Saturday Morning OYs – May 27th, 2023




[Farcus for 22-May-2023 removed by WordPress.]

If you’re thinking “Didn’t we just see this same joke?” you may be remembering this Life On Earth we posted recently. (Hey, that was in Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 7th, 2023 . How come the Farcus today goes in the OYs?)


Found on Facebook without good information. We’ve tagged for “Frank Svoboda” based on the (c) line; but searching that name finds someone who was a collector / dealer / agent but doesn’t say he was also a creator, and those roles could fit with copyright holder. So maybe the writing on the side of the bar is the signature? It seems to say “Phranque” and while there is a band with that name I didn’t find any cartoonists or illustrators. And maybe that brings us back around to Frank S, who could have liked stylizing his first name.


A suggestion from Maggiethecartoonist:

Discussion among Maggie and the editors suggested that there are several informations perhaps not immediately known to all readers, which are useful to unpacking the multiple jokes/OYs here. So something of a semi-CIDU.


Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 21st, 2023

… at Alice’s Restaurant!

And while we’re at it, another Reply All:


And this was a winning week for Andertoons!



This Lug Nuts is pretty funny, but leaves a mystery. Hence LOL-CIDU.



Thanks to maggiethecartoonist, who says “Always remember pants”.

Saturday Morning OYs – May 20th, 2023




And another Rubes, suggested by Maggiethecartoonist :





Should I feel sheepish posting a second comic on herding?


M is for the Many

With considerable forethought, Chemgal sent this in when it appeared, last July!

There is a motherlode of Mothers Day cartoons from Foxtrot collected at their website, of which we will sample just a couple.

This first one was featured by Bill on CIDU in 2018:

This “Breakfast in Bedlam” strip seems to be from 2001:


MD gifts funded by allowance, a theme for Fox Trot, also features here in Calvin, 1989:



This resurfaced in this Saturday’s Counterpoint mailing, not where I’m used to seeing B&C.

Sunday Funnies on Saturday – LOLs and OYs , May 13th, 2023



Obligatory pedantic note: I still don’t like to see “invite” as a noun in place of “invitation”!


Betty’s son asks a question, and sure enough farther down my GoComics feed, I find the answer in Big Nate: First Class!





We almost put this Other Coast in tomorrow’s Mothers’ Day collection.


This one probably was the basis for the “word play in general” category.


Sent in by >>Boy-see Ed<<, who says “This one suits me to a tea”.



Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 7th, 2023


And a counterpoise of business meeting strategy, and who gets to speak up, from 9-to-5:



Do any disguised superheroes actually do this?





Thanks to Usual John for this one!