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It’s just his neurosis that oughta be curbed

Cidu Bill on Apr 27th 2013

Those who hate-read Funky Winkerbean over at Son of Stuck Funky are of the general consensus that Tom Batiuk meant “neurotic,” not Nordic:

And today’s “probable misuse of neurotic” synchronicity is completed over at Tina’s Groove, and I have to tag this “CIDU” as well:

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Rina Piccolo, Tina's Groove, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 27 responses so far

S.P. Charles: ”Not… a… clue…”

Cidu Bill on Mar 26th 2013

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 36 responses so far

S.P. Charles: ”What’s the joke even SUPPOSED to be here?”

Cidu Bill on Feb 27th 2013

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 19 responses so far

Sally’s just lucky she doesn’t live in Westview, that’s all I have to say.

Cidu Bill on Feb 13th 2013

Filed in Bill Bickel, Francesco Marciuliano, Funky Winkerbean, Sally Forth, comic strips, comics, humor | 14 responses so far

The what did WHAT now?

Cidu Bill on Jan 26th 2013

I’m sorry, I can’t even parse that last sentence

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 15 responses so far

Funky Tea

Cidu Bill on Dec 8th 2012

Mike: We beat up on Batiuk a lot, so maybe he should be thrown a rose when he gets a decent laugh. (and this also echoes the strips transformation over time)

Filed in Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, lol | 33 responses so far

Where?

Cidu Bill on Jul 6th 2012

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comics | 4 responses so far

A couple of people asked me about this, and my first instinct was that “restricted text message” is something that exists only in Tom Batiuk’s reality. A quick peek at the rest of the week’s strips confirms this.

The Son of Stuck Funky site has an entire glossary of expressions and concepts unique to Funkytown.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 15 responses so far

Fluky Winkerbean

Cidu Bill on Dec 2nd 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 17 responses so far

DNA

Cidu Bill on Nov 25th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, DNA, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 19 responses so far

Forget Skynet: This is the day that TOM BATIUK became self-aware

Cidu Bill on Nov 7th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 21 responses so far

Moon

Cidu Bill on Jul 20th 2011

And we’re back live.

Of course by “live” I mean I put this comic in the queue back in June and it would have gone live this morning whether I’d come home from Boston or not.

And it happens to be several years old.

But still.

So what answer was he looking for?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 40 responses so far

Bonus LOL Collection

Cidu Bill on Jul 8th 2011

Filed in B.C., Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Cow and Boy, Funky Winkerbean, Garfield, Jim Davis, Koran, Qur'an, Sinfest, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, lol | 9 responses so far

TMI

Cidu Bill on May 12th 2011

How is “from a farm near Three Mile Island” a selling point?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 28 responses so far

Just wondering…

Cidu Bill on Apr 2nd 2011

What sort of horse’s ass of a teacher cuts into a lunch line?

(And in case anybody’s wondering, yes, there are schools in which teachers and students eat together and stand in line together)

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 29 responses so far

”Bad Timing of the Year” Award

Cidu Bill on Mar 13th 2011

Can’t really blame Batiuk for this one, of course, since he works with a long lead time. There was far less excuse for the comic (I can’t remember which strip) poking fun at the Queen Mum, which happened to have been published the day she died. I mean yeah, strips are generally written and submitted three weeks ahead, but… she was what, a hundred and three years old? You really have to know you’re pushing your luck there.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Queen Mum, Tom Batiuk, comics, comics strips, earthquakes | 11 responses so far

Son of Stuck Funky (Winkerbean Snark) is Back Online

Cidu Bill on Feb 15th 2011

at this new address

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Stuck Funky, comic strips, comics | One response so far

S.P. Charles: ”I do not think ‘tweet’ means what Tom Batiuk thinks it means”

Cidu Bill on Feb 14th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, Twitter, comic strips, comics | 24 responses so far

S.P. Charles: ”Deja Funkyvu”

Cidu Bill on Feb 12th 2011

“Meanwhile, two weeks earlier…”

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics | 22 responses so far

Pencils

Cidu Bill on Dec 27th 2010

Is “four pencils and an eraser” another well-known phrase that Tom Batiuk made up? And is that actually a punchline?

I’d actually have described four regular basketball players and a much taller center as a message from Batiuk to his readers.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 20 responses so far

Dunk

Cidu Bill on Nov 28th 2010

What am I missing here? She’s supposed to be the greatest female basketball player Ohio has ever seen, yet her dunking a basketball is on a par with walking on water??

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, basketball, comic strips, comics | 46 responses so far

They tried to tell us we’re too young…

Cidu Bill on Oct 21st 2010

The reporter is too young to know what “nonfiction memoir” means? She’s too young to have been following the Funky Winkerbean strip and therefore doesn’t know who Lisa is? I’m stumped.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 39 responses so far

Senior

Cidu Bill on Aug 22nd 2010

He should really take it up with Batiuk, who draws him to look like he’s at least 70 years old. And not a spry 70-year-old either.
Anyway, a discount’s a discount, isn’t it? And we’ve seen how tight Funky is with a buck (also see here).

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, senior citizen discount | 20 responses so far

Why New York is Different From the Rest of the World

Cidu Bill on Aug 9th 2010

In Ohio this t-shirt would imply “anger management issues”?? In New York, assuming the pizza place was reasonably popular, a t-shirt with this sort of attitude would sell like, well, New York pizza.

That being said, of course… a piece of pizza? I’ve never heard that before in my life. Once again, Batiuk is apparently making up a phrase for the sake of basing a gag around it. Dude, that’s not how puns work.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, New York City, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, pizza | 79 responses so far

Sunday Funnies: LOL July 25

Cidu Bill on Jul 25th 2010