Saturday Morning OYs – May 27th, 2023




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 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”.



Some random retro LOLs





This next one depends on remembering when Lars von Trier and friends declared the Dogme 95 principles for filmmaking. (And probably does not require remembering the Kevin Smith film Dogma.)



With this December 2011 Brevity, we’re getting a bit into OYs.








And we interrupt our parade of Oldies to drop in a Duffy Lug Nuts on the same theme from current GoComics publication:




Saturday Morning OYs – March 25th, 2023



Almost a pun failure, as it is arguable the joke of her equivocation is already well-cemented in panel 3 and then the clues in panel 4 are just a waste. But probably it is also arguable that many a reader would miss the gag in panel 3 and there is a definite need for panel 4 …


And this dampens my hope of someday understanding what “fugue state” is or is not related to.





Yes, it’s the same David Mamet better known as a playwright.

Saturday Morning OYs – March 18th, 2023

Getting triple duty from one little affix!


Since this is announced as dealing with puns, how could we pass it up?



Interesting – the cartoonist doesn’t actually show us the missing word, which must combine raccoon and centaur.