This Macanudo strip might appear to be misdated to American readers:
… because the school year ended over a month ago. It turns out that the Argentinian school year begins in March, and doesn’t end until December. Nevertheless, the strip is still (slightly) misplaced, because Argentinian students go on their Winter break in July. Henrietta may not be at the beach, but she isn’t in school right now, either.
Rather than repeat the elaborate memorial post for CIDU Bill’s birthday, this year I thought we could let one comic say it all:
We discussed this first Macanudo strip (in both languages) in the “Macanudo Road” post in April:
At the time I thought that Liniers changed the name of the leader because Ringo is still alive (and John isn’t), but a pair of subsequent strips give me the impression that he just likes bashing on drummers:
(Of course, this strip has absolutely nothing to do with the way nor why Best was actually dumped from the Beatles.)
Just like the first strip above, the question here is “Why Ringo?” (Perhaps he is supposed to be the one with the lowest level of awareness-enhancing substances in his system?)
I understand what the chicken is saying, I just don’t understand why it is supposed to be funny:
No entiendo lo que dice la gallina, y todavía no entiendo por qué se supone que es gracioso:
Over a year ago I posted a set of Non-Sequitur comics in which Wiley had repeated the exact same joke (including some lengthy dialog) in three different versions. The following examples from Tom Wilson’s “Ziggy” aren’t nearly as sophisticated, but the identical setups seem to show that the author has either forgotten the own material, or simply doesn’t care (“…just run it again, readers will never remember it…”)
All three of these were created by “Tom II” after his father retired, so it’s not a case of a legacy artist not knowing what the original author wrote: he did these all by himself.
Just three years later, with new artwork, but exactly the same joke, word for word:
Sixteen years after that, a new rendition (and now in color), but it’s still the same gag:
I’m sure that it is difficult (effectively impossible) to remember every single joke over a span of 18.5 years (and over 6800 comics), but insulting Ziggy as “shorty” is something of a running gag (besides these three, I ran into half a dozen other examples), so perhaps reviewing the GoComics archive might have been a good idea. That’s exactly why somebody has been going to all the trouble of making sure that the dialog is included in the GC index.
A lengthy CIDU in six laborious parts.
Last Friday’s discussion about “Cornish Lobster” prompted a comment from beckoningchasm about Kliban’s “Cornish Game Clams“. I never read the book “Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon” and had never heard of this sequence, but I soon discovered that it was hiding in plain sight at GoComics (starting on 11-Feb-2013).
Whether or not this was worth the effort is a question that CIDU readers will have to decide: I don’t understand what is going on in these comics at all (and it may just be random surrealism). Discussion is welcome (YMMV).
I cannot decipher this “Rhymes with Orange” strip at all:
I was clever enough to look up what a “Ted Talk” is supposed to be, but that doesn’t really help much. Did she don the headset before going to bed, or did she manage to put it on while sleeping? Or, perhaps her partner put it on her head, so that she wouldn’t lose the resulting somniloquy?
I was not aware of Eric Scott’s strips, just his panel drawings, so I thought these might make a nice “meta” CIHS post. However, I quickly discovered that “Back in the Day” has already made several appearances at CIDU, so rather than squeeze these in as “comics that I have not seen before“, I decided to re-classify them as a “Comic That You Have Seen Before“. Enjoy.
Why “Mission Impossible”? I’ve never thought that flan was that difficult to make:
P.S. I’m sure that it will taste better, but I still think the Monty Python melody would have been a superior choice.
Although CIDU is no longer actively soliciting “synchronicity” submissions, sometimes exceptions must be made. Both of these editorial comics appeared two weeks ago, on Wednesday, April 24th; by coincidence they just happened to be right next to each other in my daily link list (but that was only because of the alphabetical proximity of the author’s names).
P.S. CIDU Bill was exceedingly strict with his requirements for the “synchronicity” tag. They had to be published on exactly the same day, and it was more than just the appearance of an identical object or concept in each comic: the setup or point of the joke had to be the same.
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