2011-10-23

A four-part comic titled 'How academics call something boring (by discipline).' Three panels each label a type of academic and show them holding a paper while delivering a dismissive line. The Philosopher (a woman with glasses) says 'That's elementary.' The Mathematician (a man with reddish hair) says 'That's trivial.' The Physicist says 'That makes sense.' The joke is that each field has its own jargon for calling something unremarkable. Votey: a banner reads 'BACK FROM NYCC' above a drawing of an utterly exhausted, hollow-eyed, disheveled person; a bottom banner reads 'TIME TO SLEEP FOR TEN YEARS,' a self-deprecating note from the cartoonist after New York Comic Con.