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  • Caption This: The Quarterly Growth Meeting

    Caption This: The Quarterly Growth Meeting

    Fictional comedy.

    A manager presents a TEAM GROWTH chart to a conference table full of potted office plants, including a tie-wearing leafy plant and a cactus with reading glasses.
    Caption This — staff-generated caption: “The quarterly growth report was more of a photo album.”

    Today’s original FunnyNews.lol Caption This imagines an office where the meeting attendance is exceptionally leafy.

    This staff-generated comic scene and caption are fictional satire.

  • Caption This: File the Organizing

    Caption This: File the Organizing

    Caption This Wednesday — an original work of fictional comedy from the FunnyNews.lol staff.

    A beaver office manager happily gestures toward an enormous tangled wall of filing folders while a pigeon coworker holds one blank folder in a newspaper cartoon panel.
    Editorial illustration for FunnyNews.lol’s staff-generated Caption This.

    Staff caption

    “Good. Now file the organizing.”

    FunnyNews.lol staff caption

    The beaver had arranged the folders by urgency, color, height, and the number of times they had fallen over. The pigeon had found the one remaining blank folder. Progress, it turns out, is often a feeling.

    Staff-generated caption: this edition does not accept or feature public submissions.

    The scene, characters, dialogue, and caption are fictional comedy.

  • The Great Sock Reunion

    The Great Sock Reunion

    Fictional comedy

    A missing match, an open dryer, and one very literal explanation bring this laundromat reunion full circle.

    Today’s original comic: Some socks disappear without a trace. Others just take the spin cycle seriously.

    Editorial illustration

  • Sunday Funnies: The Museum of Almost-Sent Texts

    Sunday Funnies: The Museum of Almost-Sent Texts

    FunnyNews.lol Funny Pages — an original work of fictional comedy.

    Six-panel Sunday newspaper comic in which Mina and a museum curator tour a fictional gallery of abandoned text-message drafts.
    The Museum of Almost-Sent Texts — an original FunnyNews.lol Sunday comic.

    The Museum of Almost-Sent Texts

    On a rainy grocery run, Mina finds the one museum willing to take a donation no one else wants: the text message that was drafted, deleted, and reconsidered a dozen times. Its curator has an archival system for every kind of hesitation.

    Comic transcript

    1. Panel one: In a warm museum lobby, Mina, wearing a teal raincoat and carrying a grocery bag, tells a curator in a plum vest, “I have a donation.” He asks, “A draft, a typo, or a late-night masterpiece?”
    2. Panel two: Mina holds up her phone and says, “A text I wrote, deleted, then rewrote twelve times.” The curator gestures toward a gallery sign and replies, “Ah. The Anxiety Wing.”
    3. Panel three: Mina pauses at a framed one-letter text, “K.” She says, “That one is very powerful.” The curator replies, “Minimalism.”
    4. Panel four: In the next room, Mina points at a framed “YOU UP?” and asks, “Is that from the permanent collection?” The curator says, “It keeps returning.”
    5. Panel five: Mina holds up a grocery-list apology and asks, “Where do I put this grocery-list apology?” The curator directs her to “The Perishables Annex.”
    6. Panel six: Mina asks, “Do visitors ever get closure?” The curator smiles: “Only on Tuesdays.”

    Mina, the curator, the museum, and every text-message exhibit in this comic are fictional comedy.

  • Career Outlook

    Career Outlook

    Fictional comedy. This original comic is satire, not a news report.

    Three-panel comic: a pigeon tells a recruiter that in five years it sees itself on a statue, and the recruiter praises the long-term plan.
    Career Outlook — an original FunnyNews.lol comic.

    A pigeon arrives ready for a very specific kind of career growth.

  • The Office Plant’s PTO Request

    The Office Plant’s PTO Request

    FunnyNews.lol Funny Pages — an original work of fictional comedy.

    Three-panel newspaper comic in which an office worker approves a monstera plant's request for personal time outdoors.
    The Office Plant’s PTO Request — an original FunnyNews.lol comic strip.

    The Office Plant’s PTO Request

    When an office plant starts looking a little droopy, its coworker assumes the answer is water. The plant, however, has filed a far more ambitious request: personal time outdoors.

    Comic transcript

    1. Panel one: In a sunny shared office, an adult worker in a rust-orange sweater looks at a tall monstera plant in a blue pot and says, “You look droopy.” The plant replies, “I’m submitting PTO.”
    2. Panel two: The worker asks, “Plants get PTO?” The plant explains, “Personal Time Outdoors.”
    3. Panel three: With the window open, the worker says, “Approved. Take the window.” The plant replies, “Finally. Management listens.”

    All characters, dialogue, and events in this comic are fictional comedy.

  • The Lost Sock Agency

    The Lost Sock Agency

    FunnyNews.lol Funny Pages — an original work of fictional comedy.

    Three-panel newspaper comic in which Nia meets a tiny sock detective who explains that missing socks are attending a social club.
    The Lost Sock Agency — an original FunnyNews.lol comic strip.

    The Lost Sock Agency

    Nia arrives at the laundromat with one blue-striped sock and the familiar feeling that its partner has slipped into another dimension. The washer has a more administrative explanation—and a very small detective ready to take the case.

    Comic transcript

    1. Panel one: In a neighborhood laundromat, Nia holds up one blue-striped sock and says, “Another sock vanished.” The display on an open washer reads, “SINGLE-SOCK INTAKE.”
    2. Panel two: A tiny gray sock detective in a tan trench coat and red fedora emerges from the washer with a magnifying glass. Nia says, “Blue stripes. Very independent.” The detective asks, “Describe the missing partner.”
    3. Panel three: The detective gestures toward a board titled “SOCK SOCIAL CLUB,” where cheerful mismatched socks have gathered. The detective says, “Not lost. Networking.” Nia replies, “Honestly? Good for them.”

    Nia, the Lost Sock Agency, and all sock social clubs are fictional comedy.

  • The Checkout Has a Snack Opinion

    The Checkout Has a Snack Opinion

    Fictional comedy from the FunnyNews.lol funny pages.

    At the neighborhood library, the self-checkout kiosk has discovered reader recommendations. Unfortunately, it has also discovered snacks.

    Today’s original strip is a gentle reminder that an enthusiastic machine is still no substitute for a librarian—especially when it starts reviewing pretzels.

    All characters and events in this comic are fictional.

  • Caption This: The Fitted Sheet Has Eight Corners Now

    Caption This: The Fitted Sheet Has Eight Corners Now

    Fictional comedy. This Wednesday’s Caption This is an original FunnyNews.lol comic.

    A purple octopus tries to fold an enormous blue fitted sheet in a laundromat while an orange cat rests on a dryer.
    Caption This — staff caption: “I had it in the first tentacle.”

    Staff caption

    “I had it in the first tentacle.”

    Our staff-generated caption accompanies this original fictional scene. Public caption submissions are not currently collected or featured.

  • The Suggestion Box Answers Back

    The Suggestion Box Answers Back

    Fictional comic. Original comedy from FunnyNews.lol.

    When an office suggestion box becomes a little too efficient, one request for fewer meetings produces exactly the kind of answer nobody wanted.

    Today’s strip: The Suggestion Box Answers Back