Category: Comics

  • The Button Inspector

    The Button Inspector

    Three-panel fictional newspaper comic in a dry-cleaning shop: a mole inspects a sheep's loose coat button, asks for its address, then gives the button a tiny suitcase, hat, and travel ticket.
    Editorial illustration

    The Button Inspector is an original fictional comic strip.

    1. Mole: “This button has come loose.”
      Sheep: “Can you sew it back on?”
    2. Mole: “First, I need its address.”
      Sheep: “Its address?”
    3. Mole: “It says it’s ready to travel.”
      Sheep: “Ah. A button with a pressing engagement.”

    Fictional comedy for FunnyNews.lol.

  • The Library’s Loudest Book

    The Library’s Loudest Book

    Three-panel fictional newspaper comic in a warm library: a badger librarian asks a turtle visitor to keep books quiet, an oversized book blurts out loudly, and the librarian gives the book a library card and earmuffs.
    Editorial illustration

    The Library’s Loudest Book is an original fictional comic strip.

    1. Badger librarian: “Library rule: books speak softly.”
      Turtle visitor: “This one has a big vocabulary.”
    2. The book: “BLAAARP!”
      Badger librarian: “That is not an inside voice.”
    3. Badger librarian: “I’ll shelve it with the audio books.”
      Turtle visitor: “Then it won’t feel left out.”

    Fictional comedy for FunnyNews.lol.

  • The Lost-and-Found Museum

    The Lost-and-Found Museum

    A three-panel fictional newspaper comic: a raccoon museum curator presents a single mitten, then realizes the matching mitten is on the raccoon's tail as a duck visitor points.
    Editorial illustration

    Fictional comedy. A tiny Lost-and-Found Museum celebrates its rarest exhibit: a mitten that was never very far from home.

    Comic transcript

    1. At the Lost-and-Found Museum, the curator announces: “Welcome! Today’s exhibit is a missing mitten.”
    2. The duck visitor asks: “Just one mitten?”
    3. The curator explains: “The other half remains at large.”
    4. When the visitor points at the curator’s tail, the curator realizes: “Oh! A live reunion!”
  • Circle Back, Literally

    Circle Back, Literally

    Three-panel fictional office comic: a manager asks colleagues to circle back, the coworkers walk in a circle around a desk, and they discover the agenda at its center.

    Fictional comedy. When a manager asks the team to “circle back,” the office takes the request with cheerful precision.

  • The Weather Desk

    The Weather Desk

    Fictional comic. All characters and situations are invented.

    A five-panel original comic in which a raccoon meteorologist makes an ordinary pleasant forecast feel thrilling with a fan, a tiny umbrella, and office applause.
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    The Weather Desk

    Some forecasts need data. Others need a fan, an umbrella, and the courage to call a pleasant day breaking news.

    Comic transcript

    1. The raccoon announces: “The forecast: sunny with a 90% chance of pleasantness.”
    2. It unveils a fan: “I brought the dramatic fan.”
    3. It raises a tiny umbrella over a plant: “And a chance of drizzle.”
    4. The formal conclusion is: “Our official forecast is: quite nice.”
    5. The frog replies: “At last, weather with a purpose.”
  • The Neighborhood Suggestion Box

    The Neighborhood Suggestion Box

    Fictional comic. All characters and situations are invented.

    A five-panel original comic in which a pigeon building manager reads bizarre lobby suggestions and gives a potted plant a tiny chair while animal neighbors cheer.
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    The Neighborhood Suggestion Box

    The building manager promised every suggestion would be considered. The plant’s new chair indicates a remarkably literal interpretation of that policy.

    Comic transcript

    1. Suggestion one: “Please install more dramatic lighting for entering.”
    2. Suggestion two: “Replace the elevator music with louder elevator music.”
    3. Suggestion three: “The lobby plant deserves a tiny chair.”
    4. The manager considers the request: “Frankly, the plant has been standing all day.”
  • Fern Takes the Calendar

    Fern Takes the Calendar

    Fictional comic strip

    Fern Takes the Calendar

    When Fern sees a reminder to water on Friday, the office plant makes a perfectly logical scheduling adjustment.

    Four-panel comic: an office worker leaves Fern the potted plant with a watering reminder; Fern studies it, takes charge of a wall calendar, then wears the worker's glasses at the desk when the worker returns.
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    Comic transcript: In panel one, the worker says, “Water Friday, Fern!” In panel four, Fern replies, “I moved it to today.”

    All characters and events are fictional.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.