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by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, January 14th, 2024

Zippy feeling just a bit meta.

And a semi-CIDU for this same couple:

The question being: Is the guy just pushing his point by selecting a random term meant to be absurd, or else do they maybe have something (like a remote, or an ashtray, …) which is actually crafted to look like a Stegosaurus?

Why not start off Sunday with a bit of math? Roughly how old is she?

This is Frazz’s Sunday intro panel for January 7th. Mallett posts these on Facebook. Otherwise, I’d never see them because GoComics doesn’t use the intro panels, for reasons I don’t understand.

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, January 7th, 2024

The holidays are done, but the cartoons are not all done with Xmas and NYear LOLs!

LOL-Ewww did you say?

Does Eric Scott’s drawing style sometimes seem to have a Thurber feel?

This Santino is an almost-CIDU: commenters on his page talk about getting it only after pausing and looking at it another way, or filling in their literary knowledge.

Once upon a time (it was December, actually) Sandra sent this in, and noted it could be a LOL-semi-CIDU as it’s not first-glance obvious what’s going on. 

Actually, the editors’ feeling of confidence in one explanation faded upon discussion. Is this cat-behavior being actively performed by an animated cat-statue? Or is it a static statue of characteristic cat-behavior? 

Either way, it’s the sort of thing cat people regard with loving exasperation. The great filmmaker Agnès Varda felt like putting her cat on a monument, and did so in her short Le Lion Volatil (actuality on left, modification on right):

And as Aaron notes when sending this next one in, Falco really wants to say something about this gap-week.

by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – January 6th, 2024

Have you kept count for how many times this joke has come up this week?

Woops! Turns out this is now the third appearance of this “kerning pun” (as jjmcgaffey called it) on CIDU in one path or another. 

This fun Rubes from a few years ago was brought to our attention by Professor Jerry Coyne (a big supporter of ducks) on his Why Evolution is True web site (blog, but he doesn’t like it called that).

As reported by The Daily Cartoonist (but nowhere visible at mutts.com), Patrick McDonnell has announced that he will be taking a six-month sabbatical to work on other projects, and that (almost all of) the strips from now to June will be re-runs (note the absence of any year in the copyright line on this one).

by zbicyclist

NY^3: New Year’s Themed Comics on New Year’s Day from The New Yorker

It’s New Year’s Day, 2024, so why not post some New Year’s cartoons from another NY, The New Yorker? Wait. Wasn’t that yesterday’s theme? But this is a theme so nice, we’re using it twice.

1931 (i.e. first issue of 1931): some wake-up bells to start your year

1930

1932: not a cheerful New Year’s

1933: Roosevelt’s been elected, but not inaugurated. The man here is not hopeful.

1933

Similar theme from 1934:

To all our readers, commenters, editors, and cartoonists who make this possible, best wishes for a wonderful 2023 2024!

Reflect and think? Or maybe just do some things appropriate to the season. Change out that furnace filter that should be changed every 3 months. Is your toothbrush getting too long in the tooth? Check your IRA balances if you’ll need to make RMDs. Check the refrigerator for stuff that expired in 2022. Make some Hoppin’ John with those black-eyed peas in the back of the pantry. Feel free to comment on your own ways to mark (or ignore) the day.

Or, perhaps like Mooch, you’re perfect and can just take a nap.

Let’s end with an OY:

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs for NYE from NYr, 2023

Some New Year’s Eve cartoons from the New Yorker archives.

1926 (i.e. first issue of 1926).

1928

1932, before our smartwatches all had synchronized time.

1934

Here’s a link to the New Yorker cartoons most shared on Instagram in 2023: NYer cartoons most shared on Instagram Not a CIDU among them, but quite a few LOLs.

by Kilby

Cleaning out (or adding to) the junk drawer

Reviving an old tradition, I would like to invite all CIDU readers to list any comics that they have “recently” added and/or dropped from their reading lists (this question hasn’t been asked in quite some time, so everyone is free to interpret what “recently” should mean). Bill normally scheduled this question for Dec. 31st, but since that would conflict with the Sunday Funnies, I decided to move it up to Friday, so that everyone can think about it over the holiday weekend.

For comparison, here are links to the available discussions that appeared in Dec. 2018 and Dec. 2019, along with an intermediate call for comic suggestions that Bill posted in March 2019. (Any similar posts for 2017 and earlier were destroyed by “Comicgeddon”; I spent an embarrassing amount of time looking for a 2020 list, before I realized why Bill hadn’t created such a post at the end of that year.)

P.S. I assume that almost all “new” entries will be for reading comics online, but in the unlikely event that anyone has started reading a new comic in newsprint (a.k.a. “fishwrap”) form, please let us know!

by multipleciduers

Gifts from the Four Wise(?) Men

Your editors are greeting today’s holiday with some favorite comics, some Christmassy, some not. Enjoy!

Here’s one for the great CIDU cat-admiration tradition!

Seems like the reindeer might take a lichen to an in-flight snack, also.