Category / (Not a Cidu)

by EditorM

We weren’t going to discuss it (Random retro LOLs, 2019 or before, Part 1)

This is maybe a bit of a CIDU now?

Also a bit unclear?

Editor’s recent photo

Gorilla with kitten

by Kilby

Meta Mutts

McDonnell usually has a theme for each entire week of daily Mutts strips; last week he produced a very nice collection of “meta” and “fourth wall” gags:

As an unusual bonus, the Sunday strip also fits in with the overall topic of the daily strips:

P.S. I decided to fetch the monochrome originals from Mutts.com, in particular because I felt that the Thursday and Friday strips do not work as well in color.

P.P.S. I was very disappointed when Arcamax switched Mutts to the colorized daily strips, and neither Arcamax nor Comics Kingdom bothers to include the title panel for the Sunday strips, which is often a real loss.

by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – October 21st, 2023

His last words will be “This’ll be the day that I die”.

“Uh-oh, I had it mixed up with uxorious!” — from the Comments

They went to the right place for “Dad jokes”, evidently.

by EditorM

Today I learned

I saw this cartoon on Facebook, and thought there was a little something wrong with the wording of the dialog, or something like that.

Anybody else confused by this?

I made a comment, and got what I thought was a snarky reply. But that commenter added something about “not trying to be snarky” and actually explained something I hadn’t understood. (But that’s what we’re all about here, Not-Understanding Comics.)

(But in the comments discussing the content of the cartoon, Mr. Greenbar did come off as argumentative and rather, yes, snarky.)

Is this convention/technique something that people here know about?

by EditorM

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 :