#Noodnik

[jhsharman]

the consumer debut

The expository note is refined then dropped. The need to give some pseudo-scientific explained on superpowers is dropped in favor of pointing to gadgetry. The initials appear a holdover from the Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. spy spoof trend Chase that this follows.

Not sure the jet belt figures at all here given they give her a cape.

She is a Superteen no more, costume dumped in an alley as she walks off forlorn, head down.

Noodnic versus Noodnik. I do have a thought on the Consumer's swim trunk-wear -- borrowing from Marvel's Thing I suppose -- what is the nature of his anatomy? Is there genitalia he's hiding?

I struggle a little on whether to claim "The Consumer" offers social commentary. A metaphor for something. Consumption, for example, or Consumerism. Really hard hitting ideas boiling here!

[nomorepixels]

The King of Fighters 2001

©️ Eolith 2001

Image sourced from vgmuseum.com But seriously, who were you guys and were you keeping SNK locked in your basement?

[campaignoutsider]

Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Kamala Harris 'Veep' Edition)

Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Kamala Harris ‘Veep’ Edition)

Latest in our long-running series Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan opened up the family-size can of worms with yesterday’s piece about the various and sundry deficiencies of Vice President Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris Needs to Get Serious Her shaky standing is a danger to the country given the position she could be called on to fill. President Biden’s poll numbers are bad and Vice…

[eideard]

It’s movie night! Thanks, gocomics.org

[digitalcomicmuseum]

Comic Uploaded: 22-07-2016 Noodnik 05 Uploader: comicwanderer Download Link: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=28492 Read Online

[stefanpoag]

Always Wear Eye Protection A couple of noodniks examining a mysterious artifact...

[passportapproved]

SAIPHE

SAIPHE (pronounced ‘safe’), born Loren Kertsman, is an Austrian/American singer, songwriter, performer and producer. She began composing, arranging and writing at an early age and taught herself the digital elements of music production. Her background includes classical music and she originally trained to become a professional cellist. She eventually turned to a musical theatre education and began experimenting in contemporary music genres. Two of her poems are published in the anthology of the Library of Germany Language Poems (2020) and Noodnik Magazine (December 2021). Her previous singles, “Blanket” and “Emotionally Unavailable” earned global airplay, including spins at Radio Doble Nueve (Lima, Peru), Indie XM (Los Angeles, CA), WCNR (Charlottesville, VA), UCFM (Canberra, Australia), Radio 1 (Mumbai, India), 2XM (Dublin, Ireland), JioSaavn (India) and more. SAIPHE has returned with a dreamy ballad called “Bitter,” that she wrote under the impression of a fractured relationship. “Bitter” takes inspiration from the classic pop music genre of the 1950s and ’60s and has been compared to the music of Cat Power, Natalie Merchant and Feist.

LINK: www.facebook.com/saiphe20 LISTEN: "Bitter"

[inconstantsearchofperfection]

This ...this is like bragging about finishing a race hours after 100s of other people have already finished.

Alaska is the third least populace state.

...there was once ( for a few hours 4 years ago ) that I thought that ivanka just might not be as dim witted as the rest of her clan.

She is a dullard.

A dull and thick skulled noodnik.

Verily.

Terminal idiocy.

[blackmamba-jackanimations]

Eric Goldberg Interview

I jut watched this Talk by Andy Goldberg talking about his career working in animation. It quite interesting listening to this extremely talented animater talk about his different jobs he had done of=ver the years, and even seeing his earie work before he started doing jobs. Seeing some of his flip book animations he did whilst he was young in high school, called ‘Norman Noodnik’. His work his beautiful to watch, but i did not expect his work to be so fantastic to look at when he was very young. The fluidity he creates and timing leave me in such awe, that make me think much more about my animation, and how the speed and fluidity could be much better. I mostly try to use smears to create quick movements, but in does short flip book animations i see he just use like to represent the speed, which work really well. I should try that more with my film and see how it goes. 

Also I found it quite interesting watching his animation on the ‘Road Runner’ cartoon. Even Though I find Goldbergs animation beautiful to watch, I didn’t feel like his smooth animation suited the styl of the ‘Road Runner’ cartoons, since his style made the characters feel more smooth and squishy, whilst the characters should be solid and quick. That’s how I feel at least. He animation is still fantastic to look at, but even though i would like to make more smooth animation, my 3 minute film is strongly based of ‘Looney Tunes’ animation and humour, so I have consider not to make my animation to smooth, since the solidity of the character should help empathise the pain he feel when he gets hit.

[jhsharman]

time lapse

According to my investigations, nudnik comes from the Russian nudnyi, which means to bore. In Yiddish the verb is nuden. However, the Hebrew nad refers to movement, and its derivative, nidnud, means a repetitive swinging motion, which describes the behaviour of the nudnik pretty well.

It appears noodnik and nudnik are both right, but nudnik is more right.

Interesting glow on the last panel.

[campaignoutsider]

Campaign Outsider Presidential Bakeoff 2020™ (Part 2)

Campaign Outsider Presidential Bakeoff 2020™ (Part 2)

Itemizing a few deductions now that Joe Biden has concluded his to-be-or-not-to-be-a-candidate interior monologue.

