CharlestheHammer posted:

It reminds me that during the early days of the pandemic you had a lot of celebrities posting messages from their big estates on how tough lockdown was.

It didn’t go particularly well

christmas boots posted:

just somehow miraculously never encountered a black person until he'd cooled down.

800peepee51doodoo posted:

idk, bo burnham won an emmy

BrigadierSensible posted:

Footrot Flats was mostly always cool and good and wholesome.

Murray Ball, (the creator), however turned into a horrible old man raging against feminism, and wrote a book called The Sisterhood, where the all the jokes are "Hey look! there are young women with short hair. They are probably lesbians and are taking away all of the rights of men. The only reason they aren't laughing is because they are humourless bitches."

Brooke McEldowney posted:

FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED

The following is the text (emended for improvements in prose) that I provided as an explanation for the removal of the Pibgorn comics board:


"The excision of the comments board from Pib occurred in deference to a request I have been reiterating for over a year, one to which Gocomics was very hesitant to acquiesce. However, they finally consented (following a similar move made by comics.com also at my insistence). I was aware that it might be taken ill, but for a long time I have had feelings about the way in which my work should be presented – somewhat old-fashioned feelings, rising from the world of newspapers in the past in which a cartoon or any other feature was printed on its own – attributable commentary, pro or con, provided elsewhere. When the internet began to forge a new way of presenting features, as part of a rowdy parliament of voices ("9 Chickweed Lane" and the loyal, anonymous opposition) not by itself, the whole profession changed for me, and I never got used to it.

"When the going was good, I suppose I minded not so much as I did when I found myself and my work (and they are not separable) being trashed. I wearied of having to police a site where the nameless could log on and say the things that people sometimes revel in saying. I wanted to present my work without a blow-by-blow commentary as a natural concomitant to what I do, pleasing or displeasing. Mine is an antiquated view, but I find I cannot shake off the conviction that it is the view for me. The Pibgorn site, after all, is my home, where I work and serve up my daily confections. I just prefer to occupy my home solitarily.

"What I've done, I think, oughtn't to be taken personally. That notwithstanding, I require the change, and I'm pleased Gocomics was willing to consent to it."

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I wrote this as an answer to a question in my e-mail. I have edited it lightly for style, and pass it on to you here:

"When I began syndication, in 1993, there was no such thing as presentation of a strip online in the present manner (at least, none I knew of). When my syndicate began doing it, they selected five strips as a trial, among which were "Peanuts," "Rose Is Rose," "Dilbert" and "9 Chickweed Lane." They just showed up on a site, just as they showed up in the newspaper. There was no commentary, except in an editorial section, from people whose real names accompanied.

"Years later, I found myself reading comments directly beneath my work, sometimes in vast numbers, votes included, all writers posting in anonymity. I also started to read libels, sometimes threats, trashing and praise. None of this was subjected to editorial overview (which, nevertheless, governs every detail of every comic offered by a syndicate). And I was offered no choice in how my work was presented. It was not offered on its own, but with an umbilical link to a supreme soviet of anonymous commentary.

"I began to demand that the comments be subject to scrutiny – as well as deletion when they were unfit for publication - in the manner of newspapers and op ed columns. My syndicate did not want to do it. I pointed out that they, as a corporation, ran the risk of being party to libel if they did not. They were not concerned.

"So, I objected and objected and objected as time went on and the tenor of posts became subject more and more to abuse. I wanted my work to appear as it did in the beginning, alone, without a raging public forum affixed to it. It was like looking at a work of art with the walls about it scrawled densely with graffiti.

"I object to it. It is wrong."

christmas boots posted:

I can't help but wonder if there's some kind of mythologizing going on there too though. Like maybe he was stomping around angry in the streets for a few days but over the decades has retroactively built it up into an exaggerated version where he's specifically out to do a revenge killing and just somehow miraculously never encountered a black person until he'd cooled down.

Tiggum posted:

Here's another good one:

His comments sections, it's worth pointing out, were almost entirely fawning praise from fans who referred to him consistently as "Honourable Master".

Tiggum posted:

Here's another good one:

His comments sections, it's worth pointing out, were almost entirely fawning praise from fans who referred to him consistently as "Honourable Master".

Cowslips Warren posted:

thetoughestbean posted:

It’s weird how sanctimonious that guy sounds when he could have just said “I don’t like comment sections, they’re largely trash” and we all would have agreed

Gaunab posted:

What's FOOB?

hawowanlawow posted:

I just watched Bordello of Blood and holy poo poo it is terrible, and I fuckin hate Dennis Miller. If I knew that pseudo intellectual dickcheese was the lead, I never would have watched it. I was lured in by the timeless classic Demon Knight.

Dennis Miller is like what would happen if Jerry Seinfeld continued his journey up his own rear end so far he shat himself out of his own mouth.

Silly Newbie posted:

This is an objectively correct opinion, however
It's interesting how Bordello of Blood bucked trends by becoming worse the shittier Dennis Miller got after it's release, even to people who have never heard of Dennis Miller.

BrigadierSensible posted:

Because campy horror shlock is generally a good time, and I was given that the first film had demons/zombies and an awesomely scenery chewing Billy Zane, the second had sexy vampires in a whorehouse, I was hoping for werewolves in the third.

Phylodox posted:

EDIT: Although, to bring this back around to the thread topic, I watched Bogus Journey the other weekend and was a little disappointed to be reminded just how ubiquitous anti-gay slurs were in just about everything back then.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

He never knew how well he really fit in.

The Powerup Comics guy is right, and it's really wild how webcomics are such a contrast from how utterly ossified both comic books and strips have become.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

And instead we got a lovely Serpent and the Rainbiw fanfic for the third one.

Volcott posted:

No one can force you to watch Cleopatra 2525, but there are probably some Bruce Campbell-centric social groups where you may be obligated to watch Jack o' All Trades.

Silly Newbie posted:

There was a third one?