Category / Bill Bickel

by CIDU Bill

DeathMatch! Update (With bonus CIDU)

Didn’t take long to get started: Saturday, Nathan sent me this Mr. Lovenstein strip (which seems to be designed to make copying the comic impossible; if this becomes a trend, we might be out of business).

So Death drew first blood.

And then Sunday:

death-zits

Clown Cars would have been on the board if we saw through the window a tiny parked car:

clowns mark

And maybe we should have let Pinocchio compete:

pinocchio rhymes

pinocchio mgg

And okay, while we’re here, let’s hit the second one, the Mother Goose and Grimm, with a CIDU tag. Yes, Jonah and Pinocchio both ended up inside whales (though Jonah a few thousand years earlier, but whatever), but why is Jonah holding a sheet of paper (?) and why is Pinocchio disassembled? Is the whale actually an Ikea popup?

Anyway, after the first weekend, it’s Death 2, Russian Clown Gesundheit 0.

(If you have no idea what I’m talking about, click here)

by CIDU Bill

DeathMatch 2020!

The game is on: Between today and the end of the year, will “Death” comics outnumber “Russian nesting doll,” “Gesundheit!” and “clown cars” combined?

Please send me all the Deaths, Russian nesting dolls, gesundheits and clown cars you find. If they’re also CIDUs, LOLs or whatever, all the better — but even if they don’t fall into any special category, please send them anyway, since we’re conducting a super-scientific study here.

This might turn out to be quite a terrible idea. Probably will, in fact. And I’m not really sure how I’m going to display the running results. But let’s see how it goes.

I guess we might as well use the normal cidu emailaddress. Please use Death, Russian nesting dolls, gesundheit or clown cars in the subject line, and make a notation if you’re also submitting it for a CIDU or other tag.

Of course, I might add the LOL to a lot of the Russian nesting doll and clown car comics, because I always seem to find those funny. I’m easy that way.

A final note: Mythtickle comics are excluded, since Death is a regular character there.

by CIDU Bill

Mister Miller [OT]

tip

This brings back memories of Mister Miller who, in 1967 would tip me a dime for delivering coffee to his office (my father owned a Chock Full o’ Nuts restaurant), and place it in my palm just like this, as if he were Rockefeller rewarding me with a small fortune. He didn’t say “Don’t spend it all in one place,” but he might as well have.

Even in 1967 this was a pitiful tip, and carrying a bag full of coffee cups three blocks certainly took more than a minute.

Fifty-three years later I still remember you, you cheap SOB.

by CIDU Bill

Barney and Cidu

barney and Cidu

Six people have sent this to me so far, which I’m pretty sure is a record. So…

  1. The consensus seems to be it’s a reference to CIDU. Is it?
  2. If so, is it pro or con?
  3. If pro, thanks.
  4. If con, I think the Weingartens are missing the point, since collectively this is one of the least-clueless groups I’ve seen online.
  5. (If con, did somebody here say something unkind about this strip three weeks ago?)
  6. Even if con, it’s cool.
  7. No #7 really: it’s just that six bullet points might give the impression these were responses to the six people who sent me the comic.