Good morning, grandpa. Have you been enjoying the May flowers from a nice, safe distance? That pollen can be deadly. Don't worry, the newspaper comics have been depollinated.
welcome to my TED talk while you wait
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>>153609751 contemporary terrorism
>>153609763 DIVE!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVcAFtQ-bAQ
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>>153715035what a chad
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>>153715096shhhh, nothing unusual going on here. I totally didn't forget to post this strip last week
>>153609841 I read Tarzan for the plot
yup, they're still animals
lmao
>>153714986count weirdly is an Alpha. GET HIM!did you goof up again and there are only 5 differences or is the sixth too suerhigh int for my cofvee deprived brain? oh no wait got it, height of windswept mesa in the background, extra bone near eyes lair, whiskers in rabbit aaaand snake's tail near rabbit arms priority between panels (I was looking for another size dif so this one was the hard one)
>>153714986Chlorophyll needs sunlight to activate, and earthworms react badly to prolonged sun exposure.
>>153715187>did you goof up againbelieve it or not, I don't actually draw all of thesetongue, skull, whiskers, bone, snake, and mountain
pour one out
Five (5) cute facts about Luann:1. Luann a cute! A cute!2. She is the funniest funny in the Sunday funnies thread!3. I love her!4. Luann!
>>1537149862&4; Flipped bush & Exposed right wingThat's what he gets for eating spoiled food. P.S.- Wrong type of wormVulture's tongue, Bone poking out next to burrow, Hare's whiskers, Leftmost canyon hilltop, Eye socket from cow skull, Snake tail over the hare's armA cuttlefish?Marine biology is not my strong suit either...
hmmm
I learned this week that Frank & Ernest is redrawn like Family Circus, and it broke me
now that's television!
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>>153715532Hope springs eternal.
>>153715522but there's a king nonand Avon as in the cosmetics?
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>>153715558You'd think Lio'd be into a movie as dark and twisted as that.>>153715568>and Avon as in the cosmetics?As the Bard once said, "Bruh."
>>153715318sometimes it's just bad art. I'm torn on this one.
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>>153715661>that maponce again, nu-Mark Trail shows that it is now known for it's quail-ity
relatable
>>153715019If they could defy gravity, why are they called "rockets"?
lit status: revoked
>>153715060Please, Please let these two fuckups get together. Also nice quote from a Pokemon.
>>153715790>fancy unicorn dreaming about being dominated by applesThis tells us far too much about Dana's R34 habits.
pathetic
>>153715900Honestly not the weirdest crossover cosplay sex I've seen.
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back next week with more comicsyes, that's a threatta ta
>>153715836Popeye's alright, but they need to find a second joke.
>>153715069almost forgot the surreal dailies!
>>153715886The ads are multiplying!
>>153716056This week: I'm annoyed I couldn't find that Rocko clip about a killer-hairdo movie on Youtube for this.
>>153715246It really do be like that, Dagwood.
>>153716065Also, I just realized the callback in the last panel.
>>153716065You know, I'm just gonna ask it: What's with the conceit that Rosa is the girls's sister and not their mother? Is it some sort of Chinatown situation?
>>153716191>conceitDude, it's a fact. We don't know the full story as to how, but she has full custody. (Probably because their parents were shit.)
>>153715678>phil gets ipad
>>153715308Mmmm shota tummy
>>153716229Just like Donald has custody of his 'nephews'. Clean it up however you like, the truth is obvious.
>>153715019oh yes, they float
>>153716489The truth that you're a delusional idiot?
>>153714986Maricela is in that crowd shot>>153716191It's frequently explained that Rosa is the oldest sister
>>153715360>...but that's not important right now.
>>153714986Earthworms spend most of their time underground, meaning they can't photosynthesize.Mystery Animal: Penguin
>>153715977the Instagram page had some art for the competitors
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>>153716020Some of this lingo could be updated to be more relevant.
>>153715886I'm craving to butter those buns, if that counts
>>153715775When did Pearls become so boomer core?
>>153715019Video unavailable in your country.
>>153716303Eww, you are pedo! GROSS!
OFFICIAL TIER LISTMY (EMCEE) WIFE TIER:>>153715977>>153717723 (and the next five posts, but that many links triggers the spam filter)SLYLOCK TIER:>>153714986CHUCKLE TIER:The Argyle SweaterBig NateBreaking Cat NewsBrewster Rockit: Space Guy!Close To HomeCrankshaftFor Better Or For WorseFunky WinkerbeanIn The BleachersLioLuannThe Meaning Of LilaPopeyeSally ForthTina's GrooveWallace The Brave (Sunday)Rosebuds (Monday, Thursday)RetailCOMFY TIER:On The FastrackCul De SacPhoebe And Her UnicornRed And RoverRosebuds (Saturday)"FOREVERIAL TIEDUP ROSA, HAIR MUMMIFIED PERMANENTLY AND ENJOYING IT" TIER:>>153716065 (Tuesday)All others DNQ. Thanks, as always, OP (and the other guys, too).
>>153714986worms don’t have DNA
>>153714986Because Weirdly was always green.
>>153716065I enjoy the little moments where Maria appreciates her sisters beneath the bombast and bickering. Reminds me of my siblings.
>>153715128Wait, they did end up having two daughters, right? Did he plan that story that far back?
>>153716838What the fuck was Charlie Brown's problem?
>>153715318I know he introduced his stand-in, in Funky Winkerbean and he did a comic in-universe that is Funky Winkerbean but somehow it's the Crankshaft stand-in comic within Crankshaft that's messing with my head
>>153720758That's today's comic. Not "that far back".Since they had the twins McEldowney seems to "plan" no more than 20 minutes ahead.Forward and backwards time skips are just an excuse for depicting additional examples of "2nd base".I wish he'd wrap up "Pibgorn" though. Doesn't make him any money, so I understand his disinterest in doing so.
