Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Cartoon Lounge: Elite Subtlety from the New Yorker

First impression (after reading "The Duel, Part 22"
and "a Guide to Winter"):
The Cartoon Lounge, which showcases creative rants and spontaneous etchings from dozens of New Yorker cartoonists, caused me to laugh out loud in the Knight Library. Normally I am better at restraining myself in quiet, shared spaces, but the quality of this blog caught me offgaurd. Though quality is expected from the New Yorker, New Yorker cartoons always strike me as silently smirky--nothing that could conjure belly-laughter. The New Yorker is a publication I would read while waiting to be let out of a cage of sleeping lions. The editors must know that the magazine serves this purpose for people, which is why they save all the best stuff for the internet.

Second impression (after reading everything else):
This blog is funny because it looks a lot like something my friends would put together, and I laugh most when I am with my friends. A lot of posts are a bit inside-jokey, and some of them are simply links to humorous discoveries.
In terms of design, I like that Cartoon Lounge uses page breaks so that the reader can easily skip bland stuff. Over all, I like this Lounge and I want to hang out in it as much as possible.

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