Thanks to Boise Ed for suggesting this!
Tag / Off the Mark
How Much Ground…
…could a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground?
…unless of course Phil beats the believers to the punch:
Here are four different approaches to affecting the prediction:
Gifts from the Four Wise(?) Men
Your editors are greeting today’s holiday with some favorite comics, some Christmassy, some not. Enjoy!
Here’s one for the great CIDU cat-admiration tradition!
Seems like the reindeer might take a lichen to an in-flight snack, also.
Saturday Morning OYs – December 23rd, 2023
But we’re not done with Tom Falco! (BTW, 305 is the area code for Miami, where he is based.)
Understand it, I do (not?)
Kilby writes: This is another one of Bill Bickel’s “vintage” draft posts from 2018. Back then, Bill once wrote that his interest in Star Wars completely terminated after the original trilogy, so perhaps he was not aware of the significance of the inverted word order, but he also commented that “Okay, even I know who Yoda is! … Yoda’s cat on the other hand…“
P.S. I originally scheduled this for the seventh anniversary of “Rogue One“, but it got bumped to make space for the Saturday OYs. In any case, seeing as Yoda didn’t appear in that film at all, it’s clearly more appropriate to schedule it for the fourth anniversary of “The Rise of Skywalker“. Star Wars fanatics are free to discuss which of those two films they liked better; Bill’s answer would of course have been “neither“.
Overnight Oats
From Boise Ed.
Some retro Off The Mark, just for fun
Squeeze play
The scenario of the elevator call buttons is a familiar trope for Horace :
But other intrepid cartoonists may find their way there too:
Saturday Morning OYs – September 9th, 2023
A couple of meta takes on this comic trope. The first one is from Will: