May 30, 2023May 23, 2023 by EditorM

A little tech support here, please

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.

April 26, 2023April 23, 2023 by EditorM

Naughty Microwave

I think we may have analysed this retro A&J before?

March 8, 2023March 4, 2023 by EditorM

Airborne

Thanks to chemgal, who says “In memory of Bill, here’s a cat comic. I almost understand it, but what’s going on in panel 3?”

February 19, 2023February 16, 2023 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.

February 7, 2023February 5, 2023 by EditorM

Mmm, bread pudding!

Thanks to Ooten Aboot:

… who explains: “I understand the point of bread pudding is to use perishable ingredients (e.g. bread, milk and eggs) before they perish. I don’t understand why A & J would keep perishables as their ‘snow provisions’. Suspension of disbelief will only stretch so far.”

January 22, 2023January 20, 2023 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, January 22nd, 2023

It’s a bit gruesome to contemplate just how her face has been involved in those ship launches!

P.S. Don’t forget the milli-Helen, a unit of facial beauty capable of launching one ship.

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 by EditorM

RUTHL

Okay, there’s a joke that the younger generation are hip to Internet stuff like memes and chat abbreviations.

But subsidiary puzzlements:

Is that a standard or geezerly riddle, about the waiter saying that?
Is Sisyphus supposed to be amusing himself texting jokes, distracting from his labors?

Bonus RUTH

January 2, 2023January 1, 2023 by EditorM

Obligatory topic

Okay, it’s Resolutions…

“This year we’ll turn it around” counts as a resolution in my book!

Maybe IDU that one?

Nancy: still looking for loopholes after all these years (and cartoonists!)

December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 by zbicyclist

Heartburn

Dirk the Daring provides this one, from Friday November 25 (i.e. not Taco Tuesday).

November 11, 2022November 10, 2022 by CIDU Bill

Arlo’s Veterans Day

(Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, Veterans Day
Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, comics, Jimmy Johnson, Vietnam, WW2
76 Comments

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.]

aj1 aj2 aj3 aj4 aj5

arlo 11-16-96

From 2003:

aj6 2003

From 1985:

1985

Comics I Don't Understand

April Frills … Bring May Chills

Tag / Jimmy Johnson