Following on from Jung’s caricatures, here’s a look at some of his ‘newspaper-style’ comics. And just for fun, I tried testing how Google’s image translation services were working these days…

(mobile: zoom in, desktop: right-click-open)

For those unaware, “Scooby Doo” refers to the titular, cowardly Great Dane character starring in a bunch of animated Hanna-Barbera cartoons and later media. The riff here is that Mac the basset hound isn’t nearly as thrilled about the whole bribery situation as Scooby.

As for the translation services, it seems like they’re just about the same as last time around. It would certainly be nice if they could format the text better, in future…

Some of the humor in these is a little culturally elusive to me, as above, but what I love regardless is the masterful storytelling style, and especially the hilarious portraits and expressions that Jung is so great at pulling off…

What greatly helped me understand the above was learning that John the Baptist was said to have eaten a diet heavy on grasshoppers and honey (Matthew 3:4). His mother really should have seen this one coming, haha.

Hmm… I think I’ll add Étienne’s blog to our webcomics’ list. It’s somewhat outdated, but does contain ~11yrs of content, including something like 700 content posts(!)
https://etiennejung.blogspot.com/