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https://twitter.com/Hoganmag/status/1478368871170068483 It's really weird to see these. Look at those stocky proportions! and the feminist politics!
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: How Kevin Met Kell(y) (April 11-17, 2005)       Hey now. Vegetables should be crunchy, not mushy, after being cooked. Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Vargo posted:Curtis
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Jan 4, 2022 15:23
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Strontium posted:I sure didn't expect to see that in newspapers, but I'm excited to see where this goes. That's part of the joy of Kwaanza, you never know what's going on to happen in Curtis. Billingsly's greatest strength is drawing the exaggerated and weird. It's something that you forget because he's quite happy to spend most of his time in a rut, but when he wants to fire it up, the guy can really cartoon.
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Jan 4, 2022 15:28
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"baseball-sized" is kind of a poo poo descriptor to include in what is intended to be a traditional fable I do love Kwanzaa Curtis though
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Jan 4, 2022 15:31
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Feb. 06, 1949) I am super excited for these three knuckleheads to be questing
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ronya posted: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 Your guess is as good as mine, but he couldn't read the Chinese writing on the jar. It might just be a silly fantasy name.  I didn't read the coming story closely looking for this sort of thing, but I don't think we get any details on his background that would answer the question.EBB posted:I am super excited for these three knuckleheads to be questing I'm just happy Gawain is back for a while. 
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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Dykes to Watch Out For #145, Alison Bechdel (1992)  Occasionally Bechdel does these strips where the characters break, uh... character and interact like they're actors in the story or even collaborators in the plot, in tense labor disputes with Bechdel. It's a cute gag and allows Bechdel a bit of room for cynicism and snark in a comic rather stuffed, after all, with very idealistic and pretty earnest characters in some ways. Since it has been awhile, I'll reintroduce some of the players: -The short-haired woman in the bottom row of page one is Yoshi, one of Ginger's students, who is having a fling with Lois. -The woman with the headband is Jezanna, the owner of the bookstore some of the characters work at. -The woman with the short unruly blonde hair on page two is Harriet, Mo's aforementioned ex. -The woman with long hair and glasses is Thea, another employee at the bookstore. She has MS and there's a subplot about Mo having a crush on her. - I have no idea who the woman talking about Passover is which I guess is the joke. The trans joke makes me cringe but 1992 was a foreign country. There's a recurring pattern in DTWOF in which an issue or identity comes to increased prominence in the lesbian world, Bechdel initially maybe fumbles her handling of the issue, but then gradually brings a more nuanced approach presumably as she educates herself about the subject. We'll see this take place with bisexuality and we'll (eventually) see it take place with trans and genderqueer characters too, and by the late 90s Bechdel will have shifted from being kind of the unofficial cartoonist-in-residence of the Michigan Womyn's Festival to a vocal critic of its trans-exclusionary policies. This was definitely not an unusual trajectory by any means. As we can see here, Bechdel is pretty self-aware about writing as a more or less able-bodied white lady, and the temptation to flatten or tokenize characters from other subject positions. And to be sure Thea at this point has not been that engaging of a character, as one of many in what's by now a pretty big ensemble cast. But she'll continue working on that too.
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake  Johnny Hazard  90s Overboard 
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Green Intern posted:I laughed at a Luann comic today. Oh, good. I was afraid it was just me. Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus I dunno. Why don't you try it with the mixer running next time and see if it works any better that way?
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Jan 4, 2022 19:42
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Zofie's World  Herman the Heathen  
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Kennel posted:
We see him constantly in different jobs and at the temp agency. How is that not looking for work???? Absolute Boomer brain.
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Plus he's hanging out with that child because he's in the Big Brother program, it's literally volunteer work
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Jan 4, 2022 20:36
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth davidspackage posted:I'm sure that, if Estelle tells Wilbur she doesn't want to get married (yet), he will be mature and rational about it.   The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Not gonna lie, RMMD barely survived staying on my list of comics past the New Year and I'm starting to think I made the wrong choice. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Jan 4, 2022 20:37
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Push him overboard. Nobody will ever know.
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EBB posted:Push him overboard. Nobody will ever know. Or care, for that matter
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics And thus Mary Worth history is made.
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth
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For the people in this thread who are scanning old comic books: What do you use? I've been advised that flatbed scanners are a poor tool for the job, and trying to find more information about the alternatives.
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Jan 4, 2022 20:57
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EBB posted:I am super excited for these three knuckleheads to be questing Expect some serious Mr. Magoo-action from our vaguely competent necromancer. The name, I figure, was the weirdest thing Hal Foster could come up with that his readers (mostly kids) could actually sorta pronounce. Likely he never sampled peyote or shrooms, and LSD didn't really exist outside of Sandoz' labs.
