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Say Nothing posted:I'm pretty sure they are lesbians. 
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May 13, 2014 10:05
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Say Nothing posted:I'm pretty sure they are lesbians. In every comic. Fingerpori  Fok_It  I should probably try that. Living solely in the now hasn't been doing me much good either. 
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May 13, 2014 13:07
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Cul-de-sac Beni's dead!!   The Creeps gets an A in composition.  Candorville on the other hand, gets a big red F with a circle around it and 'see me' in the upper right hand corner.  Broom Hilda backs dat rear end up  
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May 13, 2014 14:03
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There is no "point" to Zippy. There is only Zippy.  Paige posted something about a GoComics fuckup on her FB page, so the 12th's and today's are the same. Okey doke. Jane's World  I don't know  either, but I am interested in finding out what the hell the "Nevada Liberation Militia" is.Non Sequitur  Whatever.. bleh. I'm happy to say I'm a real man who can hold his gluten. Double Heavenly Nostrils, we're back on track.   Kliban's Cats   9 Chickweed Lane 5/13/2003  And all of the pages are stuck together, aren't they Amos? Zits  I'm sorry, but it would be loving hilarious if Sara had another date...  Kevin & Kell  What? That's just dumb. Nemi  Makes sense? I think?
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May 13, 2014 14:05
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I gotta say, the thing that most fascinates me about Emmy Lou is how well Marty Links documents the styles of the period. If you look at most strips with young characters, the characters fit into one of two styles - either some sort of timeless 'generic white middle class' style (Dustin, Shoe, Blondie, FOOB) or into the 'distinctly the style worn when the character was created and has never updated' (Zits, Nancy). Emmy Lou really stands out for having the main characters actually dress in the style that fashion-concious teenagers of its time would, and updating that style as times changed. Having looked up the author on Wikipedia, it turns out that Marty Links was educated at San Francisco's Fashion Art Institute, so I guess it makes sense that she paid so much attention to style and dress. fake edit: wait, it took three people to make Emmy Lou? A gag writer, a penciler, and an inker? That's... that's a lot more effort than I would have expected. Eschers Basement fucked around with this message at 14:09 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 14:07
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Skippy (February 22, 1927) Peanuts (May 16, 1967)  "Dear friend, this is secret penmanship practice..." Funky Winkerbean  Looking like you're about to die and then passing out on the floor is hilarious! Popeye  Rip Haywire  Pogo: You don't have to be Nate Silver to spot the institutional bias here. (May 15, 1956)  Droodles (September 1, 1954)  Out Our Way (December 17-18, 1924)  
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May 13, 2014 14:14
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Monty Mike du Jour 
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May 13, 2014 14:28
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The Dinette Set I missed it in the theaters too. 
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May 13, 2014 14:31
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Evil Mastermind posted:The Dinette Set Inversely, I thought I was going to the very last showing of The Grand Budapest Hotel at my local theater, and it's been there for like two weeks since. I don't really mind, it's a great movie and I'm glad it appears to be doing good business, but with the plot of that movie, seeing it on the very last day would have been quite fitting.
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May 13, 2014 14:44
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Indolent Bastard posted:Mike du Jour[/b] A good MdJ? I feel shameful acknowledging it as such.
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May 13, 2014 15:26
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Helicity posted:A good MdJ? I feel shameful acknowledging it as such. e: if you write things like "yes it's a mullet" under your comic panels where you've drawn a mullet or "meanwhile at the bar" on the panel where you see the bar, you should rethink your choice of art form and/or evaluate your self esteem. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 15:38 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 15:30
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Looks like as of yesterday, Super-Fun-Pak Comix from Tom the Dancing Bug is it's own thing. Here are the first two:  
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May 13, 2014 15:38
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Julet Esqu posted:What if he does it from cold, unfeeling cynicism? Because I think that's what it is. While I believe he likes country music and tits, I don't believe he gives a crap about Grand 'Ol Oprey and bears with angel wings and VIET NAM VETS and whatever the hell else. He knows who his audience is and he draws and writes whatever he thinks will get them to buy more dumb garbage at the Bradford exchange. I think he has a lot in common with the late Thomas Kinkade. I'm pretty sure he sincerely gives a crap about Grand Ole Opry. He did make this music video I feel needs to be brought up whenever Gilchrist is discussed. Note that Fritzi makes a loving appearance as a pin-up girl in the video. This was done in 2009, so I'm pretty sure that's before he even loving took over Nancy?
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May 13, 2014 16:14
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Actually, now you mention it, when did Gilchrist take over? Was it a sudden tonal shift with his first comic, or was it a slow change into the current shmaltzy strip we know and love?
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May 13, 2014 16:38
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LtStorm posted:This was done in 2009, so I'm pretty sure that's before he even loving took over Nancy?
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May 13, 2014 16:45
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Well, if Gilchrist is only pandering to his intended audience, he's got a PhD in knowing what they want.
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May 13, 2014 16:47
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My Lovely Horse posted:1995, yo. Oh, that's right, he worked on it before he got full control of it. He took over fully last year, that's when Phil Fumble showed back up and miraculously transformed into a folksy down-home Übermensch.
