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Midnight Moth posted:Safe Havens It's Holbrook. [GENDER] has [CHARACTERISTIC].
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The Dinette Set knows quality replicas when they see them. Working Daze swings back into Dilbert Humor mode. 
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:Cul-de-sac "Pastis."  Cricken_Nigfops posted:Poftropica The fat kid may be lazy, but you have to admit, there's not much point to paddling when you not even in sight of land anyway.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Pearls Before Swine may not be the best comic in the papers, but Stephan Pastis must be an absolute blast to hang out with, just going by the sheer number of callouts he gets from other comic strip artists. Maybe he has some sort of Secret Dog Comix that we don't know about. Pooch Café  There's more romantic imagery between dog and food in this comic than I'm comfortable with. Seriously, it's like once every couple of months. Ballard Street  New character page added to the Ballard Dog wiki.
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Thurber. A new name to me, but apparently a noted cartoonist with the New Yorker. Known for his dogs!
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quote:Thurber had a great love of dogs, of all shapes and sizes. He even dedicated Is Sex Necessary? to two of his favorite terriers! Thurber included dogs in many of his drawings, saying that the dogs represent balance, serenity, and is a “sound creature in a crazy world.” Checks out.
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Oh yeah, James Thurber. He was a playwright as well. Thurber was also mostly blind, stemming from his childhood accident when an arrow poked out one of his eyes. He drew his (rather crudely drawn) cartoons on a real large paper to compensate for his failing eyesight. When his eyesight got real bad, he drew on a black paper with white chalk, which was then reversed for publication. He had to stop when he went completely blind. He started focusing on writing plays after that. Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Mister Beeg posted:
Well, he wasn't really focusing on anything at that point, was he? (he was also an essayist and short story author, and one of my favorites as a kid)
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RandomFerret posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again. Pearls Before Swine may not be the best comic in the papers, but Stephan Pastis must be an absolute blast to hang out with, just going by the sheer number of callouts he gets from other comic strip artists. Maybe he has some sort of Secret Dog Comix that we don't know about. Every time I've seen or heard him interviewed he comes across as somebody with a real, deep, genuine love of the medium. He's well informed, very thoughtful, and quite honest about the industry without being disrespectful to his contemporaries. That's a tricky balance, and he's been syndicated for a long time now without getting weird and bitter. Seems like a cool guy.
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Mister Beeg posted:Oh yeah, James Thurber. He was a playwright as well. I thought the name sounded familiar, he wrote "The Catbird Seat" which was a great story.
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When Thurber worked at the New Yorker in the 30s he drew all over his office wall. When the New Yorker moved its offices from 43rd (across from the Algonquin) to the Conde Nast building, they took the wall with them. Find a copy of The Thurber Carnival when you can. The man was a wonderful writer and his dog cartoons the best.
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Howard Beale posted:When Thurber worked at the New Yorker in the 30s he drew all over his office wall. When the New Yorker moved its offices from 43rd (across from the Algonquin) to the Conde Nast building, they took the wall with them. Speaking of New Yorkers and walls, here's JOHN DARLING!!! When we last left John Darling, he was in New York City, up against a wall, being robbed at knifepoint. This continues today... but not tomorrow. I don't know if the syndicate told Batiuk & Armstrong that the Violent Crime arc was getting depressing or what, but from what I can tell, this particular arc was never revisited. (Today, of course, John would have constant PTSD every time he saw someone use cutlery.) Punchline of today's strip: John is vain. 
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I assume that the bits where the crow overlaps the dialogue represents it cawing like a batshit animal right?
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Waitaminute... 1980's New York? I know that guy!  Ted Rall
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What I'm learning from these John Darlings and Classic Funkys is that the strip where John Darling got shot had literally the only funny joke Batiuk ever wrote.
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Allen Wren posted:Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll Am I the only one who thinks these guys sound like jerks? It's All Right Chief Dharma  I don't get how people bite their nails off. Like physically. My teeth aren't sharp enough somehow.
