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Juliet Jones  Phantom Classic  Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  Big Ben Bolt 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:You're absolutely correct. Yes. Please stop now. Stop? But I haven't even shown you the uber-nerd character who married a different uber-nerd! Or how some of the characters apparently have cosmic powers and can alter reality, one of whom is a B-B-B-BABE who's dating a nerdy employee!
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Julet Esqu posted:Juliet Jones So, all you folks who really understand newspaper comic history: why was the art in some of these classic soap opera serial strips so beautiful and, well, artistic? These guys were cranking out a strip a day, weren't they? Yet every character in Rip Kirby has a real face and body and expressiveness, and Ben Bolt's people and settings have weight and line and individuality. Aunt Martha there is exquisite. By comparison, the current soap strips show nowhere near the care or skill. Or... style? What was different? Were there just a few incredible artists, or was something else in play? (Props to Prince Valiant because Foster created it beautiful and it's still beautiful, but it's kind of in a different category since it's once a week. Although given how complex each installment is, maybe it's not in a different category in terms of work. I dunno about that.) Anyway, I'm curious, and kind of in awe at the art in Ben Bolt.
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A bit early this time Sergio Aragones (MAD #190, April 1977)  The Lighter Side of...     Don Martin Dept. (MAD #177, September 1975)  Spy vs. Spy (MAD #60, January 1961)  The very first comic! Neither one died! Hey Look!  TofuDiva posted:So, all you folks who really understand newspaper comic history: why was the art in some of these classic soap opera serial strips so beautiful and, well, artistic? These guys were cranking out a strip a day, weren't they? Yet every character in Rip Kirby has a real face and body and expressiveness, and Ben Bolt's people and settings have weight and line and individuality. Aunt Martha there is exquisite. By comparison, the current soap strips show nowhere near the care or skill. Or... style? Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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TofuDiva posted:So, all you folks who really understand newspaper comic history: why was the art in some of these classic soap opera serial strips so beautiful and, well, artistic? These guys were cranking out a strip a day, weren't they? Yet every character in Rip Kirby has a real face and body and expressiveness, and Ben Bolt's people and settings have weight and line and individuality. Aunt Martha there is exquisite. By comparison, the current soap strips show nowhere near the care or skill. Or... style? These strips used to be printed across an entire page, not the cramped two- or three-column layout they get today. When Prince Valiant was first in print, he'd get most of a page to himself! If those were printed in today's papers, you'd have to squint just to tell that Rip Kirby is wearing glasses.
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's 
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Mister Beeg posted:They were drawn bigger. Also, these cartoonists likely had assistants helping out. RandomFerret posted:These strips used to be printed across an entire page, not the cramped two- or three-column layout they get today. When Prince Valiant was first in print, he'd get most of a page to himself! If those were printed in today's papers, you'd have to squint just to tell that Rip Kirby is wearing glasses. Wow. I knew there was a size difference between old and new, but didn't realize these were originally full page width. That certainly explains it. Didn't know about the assistants, either. Thanks! 
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You're a gem. Please never stop.
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This is the utter truth 
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You are a treasure, you know that? 
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 Let's catch up with Mark Trail!    The Office Hours will continue.   
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Pickles: time to resod! Bleeker: Karl knows more than he usually lets on. 
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That lady is going to have a big future in live television, I just know it.
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Is the the original?
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Fingerpori - Can you cover up this tattoo? - I-I think so... An hour later: Well, this is a bit tricky. Peitto as a tangible object means "a cover" or "a blanket", but generally it can mean any abstract "cover" or "coverage". The word used here was peittoon which is its illative case (usually "into", sometimes "onto"). It's kinda unintuitive (even the Finnish phrase is to my ear), but basically tatuoida peittoon, "to tattoo into cover" as it were, just means "to tattoo it so that it's covered up" in this case. Of course, it also how you would pronounce "to tattoo onto a blanket". Jorma is a male name. Just imagine it says Dick. Fok_It 
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Jane's World Oh jeeze. We're headed to  territory.Non Sequitur  Sure. At first, I thought it was smoking a cigarette. Heavenly Nostrils   Kliban's Cats  The Catte in the hatte.  9 Chickweed Lane 9/4/2003  You faceplanted off a chair while a hummingbird watched? Zits  Rough first day, huh? Also, potential low hanging fruit, etc. Kevin & Kell  Not bad, Holbrook.  I like it when Lise does these. The close-up art is really nicely done.
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RandomFerret posted:These strips used to be printed across an entire page, not the cramped two- or three-column layout they get today. When Prince Valiant was first in print, he'd get most of a page to himself! If those were printed in today's papers, you'd have to squint just to tell that Rip Kirby is wearing glasses. Definitely this. I've seen Skippy printed at two-thirds of the page width in the original newspapers, which is why seeing it scrunched into 2014-style comic strip space is such a headache. Skippy (June 16, 1927)  Peanuts (September 7, 1967)  We would've also accepted "Sam Spayed, Detective". Funky Winkerbean  Popeye  This comic strip is unfair to heroines. Rip Haywire doesn't necessarily have that problem, but he's got a full plate today.  Out Our Way (August 7-8, 1925)  COSMOS, with your hosts Stiffy the Cowboy and Wes the Writer Guy Whose Name I Had To Look Up. Today's episode: the theory of relativity. 
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Cul-de-sac does something neat with the art today. Poptropica  Heathcliff He's gotta get 'em custom made... 
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:Heathcliff He's gotta get 'em custom made... C-come on, Morty. I mean, does your car look like a smaller version of your house? 
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I'm banking on it being unsold Heathcliff merchandise.
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The Dinette Set gets in an  ? I guess? I'm also adding Working Daze to my rotation or whatever so you can see John Zakour almost, but not quite, make jokes.  Nobody says that; it's "work smarter, not harder". Also what the hell is going on with that desk?
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Evil Mastermind posted:
Neat, it's gonna be a new game of "spot the fetish!"
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What the gently caress is this poo poo? Lester is so loving horrible, you hate him more than the stereotypical hipsters he draws.
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Honestly, Zakour's other strip is so loving terrible that seeing this just trying (and not always succeeding) at being a genial, modern office comic strip is actually kinda nice. Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll 
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Allen Wren posted:Honestly, Zakour's other strip is so loving terrible that seeing this just trying (and not always succeeding) at being a genial, modern office comic strip is actually kinda nice. Some of these, like this one, are really cool.
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Piranha Club  Dick Tracy   Judge Parker   9 Chickweed Lane   For some reason I was expecting Thorax to make an appearance here. Pibgorn   Pibgorn must have been pretty bored during this scene if she took time out to start finger-painting the stage. Zachary Nixon Johnson 
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Indolent Bastard posted:Mike du Jour Pumps are all clearly displayed in bars. Someone didn't feel like drawing a cellar. Tom Gauld is good this week  It's also a direct reference to Will Self's latest, which has been toted around as the last panel. BlankIsBeautiful posted:9 Chickweed Lane 9/4/2003 It's me the new badboy editor on the scene 
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Move along, Nothing to See Here Comix. Pooch Café  This is supposed to be a running gag, but it only shows up maybe once a year, one of which was a weird 9/11 tribute. Ballard Street  I fall into this trap every now and again. Eventually I decide that a better place, car or job wouldn't actually make me any happier, and the last six hours I spent playing flash games wasn't really wasted.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Some of these, like this one, are really cool. I appreciate this comic for how weird and offbeat it is, even if it's not always about music. Sometimes it just knocks it out of the park, though.
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She looks like Lucy Van Pelt as an adult.
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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane 
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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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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane Know what? If Brooke actually had the balls to do that in this, what he wants to be, very serious story arc, I would've gut laughed. It would've been a perfect ending. RandomFerret posted:I fall into this trap every now and again. Eventually I decide that a better place, car or job wouldn't actually make me any happier, and the last six hours I spent playing flash games wasn't really wasted. Whoa. We share the exact same life philosophy. It's a good thing.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Holy poo poo, is the loving nine-month flashback finally over? Nah, it's just time to start the 9 month flashback again but from his perspective.
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Luann Apartment 3-G  OMG MY FIANCE DIED I'M SO SAD!!!  Pros & Cons  Sally Forth  The first day of school in the 6th grade was the first time I ever had to use a combination lock and I couldn't make it work. (It was a weird kind where you have to push in the knob when you turn it to the third number.) I was too timid to ask an adult for help and I sure as hell wasn't going to show any weakness to my classmates, so I just carried everything on my back forever. Well, for a few months anyway. However long it took for my dad to get sick of watching his daughter act like a moron and drag my stupid rear end to school on a Saturday so he could show me how to open a locker. And then I lived happily ever after and junior high was never a tortuous experience again. The end. The Amazing Spider-Man 
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Emmy Lou Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Classic Prince Valiant will be taking a break today because I don't have time to upload more strips.
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Julet Esqu posted:Sally Forth In high school, you could only get a locker if you had three or more academic classes in a semester since we were on a four class per semester block schedule and my school was so severely overcrowded. I think I got one one or two semesters and never bothered to use it since it wasn't convenient to where any of my classes were located.
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