Some Recent Cartoons

An Ink Pen, Pickles, and a couple of Lilas.  And the second Lila reminded me of the Stone Soup I had to add.  Click to enjoy.

Please victimise me!

Like mine.  Who could resist?

I'd love to be a bridesmaid.  OR a flower girl, with little heels.

Rehash

A few days after I posted a Meaning of Lila, John Forgetta published a slightly different version.  I can't decide if the new one is an improvement; I do realise that by changing just a couple of words at the end he changes Boyd from fetishist to philanthropist.  I did think the former was out of character, but so is the latter.

Also, nothing to do with CD Saturday but Shoe did a version of one of my favourite all-time puns and here there's no doubt: the Mother Goose and Grimm version is better.

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The 2009 Version: excited to dress up

The 2015 Version: excited to help

Brilliant, start to finish

Extra "at" and extemporaneous and the "sort of" detracts.

Is the Shock Value Gone?

One big aspect of humour is shock.  When something is unexpected or way outside of expected behaviour, it's funny.

Trans-comics are harder to find these days.  The ones I have are mostly not funny enough to share.  I wonder if cartoonists have come to realise that we're just folks and there's nothing funny about a guy in a dress, no matter what the situation.

I may be running out of Saturdays.  I do have one more folder to go through, but this was my go-to pool for the first year or so of blogging and at that time I didn't move used cartoons to another folder so I may have posted some of them before.  Like this Lila from 2009....  I have the feeling I've used it before.

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Sunday Funnies: I Have a Few More Lila

Like last Sunday.  I really like Lila.

Please get it for me too

Please get some for me too

(Boyd is gay)

Don't we all?

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Sunday Funnies: Lila

John Forgetta's The Meaning of Lila is always fun, probably because it always straddles the line between the actual world and "girl" stuff.  I often look and say "funny.  But is it a Saturday cartoon or a Sunday cartoon?"

It's a strip I'd love to see in my daily paper but I somehow don't see that happening.  The WaPo has never been known for edgy comics.  I mean, they tossed Zippy the Pinhead!  Twice!

Click or zoom to enjoy.  And set your clocks ahead, where appropriate!

So's mine.  Borderline Saturday

Shoes?  Definitely a Saturday topic.  AND she has a shoe blog

For me,mbers of the tribe that's a given :)

But we'd still like to go out with Lila.  Once or twice anyway.

The Breast Cartoons of the Week

Horrible pun, huh?  I got worse.  Check out tomorrow!

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I still don't know why I read this strip (C'est La Vie)

I can hold a pencil if I lie on my back and use crazy glue

I'll meet you there!

Work with what ya got

Introducing... MOOBS!

More of the same

MakeUp!

Just a few makeup-oriented cartoons.  Even though they're not per se trans, I can relate.

Three from Betty, one each from The Meaning Of Lila, Ginger Meggs, and Zits.  The one-of's all have the "from monster to model" theme. Click or zoom to avoid eyestrain.

Oh... last week I skipped Saturday's cartoons.  My contract ends on Wednesday and that means it's Scramble For A New Job season.  I've been busy with my new full-time job (the aforementioned "scramble").

That's usually the reaction to MY makeovers

Shoes! Glorious Shoes!

What is it about women and shoes?  If men's shoes came in so many styles and options, would (civilian) men go nuts over shoes too?

John Forgetta's "Lila" LOVES her shoes.  Click or zoom to enjoy my favourite cartoon lady.

Proposal

A few proposal cartoons.  I HAD to include these just so I could include that Mutt and Jeff.

Because I only had a few, I added some miscellaneous relationship cartoons to the end.

9 Chickweed Lane, Cornered (again), Mutt & Jeff,  Meaning of Lila, One Big Happy, more Herman, and Bottomliners.

Timeline II, Part II: No More Support

(I hope you guys are taking advantage of national dressup day!  There's a Halloween bonus at the bottom of the post.)

In November 2011, Penny's wife of 15 years (I did not know her name either; I knew her as Aeify) wrote me and asked me to call.  She wanted to discuss something and not in e-mail.

I called.

Penny had died.

We spoke on the phone briefly, cried briefly, and started exchanging e-mails.  Penny and Aeify had little live involvement in the community and I wanted to be there for anything she wanted to talk about that she couldn't share with family and (civilian) friends.

In early December, Aeify wrote that she was coming to DC with a friend for a day or so.

Prior to this, I would ask my wife before I'd meet with an on-line (female) friend.  She'd come up with rules or need to be present or something for no reason I could ever discern.  How an on-line friend is different from, say, a woman I meet at work is not something I could see.

This time, I told her I would be meeting Aeify in DC for breakfast.  I felt it was the right thing to do to be able to talk with her about trans issues without any civilians present ~ especially one who was borderline hostile, as my wife was.

I wend in drab and met Aeify for breakfast and a little walk and talk around DC.

We walked a lot.  We talked a LOT.  I learned some deep, intimate things about her, like her first name (Charity) and Penny's real name.  We spoke about her marriage, how she felt about trans, what was next in her life....

We talked a LOT.  Her friend finally found us and dragged her away.

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 Halloween bonus.  Click to enlarge or zoom in!

True!

I'll wear them!  Pick me!

And a little dressup by Big Nate