Item: The hardworking staff will be president before Bill de Blasio is

This is just idiotic.

Bad enough that the 2020 Democratic presidential field includes the likes of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Nowhere), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Meshuggeneh), and the Bay State’s own Rep. Seth Moulton…

[mexcine2]

         Hey Mickey! Hey Minnie! Oh, wait… [The Skipper 459 and Ribtickler 2] 

          First seen on-screen in 1928, Mickey Mouse quickly became globally famous. From his very first cartoon, Mickey had a sweetheart: Minnie Mouse. In addition to the Disney animated cartoons, the anthropomorphised rodents appeared in various print media, were immortalised in song, and spawned a never-ending stream of merchandising tie-ins.  

           Very quickly there emerged imitators, bootlegs, and parodies of Disney’s falsetto-voiced, round-eared money machine.  Where they could, Disney’s lawyers expressed their legal displeasure. Some homages, like “Mickey Rodent” (Mad, 1955) and Robert Armstrong’s ‘70s underground comix character “Mickey Rat,” skated by, while others--the underground comix created by Dan O’Neill and “The Air Pirates”--did not.  It was obviously impossible to identify and prosecute all of the dodgy companies around the world making unauthorised Mickey Mouse toys, figurines and such (although clearly Disney would have liked to).  

           Today’s two objects of deconstruction represent “cameo” appearances of (pseudo-)Disney characters in pop culture which somehow avoided the wrath of Disney, possibly because they were fleeting and not overly egregious or mercenary.

           The first example comes from the British “story paper” The Skipper, number 459 (17 June 1939), and appears to show Mickey Mouse and (possibly) Daffy Duck as opposing cricketers.  It’s Disney versus Warner Bros. on the pitch!

           British “story papers,” which flourished in the first half of the 20th century (they began in the 19th century, and a few hung on after 1950, but they were basically all gone by the early Seventies) are a publishing genre largely unique to the United Kingdom, although they bear a certain resemblance to American “dime novels” and pulp magazines in form and content.  Story papers, sometimes called “boys’ weeklies” (there were some aimed at girls, however), had many fewer pages than pulps (usually 28 pages compared to over 100 for a pulp), were aimed at a juvenile audience, and often contained continued stories (feasible because of their weekly schedule).

           The Boys’ Own Paper (which ran for more than 70 years), The Champion, The Gem, and The Magnet were among the most popular and longest-lived story papers (Girls’ Crystal was possibly the most popular story paper aimed at girls, lasting nearly 30 years).  The contents varied: many, particularly in the 1920s, specialised in tales set in British “public schools” (which, as is often pointed out, were actually private schools, like Eton and Harrow); others were more or less straight adventure genre works, some focused on fantastic content, and others featured a variety of types of stories.  Many stories were set in the American West, Canada, Africa, India, the Far East, and other “exotic” locations, to balance the stories about school hijinks, sport (especially football and cricket), and other traditional British topics and settings.

           Additional material included editorials, readers’ letters, joke pages, contests, and premiums (such as photos of footballers).  Most stories were illustrated (usually quite well) and in later years story papers would incorporate the odd comic strip (there were distinct “comic papers” as well).

           Amalgamated Press was the predominant publisher of story papers but D.C. Thomson also put out a number of them (as well as the long-running comic paper Beano).  The “Big Five” Thomson titles included The Hotspur, The Wizard, Adventure, The Rover and The Skipper.  

           The Skipper was published from 1930 until 1941, when wartime paper shortages resulted in its cancellation.  Over 100 issues of The Skipper can be read online.

           This issue of The Skipper contains 7 stories: 2 “school stories,” a Western, a cricket story, one set in Australia, one set in India, and a science fiction/crime tale that takes place on the Devon coast.  The cover painting illustrates a situation from the “Big-Handed Arthur” cricket story. [The protagonist’s name evokes “Big-Hearted Arthur,” the nickname of British comedian Arthur Askey.]  Arthur convinces an Australian cat-burglar to join his cricket team for a match, but both he and the burglar resort to wearing “huge and grotesque paper maché heads”-- “last seen in the Bidworth Hospital Carnival procession”--to avoid identification for their misdeeds.  “Arthur was wearing the head of a merry looking mouse with large ears. Harold’s head was that of a duck.”

           The Mickey Mouse resemblance is down-played on the cover art (and the interior illustrations don’t feature this scene), but the ears are definitely Mickey-ish, and the juxtaposition of an angry-looking black duck (one supposes the artist deliberately avoided making the duck white, to avoid the too-obvious Donald Duck comparison) and a cartoon mouse is certainly no coincidence.  

           The name of the artist who painted this and many other covers of The Skipper is not known.  This particular cover is almost surreal, compared to the more or less realistically representational covers of other issues (some may have had odd comedic or fantastic content but realistic settings): we’ve got two cricketers with giant, cartoon heads on human bodies charging at each other (I know, this is part of the game, but it looks like they’re going to fight), and three “normal” players, apparently participating in a match taking place in a purgatory-like void.  The blank white wall surrounding the pitch seems to indicate this is taking place in some sort of gladiatorial arena.  Possibly the teams have been abducted by the Grandmaster and this is a preliminary for the much-anticipated Thor vs. Hulk rematch?  

