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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 27th, 2023

Uh-oh! “Arlo” warning for younger and more sensitive viewers.

As many here will already know, these Nick G “comics” originate as illustrations accompanying the Washington Post advice column conducted by Carolyn Hax. The connection is sometimes close, and often sort of tangential. The column is behind a paywall, but for those interested here is a free “gift article link” to the August 23 column.

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 20th, 2023

Here’s an LOL from Shoe that your editors didn’t take notice of until it was featured on The Comics Curmudgeon. Thanks, Josh / Uncle Lumpy!

Posted with comment “Oh, the irony!”

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 13th, 2023

Oh yes, I’ve seen ads for that phone, haven’t you?

Perhaps only a bit stranger than Janus, a star that has one side hydrogen, the other side helium https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/this-white-dwarf-star-has-two-faces/

A pretty nice Meta comic! I’ll look forward to seeing the color version, and checking what elements are red. Meanwhile, here is a red tee fitting for reference :

Well, here it is! Nope, nothing exciting to be learned …

(No language issues here, so we are not including the Spanish version.)

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 6th, 2023

Here’s one kind of meta idea taken to a logical conclusion.

This one I wanted to make a daily standalone CIDU, but couldn’t really justify that.

OK, it’s a general picture of some sort of “bad boyfriend behavior”, but what exactly is he saying, to get rid of who or what? (Secondarily, since the absent partner here is a stand-in for the cartoonist, she might well be taking a share of blame for so often provoking exasperation.)

But then again, here they are together for some creative brainstorming!

Oh and BTW, for others who follow this strip, does this mean he is part of the spinoff “Side Gig” business that she and her pal from work are planning to quit their jobs to go launch? Or I guess he’s just being supportive about it…

A piquant FA

And didn’t we recently see a “CTRL-Z” comic?

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, July 30th, 2023

That’s another fine meta you’ve got us into!

For a comic strip not generally* done in “realistic style”, this shows a lot of detail to convincingly set the scene!

[*] Though they occasionally go hyper-realistic by using a photo panel!

Suggested by Dirk the Daring, who notes “Me thinks David Sipress has never left the city.  The cow and pig in the background aren’t too bad, but up front we seem to have a cow with pig nose and maybe a pig with a cow tail.  Or maybe not.

The gag itself is pretty good though.”

As a commenter at GoComics hints, that Mr. Wilson better not be Dennis Mitchell’s neighbor!

Yes, this was a Sunday strip.

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, July 16th, 2023

A pair from Maggiethecartoonist, who liked the recent Farcus and noted that it reminded her of the older Far Side.

… And Maggie asked the question which also reminded the editors of at least the title of They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969), a film which made quite a splash in its time but isn’t much mentioned these days.

Speaking of Farcus, Targuman sent in this one, and asks “do you think he has written in the dust on the windshields or used a paint pen?”

Names given in first panel are maybe necessary, since we won’t see a face.

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Omnibus LOLs and OYs for the weekend, July 09th, 2023

Just BTW, does “aggro” in casual speech these days mean aggressive or aggravating?

Dýou think this is well-positioned to become even more popular than the one about the land of the blind?

A fine line between pun and equivocation.

In the GoComics comments, Teresa Burritt (creator of Frog Applause) revealed that this was a CIDU for her! (Several commenters answered to provide the Stephen King reference.)

by Kilby

Birthday Memorial for CIDU Bill

Saturday, July 8th, 2023 would have been Bill Bickel’s 68th birthday; therefore: in his absence, and in his honor: Mazel tov! (מזל טוב)

Bill’s own tradition for the occasion was to create an elaborate “24-Hour Project”, with a new CIDU post timed to appear every hour throughout the day. Partly because these birthday comics are not CIDUs, but mostly because it would have been far too much effort just for a little structural nostalgia, this entire collection has been gathered into a single list (but is divided into appropriate categories).

If you have a favorite birthday comic, please feel free to add it in a comment!

The “featured image” at the top of this post shows Albert, Porky Pine, Beauregard Bugleboy, Bun Rab, Pogo, and Howland Owl doing a “Birthday Dance”, but the anonymous bug appended to the right isn’t actually singing: he appeared in a series of memorial tributes that Walt Kelly drew in the 1950s for his daughter Kathryn Barbara, who died shortly before she would have had a chance to enjoy her first birthday cake. Given that we are celebrating the birthday of a dearly beloved, but departed friend, I thought the image was very appropriate. For more information, see the Daily Cartoonist’s article about the Day of the Little Angels.

P.S. I would like to thank all of the CIDU Editors for their input, assistance, and constructive suggestions, but especially Phil, who took my rough template and laid the foundation for a much better design (and he also documented all the author and strip names in the tags).

The first Peanuts strip in this collection doesn’t fit into any category, because it has a singular “birthday” significance; it was originally published on Friday, July 8th, 1955 (the day that Bill Bickel was born):

Schulz never depicted any adults (and only very rarely mentioned any of the parents) in Peanuts.

Remembering

With a few notable exceptions, this 1971 strip predates almost everything in this collection by more than two decades.

…even if he did rip the flower right out of her own garden. (Note: other than Stahler’s “pickleball” comic from 2023, this 2018 Marmaduke is the newest item in this entire collection.)

He should be comforted to learn just how much Rat thinks of him.

Cakes & Cards

That cake must have been pretty tough to hold together like that.


Snoopy suffered a whole series of cat attacks in the 1970s, but this was one of the best.

For Bill we would need a pair of 34s, or (more likely) a 50 and an 18.

Parties

Only the Peanuts and Doonesbury strips are older than this Calvin & Hobbes strip.

Does this mean that they would rather celebrate the day he got laid?

This Peanuts strip (from 1951) is the only one in this collection that predates Bill’s birth.

Presents

Apparently Andy had already quit smoking 20 years ago, but he and Flo were still indulging in violent spouse abuse.

Bill had trouble understanding feline behavior, so this might have been a CIDU for him.

Garfield only rarely acts like a real cat, so Bill wouldn’t have any trouble here.

After all that trouble to escape, even his visit is no longer a surprise.

Color might have made this “Liō” strip easier to understand (each stack should be a different pastel shade), but Tatulli may have been going for the “dawning realization” effect.

Geezerhood

If you cannot move the ball, just change the position of the goal posts.

One of the many running gags in Garfield is that he hates birthdays.

This appeared just in time to be included here; it’s also the only comic in this memorial collection that was published within the last three years (in other words: since Bill passed away).

Technology

This category seems more tragic than funny.

Mobile telephones can generate automatic reminders, so nobody really has to bother remembering birthdays any more.

This is the only Sunday strip in this collection.

This 2007 strip predates the widespread availability of 3D printing technology.

Mortality

These three comics complement the previous memorial post (September 16th, 2022).


See also: https://cidu.info/2023/09/16/in-memoriam-bill-bickel/

P.P.S. Remember: if you have a favorite comic to help celebrate Bill’s birthday, please feel free to include it in a comment!