A Laughing Matter

 

The thing with comic strips is, they make you smile. Well, some of them make u scratch ur head too. but the point i am trying to convey is that the most usual response u get after reading a comic strip is NOT a laugh, just an amused smile.

  But, now and then you see some comics and u burst out into a laughter. May be not a hysterical laughter; but it certainly is bigger than a smile. I encountered one few days ago...

 After reading 10950 Garfield comic strips,7300 dilbert strips,2555 Calvin and hobbes strips and 18250 Peanuts strips, i think i know a thing or two about comics.  The best of the cartoons are produced when the cartoonists take an everyday situation or sight, tweak them bigtime in their head and create the strip. The above strip precisely falls into this caterogy.

  In case you liked the strip and wondering where you can read more,Its a daily comic strip called "Free Range" created by Bill Whitehead. You can check his other strips here....

But let me warn you. Apparantly he doesn't believe in spoon feeding! Most of his cartoons are full of contemporary cultural references: Like this....

                                              

If you dont know  about what he is making fun of, chances are that  u end up scratching your head!

Try this one

                                     

  As Scott Adams once said, when a cartoon puzzles u for a moment and then unravels itself before u in all its glory, its a a bull's eye! You enjoy it more because you feel like you solved a riddle. Its that brief moment of puzzlement that does wonders. But if that brief moment stretches into a long one, The cartoon is a goner! High risk, high returns!

   And whitehead seems to be following this policy,risks not withstanding. Do check if his other ones if u feel confident that u can break the code! Bcoz , these cartoons are not for dummies!