Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 12th, 2024

For Mothers Day, a bit of both-parental sentiment from Bliss:


Probably obvious, but for the record, it is Susan (the character shown) herself who is trying to give up caffeine.




The Hax advice column this accompanies is here.


TBH, I don’t entirely understand this. I mean, I understand the heartwarming message about group loyalty and generosity — but not whether there was actually supposed to be anything funny.

Wait, could this be heading for an idiom-origins story about “bought the farm”? No? Nah!


M is for the Many

With considerable forethought, Chemgal sent this in when it appeared, last July!

There is a motherlode of Mothers Day cartoons from Foxtrot collected at their website, of which we will sample just a couple.

This first one was featured by Bill on CIDU in 2018:

This “Breakfast in Bedlam” strip seems to be from 2001:


MD gifts funded by allowance, a theme for Fox Trot, also features here in Calvin, 1989:



This resurfaced in this Saturday’s Counterpoint mailing, not where I’m used to seeing B&C.