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Murdstone posted:I think some of this is a little unfair, because you're comparing a scan of a print to a digital image intended for print. In print, the colors are not so saturated. Does anyone have access to a newspaper that scans itself into PDF format? I'm curious now whether modern Prince Valiant in that format is closer to the saturated digital version or the original print version.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:00
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Sep 20, 2021 20:09
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Sep 20, 2021 20:10
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The Bloop posted:That definitely looks better in print, but I still don't love the choices and the faces are creepy mannequins in that. Uncanny valley like Yeah, the impression I get is that the artist is probably rushed somewhat. Which is often the case with syndicated strips.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:21
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Fyadophobic posted:Yeah, the impression I get is that the artist is probably rushed somewhat. Which is often the case with syndicated strips. It's probably better than they deserve for what they pay and I really don't want to be nasty to or about the artist. It's clear a lot of effort goes into it. Way more than most.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:26
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Some Guy TT posted:Does anyone have access to a newspaper that scans itself into PDF format? I'm curious now whether modern Prince Valiant in that format is closer to the saturated digital version or the original print version. The Bloop posted:That definitely looks better in print, but I still don't love the choices and the faces are creepy mannequins in that. Uncanny valley like Edit: I agree that I think the artist does a good job in modern Val and probably is limited by the time they can dedicate to it.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:30
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Sep 20, 2021 20:35
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Murdstone posted:I think some of this is a little unfair, because you're comparing a scan of a print to a digital image intended for print. In print, the colors are not so saturated. You can see the opposite effect in (god help me) Funky Winkerbean. For all the crap we dump on TomBat, on the Sunday strips he and his co-conspirator Chuck Ayers go all-in with shadows, shading and the color palate. If nothing else, it shows they're trying. Here's yesterday again:  And this is where I was going to scan in mom's copy of the Sunday section for a compare-and-contrast session, to show how a high-speed press being fed a diet of newsprint doesn't do this type of approach any favors. The result is that it often looks like someone dragged a rag over the still-wet ink, which on a canvas of mostly flat colors does make it pop in a way. That was the plan. Instead, my hometown paper coughed up another, more universal type of indifference.  You make yourself a borderline neurotic to turn in what's arguably your best work of the week for a client base that genuinely has no shits to give about the simplest things in your presentation, like making sure a square stays a square when he lays the section out. If the editor's going to fold, spindle, and mutilate your work because it's required to fill the assigned space by any means necessary, those extra-effort hang-ups are entirely on you, buddy. And speaking of artistic disasters, here's The MiniSec Ecocide Retrospective! 2008 asks the magic question, "Who's for dinner?" (February 25-29)      2011 (March 28-April 1)     
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Sep 20, 2021 20:39
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  Holbrook strips arent up on CK yet! Will update later.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:50
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Comics Kingdom went down and came back up paywalled. What a piece of poo poo.
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Sep 20, 2021 23:58
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Well, there's always my wacky "download PDFs from a newspaper website and convert them to JPG for imgur" idea. Which probably isn't as tedious as it sounds since you'd get maybe a dozen comics per page.
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Sep 21, 2021 00:08
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Stop saying that! Anyways here's a 90s song about chick magnets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPcDyl6tCV8 The Phantom  I guess he was shot? Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  EBB posted:Comics Kingdom went down and came back up paywalled. What a piece of poo poo. Comics Kingdom is apparently trying to kill what audience they have.
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Sep 21, 2021 00:18
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EBB posted:Comics Kingdom went down and came back up paywalled. What a piece of poo poo. I'm still getting 404s on their main site. I think they're still having trouble, not making a policy change. Especially since the horizontal-preference version at https://v7.comicskingdom.net seems to be working fine. I pulled these from there, explaining the aspect ratio of today's Bizarro. Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Sep 21, 2021 00:30
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Uramachi Sakaba  Chako    (Apologies for the ugly font and cropping on some of the older Chakos - these were my first shot at doing translations, and I hadn't figured out how to make the images look nice (the fact that it's watercolors on textured paper doesn't help either). I fixed a few borderline-unreadable ones, like the previous few, but it'd be a whole lot of  to make them all look not-as-lovely.)
