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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 2/26/01  Stephen Collins  Brenda Starr 12/23/45  Smokey Stover 8/27/39 I'm not really sure whether this is supposed to be a blackface joke or just "lol they've got paint all over them," but let's play it safe.  Richard's Poor Almanac 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus Where's my loving money
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PetraCore posted:See, I interpreted it differently, which is that Gordon is a kid who loves his parents which is a position that makes it so much harder to really accept when they're hurting you and to try to get away. Obviously Lynn has her own complicated history, but part of that is I thought she was physically abused growing up, and she had a really hard time cutting her parents out of her life because the idea that 'family trumps all' had been so ingrained in her by her parents. So, uh, I don't think she's writing Gordon as 'everyone should just forgive me no matter what because I'm sad', but 'this is how I felt growing up about my parents'. To add to this, abusive parents feeling remorse after the fact is a thing that can happen, and Gordon's reaction to that is not at all atypical. Lynn isn't trying to make us feel bad for an abuser. Lynn is just depicting abuse.
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Schwarzwald posted:To add to this, abusive parents feeling remorse after the fact is a thing that can happen, and Gordon's reaction to that is not at all atypical.
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The dialogue in the last panel 100% indicates that it's a blackface joke
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm just impressed that they have, in Bernice, created a character more instantly hateful than the most artfully constructed villain, and entirely by mistake. goatface posted:She is a more complete villain than Chatu (The Python!). I'm sure she'd give the Phantom ebola, too. B Kliban  
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The Dinette Set doesn't like to admit they do product placement. Working Daze is making an implication I'm not really comfortable with.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is a little gamey.  Cul De Sac is thinking long-term. 
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ikanreed posted:Where's my loving money   F Minus  BikBok  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Kotzky getting artsy with the panels in this one.
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Johnny Walker posted:BikBok Don't forget to yell "WORLDSTAR!", Rusty.
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In this installment of The Timid Soul (June 6, 1932), Caspar would probably rather I tag this as NWS. Apparently nudism and naturism were a major fad in the late 1920s / early 1930s. Look at the detail on those trees. 
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm just impressed that they have, in Bernice, created a character more instantly hateful than the most artfully constructed villain, and entirely by mistake.
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Jul 10-11, 1952)   Calvin and Hobbes (Jan 12-15, 1989)     Robbie and Bobby (May 6, 2019)  (May 8, 2019)  (May 10, 2019)  (May 13, 2019)  Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Missed a day. 2017 Spiderman  1978 comics     Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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I perenially appreciate the fact that it's not just that Arlo and Janice gently caress, it's that it's good and they both enjoy it and are still playful and friendly. It's healthy and I love it.
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Evil Mastermind posted:You know, the whole thing about Bernice here is that as bad as this is, it's made so much worse by the fact that she's one of the most consistently horrible people ever to show up in these threads. She is never sympathetic; at every turn she's condescending, dismissive, and sticking her nose into other people's drat business...and yet this is never presented as a bad thing and her friends just shrug and accept it. Yeah, speaking of how comics sometimes portray bad behavior like it plays out in real life (a toxic friend in this case, rather than child abuse). Future therapist Bernice might be interested to know that she is a missing stair. (I do not for an instant think that the Evanses were going for this on purpose, but she is anyway.)  Thankfully, they're all going to get murdered in a minute and Bernice's reign of terror will end.
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Julet Esqu posted:Thankfully, they're all going to get murdered in a minute and Bernice's reign of terror will end. At last.