>>153715324Haha, Dill. Can you ever win?
>>153715454What do you mean?
>>153715570Read it as "CRAP Machine" and thought it was a "Does a bear shit in the woods?" joke.
>>153715692Wow, that is bad.
>>153716229Though here's an old one with the parents. They appeared a few times, maybe one once or twice. This is all from the webcomic era though, and so this isn't canon to the current series.Man, the art has changed a lot. SuprDee has really improved imo. Maricela just looks like a short teenager here.
>>153721082picrel>>153721112did the same
>>153721719I should have been suspect that any man could have produced such plentiful puns as Frank and Earnest requires. But I agree, a bit of a disappointment.I actually like the new art better though, so at least there is that.
>>153721719That is depressing. I also read an article there recently that talked about the state of newspaper comics.https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2026/05/12/the-zombie-comic-strip-apocalypse/>It is one thing that we comic strip fans are aware of the situation, but when newspaper editors, who are on the whole no more knowledgeable than the general newspaper reading public about comic strips, are taking notice it is a warning sign to the short form sequential art. Last week The Gloucester Daily Times used it at an excuse to do away with their daily comics page: “Another reason for discontinuing the comics is that many creators are simply recycling old strips.”>The trend among syndicated newspaper cartoonists seems to be retiring but continuing to keep their space on the comics pages by rerunning previous episodes of their comic strips. And the syndicates themselves are embracing the rerun movement rather than signing new comic strips to replace the old ones when they end, desperate to hold on to that newspaper space. (The last new comic strip from the Big 4 syndicates was Rosebuds in September of 2024.)With Zits, Baby Blues, Big Nate, and several other comics ending and going into reruns, is there any hope for new newspaper comics?
>>153722327I think the only real hope is from some shift in editorial. Maybe NYT, which I think has traditionally not had comics at all, starts pushing comics. The problem obviously being that Newspapers themselves are largely moribund.
>>153715810Kek.
>>153722327I don't think there's any way to stop the slow demise, short of newspapers themselves stumbling across a new business model. Either that or the syndicates find a new model on their own and publish outside of the papers. If anything I'm surprised they are still hanging on in the 2020s considering that people have been talking about the decline of the funny pages for decades.
>>153716065I'm so sorry for the way this video is titled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_ujzXgMUg
>>153722327>(The last new comic strip from the Big 4 syndicates was Rosebuds in September of 2024.)Wow, SuprDee really lucked out then. Was able to break into the business before the actual downfall of newspaper comics.
>>153722327A lot of newspapers are run by terrible people now, people who only cut and not because of failure or papers going down. They aren't going to care about comic pages. The websites are hard to monetize. If Gocomics went all full pay, for example, they'd lose a lot of readers , and if they went full free they'd lose money, especially because of their assult of ads, many use ad block or Brave browser. It's also getting harder to get new readers since millennial parents aren't getting papers and their kids aren't seeing comic strips the same way they might have. That's also why alot of creators went graphic novel. Big Nate is probably reducing to just Sundays (and no Reruns) because the graphic novels, and Phoebe did that. If you are a new comic maker, might as well just in those and skip the stress of trying to make it to papers.
>>153722327Reminder that Peanuts is to blame for this trend
>>153715219>>153716921>>153715219That's well and good but worms make the soil that plants grow in and it's the plants that photosynthesize
>>153724094Try reading the actual comic.
>>153714986- 2 and 4- Earthworms spend most of their time underground, so how would they ever get any sunlight? If he isn't lying, he's a murderer.- That's a really... Interesting geisha/worrm.- A penguin. Not much of a riddle there.- Vulture's tongue, skull's eyes, the mountain in the back, third bone behind the hill, rabbit's whiskers, snake's tongue. Took way too long to spot that last one.
>>153722327hear me out: vertical funnies
>>153722327>>153724413Honestly, the model of what newspaper comics are have just changed into being twitter and instagram webcomics or something posted to webtoon or tapas. There really is no difference between them anymore. The reason why webcomics exist in the first place was to be independent from the newspaper syndicates.
>>153715360That bottom middle panel though.
>>153715836>Competent, maybe not in a "to stand trial" sense, but still.I am so going to steal that.
>>153715499>>153725385And also this, going by how trend crazy you anons are throughout this weekend.
>>153716065Maricela in peril.
>>153716065>posting on a Maria basket weaver forum
>>153715822I still don't know what the hell a plugger is.
>>153715128Cute.
>>153727747It's basically an older slang term for a Boomer.
>>153724054you're really gonna diss my boi Peanuts like that
>>153714981I FORGOT THE SUNDAY FUNNIESFUCK
>>153717753genuinely somewhere between beccabae and randalin on the pear scale, jesus
>>153730299Don't worry, Anon.I'll give the thread a bump for you.
>>153715290Cathy tummy erotic!!!
>>153723237Man, I can't imagine how much pressure Dee must feel, knowing that unless a miracle happens he's effectively holding the newspaper scene from drying up completely. That's the kind of shit I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
>>153720793He actually had a personality at one point, back before he became the poster boy for antidepressants.
>>153716065Oh, god, this isn't going to be like the Tomie manga where Maria clones herself into whoever wears her hair, is it? I'm sure Maria wouldn't mind, though.
>>153716838They colored it wrong.
>>153715107I like Mae Mae
>>153715724Dangerously close to Gilchrist
