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Cartoon By Dave Coverly

Many magazines are informative, insightful, even important, but only one is absolutely essential to understanding the human condition in this postmodern era. That magazine is, of course, Funny Times.

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Piñatas

A huge mecha made of pieces of oil refineries, gas pumps and oil tanker legs emerges out of the water
the first three panels feature ordinary people looking distressed while filling up their cars with gas. the last panel shows several businessmen surrounded by oil company logos manicially laughing while money rains down
An ice cream truck pulls up to a gas pump, the driver asks the attendant "can you swirl them?"
Man leaning out of a car talking to another says "I figure, the sooner the oil reserves are used up, the sooner we'll put all these fossil fuel problems behind us."
A 6 panel cartoon, each poking fun at fossil fuel dependency
man drives past a gas sign with his eyes bugging out of his head. where the prices should be it says "MARKET PRICE"
a man presents a hat to another man filling up his gas tank. the first man says "a white maga ten gallon cowboy hat- a free gift from president trump that more than compensates for the temporary increase in gas prices". tag at the b ottom reads: purchased by the u.s. goft from trump industries. made in china. do not wear in rain.

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Cartoonist Corner: P.S. Mueller

Bob Eckstein and Lenore Skenazy, long-time contributors of Funny Times, are also the authors behind Inspired by Cats: Writers and their Mews(es) and Free Range Kids respectively. Here are some excerpts from their discussion with Funny Times editor Mia Beach:
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Murmurs and Musings

Great Earworms I Have Known

Earworms have the bad connotation of being tunes that gets stuck in your head and interfere with all rational thought. But back in the day we used to have a much more benign terminology that we used: “That’s a catchy tune!” If you were a musician and you wrote a catchy tune that meant that you had a chance to make it “onto the charts” and maybe, with a little luck, even get your tune played on “top 40 radio”.
Read more: Great Earworms I Have Known