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Nipponophile posted:Ha ha ha, what?  Nikaer Drekin posted:Apparently Nina's definition of "integrity" is "can't stop whining, ever". I mean, I know Bill Watterson's also hugely anti-merchandising, but at least he didn't devote weeks of Calvin and Hobbes to groaning about it. I like autobio comics because they give you a window onto another person's world view and, kind of like therapy, there are potentially a lot of interesting layers and self-contradictions to consider. Nina's World is not a great piece of work but I also enjoy (in addition to the really fun art and the general rarity of a woman's perspective in cartooning) the bluntness of Paley's work if only as a counterpoint to, say, Walt Kelly's well-crafted but fundamentally shmaltzy repackaging of an editorial cartoon in Pogo. C+H is a fundamentally different kind of cartoon and, while some politics come through gently - such as commentary on sexism or Mutually Assured Destruction, Watterson is remarkably reticent to present himself to the world. Personally I think it's appropriate to the strip, but it is also his right.
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No, see, I was asking "what" because I wasn't sure I understood you correctly from all the way up on the high horse you're posting from.
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Dopefish Lives! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLz7CKg6poA Some of you may be familiar with "Betty Boop Meets Popeye the Sailor", the first animated appearance of Popeye, which was a hit, leading to the sailor getting a series of cartoons that ran into the late 1950s. The Fleischer Bros. were hoping to duplicate the success with other comic strip characters, so they did films where Betty interacts with Henry (who was billed as "The Funniest Living American", which is a total bullshit), Little King (who was already animated years before by the Van Beuren studio), and Little Jimmy. None of them took off and the idea of animating other comic strip characters was dropped.
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Some Guy TT posted:Boondocks This strip and the last one really loving annoy me. Why is this complainworthy? It doesn't strike me as a request that any other kid wouldn't have gotten from some old lady. And, dude, TWENTY BUCKS! Twenty loving bucks! When I was that age that was a goddamn fortune. It's still a good chunk of change, that's eating out for two days right there. More if there's a good deal somewhere. Redeye Flight fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Redeye Flight posted:This strip and the last one really loving annoy me. Why is this complainworthy? It doesn't strike me as a request that any other kid wouldn't have gotten from some old lady. You see, Huey is a militant black activist but sometimes he reaches too far to take offense or see discrimination. :redandrover:
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Some Guy TT posted:Please tell me we're done with this. Maybe it's just because I read the Political Toon Thread, but any humor here is sucked out by the fact that I know there's people who believe this is literally true. DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:I like autobio comics because they give you a window onto another person's world view and, kind of like therapy, there are potentially a lot of interesting layers and self-contradictions to consider. Nina's World is not a great piece of work but I also enjoy (in addition to the really fun art and the general rarity of a woman's perspective in cartooning) the bluntness of Paley's work if only as a counterpoint to, say, Walt Kelly's well-crafted but fundamentally shmaltzy repackaging of an editorial cartoon in Pogo. For what its worth, I started skipping strips that focus on Nina's love life. Some sneak through, but otherwise I skip them. Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Even where I agree with her ideas on the surface, there's been nothing in Nina's Adventures that has made me doubt the idea that her whole life consists of raging at everyone around for her own self-inflicted miseries. Don't stop posting or anything, though, I'm just laughing at her rather than with her.
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Is anyone else a bit bothered by how the girls in Lucky Cow are drawn? There is something very odd about itI Greyhound posted:So across the Slylock Facebook group comes what appears to be a new "Oh, Brother!"? Sorry man that's an old one  Nipponophile posted:No, see, I was asking "what" because I wasn't sure I understood you correctly from all the way up on the high horse you're posting from. 
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Mister Beeg posted:Some of you may be familiar with "Betty Boop Meets Popeye the Sailor", the first animated appearance of Popeye, which was a hit, leading to the sailor getting a series of cartoons that ran into the late 1950s. The Fleischer Bros. were hoping to duplicate the success with other comic strip characters, so they did films where Betty interacts with Henry (who was billed as "The Funniest Living American", which is a total bullshit), Little King (who was already animated years before by the Van Beuren studio), and Little Jimmy. None of them took off and the idea of animating other comic strip characters was dropped. "Betty Boop in Labor Dispute" Dateline Toontown - Famed cartoon singer and actress Elizabeth "Betty" Boop has filed a grievance with her employer, Fleischer Studios. In an interview with the Acme Daily Reader, Ms. Boop said, "I'm sick of being used as a tool to further the careers of a bunch of losers. Why do I have to prop up these ---holes?" Mr. Fleischer could not be reached for comment.
