Mitch4 sends this in: “Is the point just “women are slower to get annoyed than men”? Even if it’s “this man” and “this woman” it doesn’t seem to me to turn into a viable joke. “Women are deeper sleepers than men”? Still no help.”
Similarly?
Mitch4 sends this in: “Two and a half hypotheses:
1) The intended cartoon was indeed pulled by the editors, for being in one or another aspect beyond the limits of acceptable — political or personally impolite etc.
[1.5 Exactly as reported, it was pulled for being “too humorous” — nah, very unlikely, but maybe this was literally what was stated to him though intended to convey #1.]
2) Nothing of the sort happened, and this is just a variation on “the cartoonist took a day off from drawing”.”
Chemgal sends this in:
Kedamono sends in this questionable sculptural decision — which, luckily, the Egyptians did not make.
Mark Parisi posted: “It had to be done. (On my Patreon page I drew the view from the other side. I then sent that to my editor asking if it was too much to be published in daily newspapers. He suggested it could be newspaper-friendly if it was shown from the other side. Smart.)”
Actual back of the Sphinx:
Kedamono sends in this one: “I can’t decide if this one is a LOL or an OY. Still, there is something graceful in synchronized garbage tossing.”
Not really that much of an Ewww, but seemed close enough to one to put it here.
And another from Mark Parisi:
pandamonium sends this in: “”Pomme” doesn’t rhyme with “cake.” Past that, I’m at a loss.”
Kedamo sends this in: “Fear of heights? Large furniture? Having Neil deGrasse Tyson as your psychologist? I don’t get it.”
Stan also sent this in: “…as in “Psych! The couch is too big for you!” or “psycHIatry… the couch is to high”? I’m reaching here. I haven’t a clue.”
This is Frank and Ernest, which is very often a pun, but I can’t find one here, either.
A related theme, but not a CIDU:
Mitch4 sends this in: “Nice job, the pun is two words onto one.”
The cage bottom is lined with the newspaper.
This appeared on Easter, April 5. I’m puzzled.
Carl Fink sends this in: “I’ve never read Notes from the Underground, but this SMBC is a complete mystery to me. Dad is underground? 18 hours of reading books aloud comforts a dying man? What is going on?”
Mouseover text: “Suddenly regretting that I didn’t just draw a word for word graphic novel of the entire book twice.”
Bonus panel:
Dan Sachs sends in this news item: “None of the existing categories; thought the news was of interest.”
A reminder that the life of a cartoonist is not just peaches and cream.
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