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Oh boy another two-strip nailbiter from Luann buckle up
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The butt dial Dustin sounds like another "Skelley just learned a new word and wanted to put it in a comic but couldn't actually think of a joke"
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Parahexavoctal posted:Look at the detail on those trees. As long as we're thinking about technique, it's worth mentioning that every mail order art course designed with newspaper cartooning in mind started you off with linework, because not just anything will reproduce well when it's shoved through a turn-of-the-century high speed newspaper press. Webster definitely didn't take one of those (his only formal art education was twenty days with the Frank Holmes School of Illustration before it went out of business), but he locked on to what those courses taught all the same. For instance, they all encourage you to cultivate an eyeball for getting the line spacing on your shading an equal distance apart for an even tone. But the point was to go for that effect, not necessarily make it look machine-tooled.   Now take another look at those trees. You'll see it for sure. (Pages from lessons 1 and 2 of the W.L. Evans School of Cartooning course. Pick up your fountain pen and try your luck.) Sally Forth knows when she's on the losing end.   Pearls Before Swine   Skippy (August 7, 1933)  And yeah, I'm still assuming this is Crosby's The Clancy Kids (August 22, 1916)  Peanuts (March 1-2, 1974)   Funky Winkerbean   Crankshaft   The premise is too smug for words. It does have a few words, but it's too smug for all of them. 9 Chickweed Lane   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater, in which Olive gives as good as she gets. (September 28-29, 1937)   Out Our Way (March 9-11, 1936; another Ick joke behind the spoiler)    Toonerville Folks (April 9-11, 1917)   
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Evil Mastermind posted:You know, the whole thing about Bernice here is that as bad as this is, it's made so much worse by the fact that she's one of the most consistently horrible people ever to show up in these threads. She is never sympathetic; at every turn she's condescending, dismissive, and sticking her nose into other people's drat business...and yet this is never presented as a bad thing and her friends just shrug and accept it. to be UNDESERVEDLY GENEROUS to the strip, in some light she's a great example of the kind of friend you have in high school/college because they live in the same neighborhood/dorm whatever, and no one in the friend group really likes them but you inexplicably keep including the person in your social activities, and then after graduation you never see them again and you wonder why the hell you ever were friends in the first place edit: Julet Esqu posted:Yeah, speaking of how comics sometimes portray bad behavior like it plays out in real life (a toxic friend in this case, rather than child abuse). Future therapist Bernice might be interested to know that she is a missing stair. (I do not for an instant think that the Evanses were going for this on purpose, but she is anyway.) i had never heard of this expresison before and i really like it
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The octopus lady is coping remarkably well for gaining 8 sub brains and a beak where her cooch used to be.
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goatface posted:The octopus lady is coping remarkably well for gaining 8 sub brains and a beak where her cooch used to be. With the DNA magic they have her cooch probably dispenses soft serve ice cream
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goatface posted:The octopus lady is coping remarkably well for gaining 8 sub brains and a beak where her cooch used to be. I want you to imagine how different a wolf and rabbit are when it comes to reproduction. Oh, yes the males both have penises, but they are rather different. So since you put that image of a beak-cooch in my head, I will put the image of Kevin and Kell making their hellspawn. Or wolves and sheep. Or the loving bat and the hedgehog and there was even the loving joke about her quills making holes in the condom. I mean if nothing else mermaids should spawn like sharks or clownfish. NOW for crossovers, if the crazy DNA wizards were shown like Bernice, it would be clear they are insane villain control freaks. But they are the main characters and can do no wrong.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I want you to imagine how different a wolf and rabbit are when it comes to reproduction. Oh, yes the males both have penises, but they are rather different. So since you put that image of a beak-cooch in my head, I will put the image of Kevin and Kell making their hellspawn. Or wolves and sheep. Or the loving bat and the hedgehog and there was even the loving joke about her quills making holes in the condom. Please refrain from erotic speculation about our characters.
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goatface posted:The octopus lady is coping remarkably well for gaining 8 sub brains and a beak where her cooch used to be. Living the dream.
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goatface posted:The octopus lady is coping remarkably well for gaining 8 sub brains and a beak where her cooch used to be. 
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goatface posted:The octopus lady is coping remarkably well for gaining 8 sub brains and a beak where her cooch used to be. There's a vagina dentata joke to be made here.
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And He Did! (March 16, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (April 24, 1918)  Hitz and Mrs. (December 10, 1923)  Gay and Her Gang (April 4, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (September 4, 1935)  Dark Laughter (January 22, 1942)  Mopsy Sunday (October 12, 1947)  Those Were the Days (November 8, 1951)  Dinky Fellas (May 26, 1965)  Wee Pals (May 26, 1965) 
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EBB posted:Rabbits' feet in the rearview mirror? Three baby shoes instead of the usual pair.
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okay now what’s being painted on the barn/house that has fester so delighted
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PainterofCrap posted:Homebodies - 1951-54 This is one I've never got. I guessing there is some meaning behind the symbol being drawn on the barn? That or Fester is planing to come back later with his blunderbuss and use it as a bullseye. Edit: A quick search suggests that what's being drawn is called a Hex Sign. Some sources say they were intended to ward off evil. Maybe Fester is looking forward to the challenge? The_Other fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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Decorations like that are moderately commonly on barns in Pennsylvania and southern tier New York.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Does anyone even say 'reno' (which I assume is pronounced 'wren-oh' instead of 'ree-no') for talking about renovations? 'Redo' is the only term I can think of I've heard.
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When it's used to refer to renovations, I generally see/hear definite particles. "How's the reno" But I'm mostly from SoCal, and we use "the" in front of a lot of things that drive people with other accents nuts.
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"Reno" has been bugging me for a different reason that ties into my vault digs, because in the '20s and 30s Nevada was one of the few places where you could get a no-fault divorce. Reno became a magnet for a certain type of breakup tourism, especially when the state loosened up the residency requirements. At the time, Variety called celebrity divorces a "Reno-vation". It's the type of semi-useless knowledge I can't unlearn. 
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