2011-02-06
Original: 2011-02-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
The comic is a single panel showing a stylized map, drawn in the style of an old cartographic chart with green forested areas, yellow plains, blue water, and dashed-line borders with roads.
Label on the map (in the southwestern land region): HERE THERE BE DICKHEADS
Caption below the panel:
Governing Tip:
Don't raise taxes on cartographers.
Votey:
A close-up of a map showing a road/river crossing the land. A blue shield-shaped highway/route marker topped with a red crown sits on the map, reading: 3=D
(The marker, read together, depicts a crude face/emoticon "3=D".)
The comic is a single panel showing a stylized map, drawn in the style of an old cartographic chart with green forested areas, yellow plains, blue water, and dashed-line borders with roads.
Label on the map (in the southwestern land region): HERE THERE BE DICKHEADS
Caption below the panel:
Governing Tip:
Don't raise taxes on cartographers.
Votey:
A close-up of a map showing a road/river crossing the land. A blue shield-shaped highway/route marker topped with a red crown sits on the map, reading: 3=D
(The marker, read together, depicts a crude face/emoticon "3=D".)
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic styled as an old-fashioned map, with green forest patches, yellow plains, blue coastal water, and dashed-line borders crossed by roads. In the southwestern landmass, a label in old-map lettering reads "HERE THERE BE DICKHEADS." The caption below reads: "Governing Tip: Don't raise taxes on cartographers." The joke is that mapmakers, if angered, will quietly insult places on the maps everyone relies on. Votey: a close-up of a map where a road crosses the terrain, marked by a blue shield-shaped highway sign topped with a little red crown; the sign reads "3=D", which together forms a crude lewd emoticon, another petty cartographer's prank.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.