April 21, 2023April 20, 2023 by EditorM

Ah yes, cow tools

Thanks to Darren for sending this Heart of the City:

Many CIDU readers will recognize the cow tools for what they are, but there are also some who may not — so this is tagged both CIDU and Shoutout.

April 16, 2023April 13, 2023 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 16th, 2023

Two comics from Ian with the common element of unpaid internships, which he notes “seem to be everywhere at the moment!”

And finally, an Ewww-LOL from BillR. It’s the “number 2” that clinches it!

April 8, 2023April 7, 2023 by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – April 8th, 2023

Saturday Morning OYs – April 1st, 2023

By placing this here, do I have imposter (long o) syndrome?

February 19, 2023February 16, 2023 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 19th, 2023

Here are two from dollarbill (and a third one we happened upon) with the 4th-wall or meta- theme of characters knowing they’re living in a cartoon. He mentions he has been “wading through J. C Duffy‘s humongous almost daily blog posting of comic/photos/short musings beside them sometimes,” which go back years. “Fusco Brothers is just one of his outputs. The number of fly-in-the-soup variations is staggering.” CIDU has sometimes featured Duffy’s Lug Nuts, somehow strikingly different in graphics appearance yet very recognizably his work.

Does this make you feel like Dark Side of the Horse is by now influencing successor generations?

Although most cats manage without mechanical mousetraps.

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 by EditorM

Our traditional target — olives!

Thanks to Phred for sending this in.

November 28, 2022November 22, 2022 by EditorM

Sign here

How did she make that happen?

Later

Okay, it has been explained to me. Hence, marked “CIDU-solved”.

But it’s already scheduled, and rather than scurry to replace it let’s give some eager cidu-beaver the opportunity to jump in and say “Well clearly, ….”

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 9th, 2022

The LOL-Yikes (horror) that you were promised, with a dollop of fourth-wall.

And haven’t we been seeing a lot of the Potato Head family of late?

October 4, 2022May 15, 2024 by EditorM

Breaking the Fourth

Fourth Wall, LOL
Bizarro, Dan Piraro, Liniers (Ricardo Siri), Macanudo, Wayno
7 Comments

I’m delighted with how the Bizarro literalizes the idea of the fourth wall.

So then the problem-solvers’ question is “what are we seeing on the left side of the drawing?” And the answer should be “The adhesive side of the wallpaper”.

The contributor sending in the Macanudo points out that it’s a very old joke (probably could be found in Mutt & Jeff :) ), but this is still a very good realization of the idea.

And they pair well because the Macanudo is at the other end of sticking to the metaphorical.

P.S. Wayno prepares two versions of each Bizarro he makes, a squarish panel and a more horizontal strip format. Occasionally in his weekly blog he shows the variation, and in the week covering this cartoon it was the one getting that treatment. Here is that alternate image: