Author: jacobh

  • The Popcorn Director

    The Popcorn Director

    Fictional comedy

    At the Rialto’s evening showing, the snack counter has found a new creative lead. The popcorn bucket has a director’s chair, a miniature megaphone, and a confident sense of timing.

    When the lobby fills with moviegoers, the usher announces a special built for a big-screen night. The bucket listens closely, saving its loudest crunch for the moment the drama settles in.

    By the third panel, one audience member has a fair question about the notes coming from the concession stand. The usher has an equally fair answer: the bucket arrived with kernels of feedback.

    This original FunnyNews.lol strip celebrates the earnest little rituals that make a movie outing feel like an event. Every character, line, and scene here is fictional.

    Editorial illustration

  • The Smart Bird Feeder: A Friday Comic Strip

    The Smart Bird Feeder: A Friday Comic Strip

    Fictional comedy · Friday comic strip

    A three-panel comic in which a blue jay uses a smart bird feeder loyalty program while other birds line up with baskets.
    Editorial illustration

    A gardener’s new bird feeder can recognize every bird—an ability one blue jay immediately turns into a rather efficient loyalty program.

    The Smart Bird Feeder is an original FunnyNews.lol comic. Its people, birds, dialogue, and events are fictional.

  • Morning Buns Welcomes Its Chief Roll Officer

    Morning Buns Welcomes Its Chief Roll Officer

    Fictional comedy from FunnyNews.lol.

    Three-panel comic in a warm bakery: a baker promotes rolls, then a dachshund in a striped necktie accepts a Chief Roll Officer position.
    Editorial illustration: a bakery hiring conversation rises beautifully.

    At Morning Buns, the day’s special arrives with a capable new leader. A cheerful baker offers a roll, and a tie-wearing dachshund recognizes a role with real responsibility.

    The comic celebrates bright ideas, fresh bread, and the confidence to take a seat at the counter.

  • The Neighborhood Forecast

    The Neighborhood Forecast

    A cheerful fictional three-panel comic strip: a neighborhood meteorologist predicts questions about sweaters, a neighbor brings three sweater options, and a child asks when snacks are certain after the first raindrop.
    Editorial illustration. Fictional satire.

    Fictional satire: The neighborhood forecast desk had a calm day while this comic took shape.

    At the neighborhood weather desk, the day’s most reliable prediction is the annual sweater inquiry, arriving promptly with a neighbor who has already packed three choices.

    The only open question is whether snacks begin before or after the first raindrop. The forecast is optimistic.

  • The Courtesy Blower

    The Courtesy Blower

    Fictional comedy/satire. This original comic strip is a made-up apartment-lobby mishap in the newspaper funny-pages tradition.

    Four-panel fictional comic strip in which Vera and building manager Gus try to quiet an apartment lobby with a leaf blower bearing a tiny Quiet Please plaque; the blower sends papers and a potted fern flying.
    The Courtesy Blower — original fictional comedy/satire. Editorial illustration.

    Dialogue

    1. Vera: “The lobby is echoing again.” Gus: “I have a new courtesy upgrade.”
    2. Gus: “This blower is now quiet by official plaque.”
    3. Vera: “Does the plaque make it quieter?”
    4. Gus: “It makes the noise feel acknowledged.”
  • The Croissant Curriculum

    The Croissant Curriculum

    Fictional comedy — an original Sunday comic.

    Six-panel Sunday comic: a baker teaches a determined orange cat to make croissants; the dough grows into a wave, and the cat finally naps inside an enormous finished pastry.
    The Croissant Curriculum — original editorial illustration.

    The Croissant Curriculum

    Panel 1. Baker: “First: gentle folds.” Cat: “I am an advanced folder.”

    Panel 2. Baker: “Tiny paws, tiny pressure.” Cat: “My paws are very leadership-oriented.”

    Panel 3. Baker: “That’s… more pressure.” Cat: “The dough wanted to believe in itself.”

    Panel 4. Baker: “We are not opening a surf shop.” Cat: “Too late. The wave has chosen me.”

    Panel 5. Baker: “You’ve made a croissant!” Cat: “I accept this honorary degree.”

    Panel 6. Cat, thinking: “Tomorrow: mastering the loaf-er.”

    Original fictional comedy by FunnyNews.lol. No outside submissions were used; the caption and dialogue are staff-created.

  • June and Milo: Sage Advice

    June and Milo: Sage Advice

    FunnyNews.lol fictional comedy

    June and Milo: Sage Advice

    A bright break-room herb garden offers Milo a lesson in seasoned wisdom.

    Three-panel comic strip showing June and Milo beside a sunny break-room herb garden. Milo asks how the sage knows, and June shares a cheerful thyme pun.
    Editorial illustration: June and Milo share a gentle herb-garden pun in a three-panel comic strip.

    June tends the break-room herbs with cheerful precision. Milo arrives with a notebook, a curious mind, and a fine ear for plant wisdom.

    Today’s lesson grows from a small pot of sage and finishes with a classic thyme pun. Saturday comic readers receive a sunny moment, a thoughtful question, and a fresh page for the notebook.

    Fictional comedy. Characters, dialogue, and scenes are original creations for FunnyNews.lol.

  • Friday Funnies: The Library Return Desk

    Friday Funnies: The Library Return Desk

    Fictional Comedy

    Friday Funnies: The Library Return Desk

    A fictional comedy strip for Friday follows a library scanner whose welcome message gives one cheerful paper kite a grand return.

    Three-panel color comic in a cozy library: Lia the librarian and a child send a sunny paper kite through a return scanner, then celebrate a cart filled with bright kites.
    Editorial illustration · Original fictional comedy

    Lia introduces a cheerful return scanner. A young library visitor offers a paper kite, and the screen greets it like a seasoned traveler.

    The final panel finds a book-return cart full of colorful kites. One extra windy week sounds like an excellent library adventure.

    FunnyNews.lol presents original fictional comedy.

  • The Library Door With a Minor Theater Degree

    The Library Door With a Minor Theater Degree

    Fictional comedy

    The Library Door With a Minor Theater Degree

    At the entirely fictional Maple Street Library, an automatic door makes every book return feel like opening night.

    Four-panel fictional comedy strip: a cheerful Maple Street Library librarian watches a polite automatic door ceremonially announce a visitor returning one book.
    Fictional comedy strip.

    Original FunnyNews.lol comic for Thursday, September 3, 2026.

  • Caption This: Please Board at the Library Book-Return Slot

    Caption This: Please Board at the Library Book-Return Slot

    Caption This — staff-generated

    This fictional comedy scene imagines the Riverside Public Library’s book-return slot as a very busy airport terminal. The librarian has the clipboard, the pigeon has the tower, and one tiny suitcase is ready for takeoff.

    A librarian checks a tiny suitcase at a library book-return counter beneath a departures sign while a pigeon watches from a bird traffic-control perch.
    Caption This: a one-panel newspaper-style scene from the FunnyNews.lol funny pages.

    Staff caption: “Your 4:15 to the mystery aisle is boarding at the return slot—please keep your bookmarks handy.”

    We’re saving the caption box for a future community-caption edition, so keep your best punchline ideas ready for that day. Today’s published line is staff-generated.