Frog Applause Descriptions, Comments, and Promotional Blurbs

I want to add to or replace the ABOUT FROG APPLAUSE quote above. If you have another description in mind, kindly share it. I'll probably list several descriptions in addition to this one. I have so many talented writers among my readership, that I doubt I could choose one, two or even three descriptions. All are welcome! Thank you.

“I can’t imagine why anyone would find this strip funny or entertaining. “—pbo67

"This is absolutely the dumbest cartoon ever.”—damifino59

“Survey says: you were drawn by a really bad cartoonist.”—Sack of Rabid Weasels

The comments above were later discovered to be ghost-puppeted by another GoComics creator (whose name is known by most of my readers), later outed here:

If you don't know this chickensh!t's identity, write to me, and I'll tell you.  He still has a cartoon on GoComics!

Frog Applause is a bizarre yet enjoyable combination of strange phrases and unexpected art.--GoComics promo

Some readers have been so upset with Frog Applause that they were suspended or banned from the GoComics website because they couldn’t temper their language or their rage. The strip brought 

out the worst in some people, and they just "lost it”. But what about Frog Applause made certain readers lose their shiitake mushrooms?

 

 

Some people were further outraged because instead of inflicting pain and suffering on Teresa with their comments, she embraced their words, spotlighted them on her blog, then offered a comment of her own, often deriding the hater for not trying harder to be original or creatively hateful enough.

Using the comments that mocked her strip, Teresa often incorporated those comments into new Frog Applause 

material, which probably wasn’t the desired result by the person who hoped to crush Teresa’s spirit.

"I was trying to remember when I started reading Frog Applause, and I think it was some time after I started reading Teresa’s (now defunct) blog. She had this post called,"Yes, we feel the love," (I think) and there were these really mean-spirited comments about the comic that she posted. And that was what piqued my curiosity. Could it really be that bad? I had to take a look, even though I didn't normally read comics. And then I looked, and looked, and looked, and laughed my butt off and got a GoComics membership and subscribed. So, in summary: I started following Frog Applause because somebody said it was awful." —Zelmarific

We need more cartoonists who are willing to challenge our sense of aesthetics and our cultural taboos. —Ted Mallory, mal•toons 

"Can anybody describe the comic strip Frog Applause to me? I like it, but I don't know why.” —Unknown

"So wrong, Frog Applause”—Unknown

Teresa Burritt was born in Kansas City, Missouri on National Cartoonist's Day (May 5). Her comic strip Frog Applause has been described as "enticing and welcoming like the womb of a marshmallow mermaid" and has enjoyed a cult following since 2006.--GoComics promo

Teresa Burritt has created a strange little world in Frog Applause where people morph into other people, thoughts run wild, and the fourth wall is often broken. Read early, read often - this is a one-of-a-kind strip.--GoComics promo

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First Lady of Bath Mats

I was recently bestowed this honor. I wear it proudly.

Apolitical use

It has become commonplace in the United States for the title of "First Lady" to be bestowed on women, as a term of endearment, who have proven themselves to be of exceptional talent or unique notoriety in non-political areas. The phrase is often, but not always, used when the person in question is either the wife or "female equivalent" of a well-known man (or men) in a similar field. 

"First Lady of Television" (Lucille Ball), 

"First Lady of Song" (Ella Fitzgerald), 

"First Lady of Country Music" (Tammy Wynette, although Loretta Lynn was also known by the title),

"First Lady of Star Trek" (actor/producer Majel Barrett),

"First Lady of American Soul" (Aretha Franklin), 

"First Lady of the Grand Ole Opry" (Loretta Lynn)

"First Lady of the American Stage" (Helen Hayes)

"First Lady of Bath Mats" (Teresa Burritt)

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(trying to practice self-promotion and confidence-building. You, my dear readers, have helped me feel so much better about myself. I am able to accept that I am okay just the way I am.)

If you are the first lady or first gentleman/first dude of something, let me know in the FA comments, and I will include it here.

Look again.

Let’s Stop Using the Word Lame?

 https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/lets-stop-using-the-word-lame

I feel empowered by self-deprecating humor, which is the context in which I use the word lame.  I don't go around calling anyone anything that I'm not prepared to call myself. The power of words change. I think Laura Wendorff is giving this word a lot more power than it has. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think we can still practice inclusion without treating every word with an objectionable history as off-limits. 

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