           The second cover features a Minnie Mouse clone.  Ribtickler was a comic book title used by Fox in the 1940s, then resurrected by Green Publishing and Norlen Magazines in the late 1950s.  The later versions contained reprint material, but--oddly enough--not always from Fox comics!  The cover shown here was used three times (they were really begging for Disney to complain, weren’t they?): for Ribtickler 2 (Fox, 1946), Ribtickler 8 (Green, 1957) and Ribtickler 8 (Norlen, 1959).  The contents of all three comics were completely different, by the way: the Green version reprinted some Fox material but was mostly reprints of the “Noodnik” strip (previously seen in Comic Media comics and later reprinted by Charlton), and the Norlen comic contained re-used Charlton “L’il Genius” and “Timmy the Timid Ghost” strips!

           We’ll go with the original Ribtickler 2 (1946) for analysis here (although the cover was basically identical each time it was re-used).  The cover has no direct connection with any of the interior content, which is mostly funny-animal humour strips (no mice or giant caterpillars, though).  If the cover of The Skipper was “surreal,” what would we call this?  A human photographer (vaguely Jerry Lewis-like, although this was well before Jerry Lewis started his career in earnest) says “Just for the fun of it!” and pretends to take a photograph of Minnie Mouse and her cat (possibly Figaro, although he doesn’t look like it--the concept of a mouse having a pet cat is mind-blowing enough, but that’s Disney for you), but a giant, laughing, bow-tie wearing caterpillar erupts from the lens instead!  

           You might say, “Minnie Mouse, that’s a bit of a stretch, innit?”  Oh, I don’t know, take a look at this image from the main title of “The Barnyard  Broadcast,” a 1931 Mickey Mouse cartoon.  The “real” Minnie Mouse and Ribtickler Minnie are both black mice wearing high heeled shoes, a polka-dotted skirt with exposed bloomers, and a modified stovepipe hat (although real Minnie’s hat sports a flower while Ribtickler Minnie opts for a feather).  Sure, Ribtickler Minnie is wearing a blue blouse while real Minnie is topless (she apparently didn’t cover up until the Sixties), but it wasn’t Fox’s fault that Disney’s Minnie was shamelessly parading herself around for 3 decades.  

           One commenter on comicbookplus.com suggests the giant caterpillar was inspired by “Mr. Mind,” a super-intelligent alien worm who was one of Captain Marvel’s arch enemies in this era.  There are points of similarity: both can talk, both have mostly green, segmented bodies, have antennae sticking out of their heads, and both have something around their neck (Mr. Mind has a radio-shaped “talk box,” while Ribtickler Caterpillar has a purple bow tie).  The biggest difference is their relative size: Mr. Mind was two inches long; Ribtickler Caterpillar is closer to Monster That Challenged the World size.

           The burning question is, however: does this cover seem funny?  Or, more relevant, does it encourage someone (presumably an adolescent boy or girl) to buy the comic book?  The comic is called Ribtickler after all, strongly implying humour, and yet this cover is horrific, bizarre, even nightmare-inducing.  The giant caterpillar is laughing (“Ha! Ha! Ha!”) but Minnie and her cat are plainly terrified, not just startled.  

           I don’t know, this cover just doesn’t seem that appealing to me.  Not that the contents of the comic book are great--not by a long shot--but they’re not as brain-numbing as the cover image and all that it implies.  But what do I know? There aren’t too many comic book covers that were used three times over the space of 13 years, so apparently somebody thought it was…good enough.

[digitalcomicmuseum]

Comic Uploaded: 22-07-2016 Noodnik 05 (raw) Uploader: narfstar Download Link: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=28484 Read Online

[samcmalaska]

noodnik. op1, pedals, sp303/555, logic.

[tutoringbytoni-blog]

TutoringByToni, Boca Raton, Florida ~ Word of the Day - Nudnik or Noodnik

It's very strange how we associate words, with certain people. Today's Word of the Day, a bit random, perhaps. NUDNIK or NOODNIK ~ noun Def. - a person who is annoying, a nuisance or boring

I actually remember my dad using this word, as a kid. He'd say to us, " Don't be a Noodnik!" I’ll have to tell him, next we speak, that I remember this. So, be careful what you say to your kids.

My Friday advice, before this Memorial Day weekend is: Go have fun, but don’t be a noodnik!

https://www.TutoringByToni.com

[campaignoutsider]

WSJ's Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Amazon/Big Town Edition)

WSJ’s Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Amazon/Big Town Edition)

From our Peggy Noodnik desk

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan filed a totally clueless piece in yesterday’s edition about Amazon’s folding like origami in the face of predictable opposition to its proposed headquarters in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City.

Welcome to New York, Amazon—Now Go Home

A last word on Amazon and New York City. The story’s over but it doesn’t stop…