| Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2001 : 7 May 2001 |
Shall I Compare Thee to a Holiday?
Cartoonist Day is also a Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo. Let's compare:
"Cartoon" is named after cheap stuff to sketch on; Cinco de Mayo is the date of a battle victory in a war that Mexico lost. Cartoonist sounds like some kind of auto mechanic; Cinco de Mayo sounds like a kitchen sink full of mayonnaise. Cartoonists have funny threadbare drawings and funny threadbare clothes; Mexico has jumping beans and a state oil company named Pemex.
I'm sorry, artists. You may be in more newspapers, but Cinco de Mayo is funnier.
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