Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 10, 2018

I keep my nose clean just to avoid those evil experts in forensic macramé.

Also, add a dash of near-sighted, maniacal, and pith-helmed lepidopterists armed with nets ….

I wonder if there have been previous hoaxes. Just curious.

I don’t care if Lucky did it badly. It’s amazing that he did it at all.

His critic wants every story to be as baroque as Weird Al’s “Albuquerque”.

… of course, now, we’re equally screwed…

Well, I’ve got good gnus and I’ve got bad gnus…

Seriously, any such rumor would be worthless without a dead cow.

Lucky, just bark at him with your best siren sounding hellish yelp.

It was determined to be mostly square nots.

Frog Applause™ Cartooning Secret No. 4,761:

Trebuchet = Comics Genius

Frog Applause™ Cartooning Secret No. 4,761:

Trebuchet = Comics Genius

(ʜ/ᴛ) (& ʀ.ɪ.ᴘ). ʀɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴘsᴏɴ)

Frog Applause™ Cartooning Secret No. 8.30662:

Feint to Larson ≢ Homage to Thompson

You’re just lucky you weren’t born with a bull’s-eye birthmark, … Lucky.

This seems to be a photographic negative reflection of the one about thread spool discoloration following acid rain wading.

Who put out the sun?

Lucky’s hoax had caught with him/her. Prankster Lucky seems dependent on the rabbit’s foot, yet Lucky must remember that such luck hadn’t worked as well for the rabbit..

There must be Larsony in the air today. I mentioned him in a comment a couple of minutes before seeing this.

Gotta have those three clues to claim a Gary Larson hoax

And a cow. If it’s Larsony, its got to have a cow.

…or at least some Cow Tools.

So, Lucky is not a “bad dog” if he includes some colorful details in the hoax? In other words, hoaxing that “Gary Larson is dead” is fine as long as the details are juicy enough? Sigh. To what a state our Public Morality has fallen!

—Another new height (or depth) of Lameness!

My first stop was the little book store on the corner of Larson and Meerkat. There’s not much custom in brick and mortar book shops, but this guy also ran a book and arranged trebuchet shots on local academic sports action. Yeah. He paid kids to thow games. It made his book a money-maker. The joke was that his shop should be on Larceny and Mercenary. If there was some funny business beyond bad luck with Uncle Pete, he’d probably know about it. Heck, he probably made book on it. Getting info out of him would be the hard part. A forensic macramé expert could read his entrails and get the truth out, but I didn’t have that kind of time, and if I took him down, I’d be the one who ended up doing time. I’d have plenty of time then, all right, but nowhere to go. This was going to be tricky.

This is such a negative cartoon, Teresa. We come to Froglandia for lame enlightenment … or is it enlightened lameness… not to be kept in the dark.

Good trebuchets are hard to find, especially ones big enough to hurl a couple of dead, diseased cows, ready to pop their pulsing pustulence on a population of poor, panicked, prostrated peasantry praying beyond the palisade.

Midvale School for the Gifted said your diploma is in the mail.

A trebuchet throwing a dead cow into a net into a net of macrame,

does not a Larson cartoon make.

Lucky is thinking Blacky must have leaked the hoax from last night’s poker game.

Wow, certainly looks dark around there, oops..

I like how trebuchet and macrame rhyme.