Geographically Adept

From xkcd

Post-Mid-Term-Election Footprint Map

Editorial cartoon comment on the 2010 mid-term elections by Steve Sack:



Via Slate

Anyone seen any other clever 2010 map related editorial cartoons?

Online Geography 2010

The UberGeek web comic, xkcd, has updated its map of online communities from 2007:


Click image to see hi-res

Online geography changes much more quickly that earthly geography.

Where is Cartophilia in all this? Somewhere in the Miscellanea I suppose...



Other xkcd maps featured on Cartophilia

HT to BillWendel

The Not Gay States of America

Tom The Dancing Bug asks, "If we don't want gays in the military today, how can we accept the results of having gays in the fighting forces of our past?"

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Don't ask, don't tell, don't settle...?

Looks suspiciously like the 2008 electoral map...

Comic Book Cartography

The map blog Comic Book Cartography gathers images of maps, schematics and cut-away diagrams from classic comic books.

The Fantastic Four at war with Namor the Sub-mariner?

Hemispheric Maps of Superman's home planet, Krypton:

The East Coast according to DC...



OMG! Superman's Metropolis is in Delaware? Batman's Gotham City is just across the bay in in New Jersey? Who knew?

For more Comic Cartography, check out Atlas of the DC Universe.

Wall Street Has No Sense of Humor

As reported on the comics news site, The Beat:

As he mentioned on his C2E2 panel, Chris Ware recently finished a cover for Fortune magazine, only to see it killed, perhaps because of all the jokes in the tiny spaces of the cover. This is really what the internet was invented for, don’t you agree? (Click for larger, rejected version.)

The stuffed shirts on Wall Street have no sense of humor.

HT to Alphistia

Movie Characters in Narrative Chart

xkcd, the "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language", offers these charts that show movie character interactions:



The Lord of the Rings chart is also "geographic" in its presentation.

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Olympic Torch -- Family Circus Style

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games website has created an interactive map of the path the torch will take on its trek across Canada:



Now, of course I understand why an Olympic Committee would choose a path that squiggles to and fro across the country. They want to hit all the provinces and major population centers, to build community and excitement about the games. However, upon seeing this map, the first thought that came to my mind was one of Billy's meandering path maps from the Family Circus comic strip:





While digging up the two map/strips above, I found another Family Circus map...



My apologies...

Olympic map via that fine Canadian map blogger, The Map Room

ACORN Conspiracy

In Salon.com today, the comic strip This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow, has a little fun mocking Fox News personality, Glenn Beck. In the process, he created a new logo for A.C.O.R.N., the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.





I love the tentacles squeezing the globe of the Earth.

Dr. Evil would give ONE MILLION DOLLARS for a logo so cool.

xkcd map prints available

The award winning web comic, xkcd (a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language) is offering signed prints, posters and shirts featuring some of their most popular comics.

Offerings include a poster of Online Communities:





And the Map of the Internet:

Scotland Towed

"Every June, Scotland is towed 1000 miles south so it can have a summer. Only 10% of people in Scotland know this."

It's true! Would your Uncle Cartophiliac lie to you?



From Great Lies to Tell Kids by Andy Riley; the somewhat deranged, but very funny author of The Book of Bunny Suicides.

Who doesn't enjoy telling small "tall tales" to kids?... you know, just to mess with their mind...

Other good lies from the book:

"In Denmark, they use bacon as banknotes."

"There used to be a ship in that bottle but it sank."

"Most birds wear parachutes in case they suddenly forget how to fly."

Upcoming Hurricanes

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