Kedamono sends this in: “My main IDU about this one is that that last panel. It sounds like she’s quoting from a novel… but which one?”
Novel Ideas
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Balloons
Darren sends this in: “Just don’t get it. Are those giant alligators and it’s a Godzilla sort of reference (but the bricks look normal). Or are they regular alligators and the balloons have some sort of tiny people in them? I feel like it’s supposed to be a “reverse”, but I’m not aware of toy balloons with alligators being common.”
Still Life
Boise Ed sends this in: “A painter is painting a still life. It looks a lot like his “model” setup. So what?”
Selfies
Bobo sends this in:
Thirty Years Ago in The New Yorker
Scammers coming door to door – how quaint! How many scams are in your spam e-mail folder at this very minute?
Prescient!
A CIDU for me.
How not to ace your job interview at Nestle, Danone, Reckitt, Abbott, HiPP, or Kraft Heinz.
Another CIDU for me
What a Setup
I don’t understand the setup here. Some guesses:
- This is a couple meeting with a financial advisor, and they’ve just described their expectations for their investments. But why the guy with the laptop on the right?
- This is a divorcing couple meeting with a mediator, or the woman in pink is getting divorced, the guy in the suit is her lawyer, the woman in red is the opposing lawyer, and the man with the laptop is taking notes.
- Commenters on GoComics seem to think this is an annual performance review. But the only performance reviews I ever gave or had that involved more than just supervisor and employee were when we needed HR in the room and security nearby because we were firing someone and they needed to leave immediately. And that wouldn’t involve expectations.
IP
Marrose sends this in: “If there is a punchline, I don’t get it.”
A Game of Chicken?
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?
Too Funny?
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”.”
Ewws (you’ve been warned)
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:
