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.


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.



A Sad-LOL for sure!


Or is this maybe a Semi-CIDU for anybody?


McDonald’s decides to open one test site for a new concept, CosMc’s, to overmuch social media hype, and now a tip of the hat from Greg Cravens. In the current iteration, it’s drive-thru only, with no restrooms.


The “5-31” in the panel is easy enough, but I’m having a hard time making out the year in the (c) strip. Scrolling in the Comics Kingdom archive to the previous few strips, I think it could be 1967.
Which is maybe late enough that she might have turned out to be the surgeon rather than the nurse. (Certainly by that year the joke/riddle of “A father and his son were out for a Sunday drive” was already quite popular.) Or no, how could a surgeon go out with an enlisted man?
[Does anybody need the rest of the story??]



Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
Teamwork makes the team work.
Hurt people hurt people.

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Exercise in indexicality.

Quite an interesting question!











Boise Ed sends this one in. Prescription?






X is sometimes used as a shorthand for Christ (hence Xmas) but that doesn’t seem to make the meaning clearer.

Thanks to Boise Ed for sending this one! “Pardon My Planet often has head-scratchers, but this one really befuddles me. If she has gotten a restraining order to keep him 500 feet away from her, why is she about to marry him?”


A couple OYs from Andréa:


P.S. And then I saw this one on Facebook:


I had to give it a minute to hit.


And in Chicago we call it “wha’s this here sauce?”.
Superbowl Sunday


Hmm, a little more acidic than we usually expect from Bliss.

An eminently reasonable request! (And Andertoons seems to have taken on a larger format.)

Yeah, one of the jokes is just too old — but the comeback is new to me, and pretty good!

A measured response to conflict won’t make the movies.
Here’s hoping all our CIDU readers are in good health, or will be soon.

A few from Guindon



