Lio by Mark Tatulli for August 12, 2021

Well that got dark pretty fast

Even for Lio this goes pretty far

Why is there a fingernail in my bratwurst?

…Made daily by Mrs. Lovett.

Mr Johnny Verbeck (Rebeck) and his sausage machine!

“It’s a cookbook! It’s a cookbook!”

and I thought being turned into a donkey at Pleasure Island was harsh…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_(1940_film)

Lilo, maybe it’s time to go home and newer return.

I wonder if this is what could have happened to Jimmy Hoffa?

It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters!

I’m seeing a possible beginning of a pattern here… (Psst! Liö! Drop the smiley balloon!)

“A lot of strange critters go in our sausage fritters!”

It’s a happy ending because Lio got a free balloon.

It’s true: you DON’T want to know how the sausages are made

Poor Albert Lamorisse …

Never order the meat loaf in a hospital cafeteria.

Ah, kiddy sausage ! Yum !

Grotesque.

And here I was sure that Lio’s balloon would eat the balloon of the other kid (if not the kid himself).

That kid must have been holding a red balloon?!

At least Lio got a free balloon!

IT meets Sweeney Todd

Too fresh for me thank you……

Sweeney Todd the Barber! My G*d he was better than a show!

No you didn’t…!

Did anyone notice that sly reference to Mickey Mouse on the smiley balloon bearer’s tee? He must be thinking he’d get a more Disneyfied event.

Swing your razor wide, Sweeny,Hold it to the skies!Freely flows the blood of those who moralize.

Attend the tale of Sweeney ToddHe served a dark and a vengeful godWhat happened then, well that’s the play,And he wouldn’t want us to give it away. Not Sweeney,Not Sweeney Todd, The demon barber of Fleet Street.

I’ll take two. Hold the mayo.

Soylent Green?

“Agent 99? Beware of luftballons.”

It’s amazing that the same cartoonist used to write a comic about a young girl and her happy, normal life. I can see now why he gave that one up and chose this one. It would be too hard to do both.

Buffy, you don’t need to work at Doublemeat Palace that badly!

Mmmmm. Sausage sandwich!

First thought – shades of Sweeney Todd!

Even by Lio’s standards this is pretty dark

The boy’s surname was Donner

Where are the pies? I guess Covid’s been pretty rough on the carnival biz…