Twitter Satirized in Just a Few Characters

In recent months, Comic Riffs interviewed a number of syndicated newspaper cartoonists (from Scott Adams to Mike Luckovich) about whether they've Twittered or Tweeted or Twitpic'd or Twibed. The vast, vast majority of such cartoonists -- unlike many of their Web-born brethren -- said they had little use for the social microblogging service.

Today, though, we get two strips using Twitter as fodder. "Candorville," I dare say, absolutely nails a cultural trifecta: Twitter satire, the new "Star Trek" and apparent racial profiling (aka "Trekking While Black").

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In "Get Fuzzy," meantime, Satchel -- referring to Bucky -- arguably gets all the best lines, i.e., "He would put the 'twit' in Twitter" and "On Page 23, he actually invents baloney!" ("Get Fuzzy," by the way, has a new paperback collection out.)

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Who satirizes Twitter better? I leave that to your comments.

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"Pearls Before Swine" gets about as subversive as a Mainstream Family-Newspaper Comic Strip can get, winking all the while. Two words, just two words among these characters: "Croc envy."

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And as for "Mark Trail," I don't know which disturbs me more: (1) my intentional reading of the strip (and its "rotten" dead trees) as an extended metaphor on dead-tree journalism; or (2) the Ginormous Vaguely Omniscient Neighborhood-Watch Squirrel of Extreme Foreground.

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