I’m not sure I know what this means. I read a lot of British literature and it seems like “punters” can mean either people in little boats or just people walking on a path. No, I’m not going to bother looking it up.
If you would like to see these cartoons before they appear online, contact your local newspaper and tell them to get “Doctor Tuttle”! Then you would have seen this strip on or before Thanksgiving instead of a week later.