Ironic Sans: Esoteric Comic #1

July 9, 2009

Esoteric Comic #1

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I have a long record of posting positive comments, most of which praise your ideas… this one, not so much. I like the concept of esoteric comics, but not this particular comic for its debut as I think this is really just a visual pun. Kind of like those visual word puzzles, for example:

|READ| = Read between the lines

Anyone know what those puzzles are called? Do they have a specific name?

Posted by: Mr. Wisdumb | July 9, 2009 9:52 AM

Mr. Wisdumb: A “rebus,” perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus

Posted by: Felix C | July 9, 2009 10:17 AM

Haha whatever Mr. Wisdumb, I laughed. Good comic!

Posted by: Alex | July 9, 2009 10:30 AM

So bad it belongs in the New Yorker.

Posted by: Anonymous | July 9, 2009 2:26 PM

Felix… thanks, but I don’t think that is right. However, after following your link, I finally came across this site that calls them Word Winks, which they say are also called Plexers, Thinklers, Frame Games. I have never heard of any of those names, but the site does show what I remember as a kid.

Posted by: Mr. Wisdumb | July 9, 2009 5:49 PM

I think it’s great.
You guys keep searching for a classification for this joke while I file it right here under ‘Awesome Dad-joke’.

Posted by: jhcrow | July 9, 2009 8:09 PM

That metaphor made me simile.

Posted by: justin | July 10, 2009 2:02 AM

It would’ve been better if the big four was composed of only four small fours.

Posted by: Andrew | July 10, 2009 9:26 AM

Hey dude, pretty nice blog you got here. I had to laugh so much man :)

Keep on writing!

Greetings from Germany,

Tom

Posted by: Germanguy | July 11, 2009 7:22 PM

This is great. Maybe some of the above negative comments missed the extra joke. :)

Posted by: Carl | July 13, 2009 9:14 PM

The day after this post, Richard Wiseman proposed this visual exercise: http://59seconds.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/which-letter-do-you-see-first/

Posted by: Ferran Alvarez | July 14, 2009 3:38 AM

looks more like a “meta-four” to me

Posted by: david | August 11, 2009 8:05 PM

Well I like it anyway… but then I think puns rule.

psych nerds like me will also note that this is a “Navon Figure” - see David Navon’s (1977) Study of Global vs. Local Perceptual Processing

Posted by: Anonymous | September 17, 2009 8:35 AM

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