by zbicyclist

Nana!

Mitch4 sends this in as a momentary CIDU: “Does his exclamation of “Nana! Nana! Nana! …” convey anything besides greeting his grandmother? Maybe. Somehow the musical theme from the 1960s TV series of Batman has developed a conventionalized way of humming/singing it, and of writing that, using the syllables “Nanananana..””

This is definitely not what’s being alluded to by Coverly, but this reminds me of a baseball chant. Here’s longtime White Sox organist Nancy Faust with “Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Good-bye”, sung by the stadium crowd to taunt an opposing pitcher as they are being yanked from the game.

And the original:

by zbicyclist

Egging Them On

Yes, we don’t really do synchronicities any more, but these two were right next to each other in my GoComics feed.

It’s also interesting because the Wizard of Id comic seems outdated: eggs are one of the few items that have come down in price since early 2025, since the flocks that were decimated by bird flu have recovered. A Google image search doesn’t return any earlier version, so I don’t think it’s a rerun.

Above graph is from U.S. Egg Prices (1980-2026)

by zbicyclist

Remembering P. C. Vey

P. C. Vey died recently. The biography on his website notes ” He sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1993 and has been a regular contributor since. His work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Barron’s, National Lampoon, Playboy, AARP Bulletin, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.”

But he also did quite a bit of work for Mad Magazine (list here). A curious omission. I am reminded of the ex-priests from my seminary days, some of whose obituaries fail to mention their decades as Catholic priests, an omission that seem clearly intentional from the other information included in their obituary. But Mad is certainly better known for fine comic humor than, say, Barron’s, and, in my opinion, nothing to ignore. But perhaps there’s more to this omission than I know.

This one would certainly have fit into Barron’s:

Tom Toro and Asher Perlman, fellow New Yorker cartoonists, posted some favorites as a tribute:

This one’s in the current issue of The New Yorker:

by phsiii

A week joke at best

Jack Applin writes:

“When Labor Day falls at the end of the first week”? Where does Frazz take place? In the United States and Canada, Labor Day is the first Monday in September, which isn’t at the end of a week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day_(Canada)

I’m guessing that what Mallett means is “When Labor Day is on the 6th or 7th of September”, i.e., near the end of the first week of September. But I still don’t get the joke even if that’s the intent.

by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs September 26, 2026

Bob Ball says this one “appears to lack gravitas”.

Mouseover text: “It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but all that comes out of the facilities budget.”

Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, they don’t even try to handle the “intolerance” part, but even so it was a pretty clever pun.”

Mitch4 sends this in: “Because of whose picture is on which denomination.”

B.C. sometimes has Christian themes, and this one is NOT non-denominational, but we’re posting it anyway.

And while we’re on the subject of George Washington:

by zbicyclist

Aslant

Jack Applin sends this in: “Aslant? In what way is Edda aslant? (aslant: in a slanting direction : obliquely) She is absolutely upright. This being 9 Chickweed Lane, the answer involves sex. Panels 5 and 6 focus on her middle region, as does his eyeline. She hasn’t cocked her hip. Are her lady parts somehow aslant, and revealed by her short dress? Also–her mother?”

by zbicyclist

Dino

Targuman sends this in: “I’ve got nothing. I can’t understand it as a pun, visually it doesn’t make sense, it’s a dinosaur, but it’s breathing fire like a dragon? Anyone? Or is this just a humorous drawing that he put a title on?”

CIDU eschews politics and religion, but I’m not sure this is really religion. If the explanation offends someone’s religious beliefs, your editor apologizes. If there’s a follow-up of Mohammed as a dinosaur, for sure we’re not posting that!

Even for Lug Nuts, which tends to the surreal, this one is odd. Any guesses?

Another Lug Nuts example: it depends more on unusual images, and isn’t a typical gag strip: