Tag / Jim Unger

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 19th, 2023

Here are two from dollarbill (and a third one we happened upon) with the 4th-wall or meta- theme of characters knowing they’re living in a cartoon. He mentions he has been “wading through J. C Duffy‘s humongous almost daily blog posting of comic/photos/short musings beside them sometimes,” which go back years. “Fusco Brothers is just one of his outputs.  The number of fly-in-the-soup  variations is staggering.” CIDU has sometimes featured Duffy’s Lug Nuts, somehow strikingly different in graphics appearance yet very recognizably his work.

Does this make you feel like Dark Side of the Horse is by now influencing successor generations?

Although most cats manage without mechanical mousetraps.

by EditorM

Again with the Oopsies, Quickies, Semi-CIDUs, Mysteries, and flops? (7th Series)

A CIDU-Quickie is like a Minor-Mystery — it seems like it will work out to a good joke, but there’s that just-one-thing we can’t understand. But it’s so close, obviously once someone makes a good suggestion there will be nothing to discuss; so it can’t be expected to be a standalone CIDU to satisfy a whole day’s spot.

Thanks to BillR for this CIDU-Quickie from Bizarro, about which he writes “No idea what the x-balls are.” Well I had an idea – but it wasn’t very good. Then BillR wrote back that his wife had a better idea – and yes it was better. But still not certain. So, what say you?

(Did this already get posted separately and discussed?? I thought so but can’t find it.)

This is a case of what some defined the “oopsie” for – a possibly good joke, but something about the drawing is wrong, or as in this case, tiny, scribbled, and indecipherable, to the extent that the joke is quite lost.

So the anticipated encounter is …. “Hold on! Where are you going with that ape” … “No, this is my kid! Look, here’s our tickets, that proves it.”

by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 3rd, 2021

under the remaining five red baidagko

The last few weeks I’ve felt that Wrong Hands has been a bit off their best form. But this one seems a good case of returning to their former standard.

So here is another Wrong Hands, sent in by Philip, who notes that as an Oy it would be tripartite. (Have we seen this one before?)

I have never sat down on a cat …. that did not immediately make the situation known! 🙂

Six of one, half-dozen of the other, sent by Phil Smith III

(Also adding in another Condron as he was unfamiliar to me.)

by EditorM

SATURDAY Funnies – LOLs, June 19th, 2021

A nice little twist on a familiar cat-behavior-pattern trope! Suggested by Andréa.

(From Scott Metzger’s paywalled Patreon gallery, used by kind permission. There is also loads of free material at his home page, https://www.metzgercartoons.com/ .)

Wrong Hands from Andréa. … Not trying to force it into being a CIDU, but do you feel some question about what are the eligible sequel titles?
by Winter Wallaby

Saturday Morning Oys – May 8th, 2021

And after that, he drew a bath.

An Argyle Agglomeration

From Andréa.

And I swear I remember when their State Tourism Office had this as their motto! (Probably around the time the University of Illinois used “Four colors suffice” on their postmarks.)

This one, from David Steele, is maybe more of a CIDU:
by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 21st, 2021

In your circle of friends, child-raising experts, and ethicists, what generally is the next step in thinking from that kind of statement?

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Special section on Policing

And this Whamond was picked up from Arnold Zwicky’s blog, which also discusses the “grammar police” construction for our convenience.