The holidays are done, but the cartoons are not all done with Xmas and NYear LOLs!
LOL-Ewww did you say?
Does Eric Scott’s drawing style sometimes seem to have a Thurber feel?
This Santino is an almost-CIDU: commenters on his page talk about getting it only after pausing and looking at it another way, or filling in their literary knowledge.
Once upon a time (it was December, actually) Sandra sent this in, and noted it could be a LOL-semi-CIDU as it’s not first-glance obvious what’s going on.
Actually, the editors’ feeling of confidence in one explanation faded upon discussion. Is this cat-behavior being actively performed by an animated cat-statue? Or is it a static statue of characteristic cat-behavior?
Either way, it’s the sort of thing cat people regard with loving exasperation. The great filmmaker Agnès Varda felt like putting her cat on a monument, and did so in her short Le Lion Volatil (actuality on left, modification on right):
And as Aaron notes when sending this next one in, Falco really wants to say something about this gap-week.
Comics I Don't Understand 
What I didn’t at first get in the Santino is that the child doing the show-and-tell is named “Scheherazade”. I thought it was her topic for an essay (if that can be a kind of show-and-tell).
Either way, the joke is that she is employing her namesake Scheherazade’s strategy from the framing-story of the “Arabian Nights” or “Thousand and one Nights” — tell a fascinating story and by piquing the listener’s interest postpone the terrible fate that seemed to be awaiting you.
I don’t know if either interpretation of having the name/title up on the board avoids being too much on-the-nose. But would there be any other way to tie it to that story?
Nick Galifianakis’ bar patron appears to have either an amputated right hand, or has stuck his hand into a hole in the bar for some reason.
I would imagine King Kong’s meat would be pretty tough.
…or radioactive.
Sometimes I wonder what factors cartoonists consider when choosing a city to mention by name in a strip:
They must be expecting to get at least some letters from incensed and/or delighted readers.
@Carl Fink, it’s just flat on the bar. Add perspective to a rather large forearm, and also consider maybe he’s bent his hand inward.
Watterson was from Chagrin Falls, a suburb of Cleveland. Thus probably a Browns fan, and the Pittsburgh Steelers have been a long-time rival.
Those are Canada Geese. They may be Canadian (hatched in Canada) but there’s no way to tell that by looking at them.
joel hanes: Sure there is. The ones that were hatched in Canada say “Honk, eh?”
(I grew up there, I can say this!)
But no real Canadian would put such a patriotic bumper sticker on their car. As Malcolm Gladwell wrote (I think this is a direct quote), “Canadians are proud of nothing, except, perhaps, that they are not American.”
Apparently the copyright bots at YouTube hadn’t gotten the memo that the Disney short was now fair game.
One should also keep in mind that Disney will still be enforcing their trademarks relating to the famous rodent.
I think it’s kind of ironic that there’ll be demand for the character, but the elements that form the Mickey Mouse we know and love aren’t available yet, and may not be for many years.
Honk if I’m not driving within the lines. (Honking maintains the integrity of the flock).