Comic Strips and Food

[Suzanne F]

We probably all clip favorite comics when they have food-related themes. Let's keep them where we can share them.

[Gifted Gourmet]

This is a website with numerous food related cartoons/comics:

Food Funnies

Enjoy!

[slkinsey]

I like Diesel Sweeties.

Here's one.

Here's another.

Plus, the occasional Red Meat, like this one.

[Gifted Gourmet]

Here's one.

Bacon is a vegetable

Mark Parisi cartoons

Edited May 4, 2004 by Gifted Gourmet (log)

[Atomic Lunch]

8Legged.com

This one is Flash, but it is super funny and sometimes even a little educational.

[Mrs Woman]

Has to be Garfield and his lasagna obsession

[suzilightning]

i am reading the comics section of the paper this morning and did a spit take.

stephan pastis in his strip Pearls Before Swine has explained the meaning of corndogs here:

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/

if you are viewing any day other than sunday 7 march go to the comic for that day

perhaps he's a lurker?

[Pan]

i am reading the comics section of the paper this morning and did a spit take.

stephan pastis in his strip Pearls Before Swine has explained the meaning of corndogs here:

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/

if you are viewing any day other than sunday 7 march go to the comic for that day

How? It doesn't seem clear how I could view anything more than 30 days old.

[Suzanne F]

Alas. I never noticed the 30-day limit either. Oh well, we'll just have to keep posting links to new ones, then.

However, the Cartoon Bank doesn't seem to have a time limit.

[Grub]

All the hoopla about the Wendy's Finger food case made me think of a cartoon I drew a few years ago... (Didn't know where else to put this -- it's cartoon, and thus media)

[johnsmith45678]

Cheap Thrills Cuisine

Cooking instructions in comic form -- roasted steak mushrooms, lamb noisettes, easter almond truffles, chicken yakitori, souffle, ...

[racheld]

I do not have a link, just a memory of all the comic-book picnics of my childhood. Every character, from Mighty Mouse to Heckle and Jeckle, seemed to have the same basket, checkered cloth spread upon the ground, and the obligatory bottle of wine, a whole ham or roast chicken on a plate, a loaf of crusty brown bread, and a bowl of fruit, with several bananas standing proudly and a swag of hanging grapes.

Going on a picnic with my parents, even with sandwiches and cold fried chicken, maybe a watermelon chilled in the cold stream, just lost a lot in the translation from that brimming basket of brightly-colored goodies, to Tupperware and an oilcloth spread upon a concrete table in the park.

I now, however, have a collection of many of the flip-top RedMan picnic baskets, in which we have carried many a nice spread to be laid upon a cloth on the grass. Even if the fruit IS transported in a snap-top plastic box, it's arranged prettily, grapes spilling attractively over the side, before we begin our lunch.

[helenjp]

Not exactly cartoon strips, but this seems like a good place to talk about nonfiction comics and graphic novels (by which I mean a comics-format story that is complete in one book) about food.

Etienne Davodeau's The Initiates (translated from French) was a really good example. The art encourages musing as well as providing detail about the wine-making environment, and while it may seem far-fetched to compare a comics artist's job with a wine-maker, I actually enjoyed the give and take of the two main characters.

Christophe Blain is a WONDERFUL French comics artist who is very good at depicting the kind of high-octane people who make great chefs. Alain Passard is more of an illustrated recipe book plus interviews with the chef...it's interesting, but not as wide in scope as The Initiates.

 

There should be lots of great food manga from Japan, but either they are not in English, or they don't go much farther than being illustrated recipe books. I'm quite enjoying Jing Takao's Kuu Neru Marta (Marta Eats and Sleeps), about a supposedly Portuguese girl living in Japan, who sometimes cooks Portuguese food and sometimes Japanese. I like the no-fuss eclecticism!

[rotuts]

this isn't a comic, but was a strip

 

in '68 or so I was in GB.  their paperbacks were very inexpensive at the time re US books.

 

I discovered a boxed, two volume paperback "boxed'set of strip sized 'panels' on cooking by

 

Len Deighton, that were published daily like comic strips  in the same format on cooking.

 

he was a fiction author  with books like funeral in berlin, ipcress file etc.  Harry Palmer, his character was a bit of a chef.

 

here they are :

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Action-Cook-Book-Len-Deighton/dp/0007305877

 

and

 

http://www.amazon.com/Len-Deightons-French-Cooking-Men/dp/0007351119/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2/190-0974011-2511360?ie=UTF8&refRID=0G19RRYG8YG9N3WAWKFG

 

all sorts of basic stuff that made a lot of sense to me  : types of sauces, and how they related to each other etc.

 

I wonder if anyone else knows about these.   I leaned more from those two books  which were the collected strips

 

have no idea where they are now  but would love to look them over again.

Edited March 10, 2016 by rotuts (log)

[helenjp]

Never seen those, but I learned a lot from the illustrated recipe book type of comic when I started cooking from Japanese recipes - this instant ramen "recipe" hardly needs any words!

[barolo]

4 hours ago, rotuts said:

 

I wonder if anyone else knows about these.   I leaned more from those two books  which were the collected strips

 

have no idea where they are now  but would love to look them over again.

He still does strips for the Guardian. Here's one from February, Whole Braised Veal Shank:  http://www.theguardian.com/profile/len-deighton

 

Here's an appreciation:  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/14/len-deighton-observer-cookstrips-michael-caine-1960s

[rotuts]

@barolo   

 

Im pleased they are they are still doing these

 

of course  Im a bit bereft  as they were the3 finest thing Id ever seen

 

so long ago0

 

good for Len and Harry Palmer !

 

best stuff ever

 

ever