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Jan 4, 2022 21:04
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Bad Machinery
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EBB posted:Push him overboard. Nobody will ever know. Endless Mike posted:Or care, for that matter Seriously the railing is right there practically taunting us.
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Jan 4, 2022 21:26
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Nostalgamus posted:For the people in this thread who are scanning old comic books: What do you use?  They take fairly high-res photos of the pages from above with even lighting, and they usually do a decent job of straightening out any bends in the image from spine curvature, although it's a bit hit or miss. Some models have additional features like a glass plate that presses the pages flat. If you have a university or scientific library around you, they'll probably have one that you can use, and public libraries may as well.
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Jan 4, 2022 21:27
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Calaveron posted:Plus he's hanging out with that child because he's in the Big Brother program, it's literally volunteer work people in this topic keep saying that but it's never been said any time in the strip people just made that up irregardless volunteer work is worthless to Ed because it doesn't make money
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Jan 4, 2022 21:32
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EBB posted:Push him overboard. Nobody will ever know. 
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you broke my grill posted:people in this topic keep saying that but it's never been said any time in the strip people just made that up I remember it being explicit in the strip a long time ago, but I am absolutely not going to dig through Dustin archives to find evidence.
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NRVNQSR posted:I remember it being explicit in the strip a long time ago, but I am absolutely not going to dig through Dustin archives to find evidence. I thought it might have been in the official bios, but no luck. Relatedly, which one of you wrote the Dustin Wikipedia page? The character descriptions have some very clear fingerprints.
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We have always been at war with Charterstone.
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Potsticker posted:We see him constantly in different jobs and at the temp agency. How is that not looking for work???? Much to my chagrin, I've learned in the past couple of years that there's at least some contingent of (white, male) boomers and gen-Xers that seem convinced that "looking for work" is equal to "harassing someone at a business until they see your go-getter attitude and give you the job you deserve." I'm guessing Kelley thinks working temp or agency jobs is more or less equivalent to welfare, since you're not cold-calling Fortune 500 companies and giving them a hard-sell on why they can't live without you. Or something, I dunno, guy is clearly quite stupid
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako   End Chapter 5!
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I've been sick for the past week or so, which gives me a fashionably late entrance with my lineup of comics from the past. Boondocks is like Bloom County, except with a young radical instead of a talking penguin, and a black Marylander's perspective instead of a white Texan's. There may be other differences, who can tell. It ran from 1996 to 2006.   Retail is about how working in retail is a living hell. It ran from 2006 to 2020.   Popular Comics is a comic book (in the very literal sense). It collected popular comics of the time, hence the name. It ran from 1936 to 1948.  
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Oprah is responsible for Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil, so maybe suing her for things is the right course of action.
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD "You've spent ten years developing the concept of 'two dogs'?" quote:Not gonna lie, RMMD barely survived staying on my list of comics past the New Year and I'm starting to think I made the wrong choice. No, keep posting it! It's fun to hate.
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Jan 4, 2022 23:08
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Calaveron posted:Plus he's hanging out with that child because he's in the Big Brother program, it's literally volunteer work Also probably part of being on assistance. Constantly ob searching and doing volunteer work. God forbid they pay you tho they'll find you work but you'll be "paid" in food stamps or whatever you're receiving from the state. e; scrolling past this strip and discussion of it is hard
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Classic Zits Love is Hell  Sylvia  Marlys!  And that’s it for Classic Zits! I have a fun replacement coming in…but in the meantime, I must ask for your patience. I’m way behind on my scans and have made a complete mess of my albums, so I’m gonna take a wee break to sort everything and be back on the weekend. Cheers!
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Funny Online Animals is a Tuesday/Thursday newspaper comic by K.C. Green, some nobody only famous for co-commentating on a Duck Dynasty Lets Play one time. The general framework is that it's about a collection of past characters from previous webcomics/projects working together at an online content company run by Question Hound (or the This Is Fine Dog if you only know Green's stuff from his pervasive online meme popularity). Or, like today, it focuses on something completely unrelated because it can. There's canon and storylines sometimes but otherwise it tends to be loose and continuity mostly just exists for running gags/"oh yeah this happened". It's a mixed bag of content and while not divisive it is hit or miss and tends to go unremarked upon. Mostly I'm just glad Green has a steady gig with a side bonus of making a lot of lovely comics site commenters be very confused and mad that Bimbo & The Greek or some other saccharine racist thing with big tits is no longer running and this took its spot. And The Waitress Is Practicing Politics, As Funny Online Animals Slowly Get Stoned 
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