Each year, Caufield dresses up as some character from literature, as padraig reminded us. Guessing the book doesn’t seem too hard, if you are a reader of a certain genre, but which character do you think he’ll be? The correct answer will be in the comic section soon!
Diacritical impatience?
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Yes, just as you suppose, this did appear on Talk Like A Pirate Day.
And more off the mark…
And a date-topical OY:
These are just whatever was at least pretty good, was dated today, and was in some way about the Labor Day holiday or tradition. … A quick survey of which cartoons were willing to be about the holiday and which preferred to go on their own way.
One difference is in the balance or proportions between the “Hey, it’s a holiday! Stores should have sales! Let’s go have a picnic!” aspect, and the comparatively somber commemorative and remembrance aspect — the “memorial” part.
From maggiethecartoonist we have this Real Life Adventures, which takes a focus on the holiday picnic (or rather, barbecue) aspect.
On the Remembrance side of things, another regular reader suggests this one:
… and provides a reminder that it has previously been the subject of a CIDU post and discussion.
Joe Heller seems drawn to combining the two aspects in one editorial-type cartoon:
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.
A general note of remembrance for the holiday of green beer and green Chicago River.
The first two are holdovers from last week, when we had other things a-posting and didn’t remark Saint Padraic’s Day on CIDU main feed. A few helpful readers posted St Patrick’s Day jokes to the thread for that day, thank you for renewing the principle of thread drift!
This one was sent in by BillR, looking for what the gag is. It provoked a good discussion behind the scenes of CIDU, where we soon enough agreed on the intended gag but remained divided on whether some terminology was being misapplied!
(For the tag-watchers [or actually, category], yes this post is marked both CIDU and not-a-CIDU. Those just apply to different cartoons, that’s all.)
Beware the Ides of March! We all know that phrase, but it seems odd that it has crept into the language, since we know few other facts about Roman history. The meaning of “Ides” is a bit confusing to us in the modern world, as these comics show.
Interestingly, the Ides of March were notable in Rome as a deadline for settling debts.
Yes, all you well-rounded CIDU fans, it’s March 14, 3/14 in the Month-Day way of rendering dates, also known as Pi Day by all those wonderful people who love math (and who doesn’t?)
Perhaps Jason should be wearing a shirt like this:
Not everybody has the right idea about romance.
Even a mechanical heart can be stirred by love:
This was published on GoComics as the 19 December 2022 comic. Now, where’s that calculator that can tell me how many days between that date and today?
I don’t entirely understand, why is this strip treating the “valentines for everyone” as a recent school practice. Geezers will recognize it from, gosh, the 1950s…
Okay, it’s Resolutions…
“This year we’ll turn it around” counts as a resolution in my book!
Maybe IDU that one?
Nancy: still looking for loopholes after all these years (and cartoonists!)
Comics I Don't Understand 