Author: jacobh

  • The Great Sock Census

    The Great Sock Census

    Original comic strip · Fictional comedy

    The Great Sock Census

    A tiny household survey discovers that every sock has an independent streak.

    Three-panel original comic: a cheerful resident counts mismatched socks, interviews a striped sock, and celebrates a zero-percent pairing rate.
    Original FunnyNews.lol satire: the apartment’s sock census reaches a perfectly unpaired conclusion.

    Fictional comedy: This newspaper-style strip is an original work of satire created for FunnyNews.lol.

  • The Inbox Forecast: A 100% Chance of Email

    The Inbox Forecast: A 100% Chance of Email

    FunnyNews.lol Comics

    The Inbox Forecast: A 100% Chance of Email

    A Monday morning weather report for anyone whose desk has its own climate.

    Three-panel newspaper comic showing an office worker asking a smiling smart speaker about the weather, then sheltering beneath an umbrella as paper emails rain from a cloud.
    Fictional comedy — today’s forecast calls for scattered replies, with a strong chance of follow-up.

    Some forecasts arrive by radar. This one arrives by notification, politely predicts a hundred percent chance of email, and then demonstrates its accuracy with office-supply precipitation.

  • The Neighborhood Squirrel Zoning Hearing

    The Neighborhood Squirrel Zoning Hearing

    Sunday Comic · Fictional Comedy

    The Neighborhood Squirrel Zoning Hearing

    Niblet has a plan for safer snacks, a branch extension, and the most ambitious acorn elevator Oak Hollow has ever seen.

    Six-panel Sunday newspaper comic in which squirrel Niblet petitions a neighborhood zoning officer for a branch extension over a bird feeder, then receives an approved permit with a snack buffer.
    “The Neighborhood Squirrel Zoning Hearing,” an original FunnyNews.lol Sunday comic.

    Panel notes

    1. Niblet arrives at Oak Hollow City Hall with a petition and plans.
    2. Ms. Patel asks for the request: “A branch extension. For safety.”
    3. The proposed extension includes an acorn elevator and snack landing platform.
    4. Noise impact is “minimal,” unless someone opens a granola bar.
    5. Public comment is mostly whistles while the committee deliberates.
    6. The permit is approved with a snack buffer. Niblet concludes, “Democracy tastes like almonds!”

    Fictional comedy: This comic and its characters are original satire, not a report of a real zoning hearing.

  • The Automatic Apology

    The Automatic Apology

    FunnyNews.lol Funny PagesSatire: an original work of fictional comedy.

    Three-panel newspaper comic in which a mint-green apology robot at a public library apologizes to a child and then to the sunshine.
    The Automatic Apology — an original FunnyNews.lol comic strip.

    The Automatic Apology

    Satire: The town library’s new helper robot has mastered one skill: apologizing for absolutely everything. Even weather.

    Comic transcript

    1. Panel one: Librarian Ms. June unveils a compact mint-green robot beside a sign that reads “NEW APOLOGY ROBOT.” She says, “Meet the future of helpfulness!”
    2. Panel two: A child holds a library book while the robot says, “I’m sorry your book is so… book-shaped.” Ms. June looks baffled.
    3. Panel three: Sunbeams pour through the library window. The robot says, “I’m sorry the sun is shining.” The child laughs while Ms. June stares at the robot.

    This is fictional satire. No library, robot, or sunbeam was interviewed.

  • The Meeting-Free Committee

    The Meeting-Free Committee

    FunnyNews.lol · Friday Funny Pages

    The Meeting-Free Committee

    Satire — fictional comedy

    Three coworkers try to eliminate meetings and discover that the calendar has a very literal sense of “follow-up.”

    Four-panel newspaper comic: three office coworkers try to eliminate meetings, but a celebration meeting appears on the calendar.
    Original comic strip artwork. Read panels 1 through 4 from left to right, then top to bottom.

    About this strip

    This is an original fictional strip about workplace calendar logic. The characters, dialogue, and situation are invented for comedy and are not presented as news.

  • The Office of Small Delays

    The Office of Small Delays

    Fictional comedy / satire. In this original newspaper-style strip, a civic clerk turns the everyday art of waiting into an official public service.

    Four-panel comic strip titled The Office of Small Delays, labeled Satire, in which clerk Mina issues a permit for a two-minute delay and a commuter discovers he is early.
    “The Office of Small Delays” — an original staff-created comic strip. SATIRE.

    All characters, dialogue, and situations are fictional and created for FunnyNews.lol.

  • Caption This: The Bird Feeder Committee Has a New Chair

    Caption This: The Bird Feeder Committee Has a New Chair

    Caption This — Wednesday edition. This is an original fictional comedy scene created for FunnyNews.lol.

    A squirrel presides over a tiny park committee meeting while a bulldog raises a paw, a pigeon studies a bird feeder and a raccoon takes notes
    Editorial illustration: A very formal meeting in the park.

    Staff caption: “The meeting was called to discuss the bird feeder. The chair recognized himself.”

    Community submissions are coming later. This Wednesday caption is staff-generated.

  • The Official Sigh Permit

    The Official Sigh Permit

    Fictional comedy

    The Official Sigh Permit

    A regular FunnyNews.lol comic strip.

    Four-panel fictional newspaper comic: a bicycle commuter asks for a permit to sigh, a cheerful city clerk produces an absurdly long form, and a passerby stamps the form approved after the commuter gives a large relieved sigh.
    Original fictional comedy by FunnyNews.lol.

    At the fictional city permits counter, a commuter discovers that a simple sigh has its own bureaucratic category. The regular form is brief; the civic exhale is another department entirely.

  • The Indoor Weather Desk

    The Indoor Weather Desk

    Fictional comedy

    The Indoor Weather Desk

    A regular FunnyNews.lol comic strip.

    Four-panel fictional newspaper comic: a visitor returns a red umbrella to a lost-and-found clerk, who directs it to an indoor-weather shelf before returning the visitor's map from outdoor navigation.
    Original fictional comedy by FunnyNews.lol.

    At the city lost-and-found desk, misplaced objects are assigned to the department where they make the most sense. The umbrella gets a sunny shelf; the map gets pointed firmly outdoors.

  • The Plant Has a Plan

    The Plant Has a Plan

    Four-panel newspaper comic showing a houseplant rolling away for a weekend break while its tenant and building superintendent look on.
    Editorial illustration

    The Plant Has a Plan is an original fictional Sunday comic.

    1. Panel 1: A tenant waters a droopy houseplant and says, “You look droopy.”
    2. Panel 2: The plant grows tiny wheels and labels its pot “WEEKEND.”
    3. Panel 3: A building superintendent spots the rolling plant and asks, “Going somewhere?”
    4. Panel 4: The plant enjoys a sunny park bench with lemonade. The tenant says, “Honestly, it needed the break.”

    Fictional comedy for FunnyNews.lol.