Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for December 21, 2010
December 20, 2010
December 22, 2010
Transcript:
jenn erica: Why aren't i a bigger draw, bixby? I'm attractive, right? bixby: Yeah, but you're just average for a cartoon. even schlubby guys get super hot women in cartoons! Dagwood & blondie, archie & veronica, hi & lois... jenn erica: wait, lois is "super hot"?? Bixby: you've never seen her work a trash compactor....
By the way, the use of “fair” to mean both “beautiful” and “blonde” goes back at least to the Elizabethans. In the Nunnery Scene of Hamlet, the Prince asks Ophelia “Are you honest? Are you fair?” This can be read in three ways, if not more (and I have no doubt Shakespeare meant ALL of them):
1) “Are you chaste? Are you beautiful?” 2) “Are you truthful and just?” 3) “Are you really a blonde?”
Well, maybe Will didn’t quite have that last one in mind, but given the rest of Hamlet’s interactions with Ophelia, it wouldn’t surprise me to hear him accuse her of “art.”
”I have heard of your bleachings, too, well enough! God hath given you one hair colour, and you make yourselves another!”