Genealogy of the the King in the Wizard of Id

The Wizard of Id comic strip created by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker is one of my favorites. This week, the comic strip shows the King (or the Midget Monarch as he is sometimes known) commenting about genealogy. It is humorous. Due to copyright issues, I won't publish the comic strip here but you can view it by going to http://comics.com/wizard_of_id/2009-02-20.

My thanks to Robert Steed for telling me about this genealogy reference in this week's comic.

Comments

[Randy Seaver]

I clicked on your tweet thinking that surely you would have the full genealogy of the King, not merely some knave telling him that it's going to cost him a lot of money to not have it published!

[Randy]

One comics character whose genealogy has been worked out is Donald Duck. In a series of comics and two collected volumes entitled "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", Don Rosa tied together all the hints through some 60 years worth of Carl Barks comics and showed how Donald, Scrooge, Gladstone Gander, Grandma Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie and others are all related, back to the founding of Duckburg and including Scrooge's immigration from Scotland. However, Mr. Rosa did conveniently ignore the fact that Scrooge works out to be at least 120 years old (he participated in the Alaska Gold Rush) and even HD&L are probably in their 50s, if not older! A very good read.

[M. Diane Rogers]

Today 'Unshelved' has a family history cartoon - I liked it!
http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20090222

[John Devroo]

You are again days behind everyone else.
Why still bother?

[Anne]

I like it, thanks!

[Dae Powell]

Johnny Hart resurrects an old joke from the 1980s -- still humorous, however. It indicates two problems with family research: those who don't really seek the truth about their families and the fraudulent genealogies foisted on the unsuspecting public.

On second thought, not so funny is it?

Happy Dae.
http://ShoeStringGenealogy.com

[Dae Powell]

ooops. My apologies for the double post.

Happy Dae.

[Frank in Toronto]

Thanks for sending, Dick - we used to get this comic in the local papers, but not any more, much to my regret. Sharing with my genealogist friends.

[theKiwi]

>You are again days behind everyone else.
>Why still bother?

If the fact that Dick's posting of it was ONE day behind actual publication date bothers you, then why bother to be bothered coming here, and bothering others about it?

[Lydia Mertell]

Kiwi, kiwi, kiwi,

First of all, John is right. All the genealogist on twitter had seen it already. Several had blogged it already.

Secondly, Dick is really two days late already. Yeah, I can see the date, but they publish early, and Dick uses a very late time zone.

I understand John completely. If you read others blogs, you know that Dick missed several important stories already this month and then, when we have read it on a dozen other blogs already, he copies it.

[theKiwi]

Hello - I'm not "on twitter", but I think I'm a genealogist.

And I guess I'm confused that in this land of free speech people want to criticise someone for the posting they have made - for many years in fact - AND while he's travelling as another story here relates. (well OK criticism is also free speech, but sometimes the adage of "if you can't think of something nice to say, don't say anything" might also be applicable.)

No one made anyone come here to read this news, and noone charged anyone to view it either.

Does this attitude of "had seen it already" now mean we're shifting towards a system where once someone has posted a story or link, and thereby "done it first" that no one else is allowed to post about it - that the only people who can post a story or link are those that get there first?

Just because it's a day late, doesn't mean it's not of interest or useful to anyone else who isn't glued to twitter or facebook or Leland Meitzler's blog or Randy Seaver's blog or anywhere else it might get posted, and so get to see it here first.

Kiwi Out

[Sandra Wester]

}} sometimes the adage of "if you can't think of something nice to say, don't say anything" might also be applicable.

Kiwi, does that apply to you too, or only to others?

I agree you don't have to be first, but if John wants to remarks that Dick is two days late, let him get it out of his system.
Why does it upset you so much?

It's called free speech, kiwi.
Get used to it or emigrate.

*** Sandra

[Bobbi]

For those that have seen it already there is always the delete button. For others like Frank in Toronto and myself we do appreciate the posting.

Thanks.

Bobbi

[Diana]

Gee, I must be a fossil. Here it is two whole days after Dick's post and THREE whole days after the comic was published and this is the first I've seen it! Oh yeah, I have a life beyond the computer.
Yes, I have facebook but not twitter or the hundreds of other online communities. I agree with Kiwi & Bobbi. If it bothers you so much, don't read it!

[Diana]

Gee, I must be a fossil. Here it is two whole days after Dick's post and THREE whole days after the comic was published and this is the first I've seen it! Oh yeah, I have a life beyond the computer.
Yes, I have facebook but not twitter or the hundreds of other online communities. I agree with Kiwi & Bobbi. If it bothers you so much, don't read it!

[Jim Coady]

I haven't read all the posts, but, coincidentally, The Other Coast, by Adrian Raeside, ran a genealogy related strip on February 21, too.

http://comics.com/the_other_coast/2009-02-21/