“Back to the drawing board” comes from a New Yorker cartoon:
Another one from the New Yorker that became a common saying:
which was still famous enough for them to parody in another cartoon 22 years later:
The xkcd that I think is most famous:
What about “Loss”?
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Anybody stay up waiting for the Great Pumpkin to come on Halloween?
Aviation’s most influential beagle:
Another Far Side example:
Beat me to it. Totally the one I was going to go with.
The phrase ‘curate’s egg’.
In certain circles, “The Geek Hierarchy” is well known.
Courtesy of artist R. Crumb:
Dilbert popularized the phrase
“Random act of management”
And there a probably more Dilbert themes out there.
Were extravagantly macabre snow sculptures popular before they appeared in Calvin & Hobbes?
I think the trope of a Bully kicking sand in a weakling’s face comes from those bad advertisements in the backs of comic books.
There used to be (and may still be) Sadie Hawkins Day dances, courtesy of Li’l Abner.
Any overly complicated sandwich used to be a “Dagwood”.
Aside: Bill Watterson was inspired by the rather creepy snow sculptures created by Charles Schulz.
CB scared of his:
Linus and his army:
“Sickos,” by Ward Sutton (a.k.a. “Kelly”):
