I've been finding comic strips that have funny jokes that connect loosely to writing or promoting and thought I would share a few today. Sometimes we just need to sit back and have a good laugh. This first one is from the strip, Bizarro   by Dan Piraro.  It is a single panel strip showing the Disney character, Elmer Fudd, running from a big blue bird. Fudd is yelling, "Retweet, Retweet." (If you visit Dan's site and click on his blog you can see the cartoon. Much funnier to see it that try to imagine it from my description.) This next one is from Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley. Bucky Kat has gone on and on for several panels justifying a video game that he created that is not fit for Rob to buy for a nephew. Bucky tells this long story about a vacationing prude who ends up on a nudist beach by mistake and is horrified to see a naked man who has fallen asleep on the beach. He picks up the book and "placed it over him where the sun shouldn't be shining." ...

Help for writers can come from anyplace. I noticed these while reading the Sunday comics. From ONE BIG HAPPY RUTHIE:  This is my story about a beautiful princess who doesn't want to be a princess anymore. So she goes to a dancing school. JOE: Ha! Hee, Hee. That's so dumb, Ruthie. Everybody knows they can't dance. RUTHIE: Princesses? JOE: No. Schools. From PEANUTS: SNOOPY writes: "I will always wait for you," she said. "I'm not going anyplace," he said." "If you don't go anyplace, I can't wait for you," she said. LUCY: That's the dumbest thing I ever read. SNOOPY: I'll add some footnotes. From GET FUZZY BUCKY KAT: Can I read you my new ghost story? SATCHEL: What's it about? BUCKY KAT: A guy goes into a haunted house and ends up becoming a ghost himself. Satchel acts all scared in that way he has of driving Kat nuts. BUCKY KAT: Ahem.  Dave went into the scary house. Before he knew what wa...