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64 | 26.02% |
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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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MiracleFlare posted:Luckily I still have the links saved from when I showed some friends: The last time Estelle thought about marriage with Wilbur, about two years ago and shortly after he ruined a double date out of drunken jealousy that his ex (that he dumped for a younger hotter woman) now had a younger hotter man. Oh my God that was two years ago. (The boxing Wilbur babies imagery was very good and memorable, though I still don't think it makes a lot of sense in terms of the characters/story.) Anyhow yes this storyline sucks a butt and I am going to be shocked if we steer away from the "I dunno, stick it out with this obnoxious dick you don't have that much chemistry with" ending
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Vargo posted:Doesn't this dude hate Mark? Is he the guy Mark stole the laptop from? Or the guy that put him in a livestream boxing match? Or both? The last time we saw him he was storming out of a collab because he didn't know the other side was pushing NFTs. He's probably trying to get some two-fisted (and deniable) environmental justice delt. Jules is not subtle.
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I didn't vote in the thread poll because the answer is E: All of the Above.
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I’m not a great writer, it’s why I post pictures, but here goes: And He Did! January 20, 1919 Created by J.C. Henderson, “And He Did!” began its run in 1913. It is the original “gently caress Around and Find Out”. I frequently change the title to “And He Died!” because, well, he dies.  Outbursts of Everett True January 25, 1919 Created in 1905 by A.D. Condo and running until 1927, “True” was one of the most popular features of its day. The WWI era strips did not go over well in this thread for good reason. Post-war, topics have returned (mostly) to pre-war themes.  Gay and Her Gang February 4, 1930 One of the “flapper girl” strips from the late 1920s, “Gay” stands out with well done word-play and excellent put-downs. Created by thread favorite Gladys Parker, the strip ended in March of 1930.  Oaky Doaks July 6, 1936 “Oaky” ran from 1935 to 1961. It’s the only comic I post with a continuing plot, and it manages to get a decent joke into almost every strip.  Mopsy September 13, 1937 Gladys Parker created Mopsy after “Gay and Her Gang” ended and it became her most successful and long-running feature. It ended in 1965.  Up Front October 17, 1944 Set in WWII, “Up Front” features infantrymen Willie and Joe and first ran in “Stars and Stripes” in 1944 before being syndicated.  Dark Laughter May 13, 1950 Ollie Harrington started this comic in 1930s African-American newspapers as a satire of Harlem society. It features lovable rascal Bootsie.  So It Seems March 19, 1952 A short-lived strip from the early 1950s.  Those Were the Days November 14, 1957 Created by Art Beeman, TWTD perfects nostalgia for a world that never existed. It ran forever.  Wee Pals March 28, 1966 Wee Pals was the first strip with multi-cultural characters to gain wide syndication and its creator Morrie Turner was one of the first African-Americans artists to appear on a mainstream comics page.  Dogbert October 18, 1966 “Dogbert” was one of Morrie Turner’s less-known strips for the Chicago Defender, set in the armed forces. 
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Jan 3, 2022 22:54
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The Far Side      Pickles  Zits 
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Slammy posted:Up Front October 17, 1944 Cool, a car running on wood gas! With a little ingenuity and some hacked-together hardware, it's actually possible to run a vehicle engine on ordinary firewood. It sucks in a lot of ways compared to ordinary fuel, but it'll work, so it pops up in times of severe fuel supply problems (such as war zones). Wood gas cars were all over Europe during WWII, but this is the first time I've ever heard of the US military having to resort to it for their jeeps. 
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Huh. Well there you go.
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days November 14, 1957 i feel like we can't start this year off without Vargos perfect description of this strip: Vargo posted:Beeman has three modes of "But Now - Wow!":
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I haven't really posted much in past threads but I figured I'd chime in here in the new year and say thank you to everybody who posts comics! I grew up in a neighborhood without many other kids so I spent a lot of my weekends reading Calvin & Hobbes, Garfield, Foxtrot, and basically whatever else I could get from the local library so newspaper comics hold a special place in my heart. I love these threads for introducing me to all kinds of comics I never would have come across (Wallace, the Q-rais comics, the Allison comics, and Scary Gary leap to mind but I know there's a bunch) and comics I never would have given the time of day otherwise (wow A&J is good and Sally Forth is a lot better than I thought). I can't say I read all the comics posted in this thread, I personally don't read the soaps or the vintage comics, but it warms my heart that there are people who take the time to post those too, and people that love to read (or love to hate) them.
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I find Those Were The Days to be a lot more likeable when you realize half the strips are Art Beeman's very poorly disguised tough girl fetish. Jucika "482 - Jucika And The Fearful Little Student"  "483 - Jucika And The Robot Man" 
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako  
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Uramachi Sakaba - adorable.  Chako - Chako!! 