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:Is anyone else a bit bothered by how the girls in Lucky Cow are drawn? There is something very odd about it
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:Hurf durf I too cannot separate politics from practicality nor can I imagine it in the mind of another The state of copyright when it comes to entertainment media is pretty hosed up. You could be the guy who cures cancer and your patents will have expired within your lifetime, meanwhile some corporation or descendants of some artist can still be raking in money a century after the original song was released and the singer is long dead. I also quite like paleys comics, I get the impression she's mocking herself mostly and does it with a certain amount of self-awareness. And hey there actually are too many humans on the planet, doesn't mean we shouldn't go extinct (i'm a parent of several children after all), but it's maybe the most serious environmental issue out there, the root cause of almost all other environmental issues, it's actually quite serious. I also enjoy that she's a bit hosed in the head sometimes. Nice to see people who aren't perfect, if we look at the the thread these are the people sparking the most enthusiastic discussions.
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Mister Beeg posted:For what its worth, I started skipping strips that focus on Nina's love life. Some sneak through, but otherwise I skip them. I didn't mind seeing this.
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Gil I did one on Jaqueline Cochran once because I thought a woman racing and war pilot was pretty cool. Retail  Hate to break it to you Mina but... Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Refurb is actually planning to use it as part of an elaborate turkey costume. Dustin  No political hamfistedness in my Dustin comics. On the Fastrack  I gotta agree with Fi. Dethany is seriously too invested in this. Safe Havens  Good luck. Those things are a pain in the rear end to take apart.
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AxeManiac posted:To be fair, if somebody is standing around outside a store selling you gift cards, you should tell them to bugger off because they are probably empty/not activated and you would have to take one hugeleap of faith on a dude standing around scalping gift cards. It's like something straight out of the YOSPOS Bitcoin thread where a goon had a friend trying to unload a couple of coins (worth several thousand dollars) and had insane difficulty in doing so. One guy said he'd meet them with cash, but turned up with a shopping filled filled with various gift cards and, when asked how they could verify that the cards were real, told them, "Trust me." Yep, totally copacetic to buy giftcards off strangers. Mind you, if you could verify their value with the store, I'd offer the guy, say, 60 cents on the dollar. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:Mind you, if you could verify their value with the store, I'd offer the guy, say, 60 cents on the dollar.
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Mister Beeg posted:Autobio comics are a hit-or-miss to me, although I like some (I'm a fan of Keith Knight, for example). I know I make fun of Paley's opinions, but at the same time I do find it refreshing because she's just so blunt about what she thinks. Also, very little comics posted here are drawn from a woman's POV, so there's that, too. In short, I agree with your post. This is why I love Zippy. It's basically an autobio in the form of the rambling musings of a mad old comics dork.
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GorfZaplen posted:I forget, what happened to Väinämöinen? Did it end or has it just not been posted? Pretty sure that wasn't nearly the last of it, it's just that the poster didn't have the rest of strips. Fingerpori  - I'm starting up a beauty salon where you can get e.g. bikini waxings by burning! - Still missing the name - "Alakulo" Yes, he literally says "waxings by burning". Obviously he just means hair removal, but burning? I guess that's a laser thing. What frightens me is that thing looks more like a soldering iron. Anyway! Alakulo means melancholy, blue mood, that sort of thing. Slightly better than depressed. It's a compound word consisting of ala, a prefix form of "low", and kulo which probably used to have some kind of a meaning in old Finnish that relates to mood (if not outright meaning "mood"), but in modern language it mainly means a "forest fire". Wiktionary claims it's also "a dry, dead grass from previous summer" but I guess that's a regional thing since I never heard that one. Fok_it  In keeping up with the tradition of ignoring the alliteration names for the power animals, I translated this straight. The nonsense makes up for the pun. Epiphany is loppiainen, you see.
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tiistai posted:Pretty sure that wasn't nearly the last of it, it's just that the poster didn't have the rest of strips. He probably means electrolysis, which is inserting a thin metal probe into a hair follicle, then quickly charging it with electricity to burn the hair at the root. There is also laser hair removal though, and they're both common enough things for a beauty salon to offer.
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Johnny Walker posted:Sally Forth Both of these are true. So goddamn true.
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Peanuts (January 9, 1967) Funky Winkerbean: It's the first creeping misery of 2014!   Popeye: They seem to be taking the haunting very well.  Rip Haywire  Pogo: That's what he gets for reading ahead. (January 9, 1956)  Out Our Way (March 12-13, 1924)  
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Oh foxy grandpa. Anyhow, I apologize for being a bit erratic with Moomin-posting, but I'll finally be home again tonight, so things should normalize again. Until then, I have a promise, and that promise is nearly 3 months of continous Moomin.  e: I'm however planning to buy more of the collections, up to book 9 ( which'll get released in august, meaning that there'll be 20+ more stories, eventually. I need to figure out the whole not-having-a-scanner-in-Oslo, though. After all, simply taking pictures of the pages is kinda inoptimal, but workable. SubNat fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:Cul-de-sac One of my favorite instruments.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_d%27amore
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