Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 28, 2012

Nah, not worth the pixels….

in the old days they would soak the fruit cake in brandy, that might explain the need to regurgitate it. fizzy red soda would have been a good addition to the picture.

Here’s the secret: there is actually only ONE fruitcake. It keeps being handed off to different people; around and around and around.

How have I ever made it this far through the holiday season without seeing a cartoon character puke? Thanks, Mark! :-P

Might make a good holiday screensaver..

Fruit cakes are not to eaten but used as a door stop until regifted next year.

The birth of The Blob.

Ick.

My little town of Independence Ca (750 pop) has a yearly FRUITCAKE FESTIVAL right before Christmas – entertainment and dancing, costume awards, fruitcake judging (including a prize for the one that breaks the knife!); admission is a fruitcake or eggnog. Its a big spoof and fun filled night; the fruitcake is served at the end of the evening.

Man I LOVED the brandy soaked fruitcake as a kid!

The expression on Lio’s face in the first panel is spot on.

I liked Klaxton fruitcakes my parents got around Christmas when I was a kid. I never understood all the fruitcake hate.

He probably saw the virgin Mary there….

Good imitation of a mama bird, Lio.

I love this strip – the comments from the bleachers are priceless.

Leave Lio alone, he’s documenting his life.

Stupid kid—you’re not supposed to eat it, you’re supposed to pass it along ASAP to someone else. Like Johnny Carson said, there’s just the one fruitcake, no more, and it just gets passed around. Now what?

lio ate his cake and raaaalphed it too

He forgot to soften/sweeten it with liquor!

at least it’s more colorful than dad’s snot

ready to recycle

I take it nobody has had a Collins Street fruitcake. They are so good that we have to dole them out to last more than a couple of days.

Yuck!

I take two thoughts from Lio today. 1) Lio has an account on that social networking site and like so many folks is obsessed with posting pictures of his food (whether pre- or post-eatting it). 2) He should have chucked (not ralphed) the fruitcake, as did the character in the Gorey cartoon that is my current avatar on that social networking site [I refuse to use its name: no free publicity, no cues for search engines].