Darthemed posted:

I feel like Peanuts would have earned some of the same general reception Funky Winkerbean gets these days when it started pulling out strips like this one and Snoopy's night anxieties.

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Calvin And Hobbes

Manuel Calavera posted:

Family Circus

don Jaime posted:

One Christmas I got a coloring book about the TV special, and I drew an extra page on the inside back cover to give Charlie Brown a happy ending.

Esplanade posted:

EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean

EasyEW posted:

Out Our Way (May 13-14, 1925)

LvK posted:

I, um... I just want to pretend that's mud... on their faces. But not their lips. I just wanna pretend that.

EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean



Comic Book John was in denial until the paramedics arrived. It was the only time he made the front page in the trade papers.

GorfZaplen posted:

The Phantom

Cricken_Nigfops posted:

Cul-de-sac

and yes, I got the hybrid car joke yesterday, but hybrid cars are a combination of batteries and gasoline, which is why I was wondering what a kinetic powered popper was being hybridized with.
fuckin' goons.

EasyEW posted:

don Jaime posted:

And this one illustrates something I think Bill Watterson failed at. It's one of the rare Susie Derkins strips that suggests she behaves like a child, doing something odd because that's what she wants to do. In most strips, she comes off as a dreary, unimaginative scold, a short adult there only to look down on Calvin. I never get the feeling Mr. Bun has the life Hobbes has.

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Susie is earnest, serious, and smart - the kind of girl I was attracted to in school and eventually married. "Derkins" was the nickname of my wife's family's beagle. The early strips with Susie were heavy-handed with the love-hate conflict, and it's taken me a while to get a bead on Susie's relationship with Calvin. I suspect Calvin has a mild crush on her that he expresses by trying to annoy her, but Susie is a bit unnerved and put off by Calvin's weirdness. This encourages Calvin to be even weirder, so it's a good dynamic. Neither of them quote understands what's going on, which is probably true of most relationships. I sometimes imagine a strip from Susie's point of view would be interesting, and after so many strips about boys, I think a strip about a little girl, drawn by a woman, could be great.

RandomFerret posted:

Pooch Café


AUGH BIRD TEETH

GorfZaplen posted:

The totally serious artist in question posted:

In the spring of 1972, federal agents entered the converted warehouse on West Third Street in Cleveland that housed the editorial offices of Batom Comics. They were looking for Barry Martin, Batom’s publisher and they found him busy at work in a small corner office just off a large open room with creaking wooden floors and tall mullioned windows. Hung high on the opposite wall and running the length of the room were giant panels featuring the comic book heroes from Batom Comics glory days.

They were all there: The Lunar Cadets, Charlie & Chuck, The Black Ghost, The Arizona Ranger, Tank Thompson, The Amazing Mr. Sponge and Absorbing Junior, The Cockroach, the majestic Blue Astra and of course Batom’s stellar hero Starbuck Jones. It was The Cockroach the company’s last creation who had proved Batom’s undoing. Its long legal battle with its aptly named rival Mega Comics had finally ended in the Fall of the previous year with a Federal Court upholding a lower court ruling that The Cockroach substantially violated Mega Comics copyright on Arachnid-Man. To fulfill the damages awarded by the court, Batom Comics, which had always run on a paper thin profit margin as it hung on against the industry giants, now essentially belonged to Mega-Comics.

The star crossed history of Batom Comics had finally come to an end although its comics would continued to be fondly remembered and collected by the comic book cognoscente. Though Batom had always been a hole in the wall company operating in the Mid-West far from the New York City spotlight, to a certain faithful and fanatic following, it loomed as large as any of the other comic book publishing giants. It was the little comic book company that could and this is its story.

tiistai posted:

Fingerpori


There's Finlandia and Finlandia.

kidcoelacanth posted:

Good to know Charlie Brown's an Alan Kulwicki fan.

Selachian posted:

One of those authentic medieval welcome mats.

DoubleDonut posted:

I don't know much about stampedes, but that guy's very dead, right?

Parmesan Basil posted:

appreciating this joke

Wanamingo posted:

I was going through an older comedy goldmine article, let's draw characters from memory, and I found these. Don't think I've seen them posted.