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Tag / The New Yorker

December 30, 2019September 21, 2023 by CIDU Bill

Son of Comics We Might Already Have LOL’ed At in 2019 or Earlier

  • LOL
  • Argyle Sweater, Batman, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Farley Katz, Gary Larson, humor, Scott Hilburn, The Far Side, The New Yorker
  • 17 Comments

karate class clown

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ex_far_side

December 29, 2019December 27, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Comics We Might Already Have LOL’ed At in 2019 or Earlier

  • LOL
  • comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, John Deering, Strange Brew, The New Yorker
  • 13 Comments

NYer seatbelt

strange brew john deering time machine

relativity

warning shots

December 28, 2019December 27, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Comics That Might Or Might Not Have Already Made Us Say “Oy” in 2019 or Earlier

  • Oy
  • Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Non Sequitur, Scott Hilburn, The New Yorker, Wiley Miller
  • 25 Comments

argyle ommankoff-boat brisminionneopolitan

non seq squid

For the record, this comic long predates any current references to “quid pro quo”

December 27, 2019December 23, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Miller

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  • CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, Charles Addams, comics, humor, The New Yorker
  • 14 Comments

miller.jpg

December 24, 2019December 24, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Bonus Christmas HoHoLols

  • Christmas, LOL
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, CVS, humor, Roz Chast, The New Yorker, The Other Coast
  • 10 Comments
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Not actually a comic strip– but since we’ve discussed this a few times…

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other coast christmas

Submitted by the Elf With No Name

December 20, 2019December 18, 2019 by CIDU Bill

No Robin

  • CIDU
  • Batman, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Paul Noth, The New Yorker
  • 17 Comments

norobin

Okay, I could understand if this were captioned “The Boy Wonder’s Recurring Nightmare” — but as is, what’s the joke?

December 18, 2019December 18, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Home for the Holidays

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, The New Yorker
  • 8 Comments

home

December 15, 2019December 8, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, December 15, 2019

  • Chanukah, LOL
  • 1 and Done, Bill Bickel, Bliss cartoons, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Dark Side of the Horse, Eric Scott, Harry Bliss, humor, Samson, The New Yorker
  • 35 Comments
element-blocks-dsh191120

Submitted by Mitch

1 and donado

Bliss Harry Bliss Andrea I personally would have gone with National Geographic

Submitted by Andrea; I personally, by the way, would have gone with National Geographics.

dec 15 Chanukah bob mankoff

The 90s submitted this…

December 7, 2019December 7, 2019 by CIDU Bill

B. A.: “I was going to submit this as a CIDU, but then I remembered we determined that George Booth’s comics don’t really have explantions.”

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  • CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comics, George Booth, humor, The New Yorker
  • 25 Comments

she-took-the-house-the-money-the-mercedes-and-the-rottweiler-then-s-new-yorker-cartoon_u-l-pgtq8a0.jpg

December 4, 2019December 3, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Caption: “I just can’t do any more leftovers!”

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  • CIDU, Thanksgiving
  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, Jon Adams, The New Yorker
  • 21 Comments

i just cant do leftovers anmore

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