With the addition of Mad Men to my blog repertoire, I think this blog might have officially become "low-brow". One of the art-forms that seems to signify low-brow to many people is that of cartoons, even though, in fact, cartoons may be quite sophisticated. Society is beginning to catch up, with the craze for "graphic novels", but some of the best cartoonists, even from the beginning of cartoon's boom in Georgian England, such as Hogarth and Thomas Rowlandson, were in fact great artists with keen sense of humor and social satire.
On that note, I decided to post some XKCD cartoons. All except one are related specifically to gender; one is a more general comment on society.
http://xkcd.com/355/
http://xkcd.com/425/
http://xkcd.com/470/
For me, this is one of the most poignant XKCD cartoons: http://xkcd.com/636/
This is one of my favorites: http://xkcd.com/150/
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