Caldwell cartoon: a naked guy with a trumpet strapped to his forehead, and a naked woman with a fish stuck up her butt. (Caption only approximate from memory): “I have to be honest with you, I’m not actually a unicorn.” “Well, I need to tell you the truth, I’m not really a mermaid.”
What really makes it work is that they’re so clearly in love, their fantasies never should have mattered.
I can’t find it, but it’s a Far Side with one scientist riding on a fossil of a T-rex. Below him, another scientist is saying to a third, ‘I assume you’re being facetious, Jenkins. I distinctly called second before you.’
Can’t remember the cartoonist…
Two guys sitting at a bar.
1st Guy "My Wife left me, my dog died, I lost my job and all anyone cares about is my hat.
2nd Guy “What’s the matter with your hat?”
No love for Gahan Wilson? Among many, my fave shows three creepy-crawly tentacled aliens peering out of an apartment door, reading a piece of mail: “Occupants of Apartment 3G! You may have already won the suburban ranch house of your dreams…”
More B. Kliban, who was a wonderfully weird and non sequitur-drawing cartoonist that I ran across in the 80s and have been a fan of ever since.
Here are some of my favorites
Ah, so many great cartoons and artists in this thread! Larson’s up there of course, but I love seeing Kliban, Wilson, Mauldin, Addams and Thurber too. And Harris is and old fave too, with his take on the scientific community.
Any love for Sam Gross? He appeared a lot in the early Nat Lampoon magazine. Here’s one of my faves by him: Frog legs
That’s terrific. Never having seen it before, what I really like about it is that you start off on the left looking at the sailor talking and don’t get the punchline until your eye moves. At least that’s what I did.
more kliban
To me this has to be a question of “… Other than the Far Side” or it’d be just about all Far Side panels 
Sidney Harris has some great ones about academia and science.
My favorite one is probably the proof whose step 2 is a bubble reading “AND THEN A MIRACLE OCCURS”
From the lower half of the world, the recently retired Quino.
His magazine gag panels have a lot of not so much LOL but more of a “things that make you go, Hmmm…” vibe:
Information Desk: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
This one’s a strip-turned-single panel but still… “Izn’t it incredible all dat a pencil can hold inside?” (pretty meta for an illustrator)
I remember a panel from a Penthouse magazine. It had a dead guy lying on the floor with his face stuffed into a bowl labeled Bobby. Beside the bowl was a box of “Purita Cadaver Chow.”
My favorite Far Side one was “Beware of Doug.”
A monk is sitting in a library, reading a book, titled “The Joy of Sects”.
(Googling, I cannot find that cartoon, but I find at least three real books with that title.)
A kid is holding a bottle, from which a genie is emerging. The caption reads, “A cheeseburger, a coke, and world peace.”
My favorite Far Side: It seems that Agent 6373 has accomplished her mission
There’s a probably unrelated moment in Toy Story which I think is worth mentioning.
Of course the far side gets a lot of love and many are favorites, but in recent days I like a couple from Jim Benton:
Appropriate, as we are close to Halloween
Again from “The Far Side”, why the dinosaurs REALLY became extinct:
One of my professors had a few hundred scientific cartoons on his office door, and my favorite was a big rally for people who wanted to “BAN P450”.
If we had a “like” button, I’d request that people do that if they got it. 
Can’t leave out Charles Schulz:
Yes, I know this is a multi-panel Sunday comic, but it’s the last panel I really love. So much so that I’ve printed it out and hung it on my living room wall. It stands alone!
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