Month / June 2021
SATURDAY Funnies – LOLs, June 19th, 2021
A nice little twist on a familiar cat-behavior-pattern trope! Suggested by Andréa.
(From Scott Metzger’s paywalled Patreon gallery, used by kind permission. There is also loads of free material at his home page, https://www.metzgercartoons.com/ .)
Poll: your favorite Trudeau
Speaking of Garry Trudeau, Phil Smith III sent in the following recent Doonesbury and reports that the commenting crew at Go Comics didn’t get far with this. Your Editors, meanwhile, confess to not having recently followed Doonesbury closely enough to even know what it would be to get somewhere with an explanation of this episode. But Phil will be on hand to help propel the comments here. Apparently the crux is just what they said or did to lead Mel to face-plant like that.
“Scare Quotes”
From dollarbill.
Garbage monster
Was the garbage supposed to be there in panel 6, when she says “looks nice”? Or are we supposed to assume that it’s moving forward? Is it alive?
“You cannot turn off autoplay”
A synchronicity of LOLs from Boise Ed:
(However, I think the “Previously on” does not count as part of the Intro that gets skipped if you so elect.)
“Could you scoot over and make some room?”
Probably a bit too technical (though not hard to look up). But the point of interest is in how it uses the tools of “photographic meme” but in a drawing. Would the same joke (about “getting cancelled”) work in a direct cartoon format?
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, June 13th, 2021
Andertoons is a bastion of b/w/grey, small jokes, big funny! A couple of this week’s episodes:
Saturday Morning Oys – June 12th, 2021
Bizarro provides an excellent new word! Via Andréa:
Also via Andréa:
From Andréa, here is a matched pair of geezer-warning Oys!
Was that a good word-play or more simply a LOL?
A dog by any other name. . .
From Stan, who says “Maybe it’s that he’s a ‘fire dog’ now (is that what they’re called?), but he’s still a dog, right? It’d be like someone saying, ‘I used to be human, but I’m a dentist now.'”
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