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Do Tell

Cidu Bill on Sep 17th 2008

Yeah, there are fewer tellers now that there are fewer walk-in customers. Makes sense, I’d say. What’s the gag here?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Hi and Lois, banks, comic strips, comics, humor | 21 responses so far

Okay, I’m With Mrs. Olson Here…

Cidu Bill on Sep 17th 2008

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Frazz, Jef Mallet, comic strips, comics, humor | 14 responses so far

Heart of the School

Cidu Bill on Sep 17th 2008

Three people sent me this one before lunchtime, so I figured I might as well put it online:

Mr. Barnes switched from being the music teacher to being the football coach as a way of increasing his job security, since schools are going to drop their music programs way before they drop their football programs.

Of course the joke would have worked better if Heart and Dean weren’t second-graders, since I’ve yet to come across an elementary school with its own football team (though I wouldn’t be surprised to be told that Texas elementary schools have them). Cartoonists should have a Gag Exchange Program, where if Mark Tatulli has an idea that’s better suited to a high school strip, Archie can use it, and if the Archie writers come up with a storyline too relentlessly grim for Riverdale High, they can pass it along to Westview High.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, football, humor, schools | 12 responses so far

She’d Have Been Blue, Not White

Cidu Bill on Sep 17th 2008

Just need to point out here… I’m pretty sure she would have been breathing all along.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Pardon My Planet, Snow White, Vic Lee, comic strips, comics, humor | 28 responses so far

Another Arlo Sweater

Cidu Bill on Sep 17th 2008

Okay, first of all this guy looks nothing like Willie Stargell.

But putting that aside… Is there any interpretation of this comic that doesn’t merit the Arlo Award? Continue Reading »

Filed in Argyle Sweater, Arlo Award, Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Scott Hilburn, comic strips, comics, humor, pirates | 14 responses so far

Blackbird

Cidu Bill on Sep 17th 2008

My best guess here is that what we’re supposed to be seeing is Arlo seeing an enormous bird whose shadow covers everything — and that United Media’s new policy of colorizing their comics is at fault for the appearance that only Arlo is under the shadow (though of course I could be wrong).

This is the second day of United Media’s new policy of not leaving well enough alone, and I think it’s fairly clear that they hired all the colorizers who were too incompetent to work for Ted Turner.

Seriously, guys, it’s been one garishly ugly comic after another so far. These comics, like Casablanca, were created to be seen in black and white. Let’s leave them that way, okay?

By the way, shortly after I posted this — and shortly before she noticed I’d posted it — Nicole submitted it as a LOL

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Jimmy Johnson, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol | 13 responses so far