Favorite Mug
Friday, June 13th, 2008Self-tagged with the coffee cup meme, via Ambulance Driver, where I also left a comment on my favorite beverages.
My favorite coffee mug art, from Christopher Baldwin’s comic Bruno:
Yes, yes, there’s lots of other mugs out there from comic strips I like better, or with political slogans I favor, or with funnier jokes. But this one actually has to do with coffee, and I love Baldwin’s art.
Here it is next to the mug I actually use, which is exactly the right size:
update:
Ah, I’ve been looking for this, and finally found it: another favorite coffee cartoon. I dearly want this on a mug:
From Mark Stanley’s wonderful comic, Freefall.
Now, this is what coffee should be like:
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I…despair of explaining the context of this image. Here’s the machine that made the coffee this young man just took a sip of. The lady with the wrench is a “spark”, a genius mad scientist in a world where magic is crucial to technology. I cannot urge you strongly enough to start here and read the whole bizarre story. The phrase “steam punk”, stretched to tatters, might evoke something of the flavor of the Foglio’s world.
OMG: this image is available on a mug — and on t-shirts, bbq aprons, mouse pads….