JMcAndrew sends this one in: “There’s a new Disney Snow White movie in the theater today and although I haven’t seen it yet I don’t think it’s going to be X-Rated. Also I want to point out that if you look really closely under the banner that says “X-rated” you can see the feet of the dwarves who are apparently participating in an orgy. … I think Ziggy himself is a “little person” so maybe he is just going to see it out of a sense of solidarity.”
A quick nod to April Fools’ Day (not a CIDU)
BVCC sends this in: “Not. One. Clue.”
Random web find, at
https://www.victorianlondon.org/words/aesthetic.htm:
Text on the page:
REFINEMENTS OF MODERN SPEECH.
SCENE – A Drawing-room in “Passionate Brompton.”
Fair Aesthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her in to Dinner). “ARE YOU INTENSE?”
Punch, June 14, 1879
100% CIDU for me. The rest of the site is interesting, including
https://www.victorianlondon.org/index.html and especially
https://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm
From JMcAndrew:
Are we supposed to know who this person is that has a giant memorial outhouse topped with a giant statue? It appears to be more like a mausoleum made out of stone.
Indeed…and no, Tha Goog doesn’t know who Earl J. Suggins was, either.
This editor’s guess is that this falls into the “This is vaguely silly and therefore funny because I have to turn in a cartoon for tomorrow and I got nuttin’ else” category.
Usual John sends this in: “Is Lio batting darts at a dartboard with a badminton racket? If so, why? Is it relevant that his darts skew to the left?”
Not this Grumpy Cat:
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpy_Cat if you don’t know about Grumpy Cat. Instead, today we have this from JMcAndrew:
The question is, did the cat prepare the meal? In any case, why does the cat look so mad about it? And what are “Cat Yummies” anyway? If they’re cat treats, then the cat’s expression seems particularly inappropriate. If it’s just cat food, then who served it to the man and why? Mysteries abound!
Dirk The Daring says,
I dunno, I don’t really get it. The comments imply it’s showing a bad example. But I don’t know any kid that would choose books over riding a bike like Harley does.
Indeed. Even 50+ years on, I’d still choose not to be trapped in a classroom!
… but with what? Carl Fink submitted this Dark Side of the Horse, commenting: “So … planting seeds and clams pop out of the ground. And this is funny? A pun? What?“
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P.S. To me they looked more like gigantic ravioli, but this strip also reminded me of those little joke packets of “Doughnut Seeds” (containing Cheerios or Froot Loops).
Boise Ed submitted the French comic “Imbattable” (literally: “unbeatable”), which was suggested to him by a friend, adding: “My French isn’t totally up to this, but … Pascal Jousselin … does some great work with fourth-wall shattering“. Ed intended this strip as a CIHS, but I was astonished to discover that a translated version of “Mister Invincible” had already appeared at CIDU back in August 2021.
March 20th is French Language Day, which seemed an appropriate occasion for these strips to appear in the original version.
The second example is just the first of ten “unbeatable” pages that appeared in an April 2017 review of the first album collection “Justice et légumes frais” (literally: “Justice and Fresh Vegetables”).
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P.S. Try the link if you want to read the other nine pages in the review.
Comics I Don't Understand 