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Skippy (February 25, 1927) Peanuts, in which Our Hero faces the future with clear eyes. (May 19, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean? Not so much...  Popeye  Rip Haywire  Pogo: Don't look at me like that, you had to know something like this was coming. (May 18, 1956)  Droodles (May 18, 1956)  And just for today, a bonus from May 18, 1956: The Ryatts by Cal Alley. Alley was a second generation cartoonist (hey, just like Bob Weber Jr.!), his previous strip was a single panel thing he inherited from his dad called "Hambone's Meditations", which I'm just going to leave you to discover for yourself. Your only warning: Wash Funk was just the tip of the iceberg. Anyway, it beat The Family Circus to the inoffensive domestic comedy market by at least ten years, so I guess that's something.  Alley retired from the strip (and cartooning) in 1965. You're probably familiar with his replacement on the Ryatts, too: JACKELROD. From these humble beginnings, the legend was born. Out Our Way (December 24-25, 1956)  Yet another thing we don't necessarily miss about the 1920s: pitiful quality control in the Santa department. 
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Looks like Nemi's allergies are acting up. You know what else is acting up? Cul-de-sac Alice is, as always.  The Creeps So are the creeps!    Broomhilda 
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Ham Shears I'm feeling very emotional right now.  The Dinette Set 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kevin & Kell Don't male lions basically just lie around and let the females do most of the hunting anyway? You'd think Frank would be built like William Shatner by now.
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Tiggum posted:Pooch Café Nobody owns comics, and I encourage everybody to post what they want to talk about when they want to talk about it, regardless of who 'usually' posts it. That being said, I'm still going to  at you because I had a good title for these today.Oh well, here's the other half of Dog Comix at the Window. Ballard Street  That dog has a similar, though less generous opinion.
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RandomFerret posted:Nobody owns comics, and I encourage everybody to post what they want to talk about when they want to talk about it, regardless of who 'usually' posts it. That being said, I'm still going to You could still have posted the unedited version.
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Nah, yours was better.
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Tiggum posted:You could still have posted the unedited version. Y'know tiggs, I wouldn't mind if you wanted to pull some edits for Candorville or Broom hilda. Then I wouldn't have to post them!
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Tiggum posted:Crankshaft  ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Mark Trail 
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Emmy Lou Heathcliff  Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Pickles  Classic Prince Valiant  
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:Y'know tiggs, I wouldn't mind if you wanted to pull some edits for Candorville or Broom hilda. Then I wouldn't have to post them!  GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom 
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Tiggum posted:
Also known as Lucidor!
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GorfZaplen posted:Classic Prince Valiant A month later, the giant is killed by a band of mercenaries hired by the villagers and guided by a group of his former slaves who knew his weaknesses and the lay of his land, because despite winning some wandering knight's favour he's still the monster who'd been terrorising them and taking their children for years.
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Comics Curmudgeon http://joshreads.com/?p=21490 posted:Your comment of the week moment but first: faithful reader/Maryland-area standup/cool guy/personal friend Isaac Hirsch pointed me in the direction of this AMAZING animated Mark Trail GIF. It’s animated, and it takes a minute to get going, but for God’s sake wait for it, because it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. If you (Yeah it just trails off after "If you" in the original)
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Tiggum posted:Wait, are they talking about... Chatu, the Python?
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Bloom County At last, the reason for USA Today's fifth-grade reading level explained kind of.  Calvin And Hobbes   Ripley's 
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Brilliant. Twice. Just... well, Mark Trail said it best: Aces!
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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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Evil Mastermind posted:The Dinette Set I don't know why but I really dig this strip. It's not funny, or even particularly weird in an obvious way, it's just...off somehow. It's the comic strip equivalent of David Lynch's obsession with 40s Californian architecture.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Rose is Rose Jesus... 
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Ted Forth need not worry the new Godzilla movie was pretty fun.
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's I like the punctuation on the William Kendall blurb. He was wearing a life preserver and swim trunks! At the same time!
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Midnight Moth posted:Slylock Fox It doesn't matter because the account was locked out after 3 consecutive failed log on attempts.
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Karma Tornado posted:This comic is so bad. I've read every single one that's been posted and it always feels like I've missed two strips in between every time I read it. I'm very confused about the order of progression of events. Here's as far as I can figure out... - Detective gets hired to find out why rich lady keeps getting killed (and then brought back to life, because she's rich) - Leaves psychic gal friday behind and is teleported to (or maybe only his mind is?) a synthetic paradise where the rich lady lives, controlled by an all powerful computer. - Detective's own all-powerful-computer suddenly becomes an 8-bit sprite, for reasons unclear. - Rich lady and her family are obnoxious assholes. - Detective discovered a whole pile of rich family bodies, indicating that something more is going on than just a simple serial murder. - Rich lady's all-powerful-computer sends Detective back home, possibly erases all this from his memory, and generally acts suspicious. - Detective's APC is back to normal and detective only barely remembers he even took the case. - Psychic Gal-Friday and Detective's APC go into his brain to find out why his memories are missing, but turn Detective's APC back into 8-bit - They go to the synthetic paradise again, but travel under their own power this time. - Now they're trying to figure out what happened the first time the Detective went there. Have I got all that right? It's weird that the 8-bit thing happened to the computer twice, and makes me think that I've got events out of order.
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As I recall, you have it right except the start was to investigate a single murder and we found out it was a whole lot of murder when he found the closet full of her corpses.
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Bobulus posted:I'm very confused about the order of progression of events. Here's as far as I can figure out... I think that's right, but add in the flying attack bimbos and the ongoing obsession with hamburgers. Setting aside the pacing and storytelling issues, there's something just really... fetishy about ZNJ. I can't quite put into words what it is that gives that impression, but that's how it strikes me.
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LvK posted:I like the punctuation on the William Kendall blurb. He was wearing a life preserver and swim trunks! At the same time! Well other people had already swam across, he was just the first to do it while wearing that outfit.
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TofuDiva posted:I think that's right, but add in the flying attack bimbos and the ongoing obsession with hamburgers. Probably the asses.
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TofuDiva posted:I think that's right, but add in the flying attack bimbos and the ongoing obsession with hamburgers. Probably has something to do with the lovingly drawn nipples visible on every woman through their clothes.
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I had initially written off ZNJ as a lovely creepy fetishistic strip early on. Turns out I was right to do so. gently caress that guy.
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Wee Pals  Hahaha, haha... ha...  Andertoons  Lost Side of Suburbia   Zachary Nixon Johnson  You're all right about this comic being creepy fetish stuff. Dick Tracy  I think Tracy just poisoned his wife? Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz  Oh yeah, guess who totally figured this one out. 
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Oh my god you don't deserve to write Ernie Bushmiller's name  e: The clue in an Inspector Danger actually worked!
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That was an OBVIOUS one. Assuming you already knew those were the suspects.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Someone put that dog out of its misery.
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