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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
  • 8 Comments

june08 sleeping dogs

June 7, 2020June 6, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, June 7, 2020

  • LOL
  • 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

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Submitted by Mitch

And one bonus comic on the Arlo Page.

June 5, 2020May 31, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Leaf

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, The New Yorker, Virgil Partch
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June05 partch of leaves

June 3, 2020May 31, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Or was Dernavich just feeling silly, which is okay too?

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, DD (Drew Dernavich), humor, music, The New Yorker
  • 27 Comments

June03 the-founding-fathers-were-clear-you-must-win-by-two-new-yorker-cartoon_u-l-po6ffl0

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Is there anything here other than some understatement?

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  • Batman, Bill Bickel, comic books, comics, humor, The New Yorker, Zachary Kanin
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June02a zachary kanin batman

May 31, 2020June 1, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Both in my inbox last night: more coincidence than synchronicity, I guess, but still borders on the absurd.

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, Synchronicity
  • comics, humor, Luke McGarry, Mandela Effect, The New Yorker
  • 24 Comments

beren

This article is a year old, but it showed up an hour after I responded to somebody who sent me the McGarry cartoon as a CIDU.

Not the world’s best article, by the way, but that’s not really the point.

May 29, 2020August 27, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Not QUITE synchronicity…

  • LOL, Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Lars Kenseth, mythology, Sisyphus, The New Yorker
  • 10 Comments

… since these were published a week and a half ago; but still:

Lars Kenseth airport

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Ceci n’est pas une blague

  • LOL
  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, M. E. McNair, René Magritte, The New Yorker
  • 11 Comments

pipe

It really doesn’t make any sense, but I like it.

May 27, 2020May 26, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Pockets

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, Sharon Levy, The New Yorker
  • 9 Comments

may28 New Yorker pockets

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