2012-01-17
Original: 2012-01-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: ACADEMICIAN versus PERSON FROM ANYWHERE ELSE
Panel 1:
A balding, bearded man wearing glasses (the academician): "Ugh. We have this thing in academia called 'publish or perish.'"
Panel 2:
A woman with red hair (the person from anywhere else), smiling: "Oh, yeah, we have that. It's called 'do your job or get fired.'"
Votey:
The red-haired woman: "So now you're TRYING to piss off your readers?"
The bearded man (smiling, leaning on a desk): "Only most of them!"
Panel 1:
A balding, bearded man wearing glasses (the academician): "Ugh. We have this thing in academia called 'publish or perish.'"
Panel 2:
A woman with red hair (the person from anywhere else), smiling: "Oh, yeah, we have that. It's called 'do your job or get fired.'"
Votey:
The red-haired woman: "So now you're TRYING to piss off your readers?"
The bearded man (smiling, leaning on a desk): "Only most of them!"
Alt text
A two-panel comic titled 'ACADEMICIAN versus PERSON FROM ANYWHERE ELSE.' Panel one: a balding, bearded man in glasses says, 'Ugh. We have this thing in academia called "publish or perish."' Panel two: a smiling red-haired woman replies, 'Oh, yeah, we have that. It's called "do your job or get fired."' The joke deflates academia's dramatic jargon by reframing it as an ordinary workplace expectation. Votey (aftercomic, sketchy black-and-white): the red-haired woman asks the cartoonist figure, 'So now you're TRYING to piss off your readers?' and the bearded man, leaning on a desk, grins and says, 'Only most of them!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.