Comic Strip Megathread XV: So smile, Margo, and move on.

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Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Aardmania posted:

Pibgorn

If there is one thing that Brooke loves to draw, it's a dirty oar.

Clearly a Miyamato Musashi reference.
Here's a Kate Beaton cartoon.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 07:07

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# ? May 24, 2024 08:45

Midnight Moth: Sep 14, 2007; What the hell, dude??
I'm like, right here.

Gil

Goodness, Gil. What'll happen is you'll make a totally rad domino chain and just as you're about to set the last piece one gust of wind or rogue rear end in a top hat sparrow is gonna knock down your entire afternoon's worth of work.

Retail

With those lost expressions these people better not be discussing anything less than a serious existential crisis!

Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog

It took you six days to come to that conclusion?! I hope you didn't have to apply the five-step-process of engineering to get to that.

Dustin

Your eating habits aren't much better Dustin so take care you don't turn into your dad when you're over the hill.

On the Fastrack

Get real, AC. Only a magic zap from another guy can do that.

Safe Havens

Maybe you could call it... a wild goose chase?

# ? Mar 1, 2014 07:20

Pidmon: Mar 18, 2009; NO ONE risks painful injury on your GREEN SLIME GHOST POGO RIDE.

No one but YOU.

Midnight Moth posted:

Retail
With those lost expressions these people better not be discussing anything less than a serious existential crisis!

Your dialogue is better.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 07:55

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

# ? Mar 1, 2014 08:06

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

quote:

Can't help but think of today's qwantz.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 08:15

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ? Mar 1, 2014 09:32

shmee: Jun 24, 2005

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth

Of course, her favourive Goethe quote is �Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.� so deep down she's convinced they're all hosed.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 10:36

Nyeehg: Jul 14, 2013; Grimey Drawer

SubNat posted:

Yeah, no problem, I can run through the last 2 stores, which'll take around a month, then have you take over.

1 : I host them on Imgur, which is fairly nice, since you can just go to imgur.com and drag+drop the image straight from a folder into the browser, and have it upload, plus it can spit out IMG links so you don't have to do that manually.

2: Yes, I dunno what you have, but I've been using Photoshop for it.
Auto-corrected colour and contrast.
Set it to Greyscale. ( Although a lot of posters like the warm yellow-ish hue the pages have by themselves. I however love how stark and beautiful the black on while lines can be. )
( The poster who posted Moominmamma's Maid, where my avatar is from, preferred the warm yellow way. )
I also later started pushing the Levels slightly, making the blacks blacker and cleaning away a lot of the noise/paper texture, making the white even sharper.
Then rescale it down to 1000px wide, cropping away the giant margin beforehand.

Although, the width is kinda up to you, I've been using 1000px just to make sure that nearly everyone can read it without having to scroll side-to-side.
But the lower res does smudge some of the details.

Then I save it as a .gif with 32 colours( It saves a lot of space.), 64-128 for yellower ones, you'll be able to see how many colours you use, anyhow.

End result, fairly sharp and nice black and white comics, at only 400-700 kb a page, despite the size.

I suggest you mess around a bit, and figure out what you like the most, and what's most practical for you, really. It also depends a bit on what kind of result you get right from your scanner.

Comparison: 400KB vs 3.8MB
And my perhaps too agressive Black/White Level scaling on the bottom.

Thanks for the advice. I'll mess around with what I have and see how it turns out.

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth

I had to stare at this a good while before I realised Mary had any eyes in that second panel.

Also love that Johnny is so clearly depressed/uncomfortable in that first panel. Unfortunately his mother is too busy knattering on about nothing and Wilbur is so absorbed by his creeping that no one notices.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 10:37

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth

Or not. http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth12.htm

# ? Mar 1, 2014 11:08

BlankIsBeautiful: Apr 4, 2008; Feeling a little inadequate?

Non Sequitur

After that many shots, I'm impressed he can still walk.

Heavenly Nostrils is yesterday's.

9 Chickweed Lane 3/1/2003

Zits

Kevin & Kell

What?

# ? Mar 1, 2014 15:21

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Aardmania posted:

Piranha Club

Winding a camera? I think this dates the strip more than anything else I've seen. Well, it dates Bud Grace, at least.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 16:12

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

As someone who did time in the big-box store trenches, that Retail edit was a little too close to the bone. Y'know, Skippy always puts us in a good mood in the morning! Or whenever! What zany childlike mischief is our favorite little 1920s scalawag up to today? Let's take a look...

Oh.

(December 11, 1926)

Peanuts (March 4, 1967)

Funky Winkerbean

All rise for The State of Unrelieved Paranoia vs. Popeye et al.

Rip Haywire

Pogo (March 3, 1956)

A speech therapist could really clean up here.

Out Our Way (July 16-17, 1924)

# ? Mar 1, 2014 16:20

Pvt.Scott: Feb 16, 2007; What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Nobody forced Swee'pea to take up a life of ghost piracy. Let the scum hang.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 16:55

TofuDiva: Aug 22, 2010; Playin' Possum; Muldoon

Pvt.Scott posted:

Nobody forced Swee'pea to take up a life of ghost piracy. Let the scum hang.

So, just curious. In today's system, Swee'pea would be tried as a juvenile and even if convicted, he'd spend _{aw cripes never mind I just realized how utterly depressing everything in Popeye is if you connect it to any kind of reality whatsoever}. :drat:

# ? Mar 1, 2014 18:11

Cricken_Nigfops: Oct 25, 2011; CROM!

Cul-de-sac is a portrait of pre-teen angst.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 18:15

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

God that Petey face is amazing. :allears:

Tina's Groove

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Mother Goose & Grimm

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

Dilbert

# ? Mar 1, 2014 18:17

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Pvt.Scott posted:

Nobody forced Swee'pea to take up a life of ghost piracy. Let the scum hang.

I'm guessing he hangs, but weighs so little that it doesn't do anything.

So they just let him go.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 18:22

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

I think even Popeye would stop short of showing a child being hanged on the comics page, no matter how poorly it's working.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 18:25

Humanoid Female: Mar 13, 2008

Man, this FOOB arc is making me nostalgic for a time when people with plane tickets and hotel reservations could just give them to another person to use.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 18:28

Ice To Meet You: Mar 5, 2007

Green Intern posted:

Winding a camera? I think this dates the strip more than anything else I've seen. Well, it dates Bud Grace, at least.

I had to look up the reference from the previous day.

Wiki posted:

Due to PCBs' environmental toxicity and classification as a persistent organic pollutant, PCB production was banned by the United States Congress in 1979

# ? Mar 1, 2014 18:34

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Basically I hate Piranha Club for its dinosaur sensibilities, and Mother Goose and Grimm for it's nudge-nudge-wink-wink-I-told-a-joke humor. The latest "cartoon oscars please don't sue me" series of strips has been intolerable.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 18:51

TofuDiva: Aug 22, 2010; Playin' Possum; Muldoon

EasyEW posted:

Peanuts (March 1, 1967)

From several days ago, but I just couldn't get Rage Charlie Brown out of my mind, and since he's STILL mad about that tree...

IT"S A SHOCKING SIGHT!

# ? Mar 1, 2014 19:07

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Drimble Wedge posted:

Scary Gary

Sorry to quote my own post, but gently caress me I hate the commenters on GoComics.

Sisyphos posted:

In which, the tables being turned, Travis puts the joking hurt on Owen. (Note the tear trickling down his cheek, panel 3.)

This guy. This loving guy. I don't think he's smart enough to be a troll; he's just the most unfunny, literalminded douche I've seen in a long time.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 19:27

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Is Mother Goose & Grimm ever not insufferable?

Drimble Wedge posted:

Sorry to quote my own post, but gently caress me I hate the commenters on GoComics.

This guy. This loving guy. I don't think he's smart enough to be a troll; he's just the most unfunny, literalminded douche I've seen in a long time.

Oh dear heavens. This guy indeed.

Bloom County

at the days of Bruce Willis being thought of as a TV actor, instead of just a bad one.
And here's Don Knotts:

Gotta have roadies.

Calvin and Hobbes

Cheap Thrills Cuisine

Judging solely from today's strip, Get A Life! is just terrible.

Get Fuzzy was once funny. That was long, long ago.

Darthemed fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Mar 1, 2014

# ? Mar 1, 2014 19:31

Nikaer Drekin: Oct 11, 2012; THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

Thanks Internet posted:

I honestly don't think that even edits of that caliber justify posting this strip.

