WELL, ALBEE DAMNED!

There is an excellent pun behind this, which requires just a bit of Disney to recognize. But then there is the sub-question of whether Liniers (the Macanudo creator) is coming up with it spontaneously on their own, or is making an allusion to 1960s U.S. avant-garde theater where a famous campus-set domestic melodrama of psychological cruelty used the pun as its title — as would be familiar to theater and movie fans of a certain age [geecoughzers!].


(BTW, de paso, here for completeness is the version in Spanish, which does not attempt to re-create the pun. Leaving the question, is there then any joke left at all?)

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 1st, 2023



A nice LOL-Ewww:


And then a nice LOL-Awwww:


And who doesn’t enjoy a good Alexa-Siri joke?




And an Ouch-LOL:

He meant to order an inflatable doll, but received an inflatable bed of nails.

P.S. A couple days later, this character and that prop re-appear; but decidedly not funny :-( .

BTW, Gocomics gives this feature filenames that look like loesp230927.jpg, clueing us that at some point they were considering it to be Life On Earth in Spanish. (The same artist does the Life on Earth comic.)


Again on the meta train.


Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 24th, 2023

A sad-LOL.



This might be a Semi-CIDU, as there is the question of whether this is how the cowboy bathes (and gets the horse to manage the timing and coins), or it’s at the horse’s volition as it wants its gear and rider to be clean.


The “when I look” and “someone will sneak” look like ordinary indicatives, with something like habitual aspect. But surely this doesn’t happen a lot! If we take into account the strip title, that makes this binocular-knocking one of those fears — we just have to understand a “One of my fears is that when ..” at the start and it all comes together.


And here’s our Macabre-LOL for the week:




Background: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-question-mark-galaxy-photo


Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 17th, 2023

That’s what happens when your temps come from crossovers!



In the news, Dave Blazek and Loose Parts have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the Newspaper Panel division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.


In the news, Will Henry and Wallace The Brave have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the Newspaper Comic Strips division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.


In the news, Rich Powell and Wide Open have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the “Online Comics – Short Form” division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.


Here’s an Ewww-LOL, fair warning!




The rare occurrence of a printable Gibbleguts :-)




Sunday Funnies – LOLs, July 16th, 2023

A pair from Maggiethecartoonist, who liked the recent Farcus and noted that it reminded her of the older Far Side.

… And Maggie asked the question which also reminded the editors of at least the title of They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969), a film which made quite a splash in its time but isn’t much mentioned these days.





Speaking of Farcus, Targuman sent in this one, and asks “do you think he has written in the dust on the windshields or used a paint pen?”



Names given in first panel are maybe necessary, since we won’t see a face.




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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, June 11th, 2023

Brilliant!




The lion is the king of beasts,
And husband of the lioness.
Gazelles and things on which he feasts
Address him as your highoness. 

–Ogden Nash Poems to Carnival of the Animals



Y’know how sometimes when Cornered has a Sunday duplex strip (or higher multiple!), and just one of them hits the funny bone just right? And then CIDU is stuck trying to clip or trim to get that one panel? But this time it’s a case of “Why not both?” Two LOLs for the price of one!



And if we’re still in the Weekend of Remembering nineties/oughties Songs, here is one suggested by that comic: