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corn in the bible posted:that is some ugly shading and anatomy right there Is she made entirely of balloons?
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Pogo (September 1, 1956) Peanuts: Year One (April 9-11, 1951)   "And then we pose for the calendars!" 
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Mister Beeg posted:Few days ago I purchaed "MAD About Comic Strips". It's a book reprinting newspaper comics parodies that MAD did over the years, from the beginning to early 2000s (the book came out in 2003). Naturally it's full of stuff that this thread'll love. Why did they put a real Lockhorns panel in there? Midnight Moth posted:Dustin The angels and devils on your shoulders represent the good and bad impulses you have; by convention the "good" angel is on the right shoulder and the "evil" devil is on the left, due to ancient superstitions about the left being the unnatural, evil side. Ed is saying that he felt that giving Dustin $20 just didn't feel right; the positive impulse or "angel on his shoulder" suggested that Dustin would probably need $40. Dustin's reply indicated that he had had a negative impulse to ask for $40 anyway. The humorous content, which is minimal, derives from the contrast of personalities (Ed being generous, Dustin being grasping) as well as the allusion to the powers of temptation that reputedly belong to the devil. The joke, such as it is, is eviscerated by the fact that Dustin clearly did not listen to his shoulder devil, since he asked for $20 and not $40. As usual, Dustin's personality and motivations are somehow misunderstood and misrepresented by the very people that generated them. 
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idonotlikepeas posted:The angels and devils on your shoulders represent the good and bad impulses you have; by convention the "good" angel is on the right shoulder and the "evil" devil is on the left, due to ancient superstitions about the left being the unnatural, evil side. Ed is saying that he felt that giving Dustin $20 just didn't feel right; the positive impulse or "angel on his shoulder" suggested that Dustin would probably need $40. Dustin's reply indicated that he had had a negative impulse to ask for $40 anyway. The humorous content, which is minimal, derives from the contrast of personalities (Ed being generous, Dustin being grasping) as well as the allusion to the powers of temptation that reputedly belong to the devil. The joke, such as it is, is eviscerated by the fact that Dustin clearly did not listen to his shoulder devil, since he asked for $20 and not $40. As usual, Dustin's personality and motivations are somehow misunderstood and misrepresented by the very people that generated them. You put more effort in your explanation for one strip than Dustin's artist did for the entire run.
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Mister Kingdom posted:You put more effort in your explanation for one strip than Dustin's artist did for the entire run. Dustin's art is fine. It's the writer who's a tool.
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DoubleDonut posted:Dustin's art is fine. It's the writer who's a tool. The writer truly is an rear end in a top hat in real life. Ever seen his editorial cartoons? (Then there's the whole reason why he was fired from San Diego Union-Tribune in the first place...and the subsequent lawsuit...)
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Mister Beeg posted:The writer truly is an rear end in a top hat in real life. Ever seen his editorial cartoons? Yeah, I stopped following that thread because I like not being incredibly angry all the time.
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Juliet Jones  Phantom Classic  Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  That's some good shading. Big Ben Bolt 
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End of the week Bleeker Always sleep in. You can be active when you're dead. Pickles wants a divorce.  Just get the divorce. Even a few years without the rear end in a top hat are years well lived.
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Bloom County Calvin And Hobbes   I love that last panel.  Ripley's  At last, a medical excuse.
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Some of you probably know that Percy Crosby, the cartoonist behind "Skippy", spent his final years living in the mental hospital. Here's a mural he painted over there.  quote:It was, perhaps, his vocal nature that led to his undoing, as at the height of his success the IRS hammered him (some claim in response to political pressure from those his strip angered) and corporations who wished to use the immensely popular Skippy character began a crusade to strip the rights for his character away from him. He claimed he was being watched and followed, and began drinking more heavily. There was nobody who would listen to him, and eventually his wife left him. Following a suicide attempt (that is alleged by his daughter to have been a murder attempt, as the knife he supposedly stabbed himself with was never found at the scene), he was committed to Knightsbridge State Hospital which is where he spent the rest of his life. Deemed a nuisance for trying to keep his trademark character from being exploited by companies like the one we now know for its Skippy peanut butter, and for trying to voice the same political opinions that made him such bitter enemies, he was denied access to the outside world and his children were told he no longer wished to see them, which was a lie. He spent the rest of his days preserving his sanity by continuing to create cartoons and manuscripts no one outside the walls of the hospital would ever see during his life, and when he died in 1964, alone and penniless, his family wasn't even notified. His children read of it in the newspapers a week later. More info here
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F Minus Mary Worth  Mary Worth, haunted by PTSD flashbacks. Rex Morgan MD 
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (July 27-28, 1925) Yep, that's the sort of thing that'll happen when a young girl can't keep her legs together. Parents had to bury her in a Y-shaped coffin.
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She's practicin' her Koppojutsu! Why, that poor fella'll get his neck cracked like a sprig, I'll say, iffen he innerupts at her kong-fu!
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Fingerpori [New!! Donald Duck loading station] Lataamo does mean "a loading station" but more literally it's just a place where something is loaded. The weekly Finnish Disney magazine Aku Ankka (Donald Duck) has been popular for decades, and since a year ago all the published issues have been available for download online from the Aku Ankka Lataamo for a monthly fee of 5€ if you're subscribed to the magazine and 10€ otherwise. Just so happens that lataamo is also a slang term for mental hospitals. I guess they load your mental batteries there or something.
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Dustin I can't believe Jeff Parker probably spent 10 hours drawing, inking and coloring something Steve Kelly took 10 seconds to write. Talk about a loving waste of artistic talent. This is a drat travesty. On the Fastrack  Really stretchin' it there. Heaven's Love Thrift Shop  Oh so that solves it. Dag's a recovering alcoholic. Let's see... 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. So it's God vs. marketing, huh? Slylock Fox  Cripes Max, I'm here on a date, don't talk to me about work! Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Aug 31, 2014 |
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Mister Beeg posted:Some of you probably know that Percy Crosby, the cartoonist behind "Skippy", spent his final years living in the mental hospital. Jesus christ 
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Julet Esqu posted:Apartment 3-G 
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Could we put some Hillary Clinton stump speeches into Carol's speech bubbles? I'd like to test a theory about that face...Mister Beeg posted:Some of you probably know that Percy Crosby, the cartoonist behind "Skippy", spent his final years living in the mental hospital.  Can't say it enough: ethical mothers choose Jif. Peanuts (September 3, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean drags it out for one more day.  Classic Popeye Sunday, in which Olive goes even further around the bend than usual. (c. 1943)  Pogo, in which the noble dog does what any mid-century comic strip character does and runs away from unpleasant things. (August 24, 1969)  First-Gen Blondie (c. 1942)   Either he's giving his dogs candy or his children just ate a handful of Pup-Perroni.. Out Our Way (July 29-30, 1925)  
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 It works, but it's not really funny. Heavenly Nostrils  How did that game get that name, anyway? I think "Pete/Repeat" would be better.  9 Chickweed Lane 8/31/2003  Well, it looks like we're ending this month with the same twat-ish story as we started it with. Let's hope September is better. Zits   That's a hamburger?
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  Foxtrot 
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Ah, the good old-fashioned game of "run around with your eyes closed." Fun for the whole family!
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tiistai posted:Fingerpori Jesus loving christ Finland. I'm going to stroke it. Your arms are broken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9v3OvzZsfM Uncut, oooh!
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Bloom County  Ms. is one of the fore-most widely-available feminist publications in the United States, and was co-founded by noted public figure Gloria Steinem, who has also been occasionally referenced by Opus and others.  Calvin And Hobbes    Ripley's 
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I love this one. Lynn gets so close to self-awareness, she just doesn't take that next logical step and compare herself to the character. Or maybe she did and decided she was just fine (comix). 
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The Dinette Set is...uh... Yeah, I got nothin'.
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I quit reading for a week and y'all get rowdy. Tch. Buz Sawyer    
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Life's a bitch, ain't it Lynn? Also, I'm trying to figure this kid out: 
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Sergio Aragones Looks at Golf (MAD #425, January 2003) That's right, even MAD Magazine does golf jokes! Oh the horror!!!    The Lighter Side of... (MAD #224, July 1981)  Don Martin Dept. (MAD #232, July 1982)  Spy vs. Spy (MAD #224, July 1981)  I have no idea why the White Spy's eyes are drawn differently in the first two panels. Hey Look! 
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Classic Funky Batiuk did a lot of fourth-wall-breaking in the early strips. Closed Out, which these are from, is from 1974. The book doesn't specify the original publication dates for each individual strip, unfortunately.
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Modesty Blaise  I'm heading out on vacation, so Modesty will be back in about two weeks.
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Have a great vacation, Kammat, and thanks for the MB fix.  I wonder if Rossi the lovelorn goon ever shows up again.
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TofuDiva posted:Classic Funky It looks like this book pulls strips from multiple years. The one on the left is from Feb. 25, 1977 and the one right one is from Sept. 22, 1976. Piranha Club   Dick Tracy   Judge Parker   9 Chickweed Lane   Pibgorn   That's not surprising. It would take weeks for one of Brooke's blabbermouths to cool down once they finally stopped talking. Zachary Nixon Johnson 
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Midnight Moth posted:Dustin I see two interpretations of this comic: 1. Dustin the Temp is taking over for somebody who left his/her desk a complete disaster area. We are meant to blame Dustin for the mess because Dustin is a lazy slobby jerk. 2. Dustin took over for a tidy person, but has been working in this position long enough to generate this ungodly pile of garbage. Dustin is a lazy shiftless jerk who refuses to get a job. That said, I would like to own a "World's Okayest Employee" mug. I would take it to my job. I don't even like coffee. This comic can be pretty sad a lot of the time. Especially when it's not supposed to be. Pros & Cons  Sally Forth  The Amazing Spider-Man  Prince Valiant  drat, that's a fine eel. Juliet Jones  Eve is great. Ok, who wants an Evetar??   I've never been more serious in my life. I guess Eve's hapless financial consultant deserves a shot, too. No idea what you should make him say!   Phantom Classic  Big Ben Bolt 
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Ha! It's crazy how different that nerds are, from people who like sports! Just absolutely wacky. I could make jokes about the fact that they are different all day. I wouldn't even need to go into How or Why, just pointing out that they are Different alone is enough to send me up a roller-coaster ride of comedy!
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Intelligent Life has all the trappings of a webcomic made by a teenager who wants to prove he's better than those jocks at school, except the nerdiest reference I've seen is to loving Star Wars so I don't know what the hell it's supposed to be. Edit: Aside from "Family Guy but with nerdzenjorcks"
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