http://www.wordnik.com/lists/very-funny.xml Being a list of cartoonist terms coined by Mort Walker, collected in The Lexicon of Comicana, 1980. <br /> <br />"It started out as a joke for the National Cartoonists Society magazine. I <a href="/words/spoof">spoof</a>ed the tricks cartoonists use, like dust clouds when characters are running or lightbulbs over their heads when they get an idea. . . . I spent many hours at the <a href="/words/museum">museum</a> going over old cartoons and recording their 'language.' I created <a href="/words/pseudoscientific">pseudoscientific</a> names for each cartoon [cliché], like the sweat marks cartoon characters radiate. I called them '<a href="/words/plewds">plewds</a>,' after the god of rain, 'Joe Pluvius.' I considered it a humor book. When it came out, I looked for it in the humor section of a bookstore and finally found it in Art Instruction. I inquired and they said 'What's funny about it?' I said, 'The names.' They said, 'We didn't know what those things were called.' I said, 'They weren't called anything till I called them that.' It was another case of <a href="/words/satire">satire</a> falling flat. I gave up and am selling it now as an instruction book. -- Mort Walker, Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook http://www.wordnik.com http://www.wordnik.com/words/morf Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:27:20 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/morf http://www.wordnik.com/words/slerm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:24:41 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/slerm http://www.wordnik.com/words/protusilation Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:23:01 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/protusilation http://www.wordnik.com/words/up-hites Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:16:25 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/up-hites http://www.wordnik.com/words/fumetti Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:12:34 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/fumetti http://www.wordnik.com/words/oralology Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:11:34 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/oralology http://www.wordnik.com/words/reverbatrons Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:08:31 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/reverbatrons http://www.wordnik.com/words/grawlixes Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:05:29 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/grawlixes http://www.wordnik.com/words/teteology Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:42:59 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/teteology http://www.wordnik.com/words/boozex Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:55:33 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/boozex http://www.wordnik.com/words/staggeration Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:55:27 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/staggeration http://www.wordnik.com/words/doozex Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:55:20 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/doozex http://www.wordnik.com/words/farkles Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:55:08 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/farkles http://www.wordnik.com/words/indotherm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:54:58 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/indotherm http://www.wordnik.com/words/maledicta balloon Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:54:46 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/maledicta balloon http://www.wordnik.com/words/digitrons Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:54:25 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/digitrons http://www.wordnik.com/words/nittles Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:54:19 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/nittles http://www.wordnik.com/words/quimp Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:54:12 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/quimp http://www.wordnik.com/words/jarns Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:54:07 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/jarns http://www.wordnik.com/words/crottles Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:53:42 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/crottles http://www.wordnik.com/words/oculama Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:53:34 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/oculama http://www.wordnik.com/words/spurls Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:53:27 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/spurls http://www.wordnik.com/words/that-a-tron Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:53:14 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/that-a-tron http://www.wordnik.com/words/sphericasia Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:53:06 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/sphericasia http://www.wordnik.com/words/whiteope Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:52:56 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/whiteope http://www.wordnik.com/words/vites Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:51:55 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/vites http://www.wordnik.com/words/solrads Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:50:48 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/solrads http://www.wordnik.com/words/dites Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:49:52 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/dites http://www.wordnik.com/words/lucaflect Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:49:25 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/lucaflect http://www.wordnik.com/words/swalloops Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/swalloops http://www.wordnik.com/words/blurgits Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:48:06 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/blurgits http://www.wordnik.com/words/waftaroms Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:47:06 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/waftaroms http://www.wordnik.com/words/emanata Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:45:51 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/emanata http://www.wordnik.com/words/plewds Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:44:59 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/plewds http://www.wordnik.com/words/squeans Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:44:44 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/squeans http://www.wordnik.com/words/briffits Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:44:36 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/briffits http://www.wordnik.com/words/hites Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:44:29 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/hites http://www.wordnik.com/words/agitrons Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:44:20 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/agitrons