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June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Fzzzat!

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  • Bill Bickel, Close to Home, comic strips, comics, humor, John McPherson
  • 13 Comments

fzzzat

B.A.: Close to Home characters are so ugly, their faces can shatter computer monitors?

June 11, 2020September 21, 2023 by CIDU Bill

Far Dog

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Gary Larson, humor, The Far Side
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ex_far_side

June 11, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Puzzle

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Leigh Rubin, Rubes
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June11 Rubes puzzle

June 10, 2020May 31, 2020 by CIDU Bill

2025 should be interesting, I guess…

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  • 7 Comments

june10 BArney Clytemnestra

June 9, 2020 by CIDU Bill

2019 called?

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  • Bill Bickel, Brendan Loper, comics, humor, The New Yorker
  • 20 Comments

newspapr 2019

As far as I can tell, this was published in New Yorker this past October.

In which case it makes no sense at all to me.

June 9, 2020May 31, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Pardon My Reality

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june09 Reality

June 8, 2020 by CIDU Bill

What the Fork?

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  • Bill Amend, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, FoxTrot, humor
  • 30 Comments

fork

Is there any reading of the third panel that doesn’t qualify this for an Arlo Award?

June 8, 2020June 7, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Timeline

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june08a timeline

June 8, 2020June 3, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Okay, so dogs sleep and cats nap… so?

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june08 sleeping dogs

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 by CIDU Bill

The Killians are Coming! The Killians Are Coming!

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Zits
  • 9 Comments

killians

A lot of people asked why the Killians would be seeing Jeremy’s room at all; but I assume these were rhetorical questions, since there’s probably no real answer.

And of course if we follow this strip’s logic, the Duncans haven’t had a visitor to their home for at least the past three years.

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