And some MORE retro Duffy, just for fun or frustration

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A last few in color again

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And while this post was languishing in Draft queue, there were still good new duffies getting published. This one, for instance, which found its way into one of our weekly OY collections:

.. and prompted this intro: OY by virtue of ambiguous parsing of [[comic strip] bar] versus [comic [strip bar]]. But y’know, as Will Rogers is never quite quoted as saying, I never meta man I didn’t like. And also a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a metaphor?

Or similar for this :

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 8th, 2023


But do we care about it?




The logic clicks for me



A group that my project was coordinating with had moved offices, and the first time I visited there on business the admin assistant was showing me around, and pointed out the pretty nice view thru the ground-level glass doors onto the large grassy area between their building and the complex of the Court Theatre and Smart Museum. “This is our great view!” she said. When I agreed that it was, well, quite okay, she told me to walk by the nearest area of lawn on my way out. I did, and then saw the large air grate embedded in the lawn right outside that office, and in fact blowing exhaust at the moment. So I had to admit, they had a grate view! [==mitch]


Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 1st, 2023



A nice LOL-Ewww:


And then a nice LOL-Awwww:


And who doesn’t enjoy a good Alexa-Siri joke?




And an Ouch-LOL:

He meant to order an inflatable doll, but received an inflatable bed of nails.

P.S. A couple days later, this character and that prop re-appear; but decidedly not funny :-( .

BTW, Gocomics gives this feature filenames that look like loesp230927.jpg, clueing us that at some point they were considering it to be Life On Earth in Spanish. (The same artist does the Life on Earth comic.)


Again on the meta train.


Here’s a chance

Tom the Dancing Bug 1654 sfpc163 literary history

CIDU: Here’s a chance for some early-riser readers to explain for others the allusions to a certain (probably false!) famous Hemingway anecdote.

LOL: But also, all can just enjoy these (somewhat sour!) joke mini-strips.

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 24th, 2023

A sad-LOL.



This might be a Semi-CIDU, as there is the question of whether this is how the cowboy bathes (and gets the horse to manage the timing and coins), or it’s at the horse’s volition as it wants its gear and rider to be clean.


The “when I look” and “someone will sneak” look like ordinary indicatives, with something like habitual aspect. But surely this doesn’t happen a lot! If we take into account the strip title, that makes this binocular-knocking one of those fears — we just have to understand a “One of my fears is that when ..” at the start and it all comes together.


And here’s our Macabre-LOL for the week:




Background: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-question-mark-galaxy-photo


Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 17th, 2023

That’s what happens when your temps come from crossovers!



In the news, Dave Blazek and Loose Parts have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the Newspaper Panel division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.


In the news, Will Henry and Wallace The Brave have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the Newspaper Comic Strips division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.


In the news, Rich Powell and Wide Open have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the “Online Comics – Short Form” division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.


Here’s an Ewww-LOL, fair warning!




The rare occurrence of a printable Gibbleguts :-)