Dunking into Physical Humor
February 15, 201311:08 am
Today’s Jimmy O’Hair comic strip has physical humor in it as Jimmy tries to dunk a book on a bookshelf at the Bookrazy. The books fall over Jimmy, and he is piled underneath the stack as Hootie relays to him that dunking at the store isn’t the same as dunking in the NBA. Sometimes it’s good to have physical humor in a comic strip. Harken back to the glory days of newspaper comics and you’ll see Krazy Kat getting hit in the head by a brick from Ignatz the Mouse or Charlie Brown falling to the ground with a thud after Lucy swipes the football from him at the last second. Slapstick humor is a way to express actions in a farcical style such as when a pie hits a character in the face, or as in the comic strip today, all the books fall on Jimmy. It’s a common device used to get laughs, and though Jimmy tends to be a more of a wry comic strip, there will be times like today with physical humor in it. It also serves as a lesson to avoid this type of dunking at home even if you own some Air Jordans!
