Wednesday, October 10, 2007

I Can Haz Ravoolree?

On Ravelry...

Cartoon lovers will, of course, recognize this as an homage to Peter Steiner's brilliant 1993 drawing from The New Yorker.

33 comments:

  1. They might figure it out by the way you display your stash as tangled messes instead of neat skeins!

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  2. Oh! I loved that New Yorker cartoon! It's nice to see it again, and also to see your homage to it. Most excellent!

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  3. Anonymous11:01 AM

    Only 6080 people in line ahead of me. Gee, the line is moving fast. (Not.)

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  4. Anonymous11:15 AM

    Cats, dogs, celebrities, axe murderers...the list goes on anon. Heh. Not that I think any axe murderers would be on Ravelry, mind you...

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  5. Anonymous11:19 AM

    Cats are very respectful of trademark, apparently. I wouldn't have expected that.

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  6. Anonymous11:50 AM

    Hm...Ravelry as online kitty pr0n!

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  7. Axe murderers need fine knitwear to keep warm on their way to axe killing sprees! Not that I speak from experience or anything . . ..

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  8. I am going to be mad if the Cats have more FOs than me.

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  9. Anonymous2:37 PM

    I am ashamed to say, I regard the Lolcats as a very guilty pleasure. I won't post or comment on their site, but I feel a little better knowing that someone I respect at least knows enough about them to make a cartoon. Thanks, Franklin.

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  10. Ha! I love the little rendition of the notebook screen :)

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  11. I read that New Yorker cartoon when I was deep into on-line chat rooms, and an artist could never have been more accurate about how folks (or cats) represent themselves on-line.

    I should actually be invited to Ravelry sometime this week. It'll be nice to have another diversion from my work during the day.

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  12. Anonymous4:44 PM

    Probably because everyone's avatars are pictures of their cats. Yay!

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  13. That is my all-time favorite New Yorker cartoon ever. Huzzah!

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  14. Now that is the picture I want on a mug! (sigh, I suppose there might be issues). Not on Ravelry yet by a long shot...

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  15. Shhhhh, don't reveal my secret.

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  16. Anonymous8:59 PM

    Iloved that cartoon and the original. Great timing for it, I just got my Ravelry invite to day .What fun!

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  17. Anonymous9:44 PM

    Good job, very cool. I wonder if there will be a group for people who aren't really people?

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  18. Franklin:

    Is there anything you don't do well? Now a double homage to I can has cheezburger? as well as The New Yorker, done in the magazine's cartoon style. Well, like Lisa, I also take guilty pleasure at the Lolcats, and we've got three of 'em. And speaking of such subjects, I saw a recent New Yorker cartoon showing one of the magazine's favorite subjects -- two guys sitting at a bar, one of them covered with little band-aids. 'Since we didn't have children,' the patched-up guy says, 'the ex turned the cats against me.'

    Best regards.

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  19. Anonymous12:14 AM

    One word, Franklin:

    Swag.

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  20. You're a stitch!

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  21. I can has cheezburger (and ravelry, and cute kitties with yarn fetishes) helps make my day.

    Great cartoon!

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  22. Wonderful.

    Have you found the animated New Yorker cartoons yet?

    http://ringtales.com/

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  23. Anybody talks that Lolcats garbage around my five gets a bunch of fives.

    That pidgin English BS is the most revolting anthropomorphization of pets I have ever seen, with Halloween costumes for dogs following close behind.

    Feh, I say. Feh!

    (Good cartoon though.)

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  24. I love that New Yorker cartoon.

    You might appreciate this. The bastard child of Post Secret and the lol cats.

    http://lolsecretz.blogspot.com/

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  25. Ravelery would be so scandalized if it were a moth!

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  26. Awwww....that reminds me of "archy and mehitabel." These new laptop keyboards would be so much easier for archy to type on. I bet he would finally be able to use capital letters...

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  27. Anonymous9:41 AM

    That's such a great cartoon take-off. Well done Franklin!

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  28. Anonymous11:11 AM

    Love the cartoon!!

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  29. Anonymous8:03 PM

    I LOVED that Dog cartoon and even cut it out when I first saw it. But of course I love these cats just as much! Thanks!

    farmgirlnow

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