Sometimes Bliss cartoons portray its absence.
Here the dog’s tear is the extra-poignant touch.
Color and b/w comparison, just for fun/
Not-so-very Blissful
Tag / Sad-LOL
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 30th, 2021
Okay, so it’s kinda obvious … yet somehow surprising!
From dollarbill, who always appreciates a novel twist on an established trope:
And F-Minus provides the Sad-LOL you noticed in the Tags and wondered about …
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 16th, 2021
More on the Sad-LOL bandwagon!
Trying for diversity in the writers room.
And from the The Cartoonist knows more than the Character Department:
And circling back to where we began, another Mannequin:
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 9th, 2021
From Andréa.
From Andréa.
A Sad-LOL from Bliss:
From chemgal
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 18th, 2021
We can’t decide whether the educational facts in between the joking ones are all or mostly meant to be true.
A Sad-LOL from Lugnuts
Last week I went to a wedding, of two antennas. The ceremony itself wasn’t anything special. But the reception was great!
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 28th, 2021
You say tomato, I say potato …
In this Sad-LOL, she discovers why he seemed to be ghosting her.
Some Tom Gauld literary cartoons
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 7th, 2021
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, January 31st, 2021
From Andréa.
“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
Sunday Funnies for a new year! – LOLs, January 3rd, 2021
Is it too soon or too late for one more Santa LOL?
Bllss (and Martin) on their own and on GoComics
Bliss in the New Yorker:
We *did* crack a smile, even if not literally LOL. But no doubt this must be “a LOL comic” by virtue of subject matter!
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, November 1st, 2020
Okay, a LOL but a sad-LOL.
I generally grudge-read PBF, along with a couple other hyper-cynical comics. But this one struck me as funny and appealing.
And really nice is the collection of rock stuff in the middle panel. That’s a Yellow Submarine picture on the wall, the album on the bed with the yellow smear is probably the banana-cover Velvet Underground first album, the open mouth next to it seems Rolling Stones related. And is the blimp picture a reference to Led Zeppelin?
Hah! Gotcha, Mothra! From Andréa. (Who suggests there is word play going on between ‘Mothra’ and treating it as a ‘moth’. But isn’t that just what the name is about?)
Absurdism, put in its place.
Contributed by Andréa, who says “Particularly funny for me, as mysteries are my favorite genre.”
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