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by Kilby

Bonus: Synchronous Heat Waves

Not only were these two published just one day apart, the jokes are identical, as is the fundamental physical impossibility. Neither one would appear to be related to a specific incident or place.

Bill Amend currently lives in Missouri, but Foxtrot isn’t tied to a specific location: “I’ve never established where the Fox family lives and I’m not sure the sort of place I depict really exists. It’s sort of that generic cartoon version of suburbia that a lot of strips share where it snows in the winter and is near water when necessary. I grew up in New England and Northern California, and I think bits of that come through, but it’s nowhere specific.“

B.C. takes place somewhere in Generic Cave Man Land, but Mason Mastroianni lives in upstate New York.

by multipleciduers

All we really needed was the first panel

Sometimes the joke lands immediately and you don’t need it spelled out, or an attempt to cap it.

Here they aren’t strictly speaking separate panels, but the effect is the same.

Here, the name “Fading Sunset” in the first panel is much funnier than the predictable punchline in panel 3.

by multipleciduers

Labor Day 2024

A bit of nostalgia here, since we seem to have been in a continual U.S. political campaign since 2018, with little or no letup.

The day after Labor Day used to be the traditional day for school to start, but the start has crept backwards: the local schools start a full two weeks earlier. Are there schools that have the patience to wait until after Labor Day? (colleges don’t count).

Since this is CIDU, we’re including this one, that’s not so much a CIDU as a search engine lookup for Hokas.

Labor Day is typically the end of the period when vacations are taken for adults as well, at least those who have children in school.

And to close out with a return to a pet view :

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 01st, 2024

Such practical good advice!

Chemgal sends in this unusually funny fourth-wall break.

Understanding hotel etiquette.

From Boise Ed, who gets the intended joke but remains dubious about there being something actually funny going on.

And a LOL from Usual John:

by EditorM

Winners of the 78th Annual Reuben Awards

Here is linked the official list of the Reuben Award winner and Divisional winners from the National Cartoonists Society.
(The meeting was this week and the announcement is dated yesterday 24 August 2024, but the awards are for 2023 publications and styled as “2023 Cartoonist of the Year” and similarly.)

An informative and nicely formatted list and display of examples, for nominees and winners, is at Daily Cartoonist.

Readers of CIDU will probably be familiar with work of —

Hilary B. Price, 2023 NCS Cartoonist of the Year (“Reuben Award”)

and Reuben Award nominees Darrin Bell, Will Henry, Dana Simpson, Daniel Clowes, and Mark Tatulli

Nick Galifianakis, winner for Magazine/Newspaper Illustration

Tauhid Bondia, winner for Newspaper Comic Strips, and nominees Hector Cantu & Carlos Castellanos (also split link, sorry) and Liniers

Wayno, winner for Newspaper Panels (plus link for WaynoVision), and nominees Nick Galifianakis and Dave Blazek

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 25th, 2024

Unexpectedly, this was something of a minor CIDU, with comments disagreeing over which partner is actually the neatnik. (Also just a hint of Arlo speculation based on how the drawn legs bend at the knees.)

Nice to find the occasional clear-and-direct LOL from PMP!

For once we can let this stand as a LOL on its own, and not indulge a compulsion to track down the specific advice column it probably accompanied originally.

Mark H. notes “This Arlo is a Janis”.

Or maybe she’s just moving the drapes to give him a better view of the moon. Or of …

Thanks to both Darren and Phred who sent this one in, as mostly LOL but with enough of a factual background question to make it almost a CIDU. Why is it a matter for sticklers?

P.S. It turns out this comic was discussed at Comic Strip of the Day; but we ran across that after this post was already prepared.

by zbicyclist

Heads Up! Tomorrow is Stranger’s Day

Why not a day to celebrate strangers?

Where would we be without strangers? Strangers grow our food. Strangers in factories make stuff we need. Strangers make important decisions for us, like whether we get into our first-choice college, or whether we get audited by the IRS.

Let’s face it. In the aggregate, strangers are more important to us than friends.

But speaking of obscure non-holidays:

Did we post this before?

Adding today’s Arlo and Janis as a late entry: