To mitigate the task of tracking down the week’s worst in cartoons, IvyGate introduces a new weekly feature in which we handpick and deliver this week’s ripest.
Princeton correspondent Donny Dietz (’09) breaks it down, after the jump.
Daily Princetonian (Thursday 3/27): The girl in the Garden State dress
Tiffany Ko is this week’s winner with the most hilarious image to grace the pages of the Prince in a long, long time. JuicyCampus is depicted as a somewhat hairy, sharp-toothed gremlin-baby, punctured by the sharply balled fist of a homely, barefooted woman wearing the state of New Jersey as a dress. We assume the woman-who is about to get gremlin-baby blood all over her Garden State pinafore-is the attorney general. At least New Jersey gives her a slim waist. Then again, Cape May sort of looks like a dick.
Daily Pennsylvanian (Tuesday 3/25 and Wednesday 3/26): Adventures in Ignorance
Which is worse: not realizing that a presidential candidate is speaking on campus, or not realizing that a presidential candidate is speaking on campus two days after your campus newspaper publishes a cartoon informing you that you were probably unaware that a presidential candidate was speaking on campus?
Daily Princetonian (Monday 3/24): Looks like someone dropped acid during Spring Break!
This might have something to do with South Park’s straight-to-DVD release, but all we’re getting is a South Park-Girls Gone Wild mash-up in nightmareland. Also, what is it with the Prince and these half-assed half-cartoon-half-photograph things?
The Brown Daily Herald (Thursday, 3/20): The one we actually like
Although Brown is on break this week, we decided to include the Herald’s most recent cartoon for our weekly dose of optimism. The subject matter is a bizarre policy removing lunch trays from Brown cafeterias, but there’s more to laugh at here: Brown’s stereotypically misguided activism, Ivy League oneupsmanship, capital campaigns, and a guy with a sad look on his face holding a fistful of spaghetti. Coupled with a crisp artistic style, this cartoon takes our A+ grade for the week.
Note: While “Toon In, Drop Out” strives to include all Ivy League schools under its critical umbrella, this week is particularly inauspicious in its variety, since nearly half the Ivy League is on spring break. Whatever. We never cared much for Yale, anyway.
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March 28th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I begrudgingly admit that this is actually kind of a neat feature.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
can someone talk about how Claire from ANTM this season went to Columbia??
March 28th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
You don’t say? I have always maveled at Yale, often at the lunch table.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I believe that should be “mareled.” Imagine, making a typo of a typo!
March 28th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I think that the guy goes to Havad.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
” U.S.A. , International War Criminals, is satan.” It’s a campaign of hoodies and leisure and sports wear I plan to market in america and make a mint off of it. The easiest 100 million I’ll ever make, and what a campaign to go along with it, incomparable. The next project is a red white and blue double ended stars and stripes 10 D cell pentagon shaped dildo that doubles as a spine built for yanks. I’m going to name it the ” canhe r ” after my famous rich dead nemesis kenny r ” Massacre of the Innocents ” thomson.
rot in hell you evil little used to be alive yanks, GOD is clearing house and you little satan by design rothschild babies are exiting just like the rothschilds son adolf hitler that the rockefellers and ford and bush all helped into power and sacked the world for america. Did you know that apparently the rothschilds have married their first cousins in almost ? 14 incidences over around the last two hundred years or so. I guess that explains americas ivy leagues own pedophilia supporting cia loving bloggers here on this trash site. It won’t be a man made exit, purely biblical and y’all are gone. Do us a favor in between now and then ” play dead “.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
We’ve actually been back from spring break since March 24, so I guess the YDN cartoons just weren’t bad enough to be included…
March 28th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Actually, YDN couldn’t get their shit together to update their cartoon this week.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
New USN&WR Grad School rankings are out!
Let us all return to elitist bickering!
March 28th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
christianarchisti’s taint smells like burning sulfur. He’s just unhappy that his demon-arsehole melted each of the ends of the 5-headed monster.
Hey pome, cram it up your rear.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
unrelatedly:
like the cornell thing posted a while ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU9wSaR5Qls
fast forward about halfway through.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:11 am
How about a feature entitled “Most ridiculous runs at club officerships?”
I’m sure plenty of Terrans could serve as correspondents.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:34 am
I am consistently appalled by the cartoons in the YDN. They’re beyond bad. They’re what an over-confident fifth-grader might come up with after he finishes his spelling test early. I’m glad at least some of the Ivy League schools have slightly higher standards for their cartoonery.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Agreed on the YDN. You guys should really check out the Herald, though… they have some really quality stuff on the weekends.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I like reuben barrientes’ (Reuxben) stuff in the herald. I’d say he’s one of the only cartoonists on campus with real talent for both story and art. (http://reuxben.blogspot.com/) Also, the YDN fucking sucks. There’s never any punchline.
March 29th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
i love this… the prince’s op-arts frequently induce my gag reflex, and i’m so glad you will be embarrassing them on a weekly basis, now. also… what’s most annoying is that the Prince’s online comments feature doesn’t apply to op-arts so I can never notify them of how utterly ridiculous these things have been.
March 30th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
yeah the YDN has some ridiculously unfunny comics, but the one about the women’s center photo “scandal” was pretty good
March 31st, 2008 at 8:27 am
pton08, you can definitely comment on the comics. It’s just difficult to get to. You have you go to the opinion page, then to cartoons, then click on the one you want to view. And I agree, the Prince has really shitty cartoons, with the exception of Stephen Hsia’s.