“Ever notice how when you enter a large grocery store,
Common items like bread & milk are right at the back,
And the journey there is Labyrinthine?
The layout is designed to confuse you,
So you become lost,
And end up impulse-buying items you don’t need.”
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 8, 2022
“Sorry. He helped me get out of a maze”
Repayment#comics #bizarro #animals #CatsOfTwitter #cats #Mouse #Minotaur #mythology pic.twitter.com/IRYLklzcUy
— Wayno® (@Waynocartoons) July 23, 2022
"It's only a minotaur setback" #cartoon #CrapGagMonday! pic.twitter.com/LYu554UGPQ
— deAn cartoons (@ThisInkyLife) June 14, 2021
Imagine if your dad was a Minotaur and your mom was a Mermaid and you got the human half of both and now you’re just some guy
— Alenora (@spunkyturnip) June 28, 2020
Or this could be the result pic.twitter.com/7nkw6Uoj5w
— Joe Walsh (@joe_walsh71) June 8, 2022
“If you haven’t thought these things, you’ve probably overheard them!”
In the lab . . .
Dr. Minotaur, PhD.https://t.co/Y82PaMDKxw pic.twitter.com/Ljx0gsGBC0
— Crustacean Singles (@CrustaceanSngls) 1 June 2018
“When I was a kid (4th or 5th grade), I loved drawing mazes.
I took a small notebook of them to school and a classmate offered to pay me a nickel for one.
He showed his friend, who also wanted one.
I got another nickel.
Word spread, orders flowed, and my pencil scribbled more mazes.
To expand the business, I teamed up with a girl who advertised and took orders at recess while I drew more.
We learned that we could charge a quarter if I drew them on larger paper.
We hired another student to draw more mazes at the same time as me so my backpack wouldn’t run out of stock.
During school lessons, I would peek inside my desk and admire the stack of nickels and quarters that was growing next to my erasers.
Then our teacher overheard us discussing our business strategy on the way back from recess one day and he shut us down.
Potential multi-million-dollar maze factory, dead.
He told us that school was not for selling things.
Then he handed us an order form for the yearly bologna, cheese, and popcorn fundraiser and told us to take our seats.
(True story, but with a slightly heightened ending.)”
There is a simplexity to this drawing by Katie Brookoff.
Numerous Classic Labyrinths have been found along the shores of many islands, continents, seas and rivers.
At High Tide, the fish came in and may have swam up and into the Labyrinth.
As Low Tide gradually approached, any number of fish may have remained submerged in the inclined pockets of water within the lanes of the Labyrinth, yet without any direct watery way of escape.
People presumably returned at Low Tide, picked up their catch, went home and ate well that day.
There is a reasonable assumption that for thousands of years, these simple three and seven lane Classic Stone Labyrinths, created upon inclined slopes to the water, employing knowledge of tidal timings, were Humanity’s original sustainable fish farms.
I tend to agree with this hypothesis.
To illustrate this concept, here is a simple three lane classic Labyrinth that I made last week, upon the naturescaped Habitat Island in Vancouver’s False Creek, just opposite the location of where I recently completed the Vancouver Public Labyrinth.
Evidenced by the darker wet and lighter coloured dry stones in these images…
Tides in False Creek may rise and fall as much as 15 feet in one day!
Now, all we need is for False Creek to be clean enough again.
Who knows?
Maybe then we might catch a Minnowtaur or two!
A mooseotaur?
These canadian labyrinths suck pic.twitter.com/PNXrf0l6AA
— 🐩 Royal Poodle 🐩 (@royal_poodle) August 7, 2017
It would behoof him to find the exit. First one out wins some timmies and poutine!
— Powerpuff the Lavender poodle🐩 (@DeerWithStripes) August 7, 2017
The Toronto Comics Anthology this year includes the story “The Honest Minotaur” by Steven Andrews (@cardboardshark) and Ally Rom Colthoff (@varethane).
They are currently raising funds via Kickstarter, and it’s also where you can order your own copy.
Books will be available at TCAF – Toronto Comics Arts Festival – in May.
Found this Cartoon in The New Yorker.
[in the labyrinth]
Minotaur: You Shall NOT Pass
Me: Wow?! More like the MEAN-otaur!
Minotaur: Oh dear. Is that how I come across?
— Jeffw (@Jeffwni) August 29, 2015
Labyrinth, is a one page Oglaf story.
It features the king from A Very Deep Chasm and his advisor.
Synopsis
The king receives a tribute of a large cheese, and his advisor suggests housing it in a Labyrinth.
The king asks about the advisor’s obsession with labyrinths, to which the advisor replies, “Labyrinths are awesome!”.
A doctor arrives and informs the king that the queen has given birth to a monster, to the king’s horror and the advisor’s delight.