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Sep 21, 2021 00:56
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So is Mary Worth about to do a depressing story about a dog adoption that goes very badly for the dog or a wildly irresponsible story about a dog adoption for all the wrong reasons that goes perfectly
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Sep 21, 2021 01:24
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After having been reading the Encyclopedia Brown Encyclopedia for a while I've noticed some common occurrences that result in the case being solved so I'm going to say that the proof is "Chief Brown never told the man how fast he was going, so if his speedometer was broken he wouldn't have known he was going 70 mph." If that is the solution, there's a couple of problems with it. One is that Chief Brown was already talking to the driver before Encyclopedia noticed, so he couldn't have heard the whole conversation, so Encyclopedia couldn't have known that Chief Brown never told the man how fast he was going. The second is that we, as the audience, also didn't hear the entire conversation. We saw what we can assume is Chief Brown's opening line about the Indy 500, but that's only an assumption, and the panel immediately after shifts to Encyclopedia and Sally's point of view, and they're clearly a distance away from the traffic stop. We don't know what Chief Brown or the driver are saying at this point, so it's entirely possible the driver did say "My speedometer is broken" and Chief Brown replied "Well I clocked you at 70 mph."' Basically if "My dad never told you your speed so that proves your speedometer isn't broken" is the actual solution, it relies on a lot of assumptions and information Encyclopedia can't know, plus the "proof" isn't actually "shown" so it's unreasonable to expect a person to logically figure it out. I only figured it out because again, there's a lot of Encyclopedia Brown cases where the solution is "The criminal was too specific in their claims and provided information they shouldn't have known."
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Sep 21, 2021 01:26
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The Bloop posted:So is Mary Worth about to do a depressing story about a dog adoption that goes very badly for the dog or a wildly irresponsible story about a dog adoption for all the wrong reasons that goes perfectly Why choose?
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Sep 21, 2021 01:45
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Also, they waited for an ambulance to arrive after the guy was hit, and then walked two blocks. It's probably been half an hour since the accident, the sports car driver could be long gone. But yeah, being suspiciously specific is the key to losing to Brown in Idaville. In "The Case of the Lemonade Stand," Bugs' attempt to frame Encyclopedia Brown and Sally for going into one of their friends' lemonade stands to take money, (A thing they were actually in the process of doing) fails because he incorrectly used the term "red-handed" when describing the scene to a police officer.
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Sep 21, 2021 01:46
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Powered Descent posted:I'm still getting 404s on their main site. I think they're still having trouble, not making a policy change. Woah thanks for the tip here's the Holbrook we've been missing Kevin and Kell  On the Fastrack  Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba love Cyborg Emi
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Sep 21, 2021 01:48
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Yeah, I think it's just that the website is still a little busted. I got everything I was looking for...after a half-dozen tries. Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (January 24, 1934)  Peanuts (September 23, 1974)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (April 21, 1938)  Out Our Way (May 27-29, 1937)    Toonerville Folks (January 31-February 2, 1918)    Dok's "You Gotta Be A Football Hero" Duck (October 14, 1913)  Little Lefty, featuring another victory for the proletariat. (May 16-18, 1935)    Blondie (From Zero) (February 12-14, 1931 (and see if you can spot the almost invisible image patching)) 
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Sep 21, 2021 02:07
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I’m really enjoying 100 Demons. I remember seeing Ernie Pook’s Comik in the papers during college and finding it impenetrable, but now that I’m enjoying these I want to go back and read them.
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Sep 21, 2021 02:35
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Am I misremembering or did Bettina (Sally Forth) experience a '90s sitcom age jump from baby to elementary age kid? Seems like all of a sudden she was walking and talking.
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Sep 21, 2021 02:40
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Sep 21, 2021 02:42
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And He Did! October 9, 1918  Outbursts of Everett True November 3, 1918  Gay and Her Gang November 1, 1929  Oaky Doaks April 3, 1936  Mopsy June 7, 1937  Up Front July 15, 1944  Dark Laughter October 2, 1948  “Never mind doublin’ my money. Just give me what I paid for it on account of the feller I was tryin’ to infliterate wasn’t nobody but Bootsie anyway!” Those Were the Days April 19, 1956  Wee Pals December 24, 1965  Dogbert May 25, 1966 
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Sep 21, 2021 02:58
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft oh good, another interminable Batiuk "small business closing" storyline, this is at least the fourth one of the pandemic?