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Lost Side of Suburbia   Dick Tracy  Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz 
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Tit. Jizz cap. Tits.
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James Thurber also wrote "The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O," a pair of short stories supposedly for children in the same way that Moomin is supposedly for children. It's illustrated by Ronald Searle, who has been mentioned before around here as the guy whose art influenced Richard Thompson. Most every goon who enjoys this megathread would love this book. It has lines like "He had an indescribable hat and a short, dark, describable beard." And then Searle provides a perfect, detailed illustration of the indescribable hat and it is still indescribable.
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I was a stage hand for a production of 13 Clocks once. I never saw it all, but it seemed quirky.
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The illustrations were what really did it for me, as a little kid. I can't even imagine the book without the illustrations, or the book as a play or anything. Unless everybody in the play looked like a Ronald Searle drawing.
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Bloom County gets dark. Calvin And Hobbes make do.    Ripley's 
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I'll have to check him out again. I know I read one of his collections but the main thing I remember is that he mentioned his crazy aunt who thought the Germans were piping gas under door at night. I seem to recall an illustration but I couldn't say if it was this Searle dude or not.
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I always find it hilarious that Inspector Danger would often have victim trying to spell out the culprit's name in some fashion. I know it's a stupid comic strip and all, but were there any real-life instances of murder victims doing that before dying?
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Pogo (November 6, 1956) The night of November 6th gave us the inevitable Eisenhower victory lap. As we found out a few months ago, this was a rematch against Adlai Stevenson, the same Democrat he trounced in '52. Round two went to Ike, only more so. It was the last time a presidential race was a rematch of a previous one. Peanuts: Year One: Here's where Schroeder really begins. (September 24-26, 1951)   
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EasyEW posted:And now, the moment of truth... 
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For real, by the time everybody started talking about how amazing the cowboy storyline is it was already too fargone for any of the rest of us to be able to coherently follow along.
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz But who's the fourth suspect? 
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ZeeToo posted:But who's the fourth suspect? The actual murderer.
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Thurber was a major force in the Algonquian Round Table and wrote a ton of great stuff. Let Your Mind Alone! was something I read a lot as a teenager. I don't like that Ruthie grew up to be an obnoxious goth. Pickles: Is it possible to stir-fry meat without cutting it up?  Bleeker: And can Skip have some if it is possible? 
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Dustin Today's Dustin was yet another boring sweater joke so in honor of Election Day I'm reposting this old one to remind everyone what an awful person Steve Kelley is. On the Fastrack  How do these people afford these huge houses living by themselves? Safe Havens  One day Samantha will walk into her room and find her menagerie of horrible experiments in an all out brawl.
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Emmy Lou Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Classic Prince Valiant  
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GorfZaplen posted:Mandrake the Magician This is literally the second time they've done this bit and, honestly, we are better for it. 
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fondue posted:I wish I could follow this, is there a place where all of the comics are chronological so I can follow what's going on? I don't know who that is with the teacher. Some Guy TT posted:For real, by the time everybody started talking about how amazing the cowboy storyline is it was already too fargone for any of the rest of us to be able to coherently follow along. It's not impossible, but it'd take some thoughtful editing since the story of Miss Vance and cowboys, like pretty much everything else in Out Our Way, wasn't told so much as it kind of accumulated like the rock slide from Seven Chances. Skippy (August 31, 1927)  Peanuts (November 8, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean  Popeye  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (December 30-31, 1925)  
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SomeMathGuy posted:This is literally the second time they've done this bit and, honestly, we are better for it.
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Mister Beeg posted:I always find it hilarious that Inspector Danger would often have victim trying to spell out the culprit's name in some fashion. I know it's a stupid comic strip and all, but were there any real-life instances of murder victims doing that before dying? Well there's always that one historical reenactment by MP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q8aWpA
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Mister Beeg posted:I always find it hilarious that Inspector Danger would often have victim trying to spell out the culprit's name in some fashion. I know it's a stupid comic strip and all, but were there any real-life instances of murder victims doing that before dying?
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