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba Don't worry, Mr. Bridge Ornament is with her.
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Chaco found a…stargate?
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PainterofCrap posted:Chaco found a…stargate? Ring transporter. Stargates are the big networked interstellar transport things while rings are more local unless you technobabble it. Stargates are the internet, ring transporters are Bluetooth.
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Doomykins posted:"483 - Jucika And The Robot Man" What horror is he looking at in the first frame?
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Mister Kingdom posted:What horror is he looking at in the first frame? chores.
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Classic Zits Little late there Love is Hell  Sylvia   Hell yeah Marlys! 
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth [SFX: ENDLESS SCREAMING]
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Mutts Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (April 21, 1934)  Peanuts (January 6, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (August 4, 1938)  Out Our Way (December 30, 1937-January 1, 1938)    Toonerville Folks (July 15-17, 1918)    Dok's "That Ol' Hesitation Rag" Duck (December 2, 1913 (December 1st is AWOL).)  While Lefty's off in parts unknown, your Party-approved gap-plugger is I See By The Papers, by "a comrade called MacCormick". (November 14-16, 1935)    And a technical glitch delays Blondie tonight. Thank you for your continued tolerance for my excuses. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Jan 4, 2022 |
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Axa  Ooh, let's see that again! 
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft 
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #144, Alison Bechdel (1992) Lois' being very insecure about aging (hoo boy, would I love to be 30 again!) presumably feeds into a later plotline, although it's not explicit. Bechdel was getting pretty good at longrunning interacting and character-driven plots by this point. How Wonderful! posted:If you are younger, or very straight, you might be raising an eyebrow at the idea of sex clubs in 1992, at the height of the AIDS crisis. Well, life finds a way, and in many places "a way" equaled ACT UP members handing out safe sex kits at clubs or people finding comparatively safe ways to have sex at the clubs. Check out Jeremy Atherton Lin's 2021 study Gay Bar: Why We Went Out for a deeper look at the history of gay nightlife. Here's a fun and informative interview with San Francisco Sentinel photographer Melissa Hawkins about that era. Um, er, as some friends told me.
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I'm sure that, if Estelle tells Wilbur she doesn't want to get married (yet), he will be mature and rational about it.
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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Slammy posted:So It Seems March 19, 1952 God forbid we introduce a new character.
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FINGERPORI Fingerpori is a cult classic from Finland, drawn and written by Pertti Jarla. The comic features far fetched (and often untranslatable) puns and also a bunch of social commentary on the hot issues of the day. 4.1.2021  3.1.2021 
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“I don’t need this”, Christ, it’s really all about you Bern, isn’t it?
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Powered Descent posted:Cool, a car running on wood gas! With a little ingenuity and some hacked-together hardware, it's actually possible to run a vehicle engine on ordinary firewood. It sucks in a lot of ways compared to ordinary fuel, but it'll work, so it pops up in times of severe fuel supply problems (such as war zones). Wood gas cars were all over Europe during WWII, but this is the first time I've ever heard of the US military having to resort to it for their jeeps. Things never got quite that bad for the Allies in the western front, but there was a major shortage of fuel on the front lines in the second half of 1944. This was for a number of reasons, but the root cause was that the German forces in France collapsed extremely quickly (to the point where the British and American forces had to stall a bit in order to let the Free French forces under De Gaulle liberate Paris), and that threw everything in disorder. Not only did the combat arms go forward much faster, outpacing pipeline construction and rail transport, but they used way more gas and lubricants than expected. To make matters worse, theater commanders, desperate to strike as hard and fast as they could before the enemy managed to find his footing, prioritized aggressive pushes over securing alternate supply routes. A shortage of trucks and some major fuckups by the top brass made things worse, as did a severe shortage of jerrican which resulted in fuel being provided in 55-gallon drums that were difficult to actually use. The situation depicted in the comic is an exaggeration of what the troops were actually dealing with.
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riderchop posted:Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon Huh. That art looks almost exactly like the person who drew those paleontologist webcomics. Whatever happened to them, I wonder?
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Vintage Valiant (Feb. 06, 1949)  
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 1/3/02  Brenda Starr 11/30/47  Smokey Stover 6/3/45  Everyday Movies 9/17/34 
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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I laughed at a Luann comic today.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Feb. 06, 1949) Would Oom Fooyat sound like an East Asian name to a 1950s audience in a Fu Manchu kind of way, or is that just a coincidence
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These days I would def compare Eric Clapton to a cat's rear end in a top hat.
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