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Gatto Grigio posted:I’m really enjoying 100 Demons. I remember seeing Ernie Pook’s Comik in the papers during college and finding it impenetrable, but now that I’m enjoying these I want to go back and read them. I'm positive I had a book of that lying around somewhere but just couldn't get into it because of all the words. Daily doses are much more managable.
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somepartsareme posted:oh good, another interminable Batiuk "small business closing" storyline, this is at least the fourth one of the pandemic?
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maltesh posted:But yeah, being suspiciously specific is the key to losing to Brown in Idaville. In "The Case of the Lemonade Stand," Bugs' attempt to frame Encyclopedia Brown and Sally for going into one of their friends' lemonade stands to take money, (A thing they were actually in the process of doing) fails because he incorrectly used the term "red-handed" when describing the scene to a police officer. I was thinking more where the criminal gives information they couldn't have known unless they committed the crime, like the one where Encyclopedia figured out a girl broke into some boy's house because she said she would never sleep in a bed with superhero sheets, or where one of the Tigers gets busted for stealing ten dollars from a rival shoeshine stand because he said he had no interest in a sock full of quarters.
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The worst has to be the one where a suspect proclaims a knife stuck in a watermelon couldn't be his because the blade was too long — and how could he know how long the blade was, as it was stuck in a watermelon!
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Sep 21, 2021 03:39
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba I love this comic. Are you translating it as you go and if so thanks, I love you too. Is it in English anywhere, particularly for sale? I was looking to buy some Nekonaughey books last year and I bounced off it pretty fast unfortunately.
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Sep 21, 2021 03:41
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Sep 21, 2021 03:45
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Sep 21, 2021 03:52
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The "scary Nekonaughey" series are fantastic.Doomykins posted:I love this comic. Are you translating it as you go and if so thanks, I love you too. Is it in English anywhere, particularly for sale? I was looking to buy some Nekonaughey books last year and I bounced off it pretty fast unfortunately. Also the first print volume is currently free on Kindle on amazon Japan, if anyone wants to throw Maruoka some downloads / look at the pictures.
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Sep 21, 2021 04:00
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Giant Ethicist posted:If you want to read ahead, there's a link to the imgur album - along with some other comics I've been translating - in my sig. I feel like I'm missing something very obvious as my troubleshooting isn't working but I can't see signatures on SA. Option enabled and everything. Could you link me directly? And to avoid a totally useless post from me here: Jucika "270 - Jucika And The Fashionable Loudspeaker"  Hahahaha those second panel expressions. "271 - Jucika Provides A Sedative"  "Idegscillapítót is also=Tranquilizer/Bromide Szülőszoba=Labor Room Konyha=Kitchen"  One of Jucika's best. She's so thoughtful.
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Sep 21, 2021 04:12
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Twelve by Pies posted:After having been reading the Encyclopedia Brown Encyclopedia for a while I've noticed some common occurrences that result in the case being solved so I'm going to say that the proof is "Chief Brown never told the man how fast he was going, so if his speedometer was broken he wouldn't have known he was going 70 mph."
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Sep 21, 2021 04:54
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Doomykins posted:I feel like I'm missing something very obvious as my troubleshooting isn't working but I can't see signatures on SA. Option enabled and everything. Could you link me directly? The Uramachi Sakaba imgur album starts here, at any rate: (imgur.com) /a/wD25NnB
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CK's back, catchup time: Mandrake   Johnny Hazard   Doomykins posted:I feel like I'm missing something very obvious as my troubleshooting isn't working but I can't see signatures on SA. Option enabled and everything. Could you link me directly? And to avoid a totally useless post from me here: test signature that only exists to show that signatures exist
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Jan 7, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jan 9-10, 1990)   Blind Alley  https://kumerish.com/blind-alley
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