This cartoon by Travor Spaulding was originally published in The New Yorker four years ago, but it is still appropriate for today:
Jeff Millar wrote, and Bill Hinds drew this Tank McNamara strip as part of a widespread tribute to Charles Schulz on 27-May-2000:
Coincidentally, this year’s event (LVIII) will be the first ever held in (or at least near) Las Vegas, Nevada.
…could a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground?
…unless of course Phil beats the believers to the punch:
Here are four different approaches to affecting the prediction:
CIDU Bill always claimed that he named the “Arlo Award” concept after Arlo Guthrie, and there is still a statement to that effect in the CIDU FAQ. Anyone who has followed CIDU for a while will have realized that this was just a polite cover story, as the strip above clearly shows.
Thanks to Mark H for sending in this sweet musical 4th-wall comic!
(Technical P.S. – There are emoji(s) in the title, yes. But they do not appear in the “slug” or the URL for this post, so should not wreak havoc with the indexing!)
[Bill’s note from first postings on this site] This is something I made sure to rescue from the old site: after the first time I posted the 1996 sequence with Arlo’s father, somebody asked me to re-post it every year.
Unfortunately most of your comments are gone, but the 47 you posted in 2018 and 2019 are below.
[Note for 2022 — Reposting to continue Bill’s tradition. 2020 and 2021 comments also preserved.]
[Note for 2023 — Reposting, as per tradition. Past and 2022 comments preserved. Add-on comics for Veterans Day / Armistice Day will appear in another post in about an hour.]
From 2003:
From 1985:
This is maybe a bit of a CIDU now?
Also a bit unclear?
Editor’s recent photo
Gorilla with kitten
From Chemgal, a puzzling Arlo and Janis:
Chemgal comments: “I suspect this is a jab at places with QR code menus, but I’ve never been to a place that ONLY has QR code menus. Is that common somewhere? Also, what does Janis see as the silver lining in the last panel?”
Okay, the general line of the joke is clear enough. But what really are the respective methods they are using, and contrasting? Is Arlo using Shazam on a laptop? Using the laptop to view the radio station’s website to find their “now playing” widget? Or is that laptop doing the streaming and he is checking the streaming service? Is Janis using anything besides Google and Wikipedia? How did she know what to look up?
P.S. The ArloAndJanis.com web page is still not providing any content.
Further P.S. The next day’s strip was sort of a sequel.
I think we may have analysed this retro A&J before?
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