It’s May 2, the average day of the last frost here in lovely northern Illinois.
Pools and beaches aren’t open yet, but JMcAndrew sends in some Hi and Lois swimsuit comics to get us in the mood: “Here are several Hi and Lois comics about swimsuits, some of which are just very bizarre. It’s apparently been a theme since the very early days of the comic.”
Is this missing the last panel, or am I missing the joke?
UPDATE: Checking the Comics Kingdom site this morning, I see that order has been restored (and that last panel). This comic is from May 5: CK now allows you to look forward in time (a week; May 8 is up now).
We’ve de-emphasized synchronicities, but Dirk the Daring sends this one in that’s too odd not to post.
These are the same joke showing up as vintage Comics Kingdom on the same day, but the original Barney Google and Snuffy Smith is from November 15, 1938, and the original Beetle Bailey is from October 9, 1956, leading Dirk to note “Given the coincidence, it makes me wonder just how often this joke has been used in the last 100 years.”
Previous day is no help here; there’s nothing set up there about canoeing (or canoodling). Obviously there’s the repetition of “can”, but anything else?
But while the previous day was no help, the next day clarifies that, much to my surprise, this is about canoeing.
A few New Yorker cartoons from just after the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970.
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Want to hug more trees? Mark Parisi has several recent Off-the-Mark Arbor Day comics here: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1275651730585573&set=pcb.1275610267256386
Boise Ed sends this in: “LOL doesn’t quite do it, but I don’t see a “Simply wow!” category. This one nearly makes me want to pay for a print.”
A video to Weill away the time.
Mitch4 sends this in:
“On April 26, 1954, [70+1 years, -1 day ago] six-year-old Randy Kerr was injected with the Salk vaccine at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. By the end of June, an unprecedented 1.8 million people, including hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, joined him in becoming “polio pioneers.” For the first time, researchers used the double-blind method, now standard, in which neither the patient nor person administering the inoculation knew if it was a vaccine or placebo. Although no one was certain that the vaccine was perfectly safe—in fact, Sabin argued it would cause more cases of polio than it would prevent—there was no shortage of volunteers.”
JMcAndrew sends in some oldies from Frank and Ernest: “Why would this be a horror movie for a dog?”
Ben was evidently quite the ladies’ man in Paris.
Clearly an “OY”:
Mark H. sends this in: “OK, I get that Lolly is sneaking a peek at Polly with her ancient boyfriend / lover, and that Polly catches her at it. But is the last frame Lolly raising her hand for a turn? What happened to her engagement to Alistair?
Or is she vicariously joining in on the action?
This whole May (March?) / December thing seems to be one of McEldowney’s fixations. Kind of like Woody Allen…”
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