#22 - La cosa nei Fumetti

                                     Teapot in comics

Teapots have also illustrated the covers of a wide number of comics and  continue nowadays to be an extremely common and funny topic for cartoons and comics. In the two covers the kettle and the teapot are respectively the protagonists of ''Kettle'' and ''Micky Maus'' .

In Bobthedalek, the teapot is the main idea of the discussion as the  pony asks about teapots.

In Ferretes and lemmings, the protagonist is pouring imaginary tea everywhere and the teapot got angry at such situation.

In Asra comics, the boy tried  to play some magic with the teapot  and this turned into a disaster  before the intervention of his father.

In Pickles, even if the teapot is not physically present, the grandson said that his song was''I'm little teapot'', the well-known children's rhyme

In The white Ninja, there is a kind of analogy between the ordinary teapot and the magic lamp of Aladdin.

link1:The cover 1

link2:The cover 2
link3:Bobthedalek comics
link4:Ferrets vs Lemmings
link5:Asra and teapot picture
link6:Pickles 
link7:The white Ninja and the teapot

#23 - La cosa nella Letteratura

                            The shadow of a  Spout

The Author: Amanda Cooper

Edition: Penguin, 2015

Number of pages: 304 

''Rose Fremont should have been listening to the speech, but instead she was examining her treasure. It was homely thing, the metal teapot, battered and beaten like a raggedy man who has been buffeted about by the elements and fallen on hand times. But like that raggedy man, it had a paste, a purpose and meaning. She turned it over and over in her hands, examining the patina, caressing the dent on its round belly and hugging it to her. There was something about the size of it and the intricacy of the decoration that hinted at a noble history.'' Passage taken from Chapter 1.

''I bought it from an antiques dealer in Ithica. He thought it was chinese, but my granddaughter doesn't believe it was not a teapot at all,but a Buddhist holy water vessel''.

 Rose had decided that she would have a teapot ''expert'' evaluate it but now she thought she might not know anything more when Zunia was done than she had begun.

''One thing I do know is, it is old-silver or copper, we think.''

Zunia turned it over and over squinted over at Rose, then picked up her jewelers  loupe, examining the bottom closely. She then made a noise between the teeth.''Hah! Not an antique at all. The hallmarks are fake even the patina is fake. It is a cheap repro made in Hong Kong''. Passage taken from chapter 1

Link1:The book