Comic Strip Megathread XVI: Winking Throwbacks to Retro Sexism

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Kumaton: Mar 6, 2013; OWLBEARS, SON

Sundae posted:

Not letting this slide by without recognition.

# ? Oct 5, 2016 14:45

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# ? May 29, 2024 09:01

Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

Indolent Bastard posted:

What, cut his whole foot off?

# ? Oct 5, 2016 14:48

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Aardmania posted:

Piranha Club

Oh good, another week of this.

Tiggum posted:

Cul de Sac

I remember someone in a previous thread had a gif for the second and third panels as an avatar for a while. I always liked it.

# ? Oct 5, 2016 14:56

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Buni is extra grim today.

Rhymes with Orange

Pros and Cons

# ? Oct 5, 2016 15:45

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Aardmania posted:

~~Wahoo Terminal~~ Pibgorn

Well, imagine that. Screwing in a pile of masturbation.

Meanwhile, just in time for the middle of the week, the Bloom County Sunday page!

Peanuts (October 7-8, 1969)

There has to be a logical reason that Funky Winkerbean is still in black and white. Maybe the Comics Kingdom colorist finally read one of them and quit on the spot.

Crankshaft

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (April 23-24, 1930)

# ? Oct 5, 2016 16:10

treasureplane: Jul 12, 2008; throwing darts in lovers' eyes, &c.

King Aroo (September 11 & 12, 1951)

Nancy (October 26 & 27, 1943)

Gasoline Alley (July 24 & 25, 1923)

Barney Google (July 25 & 26, 1922)

Alley Oop (October 24 & 25, 1933)

Lil' Abner (March 23 & 24, 1937)

# ? Oct 5, 2016 16:40

Lowen SoDium: Jun 5, 2003; Highen Fiber; Clapping Larry

treasureplane posted:

IDGI

# ? Oct 5, 2016 16:51

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

treasureplane posted:

King Aroo (September 11 & 12, 1951)

King Aroo's dopey elephant is the best elephant :allears:

quote:

Nancy (October 26 & 27, 1943)

Aw, these just break my heart! Especially the second one, and to think that USA had no shortages as bad as Europe or, say, Japan did.

# ? Oct 5, 2016 17:01

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Lowen SoDium posted:

IDGI

It's 1943. War shortages. They can tell it's an old movie because it shows a butcher shop full of meat.

# ? Oct 5, 2016 17:04

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Lowen SoDium posted:

IDGI

# ? Oct 5, 2016 17:20

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Maybe those soldiers should work harder if they want things

# ? Oct 5, 2016 17:26

Transmodiar: Jul 9, 2005; You're a terrible person, Mildred.

Modesty Blaise

# ? Oct 5, 2016 17:39

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

...and the pitch! posted:

Maybe those soldiers should work harder if they want things

This only works if your prisoners are better nourished than you are.

spoilered for posted:

In September 1942, Japanese daily rations on New Guinea consisted of 800 grams of rice and tinned meat. However, by December, this had fallen to 50 grams.[89]:78�80 According to historian Yuki Tanaka, "cannibalism was often a systematic activity conducted by whole squads and under the command of officers".[90]

In some cases, flesh was cut from living people. An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali (later a citizen of Pakistan), testified that in New Guinea: "the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers. I personally saw this happen and about 100 prisoners were eaten at this place by the Japanese. The remainder of us were taken to another spot 50 miles (80 kilometres) away where 10 prisoners died of sickness. At this place, the Japanese again started selecting prisoners to eat. Those selected were taken to a hut where their flesh was cut from their bodies while they were alive and they were thrown into a ditch where they later died."[91]

Another well-documented case occurred in Chichi-jima in February 1945, when Japanese soldiers killed and consumed five American airmen. This case was investigated in 1947 in a war crimes trial, and of 30 Japanese soldiers prosecuted, five (Maj. Matoba, Gen. Tachibana, Adm. Mori, Capt. Yoshii, and Dr. Teraki) were found guilty and hanged.[92] In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors.[93] The author claims that this included not only ritual cannibalization of the livers of freshly killed prisoners, but also the cannibalization-for-sustenance of living prisoners over the course of several days, amputating limbs only as needed to keep the meat fresh.[94]

# ? Oct 5, 2016 18:00

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Nenonen posted:

This is awfully socialist.

# ? Oct 5, 2016 18:04

A HUNGRY MOUTH: Nov 3, 2006; date of birth: 02/05/88
manufacturer: mazda
model/year: 2008 mazda6
sexuality: straight, bi-curious
peircings: pusspuss; Nap Ghost

Nenonen posted:

Those are load-bearing cans. :grocerhaus:

# ? Oct 5, 2016 18:26

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

This comic makes me so angry. I don't mean this one in particular--although it does--I mean every day. This "Hey! Remember that character from that other thing? Well here it is! Haha!" is just awful bullshit and why oh why won't someone please sue the syndicate so they either fire Gilchrist and get someone new or just put Nancy out of her misery already. Bushmiller's Nancy was so loving good to let it go on like this is a travesty.

