Darthemed posted:

Calvin and Hobbes

Pancho Jueves posted:

I've read Calvin & Hobbes for 20 years, and this is the first time I got the analogy here. drat, Bill.

The New Yorker posted:

In the spring of 1925, the young cartoonist Peter Arno gathered together some of his drawings, stuffed them into a folder, and travelled uptown to drop them off at the offices of a new weekly magazine headquartered on West Forty-fifth Street.

His first drawing appeared in The New Yorker's June 20, 1925, issue.

Arno found The New Yorker—and The New Yorker found Arno—at exactly the right time. Just four months old, the magazine was already suffering from a declining readership and teetering on the brink of collapse. More money was going out the door than coming in. The New Yorker cartoons had not yet been invented . . . what was being published in those first months was a rich and varied range of illustrations, satiric sketches, spots, and caricatures.

In the spring of 1926, when Philip Wylie spied some drawings of a pair of older women in Arno’s portfolio. The sisters—christened Pansy Smiff and Mrs. Abagail Flusser, or the Whoops Sisters—were introduced in the pages of the magazine in April of 1926. They were not just sweet little old ladies—they were naughty, boisterous, grinning “wink wink, nudge nudge” sweet little old ladies; their language laced with double entendres. As often as not, the captions contained the word “Whoops!”

In turning the sweet-little-old-lady cliché upside down, the Sisters were a perfect vehicle for Arno, allowing him to mine one of his favorite themes—sex—in a harmless way. Their brand of humor wasn’t to everyone’s taste: the New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, writing in the magazine in 1968, admitted that, “by our standards, the Whoops Sisters are not very funny.” But they enjoyed a remarkable run, appearing sixty-three times in the magazine between 1926 and 1927. Their wild popularity spawned a short-lived syndicated comic strip and a fifteen-minute daily radio series.

Arno, writing about the sisters years later, said, “They came to me at a time they were most needed, both by me, and by The New Yorker, and after running several years they had served their purpose … so I quietly interred them, before I or others grew tired of them.”

Slammy posted:

Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)

Wanamingo posted:

Nancy

Wanamingo posted:

Nancy

Manuel Calavera posted:

Compu-Toon

SomeMathGuy posted:

The Phantom

Slammy posted:

Outbusts of Everett True

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

Mary Worth news: http://maryworthcomics.com/2016/05/08/june-brigman-will-draw-sunday-art/

dismas posted:

That seems like it'll be an art upgrade for sure.

Stultus Maximus posted:

Manuel Calavera posted:

Foxtrot

Stultus Maximus posted:

Stultus Maximus posted:

Slammy posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

Tunicate posted:

One of the most enduring myths promulgated by quack psychologists.

Tunicate posted:

One of the most enduring myths promulgated by quack psychologists.

Slammy posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese