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    Brian on Saturday Morning OYs April 11, 2026April 11, 2026

    Keep up the 'Hi(Whatever), I'm Dad!', and one of these days, it will get its own tag.

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    Boise Ed on Saturday Morning OYs April 11, 2026April 11, 2026

    "Twirly" is the winner here.

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    beckoningchasm on Piecing It TogetherApril 10, 2026

    Best lazy cartoon would be a white space with two dialogue balloons. 1: Here we are in the middle of…

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    Chipper42 on Piecing It TogetherApril 10, 2026

    Thanks Pete! I assumed the second piece was speaking the words, rather than the words being a title of the…

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    Pete on Piecing It TogetherApril 10, 2026

    The caption is a recurring joke, or theme. The artist has used it a few times. I don't get any…

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Tag / The New Yorker

July 13, 2020July 11, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Well, I guess it would in 1869 — but hopefully that wasn’t the joke

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, Frank Cotham, humor, The New Yorker
  • 29 Comments

July13 Frank Cotham

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Don’t Look Back

  • 24-Hour Project, CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, Peter Steiner, The New Yorker
  • 14 Comments

July08 New Yorker Peter Steiner

As they were leaving Hell, Eurydice was warned that if she looked back to see whether Orpheus was following her, she’d be trapped in hell forever.

July 8, 2020July 7, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Noon-Time Bonus Funnies

  • 24-Hour Project, LOL
  • Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Jimmy Johnson, Joe Martin, The New Yorker, Tom Cheney, Willy 'n Ethel, Zachary Kanin
  • 9 Comments

strategic nuditywillie and ethel chickenZachary Kanin grandmotherArlo calendar

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Starting Early

  • Bill Bickel, CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, Jason Adam Katzenstein (J.A.K.), The New Yorker
  • 15 Comments

starting early

This was today’s (July 6) New Yorker cartoon.

July 2, 2020June 30, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Mailcar

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, The New Yorker, VIP, Virgil Partch
  • 28 Comments

July02 vip mailcar

July 1, 2020June 30, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Summer

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, Jack Ziegler, The New Yorker
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july01a jack ziegler summer

June 13, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Saturday Morning LOL – June 13, 2020

  • Bill Bickel, LOL, Oy
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Cornered, humor, John Deering, Mike Baldwin, Non Sequitur, Strange Brew, The New Yorker, Wiley Miller, Zachary Kanin
  • 58 Comments

bar mitzvah-zachary-kanin

Boise Ed Actually, I have a tee-shirt with a fisherman in a lake of bass-clef signs. Also sent nonymously as an Oy

Boise Ed: “Actually, I have a tee-shirt with a fisherman in a lake of bass-clef signs.” . . . This comic was also submitted anonymously as an Oy

crazy glue cornered baldwin

strange gathering

June 9, 2020 by CIDU Bill

2019 called?

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  • Bill Bickel, Brendan Loper, comics, humor, The New Yorker
  • 20 Comments

newspapr 2019

As far as I can tell, this was published in New Yorker this past October.

In which case it makes no sense at all to me.

June 8, 2020June 3, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Okay, so dogs sleep and cats nap… so?

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, The New Yorker
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june08 sleeping dogs

June 7, 2020June 6, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, June 7, 2020

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  • Andertoons, Bill Bickel, Brendan Gill, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Liana Finck, Mark Anderson, Ruben Bolling, Super-Fun-Pak Comix, The New Yorker
  • 29 Comments

ander weather

bank robbers

before fitbit

meta mitch super fun pak

Submitted by Mitch

And one bonus comic on the Arlo Page.

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