Some retro Off The Mark, just for fun
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Here’s a chance
CIDU: Here’s a chance for some early-riser readers to explain for others the allusions to a certain (probably false!) famous Hemingway anecdote.
LOL: But also, all can just enjoy these (somewhat sour!) joke mini-strips.
Yeah, yes
Seen on social media, with the speculation that this probably came from gunshowcomic.com, a static archive site for k c green’s old work. Other sites with their work are given in the tags. Their current panel feature called “God’s Hands” runs on Comics Kingdom as well as webtoons.com.
The ghost of club books unread
This Crankshaft is from Usual John:
And he asks “Who is the creepy-looking old lady to the right? She just continues to stand wordlessly in the background over the next few days, as the book club fails to read Ulysses.”
As an incidental artistic problem, I wonder what the artist had in mind (or had as a model) in drawing the book and its cover. I can’t match it to any edition of Ulysses I can find discussed online. And that man pictured can’t plausibly be identified as Joyce, nor as either of the leading male characters, Bloom and Stephen.
Squeeze play
The scenario of the elevator call buttons is a familiar trope for Horace :
But other intrepid cartoonists may find their way there too:
Drs. Woof and Yogi
Is it about dogs against cats? About a therapist inviting a guest observer? A slam on yoga practitioners?
Delicious, really?
Thanks to Darren, who says ‘Okay, I get the apple/forbidden fruit appearing in a grocery store. But is the spelling on the sign significant or a typo? Something to do with “eden” somehow?’.
Yes, trying for a full anagram is tempting!
(Note however that artist Eric Scott has a comment on GoComics suggesting it is just typo. But could he be still joking at another level?)
It’s just the drawing that’s hard to parse
I can’t make out what the guy sees, or thinks he sees, in the sky. And thus, whether the racing challenge is directed to that celestial figure or to the child. Is it about reaching shelter before storm conditions catch up with them? Or less on-the-nose?
Maybe patience and the color version will help…
OK, we’ve heard of the Purple Mountains’ majesty…. But I guess the adult is addressing the child, and the joke is in either the non-specificity of the race goal, or in the implausible distance for them to cover?
Gonna rock around the clock tonight
And the joke is that…. well, objects on very different scales, named by nouns, can be modified by the very same possessive… Halley can by name take ownership or identification of objects as different as a worldwide visible comet and an ordinary domestic breakfast… Are we getting warm?
The proverbial inevitables
I guess this makes sense if you edit the third panel – something like “We haven’t been withholding enough tax”.
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