opened the paper and saw this..... also found it online, so i didnt have to scan anything...

:cthulhu: :heart: :beer:

Thank you, WK, for showing me the bright side of all the rain in NYC this spring! I've abandoned my plans to build an ark and will get scuba gear instead.

Melissa

My, my...all that rain! We got back from our house in Mexico last week...jeez...85 degrees with a nice breeze off the ocean...
sorry, just had to rub it in! :)

you guys arent kidding about the rain....instead of the roughly 3inches of rain in an average may, we got dumped on with 10+.... on the bright side, the 4-5 yr drought is gone.....

:cthulhu: :heart: :beer:

Yes!!! PROOF OF THE NORTHWEST TREE OCTOPUS!!! Yippee!!

Or, at least a squibbon... :heee:

Sushi and Sake,

John

this isnt cephy, but i have to throw it in because it confirms EXACTLY what ive been telling people for years.... its nice to have my rants confirmed....(or at least have company in being crazy)

daily laughter is so much more important than accurate facts... (i guess they have neither)


:cthulhu: :heart: :beer:

http://alanb.com/squid/squid-fs-comic.jpeg

:)

(PS -- I realize Gary Larson has asked that his publications not be reproduced... but this is a one-off, OK methinks)

i have not seen that one in so many years!!! :thumbsup: good job :thumbsup:

not on a sunday, but still comics....

I've attached this weekend's edition of Skylock Fox, with a true or false quiz about octopuses for the youngsters... answers are below, upside down...enjoy!

I really like that illustration, although it does not seem to have much to do directly with the quiz. I like the idea of the octo mimicking the divers shark cage! Very cute.

Any "Pogo"-philes, out there?

I recall that one of Walt Kelly's "Pogo" stories involved an octopus (referred to as an "octopobble") that took a liking to Howland the Owl, refused to budge from his head and wiled away dull moments by smoking cigars. None of the "Pogo" compendiums I have access to include this story-arc, which I believe ran as a weekday series in the early 1950's.

:?:

Clem

ANYBODY GOING TO PUBLISH A(ceph) COMIC IN A PAPER? :yinyang:

whassa pogo story? :twisted:

Pogo was a comic strip drawn by Walt Kelly. Yes, Clem, the octopobble exists, and if we get to visit the right people over the holidays, I might be able to locate the octopobble stories.

Aside from octopobbles, Pogo had a great deal of political subtext, and could be in the propaganda thread if the reader was up on the news contemporary to the strips. Strom Thurmond might be the only one in the comics whom readers today might remember.

Melissa

Aside from octopobbles, Pogo had a great deal of political subtext, and could be in the propaganda thread if the reader was up on the news contemporary to the strips. Strom Thurmond might be the only one in the comics whom readers today might remember.

Melissa,

Thanks much for providing some "Pogo" background. Fidel Castro did make an appearance, and he might be the last of Kelly's targets still standing. Please do let me know if you come acrost the octopobble, but watch out for ol' Champeen Hoss Head.

Porkypine

http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/o/octopus.asp

:)

Here's a one of mine. :)
I have several others, but all are from The Far Side.

:lol: :roflmao:

I just love Calvin........what an inquiring and inventive mind that child has!!!!!

J

Well, this is a Sunday Cartoon, not a comic, but the new episode of The Simpsons had a premise in which Homer builds a suit of armor to fight a bear that attacked him, when Marge objects, Homer sneaks out the next morning with Bart, when Lisa and Marge realize they're gone, they check the "Suit Closet", one of the contents being a: Contry Music Octopus, they then find the bear suit gone, and Marge gets ready to go, but turns around to find that Lisa has donned on the CMO outfit, "Just to see what it was like". Lisa then can't help but get into character by saying "Howdy Y'all! If ya don't like my song, I'm gonna spray you with ink!"

i was quite delighted....

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=15315#15315

Here's two more Calvin & Hobbes.

User Friendly touched on the topic of giant squid:

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030921&mode=classic

The fictious firm also seems to have Cthulhu as their boss (my favourite is the last one) e.g.:

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030510&mode=classic

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031007&mode=classic

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031028&mode=classic

Emps

Here's one of my favourites, I have it stuck on my office door!

