Author: jacobh

  • The Weather App That Knows About Lunch

    The Weather App That Knows About Lunch

    Fictional comedy: Mira’s neighborhood weather kiosk has mastered the forecast down to the minute—and possibly the menu.

    Four-panel newspaper comic: Cal asks a cloud-shaped neighborhood weather kiosk for the forecast. It predicts a 12:05 sandwich, then predicts pie at Mira's bakery after she asks about dessert.
    A FunnyNews.lol original comic

    Cal came looking for sunshine. The kiosk delivered that, along with a remarkably precise lunch appointment. Mira tested its dessert outlook, and the little cloud had pie on the map before the afternoon could roll in.

    Read the comic transcript
    1. Cal asks, “What’s the forecast?”
    2. The kiosk predicts, “Sunny, with a 12:05 sandwich.”
    3. Mira asks, “Can it predict dessert?”
    4. The kiosk replies, “High chance of pie at Mira’s.” Mira brings out a pie while Cal smiles.
  • Caption This: The Lunar Lost-and-Found

    Caption This: The Lunar Lost-and-Found

    Fictional comedy · Staff-generated caption

    An astronaut at a lunar lost-and-found counter checks a clipboard beside a cratered moon tagged as an unclaimed item; Earth and a parked rover appear outside the window.
    Editorial illustration

    Caption This

    “We’ve had it since last quarter.”

  • The Copier Opens a Paper Clinic

    The Copier Opens a Paper Clinic

    An original FunnyNews.lol workplace comic.

    Four-panel comic: an office copier offers a calm counseling session about a paper jam while an employee admits the quarterly report is what feels stuck.
    One sheet at a time.

    Our newspaper funny pages turn everyday office drama into a fresh comic strip. Today, a paper jam becomes a surprisingly thoughtful staff meeting.

  • The Waiting Room Has a Fishy System

    The Waiting Room Has a Fishy System

    At this dentist’s office, every patient gets a number. The aquarium has taken the system one step further.

    An orange goldfish runs an orderly appointment queue for fellow fish in a dentist waiting-room aquarium as a surprised patient checks a ticket.
    Editorial illustration

    The Waiting Room Has a Fishy System

    Panel 1: A patient notices the fish tank’s orderly line. “I didn’t know the fish had appointments.”

    Panel 2: The goldfish points proudly to a tiny ticket dispenser. “We keep things moving.”

    Panel 3: The patient checks a ticket while the fish advances the queue. “I’m number twelve.”

    Panel 4: The patient asks, “Can I have a clipboard too?” The goldfish checks its list: “Of course. That moves you to thirteen.”

    This is an original work of fictional comedy.

  • The Little Delays: A Sunday Comic

    The Little Delays: A Sunday Comic

    FICTIONAL COMEDY · ORIGINAL SUNDAY COMIC

    At the Bureau of Small Delays, June helps neighbors file the little waits that make a day feel longer. Then a pigeon in a messenger satchel brings the office its most familiar case: the line itself.

    Six-panel Sunday comic page: June, a clerk at the Bureau of Small Delays, records neighbors’ everyday waits until a pigeon takes over the counter and June joins the queue with a kettle.
    Editorial illustration · The Little Delays, an original Sunday comic.

    Panel-by-panel transcript

    1. At the Bureau of Small Delays, June asks a visitor with cold tea, “When did the wait begin?” The visitor answers, “When I put the kettle on.”
    2. June stamps the visitor’s form: “Category: domestic suspense.” A small crowd waits behind them.
    3. June asks a pigeon carrying a messenger satchel, “And your delay?” The pigeon replies, “The line.”
    4. With the queue curling through the office, June says, “I can open a case.”
    5. The pigeon hands June a ticket marked “YOUR TURN.” “You’re next,” it says. “I am the clerk,” June replies.
    6. June joins the queue with a kettle while the pigeon stamps forms at the counter. June asks, “Has the kettle boiled?” The pigeon answers, “The wait has been approved.”

    For June and her neighbors, a little patience makes room for a little company.

  • The Lost Sock Museum’s Laundry-Wing Tour

    The Lost Sock Museum’s Laundry-Wing Tour

    Today’s original fictional comic strip:

    A four-panel original comic in which a visitor asks the curator of a tiny lost-sock museum where its star exhibit went. A placard points to the laundry wing, where a blue-striped sock returns from the spin cycle and says, “What a trip! I came full circle.”
    Editorial illustration. The Missing Sock takes a turn as the museum’s guest speaker.

    The Lost Sock Museum’s Laundry-Wing Tour

    Panel 1 — Curator: “Our star exhibit is the Missing Sock.”

    Panel 2 — Visitor: “Where is it?”

    Panel 3 — Exhibit placard: “ON TOUR: LAUNDRY WING”

    Panel 4 — Returning sock: “What a trip! I came full circle.”

    This fictional newspaper-style comic is original comedy created for FunnyNews.lol.

  • The Backyard Space Program

    The Backyard Space Program

    A four-panel backyard comic shows a child launching a cardboard rocket while a golden retriever turns a tennis-ball fetch into an orbit.
    Editorial illustration

    Fictional comedy: In today’s original funny-pages strip, a backyard space program puts a golden retriever in charge of mission control.

    A child builds a cardboard rocket in the grass while the dog watches the sky from a lawn-chair command desk. The launch checklist calls for a clear fetch forecast, and the countdown takes off as soon as a tennis ball enters the schedule.

    The rocket stays in its launch pad while the retriever races across the yard and returns with the payload. Mission control files the trip as a successful orbit after spotting the fence twice.

  • The Lighthouse Gives Kayaks a Grand Entrance

    The Lighthouse Gives Kayaks a Grand Entrance

    An original fictional comic strip.

    Three-panel comic in which lighthouse keeper Jo's evening beam turns passing kayakers into a grand flotilla entrance.

    Keeper Jo switches on the lighthouse for a routine evening. A beam sweeps over one kayak, and suddenly the little boat has a full red-carpet moment. By the next pass, the whole flotilla is waving for the spotlight.

  • Caption This: The Ice-Cream Shop’s Coolest Customer

    Caption This: The Ice-Cream Shop’s Coolest Customer

    In two comic panels, an ice-cream shopkeeper offers a fan to a snowman in oversized sunglasses, who enjoys a cone on the sunny patio.
    Editorial illustration

    Caption This: The Ice-Cream Shop’s Coolest Customer

    A summer afternoon brings one very prepared guest to the neighborhood ice-cream parlor. A shopkeeper offers a fan while the snowman settles in with a cone, and the sunny-day crowd looks on.

    Staff-generated caption: “I asked for a cool place to sit. They took me literally.”

    This original scene is fictional comedy created for FunnyNews.lol’s Wednesday Caption This feature.

  • An Aquarium Octopus Welcomes the Human Tour Group

    An Aquarium Octopus Welcomes the Human Tour Group

    A fictional aquarium comedy strip.

    The octopus has spotted another tour group. With a fish as its attentive co-host, it offers the visitors a friendly wave and narrates the sights on the other side of the glass.

    The fish asks whether the visitors deserve an impressed look. The octopus recommends a polite wave instead—and the child visitor is delighted to receive it.

    Today’s fictional comic: an original FunnyNews.lol strip about aquarium tour guides, curious fish, and the shared fun of people-watching.