Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, in which a prince grouses, over a tipple, about his amatory career, to a nobleman, one of his courtiers:
It seems the prince was once a frog and could rake in the chicks with nothing more than a few commanding ribbits; those were the days of easy scores (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page)
What do women want?, the princel wonders with a whine, recalling that once upon a time a short squat body, moist smooth skin, and long hind legs for leaping used to drive them into an osculatory frenzy. It’s all so damn unfair. (Wayno’s title for the cartoon: “Unhappy Ending”.)
Two notes on the cartoon. First, the shadows; Wayno heightens the realism of his cartoons by drawing in shadows (using simple graphic conventions for the purpose). In today’s cartoon, the way the shadows fall indicates that there are two sources of light in this tavern scene, one behind each of the figures in it. Among other things, that encourages the viewer to see the two characters as equally significant.
Then, the headgear. Both characters are wearing conventional cartoon representations of courtly headgear: a conventional prince’s crown, just a minimal sketch; and a conventional Renaissance courtier’s puffy headgear (a relative of the beret, but with much more attitude), including an insouciant feather. I haven’t found any depictions of actual Renaissance courtly hats that look like this, but they’re the stuff of cartoon noblemen’s dress, so they serve as shorthand indicating their wearer’s social role.
(I suppose I should apologize for committing the portmanteau princel = prince + incel)