Itchy Feet: the Travel and Language Comic: 2023

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Endless Circle

The linguistic equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Waning Discipline

You know you've had a good trip when everything comes back in a big lumpy ball.

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Scheduled Maintenance

Luckily my family is scattered across the globe, so at least I still get to stand in line at airports a lot.

Friday, September 22, 2023

Cryptic Sequence (REMASTER)

This explains why the French are so good at basic arithmetic.

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Goodo Hellbye

There's nothing funny about mildly interesting language facts.

Friday, September 15, 2023

Go Big (REMASTER)

In a way, I appreciate it because it reminds me how truly insignificant we all are when compared to the Ford F-250

Sunday, September 10, 2023

Falso Cognado

Goodbye, I love you, won't you tell me your name?

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Suspiciously Easy (REMASTER)

I'm a big proponent of the lab leak theory of Esperanto.

Sunday, September 3, 2023

Potent Malaise

At this rate, Finland will be single-handedly powering the globe soon enough.

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Look Out (REMASTER)

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times: all travel experiences should be quantified mathematically.

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Actual Location

I'm not where you think I am. Or what you think I am.

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Laughing Matter (REMASTER)

I thought of this one on the plane. It made me laugh.

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Cold Opportunism

Always vet your interpreter.

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Palm Grease (REMASTER)

The 'fast track' lane has always existed, everywhere in the world. They just don't always advertise it.

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Speed Bumps

Hurry up and wait.

Friday, August 11, 2023

Discouraging Skedaddle (REMASTER)

Hey, if you pay for an authentic experience, you better get an authentic experience

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Advantage Point

It's all in your head. Also, it's all in the specific sole density and arch buoyancy rating of your $200 boots.

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Ample Prefix (REMASTER)

DUN DUN DUUUUNNNNN!! *cue Bond music*

Sunday, July 30, 2023

En Route

To be fair, I didn't ask it to take us the LEGAL way.

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Deceptively Lovely

I love when Italians call me 'trash.' It sounds so romantic ❤️

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Toxic Advice

With pedantic travel companions like these, who needs enemies?

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Startling Sounds (REMASTER)

GAAAAHH around the world

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Persistent Symptom

Don't mind me, I'm just yelling at my brain in public like a normal person

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Convenient Difference (REMASTER)

A perfect 12-hour arc is a beautiful thing.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

Flat Earth

$Of course by 'everywhere' and 'everyone' I mean the small fraction of places and people I personally have encountered. It's very scientific.$

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Challenging Instrument (REMASTER)

You want your food to be forever impossibly out of reach? South Korea's got you covered!

Sunday, July 2, 2023

Artificial Unintelligence

I spend hours feverishly trying to train it to take my job, and THIS is what it comes up with?! Outrageous.

Friday, June 30, 2023

Unhappy Omen (REMASTER)

Germany runs on theater superstition rules; good luck is bad luck.

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Security Theater

It's the role of a lifetime - this show's been on the air for decades, all over the world!

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Stranger Nonfiction (REMASTER)

They must be making up at least half of it.

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Streets Smart

Well obviously you don't NEED addresses if you already know where everything is.

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Phocine Vulgarity (REMASTER)

Get the phoque outta here with that language, it's t-otarie uncalled for!

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Moving On

If I didn't need it, it wouldn't be sitting in a box on the top shelf gathering dust, now would it??

Friday, June 9, 2023

Diminishing Returns (REMASTER)

But I can tell you ALL about my Bürgeramtsbezeugnisterminvereinbarung!

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Competitive Orthography

It really is eudaemonic to the albumen, how insouciant a smaragdine autochthonous foulard can pullulate.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Edible Deep Clean (REMASTER)

And tzatziki is the Greek dish soap!

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Major Landmark

In Iceland, there are two sizes of urban settlements: an old shed full of fishing gear, and Reykjavík.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Good God (REMASTER)

Played them with their own fiddles, I did!

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Demonym Jumble

You're thinking of MINKS. Gys y Jouyll Ilhiat!

Friday, May 19, 2023

Overly Unique (REMASTER)

Ah yes, Fagurhólsmýri! Land of the elves, woodland spirit creatures of magic and mystery, and that one gas station that sells $20 hot dogs.

Sunday, May 14, 2023

Easi Peasi

Did you know? Every language is just English with a different vowel at the end.

Friday, May 12, 2023

Dumbed Down (REMASTER)

Hey so, apparently Imgur, the image hosting service I use here, decided to purge its archive of images, and even though I have an account with them, I guess my images didn't qualify? So now the Itchy Feet website looks like an image graveyard. I think I have to manually go through and replace every image on here. Luckily my full comics are on Tinyview, but still.... *sigh*

If you're an email subscriber, you won't notice anything, carry on :)

Your pal

Mal

Sunday, May 7, 2023

Recency Bias

Let me tell you ALL about the minor inconveniences I suffered!

Friday, May 5, 2023

Le Côrrect Englàis (REMASTER)

Hey y'all, I can British as dang good as the next feller.

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Reserve Judgment

There are two types of people I can't stand: anyone who is intolerant of others, and southerners.

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Transport Chilled (REMASTER)

If I knew I was going to be sitting in a refrigerator for seven hours before arriving at my destination, I might have done things differently

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Drive Time

One person's quick jaunt is another's harrowing expedition.

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Listen Carefully (REMASTER)

Originally German, Yoda must have been.

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Swearing Curse

It's #$%*ing tricky to swear properly in a foreign language!

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Half O'Clock (REMASTER)

Is the hour half full, or half empty?