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 6, 2022November 4, 2022 by zbicyclist

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, November 6, 2022

Kilby sends this in, wondering why it was run on September 11, 2022. There are some standard characters (Ahab, Diogenes, Napoleon), among others. I’ve earnestly tried to figure out the two characters in the upper right corner of the 2nd panel, but frankly I don’t get it.

**Kilby** also notes that November 6th is the 50th anniversary of *Frank and Ernest*. Their Wikipedia entry has some interesting notes. The strip is distributed in Spanish as *Justo y Franco*. The strip depends so heavily on wordplay that I wouldn’t think it would translate well.

But by hitting the random button at GoComics, I see many that are understandable in any language.

This Frank and Ernest is a CIDU to me. 8 isn’t straight.

For obsessives who feel you need to see the Carolyn Hax column this accompanied, here is a guest link. For the rest of you, the connection to the cartoon is just that the advice question involves parent/child conflict.

Don’t you want to hear a few more rrrrr’s in that?

Ludwig is such a patient little guy! This semi-LOL is in truth mostly an Awww for the ailurophile crowd. And the White Meat Chicken Florentine from Fancy Feast Medleys in the 3oz can with green label is a standby in the Mitch4 household.