I think I was a bit like this as a kid!!

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

J

found this online....

another frank and ernest comic within about a week!

:thumbsup:

WK,

I don't get it.

Clem

this past sundays foxtrot....

Here are some frames from Pogo featuring the octopoggle. Albert the Alligator emerging from the swamp with an octopus on his head

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Octopots01.jpg

and then recognizes how fortunate he is,

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Octopus03.jpg

even encouraging jealousy.

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Octopus04.jpg

Howland the Owl's trumpet playing creates complications

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Octopus07.jpg

which don't last.

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Octopus05.jpg

These sheepish octopuses made part of a border around a page with a version of the boy who cried wolf.

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Octopus01.jpg


http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/Octopus02.jpg

Seems Walt Kelly shared our obsession.

Melissa

wouldnt that make it a freshwater octo? or do gators do the brackish thing too?

Today's foxtrot, in anticipation of some movie or something :)

It seems ive been lazy (or maybe i could blame the cartoonists)

but heres another

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/files/snq040724gif.jpeg

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

(PS -- I realize Gary Larson has asked that his publications not be reproduced... but this is a one-off, OK methinks)

I've two signed originals on my wall at home .... wonder if I should copy them and place 'em online?

heck, auction em online..... you might fund a year or two of research..... if i had any cash, i definitely bid......

Hey! Did you know that the comic Mutts had an *adorable* comic involving a cuttlefish?? :D

While the dog and cat were gazing into the water off a dock they were standing on, cat in the spied a cuttlefish in the water. He mentioned to the dog that cuttlefish communicate by altering the color of their bodies. As an experiment, he stuck his head underwater, which turned a few colors due to the fact that he was holding his breath. The cuttlefish then looks aghast, and smacks him across the face with a tentacle, and then swims off. The cat looks at the dog, shrugs, and quips, "...must've been something I said!" :lol:

Dunno if you could access it online, but when I saw that sucker in the Sunday Times, i cut it right out. I can't wait to pin it back up on my dorm room desk, where it belongs. 8)

Later! :heee:

i think our fossil happy friends mightenjoythis one....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/uclickcomics/20040904/cx_nq_uc/nq20040904&e=2

LOL...that is hysterical!

:cthulhu: offscreen in the funnies
http://www.monkeydyne.com/rmcs/dbcomic.phtml?rowid=7336

You have to love that strip...the only reason I ever pick up copies of The New Times....funny stuff!

Greg, that's from the "build your own" site, Red Meat Construction Set. Choose your characters, write the dialog, and the program generates the strip.

http://monkeydyne.com/rmcs/

Doesn't that irritate the creator???? I can't imagine being able to do that with Calvin and Hobbes....

It can't irritate him very much, it's linked to his own site.

Ahhh...didn't see any links from that page, but perhaps you have to be a member? Funny stuff, I sent this link to all my fellow HPL fans, and everyone thought it was hysterical...very good! :notworth:

i think the toms are running low on ideas and redoing old ones....

pretty sure i pposted a similiar one talking about rainfall....

gotta love Non Sequitor:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/uclickcomics/20041017/cx_nq_uc/nq20041017&e=6

definitely think alongside get fuzzy(which unfortunately seems to be devoid of cephs), its probably one of the most consistantly funny comics out there...

if you check the weekly archives, um.. may be amused by oct 18, 20, and 22

Wizard of Id:

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/wizardofid;_ylt=AlFh3mS7RXiCz26PIWWUJ90D wLAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUC Ul

ok, its a webcomic but...

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=0PBF68002BC-Nautical_Awards.jpg#70

just a heads up...not all of the other comics are necessarily family friendly...

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/lio/2007/lio070222.gif (http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2007/02/22/)

Awwwwwww...cute, off to hug a cuttlefish.

Darn Enrico, you beat me to it! By the way, what paper did you find it in?

Hi Sorseress, there was a link to gocomics.com (http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2007/02/22/) in a post at Pharyngula (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/), -a squid-friendly science blog by the biologist PZ Myerz. :wink:

more Lio - apparently the previous squid wasn't a one off

http://www.uclick.com/feature/07/03/09/lio070309.gif