Tiggum posted:

Frog Applause

Is this a reference to Minimum Security back when it had a story to it? Was that posted here or was that from the politoons thread?

F Minus

Mary Worth

"How are you at smiting Canaanites?"

Rex Morgan MD

They're drifting awfully close to the old "the Morgans get everything handed to them" territory here.

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

Wesley's all right, but man does he have some screwed up family.

# ? Oct 5, 2016 19:47

delfin: Dec 5, 2003; SNATTER'S ALIVE?!?!

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise

Goddamn. Sure is a shame to waste a perfectly good pirate wench like that.

# ? Oct 5, 2016 20:08

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

# ? Oct 5, 2016 22:59

Aardmania: Jan 1, 2007; Ruining newspapers since 1993.; Shredded Hen

Heathcliff

Piranha Club

Dick Tracy

Judge Parker

9 Chickweed Lane

By the looks of horror on those faces, I'm guessing that this sounds like a car fender scraping against a dumpster full of empty beer cans.

Terminal Pibgorn

# ? Oct 5, 2016 23:32

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Aardmania posted:

9 Chickweed Lane

You know, I was just thinking yesterday that despite the abysmal writing the art was, if not "good" exactly, different in an interesting way. And then this happens.

Also, since music=sex, is this an old woman watching her daughter and son-in-law gently caress? Seriously? :wtc:

# ? Oct 5, 2016 23:38

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Luann

The Amazing Spider-Man

Sally Forth

Me too, Faye, me too. Though I'd probably chop both my legs off on my first attempt at badassery.

The Heart of Juliet Jones

Taterooms.

# ? Oct 6, 2016 01:38

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

WickedHate posted:

Also, since music=sex, is this an old woman watching her daughter and son-in-law gently caress? Seriously?

I think this is an old woman discovering to her horror that in this universe music=sex.

# ? Oct 6, 2016 02:01

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

The Classic Dinette Set gets in the spirit of the season.

Working Daze starts the kid on the classic early. And yes, they let their manager name their kid.

Super-Fun-Pak-Comix can't be bothered.

# ? Oct 6, 2016 02:15

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann

So why did Toni bring them again?

# ? Oct 6, 2016 03:38

Kumaton: Mar 6, 2013; OWLBEARS, SON

I'm actually really sad that Working Daze didn't open the kid's name up to a vote.

Edit:

dordreff posted:

Not true. Many people skip to the last two pages and read those as well.

As well as the chapter where the dude whacks it on the beach.

Kumaton fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Oct 6, 2016

# ? Oct 6, 2016 03:59

dordreff: Jul 16, 2013

Evil Mastermind posted:

Super-Fun-Pak-Comix can't be bothered.

Not true. Many people skip to the last two pages and read those as well.

# ? Oct 6, 2016 04:00

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Adam Ames

( � ▽ � ), but a car version

Between Shots

Ella Cinders

Myra North, Special Nurse

# ? Oct 6, 2016 04:02

CommaToes: Dec 15, 2006; Ecce Buffo

Kumaton posted:

I'm actually really sad that Working Daze didn't open the kid's name up to a vote.

Boaty McBoatface is a way better name than Rey.... unless her middle names are Parker and Junior.

# ? Oct 6, 2016 04:21

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Mister Kingdom posted:

For context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzejK4-qZ2E&hd=1

I appreciated it.

# ? Oct 6, 2016 04:40

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Cartoon Cavalcade

I thought I'd post a few because I have time, and also because there's a lot in this book. Most of these are repeat artists so I'm skipping listing/linking those.

John T. McCutcheon

# ? Oct 6, 2016 05:18

SomeMathGuy: Oct 4, 2014; The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine.

Mark Trail

Pearls Before Swine

The Phantom

# ? Oct 6, 2016 06:35

treasureplane: Jul 12, 2008; throwing darts in lovers' eyes, &c.

King Aroo (September 13, 1951)

Nancy (October 28, 1943)

Gasoline Alley (July 26, 1923)

Barney Google (July 27, 1922)

Alley Oop (October 26, 1933)

Lil' Abner (March 25, 1937)

# ? Oct 6, 2016 08:08

Wanamingo: Feb 22, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

Six Chix

Zippy the Pinhead

Nancy

Arlo and Janis

Andertoons

Pluggers

# ? Oct 6, 2016 09:16

Good Listener: Sep 2, 2006; Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool

gently caress off Casper. No one's nostalgic about you.

# ? Oct 6, 2016 12:14

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Intelligent Life

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

# ? Oct 6, 2016 12:41

BigglesSWE: Dec 2, 2014; How 'bout them hawks news huh!

Wanamingo posted:

Nancy

loving gently caress you, you goddamn living corpse of a comic.

# ? Oct 6, 2016 13:11

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

_{_{(it's ironic because Nancy herself is a zombie)}}

# ? Oct 6, 2016 13:34

JaggerMcDagger: Feb 13, 2012; Bringing you Barry from the sordid depths of the Internet

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann

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