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May 13, 2014 17:00
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Anora posted:I keep reading Zippy the pinhead, and I just can't figure it out, is there a website that explains that drat thing, or by not getting the point, am I getting the point? http://joshreads.com/?cat=75 Comics Curmudgeon while speaking for all of us posted:This dripping, self-indulgent bolus of hipper-than-thou omphaloskepsis no longer stains even the benighted San Francisco Chronicle. Voted off in a reader poll. Deluded fans howled: such sweet, sweet music! Scary Gary 
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May 13, 2014 17:08
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Anora posted:I keep reading Zippy the pinhead, and I just can't figure it out, is there a website that explains that drat thing, or by not getting the point, am I getting the point? Here's what you need to know about Zippy: The strip's creator, Bill Griffith, is a big underground comic artist that had his start in the 70's. Zippy was made for alt weeklies and underground newspapers, and stayed there until the mid-80's when all that cocaine that defined the decade did something weird and Zippy got transferred into a daily format in an actual mainstream newspaper, which lead to King Syndicate picking it up. The results are unsurprisingly confusing as gently caress. Zippy was never meant for a wide audience. Zippy makes no loving sense. Zippy isn't supposed to. It's a surreal loving comic. e: vvv Thank you for digging that up. I was looking for where I did a comparison, but it was apparently in last year's topic and I can't access them as I am a scrub who does not have Archives. LtStorm fucked around with this message at 17:26 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 17:18
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LtStorm posted:Oh, that's right, he worked on it before he got full control of it. He took over fully last year, that's when Phil Fumble showed back up and miraculously transformed into a folksy down-home Übermensch. Exactly. The initial shift was from Jerry Scott's drastic redesign back to something with at least a surface resemblance to "golden age" Bushmiller. We're in the middle of Guy's real whiplash change, the one where out of nowhere he started reaching for unearned emotional resonance by telling extended stories about these wind-up punchline machines. And speaking of whiplash shifts, here's a reminder what the love of a stacked woman can do for some men. 2012:  Last week: 
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May 13, 2014 17:19
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus Oh my god Jeffy how are you so dumb?
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May 13, 2014 17:21
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Tiggum posted:Shoe Futurama did the exact same joke not too long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQWP6gE5QHY Better delivery, and in a better language. Io Sputo Sui Tuoi Fumetti. Café Per I Cani  Most fish can also survive in pure blood, and in about a 1:4 mix of urine to water. Don't try either of those, though. Via Ballard  I don't like the way that psychologist is drawn. Something simian about it. flavor.flv fucked around with this message at 17:29 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 17:27
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EasyEW posted:Exactly. The initial shift was from Jerry Scott's drastic redesign back to something with at least a surface resemblance to "golden age" Bushmiller. We're in the middle of Guy's real whiplash change, the one where out of nowhere he started reaching for unearned emotional resonance by telling extended stories about these wind-up punchline machines.
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May 13, 2014 17:28
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LtStorm posted:Here's what you need to know about Zippy: The strip's creator, Bill Griffith, is a big underground comic artist that had his start in the 70's. Zippy was made for alt weeklies and underground newspapers, and stayed there until the mid-80's when all that cocaine that defined the decade did something weird and Zippy got transferred into a daily format in an actual mainstream newspaper, which lead to King Syndicate picking it up.  
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May 13, 2014 17:37
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Evil Mastermind posted:Actually, I think Nancy herself is the only character who hasn't had some weird heartstring-tugging backstory bolted on. Well, Nancy's technically an orphan, so there are either a couple of dead or severely absentee parents in her past.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Office Hours  ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Office Hours 
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May 13, 2014 17:38
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EasyEW posted:Well, Nancy's technically an orphan, so there are either a couple of dead or severely absentee parents in her past. I'm sure he's saving that storyline for a special occasion.
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May 13, 2014 17:40
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Evil Mastermind posted:I'm sure he's saving that storyline for a special occasion. He already did it, the father-daughter day plotline from a couple months ago.
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May 13, 2014 18:01
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EasyEW posted:2012: Poor Phil's got Acromegaly. Next week, he's gonna look like Robert Z'Dar.
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May 13, 2014 18:25
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EasyEW posted:Exactly. The initial shift was from Jerry Scott's drastic redesign back to something with at least a surface resemblance to "golden age" Bushmiller. We're in the middle of Guy's real whiplash change, the one where out of nowhere he started reaching for unearned emotional resonance by telling extended stories about these wind-up punchline machines. When did Fritzi start looking different? Based on the strips posted earlier from back when Gilchrist first started she looked sort of like she did in the old strips.
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May 13, 2014 18:44
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Allen Wren posted:He already did it, the father-daughter day plotline from a couple months ago. Did that storyline actually talk about what happened to Nancy's parents, though? I remember it being "I'm sad about not having parents to bring to the family picnic wait I'll bring Aunt Friti PROBLEM SOLVED".
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May 13, 2014 18:48
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Evil Mastermind posted:Did that storyline actually talk about what happened to Nancy's parents, though? I remember it being "I'm sad about not having parents to bring to the family picnic wait I'll bring Aunt Friti PROBLEM SOLVED". I don't believe so, no.
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Achernar posted:Poor Phil's got Acromegaly.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Speaking of which, Hal Foster completely nails the characteristic features of someone with acromegaly with the giant. Just pointing that out, in case someone thought he was a poo poo artist or something I know, the giant looks like Rondo Hatton.
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Rose is Rose Do geese mate anything like ducks? If they do, this is actually pretty funny.
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They're swans, you idiot. And no, they mate for life. Who ever described geese as romantic? They're maybe the least romantic of all waterfowl. Tom Gauld 
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Mr. Squishy posted:They're swans, you idiot. And no, they mate for life. But to answer his original question, no, Geese are not rapists and necrophiles. Ducks remain the worst bird, sexwise.
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