For the first few weeks of this academic year, Dartmouth cartoonists were silent. Perhaps it was a respectful acknowledgement that some of their finest talent (Haley Kennedy) had graduated and passed on to places beyond Hanover, NH. Or maybe their classes just started… whatever. Regardless, they’ve burst out the gate with the unbridled fury of a thousand racehorses. Anyway, in addition to some good Dartmouth shizz, we’ve got some more stuff and nonsense from Yale's own Dave Muenzer and Columbia's Michael Molina, who it turns out is actually hilarious.  Also, props to Joe Hill (Princeton '09), who collaborated on this week's post. All this and more, after the jump.

The Dartmouth, Kyle Finnegan (Monday 9/29): The Deadpan Revolution Continues

Two weeks ago, I made the claim that David Muenzer's cartoon was the funniest I had ever seen in an Ivy League newspaper. Now, I'm not gonna say that this cartoon from Kyle Finnegan has wrested that title from him. But I will say that the hand of Muenzer seems to have cast its shadow over The Dartmouth's comic page. A friend of mine asked me last week what was funny about the Jurassic Park cartoon. I replied, "Fuck you." Then I rethought my reply and asked him, "Do you find humor in the pain of children?" and sent him links to a number of YouTube videos of children being injured. Then I rethought my reply and asked him if he found this photograph disturbing but strangely arresting. Yeah… well, I was gonna write something more substantive, but I think that’s about as much as I can muster right now (hangover).

Harvard Crimson, Rajarshi Banerjee (Friday 10/3): Please Pass the Grey Poupon

Have we sunk so low, Rajarshi? Has it come to this? Are we really going to poke fun at John McCain for being a cripple? I’ve seen him speak. I know he can't raise one of his arms because, hero that he is, he was imprisoned for years in a war camp in Vietnam. But really, look at the shoulder you gave the man. That looks more like Quasimodo than it does John McCain. But I digress. The real issue here is the doctor's face. He looks like a French nobleman who has just farted in the presence of the king.

Yale Daily News, David Muenzer (Wednesday, 10/1): Boar, Maypole, WTF

I don't know about you guys, but a rotting boar carcass also fell on me last time I went a-maying with sea monkeys. Therefore, I want to commend David Muenzer on his extremely topical and informative cartoon. Thank you.

Columbia Daily Spectator, Michael Molina (Thursday, 10/2): Disappointment

Guys, I know what you’re thinking. It took me a little while to figure it out, too, but this is totally an allegory for what it's like to be a wealthy Ivy Leaguer who had lured by the specter of the Almighty Dollar to spend three summers working 80 hour work weeks to secure a job at Lehman Brothers only to be hacked to death and shot by a glue monster. Goddamn Wall Street fat cats and their deregulation.