Sounds like somebody wants more of The Grizzwells!

This joke wasn't funny the first time, but the second time I laughed and laughed.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 20:20

Hoover Dam: Jun 17, 2003; red white and blue forever

Darthemed posted:

Bloom County

at the days of Bruce Willis being thought of as a TV actor, instead of just a bad one.

Don Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1sNImbI2Zw
Bruce Willis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K43BZ0FSOAY

Don't say you weren't warned.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 20:23

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Emmy Lou

Heathcliff

Mandrake the Magician

The Phantom

Pickles

Classic Prince Valiant

# ? Mar 1, 2014 20:56

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

GorfZaplen posted:

Emmy Lou

Someone make the dad in the penultimate panel an av, and then someone else buy it for me.
Momma

It is interesting to speculate on what drives Momma to object to her children's partners. My theory is that her bad children select awful people.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 21:17

Hamagic: Jul 2, 2008

AxeManiac posted:

thank you this is exactly what I was thinking when I read this

# ? Mar 1, 2014 21:22

Drakyn: Dec 26, 2012

GorfZaplen posted:

The Phantom

Darn! A klepto-ego-maniacal vigilante liar with a domino mask fetish is a catch you don't find every day.
At least she will always have ~~the memories of his chiseled purple abs~~ oh wait he's going to brainwipe her never mind.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 21:26

Wanamingo: Feb 22, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

Mr. Squishy posted:

Momma

It is interesting to speculate on what drives Momma to object to her children's partners. My theory is that her bad children select awful people.

Momma's a hateful person who is, above all else, afraid to die alone. She sabotages her children's lives in the hope that she'll be all they have left.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 21:28

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

GorfZaplen posted:

The Phantom

I hope this ends with the reporter waking up in her bed going "what a weird dream" and in the last panel there's the faintest outline of a skull on her cheek, an "or was it" caption and an insert of Phantom grinning impishly, raising his finger to his lips and winking at the reader.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 21:30

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Hoover Dam posted:

Don Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1sNImbI2Zw
Bruce Willis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K43BZ0FSOAY

Don't say you weren't warned.

Never forget.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 21:47

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Mr. Squishy posted:

Someone make the dad in the penultimate panel an av, and then someone else buy it for me.

Here's a few options:

Luann

Apartment 3-G

Pros & Cons

Sally Forth

The Amazing Spider-Man

Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Mar 1, 2014

# ? Mar 1, 2014 21:53

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Julet Esqu posted:

Here's a few options:

You're a treasure.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 22:11

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Darthemed posted:

Never forget.

We won't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WprhxGjq6_c

# ? Mar 1, 2014 22:12

DoubleDonut: Oct 22, 2010; Fallen Rib

GorfZaplen posted:

The Phantom

And then she was so impressed that she totally wanted to marry me! Too bad I've already got a hot wife.

Seriously, both Phantom storylines right now read like Walker's writing fanfiction about himself.

Edit: And it's totally pointless because she's getting brainwiped anyway!

# ? Mar 1, 2014 22:16

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Maybe the secret mind-wiping formula will give her cancer and there can be a Funky Winkerbean crossover.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 22:18

His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

My Lovely Horse posted:

I hope this ends with the reporter waking up in her bed going "what a weird dream" and in the last panel there's the faintest outline of a skull on her cheek, an "or was it" caption and an insert of Phantom grinning impishly, raising his finger to his lips and winking at the reader.

if by cheek you mean rear end cheek*.

* For the ghost who cheats.

# ? Mar 1, 2014 22:25

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# ? May 24, 2024 08:45

Bitchtits McGee: Jul 1, 2011

Darthemed posted:

Never forget.

Why would I want to?

Jim's Journal

Stay classy, T-Bone.

Johnny Hazard

This strip is really starting to try my patience. :mad:

Krazy Kat

Ye plotte thickeneth!

Classic Mandrake

The World's Strongest Man :3:

Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future

This is what you meant by "back in time", Dan? Are you seriously telling me you've got colonies on Mars and instantaneous lag-free video chat across the solar system but are left completely poleaxed by the concept of "reruns"?!

# ? Mar 1, 2014 23:07

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