History FunnyBackgroundEvent / ComicBooks

** In ''ComicBook/PowerGirl2009'', Kara and Terra duck into an alley to change into their costumes, with Power Girl lecturing Terra on how she should have DressedInLayers. A bum in the alley enjoys the free fan service. In another scene, KAra's pet cat Stinky can be seen stealing some shrimp from her Chinese take out.

* Paul Sample's ''ComicBook/{{Ogri}}'' cartoons have entire little subplots taking place as Funny Background Events. For example, a dog is looking down a drain; then the drain eats the dog; then the drain belches; then it spits the bones out. Or the main sequence of the strip involves a bike cop stopping Malcolm and rabbiting on endlessly as he pulls charge after charge out of the "Police Officer's Handbook of Fantasy Charges" to charge Malcolm with, while in the background Ogri is taking the cop's bike apart and selling the bits to random passers-by; when the cop is finally finished and turns back to his bike, Ogri has disappeared and nothing is left of the bike either.
* Allison Bechdel's ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' contains lots of background goodies, such as a sign reading "Try our gluten-free, lactose-free, low-fat white pizza!"
* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': Every page of the comic is chock-full with little details, so these are pretty common.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' often has small, easily missed gags in strips where the characters talk in front of paintings, posters, or photographs. A recurring gag is the object in question changing between panels (such as a person on a magazine cover being in a different pose). Likewise, whenever a character is reading a newspaper there will usually be a joke about a [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue cartoonist]] in the headline.
* Done in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' when Calvin's Mom says that she hasn't seen Calvin for about fifteen minutes. We then see out the window while she's reading the newspaper, where the family car is rolling into the road and Calvin and Hobbes are chasing it. In the last panel, she says that it probably means he's getting in trouble.

* In [[http://www.gocomics.com/candorville/2012/06/10 this]] ''ComicStrip/{{Candorville}}'' strip, the diploma on the wall changes from "M.A." to "Ph.D" to "WTF".

* A frequent part of Amanda Conner's whimsical and humorous art style.
** ComicBook/PowerGirl and Terra duck into an alley to change into their costumes, with Power Girl lecturing Terra on how she should have DressedInLayers. A bum in the alley enjoys the free fan service.
** In another, PG's pet cat Stinky can be seen stealing some shrimp from her Chinese take out.

* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'':

* In a number of her earliest appearances in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', ComicBook/{{X 23}} can be seen aping Comicbook/{{Psylocke}}'s mannerisms and postures in the background, including one scene where Betsy is lounging sexily, and Laura mimics her with an exaggerated kissy-face. In another she tries to braid her hair the same way Psylocke has, but ends up with a messy ponytail instead. Doubles as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as such behavior is eventually established as quite OOC for the much more stoic and reserved Laura most fans are accustomed to.

** One in 1992 was a plane hitting the World Trade Center while in the foreground, the Statue of Liberty is accompanied by a second statue (of Ibáñez himself) roasting a weenie on her torch. It's the current page image for HarsherInHindsight.

* Creator/SergioAragones lives and breathes this trope. The bulk of his Magazine/{{MAD}} work, the Marginals, could be considered this to whatever else is happening on the page (since they happen, as the name implies, in the margins), and his other works, like ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer, feature silly things happening in the periphery of the action pretty much anytime there's room for it.
* The UK comic artist Tom Paterson (''Calamity James'' in ''ComicBook/TheBeano''; ''Sweeney Toddler'' in ''Comicbook/WhizzerAndChips'') is extremely fond of this, to the extent that sometimes the main action of the strip almost gets crowded out of the panels. (His "little squelchy thingies" in ''Calamity James'' eventually got their own [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Jm70Jx1fU-Y/SosgS_FSA3I/AAAAAAAAABk/qke7kgqKR2U/s1600-h/CCalamityjamessquecheys.jpg full page spotters' guide]]).

* In ''Comicbook/AtomicRobo'', during the '70s segment of ''The Shadow from Beyond Time'', Robo meets with Carl Sagan at a diner. A waitress inside is sufficiently distracted by this scene to [[http://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/v3ch4-page-2 cause a bit of a mess...]]

%%* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': Every page of the comic is chock-full with little details, so these are pretty common.

* Paul Sample's ''{{Ogri}}'' cartoons have entire little subplots taking place as Funny Background Events. For example, a dog is looking down a drain; then the drain eats the dog; then the drain belches; then it spits the bones out. Or the main sequence of the strip involves a bike cop stopping Malcolm and rabbiting on endlessly as he pulls charge after charge out of the "Police Officer's Handbook of Fantasy Charges" to charge Malcolm with, while in the background Ogri is taking the cop's bike apart and selling the bits to random passers-by; when the cop is finally finished and turns back to his bike, Ogri has disappeared and nothing is left of the bike either.

** One in 1992 was a plane hitting the World Trade Center while in the foreground, the Statue of Liberty is accompanied by a second statue (of Ibáñez himself) roasting a weenie on her torch. It's the current page image for FunnyAneurysmMoment.

* Ibañez, author of the Spanish ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' comic books series, absolutely loves to do this. It is not a rare occurrence to spot a random pedestrian with his nose coming out the back of his head, pigeons with horse-like faces, the bare feet of someone sleeping in an unorthodox place like a folder cabinet or a trash bin, mice chasing cats chasing dogs, anthropomorphic buildings, cars parked upside down... The list goes on.

** When ''Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'' kidnaps Supergirl in ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'' storyline to brainwash her into one of his [[AmazonBrigade Female Furies]], Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman visit the civilian home of Mr. Miracle and Big Barda in the hopes that Barda will help them get to Apokolips so they can rescue her. While she's discussing this with Superman and WW, Batman can be seen wandering around the room observing furniture and decorations, [[GreatDetective until a panel or so later he discovers a secret switch that reveals a false wall hiding Mr. Miracle's costume.]] Barda is not amused.

* In a number of her earliest appearances in ''Comicbook/UncannyXMen'', Comicbook/{{X 23}} can be seen aping Comicbook/{{Psylocke}}'s mannerisms and postures in the background, including one scene where Betsy is lounging sexily, and Laura mimics her with an exaggerated kissy-face. In another she tries to braid her hair the same way Psylocke has, but ends up with a messy ponytail instead. Doubles as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as such behavior is eventually established as quite OOC for the much more stoic and reserved Laura most fans are accustomed to.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' sometimes have funny background events, like a man is chased by a dog or a child is swept away into a tree by his kite. The same artist, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samm_Schwartz Samm Schwartz]], usually is the one who does this.

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* The big fight in the second arc of ''ComicBook/RatQueens'' shows Braga in the background of one shot, swinging a man by his feet as a weapon against his friends.