New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for September 26, 2012

No, it is not catching. It isn’t even a disease.

SPURLT ! Now you’ve really put your foot in it.

I think it’s more fun to spell it onomatopœia.

you beat me to it Eldo, I was about to say this sounds like Don Martin’s work

Eldo beat us all. Martin was the master of the Schlippita-Zonk!

i like sporfle. Can’t place it, but I like it!

onomatopœia: A word that didn’t sound anything like what it meant until the typesetter dropped it all over the floor.-Johnny Hart (B.C.)

Yes, what DOES onomatopoeia sound like?

I used to sing the word to the tune of some African (?) folk song they taught me in school in the late 60s. I’d sing it now, but ‘visual medium.’

Thank you, Eldo, for reviving my absolutely favorite Mad cartoonist. Don Martin was an absolute genius when it came to sounds.

Ha! The Queen said “pee”!

Classiest example I can think of is “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain” in “The Raven” – all those s’s suggesting the rustling.

Okay, today’s gag just doesn’t make sense. I know what an onomatopoeia is, but the punchline just doesn’t work with the build-up; if there’s a joke here, what is it?

One of my favorite sound effect gags is this one by Kinky Turtle.