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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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42 | 17.07% |
| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Intelligent Life   Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Slammy posted:So It Seems March 22, 1952 Apart from the lack of computers, the only thing dating this cartoon is the fact that people assume cartoonists are very rich.
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Jan 7, 2022 13:12
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Nancy 1947
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Jan 7, 2022 13:43
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Vintage Valiant (Feb. 27, 1949)  
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Jan 7, 2022 13:46
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Can you really say True Story (!) if it's a fictional comic strip? Shouldn't you say "see 1998-07-05" or whatever it was?
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Mr. Squishy posted:Apart from the lack of computers, the only thing dating this cartoon is the fact that people assume cartoonists are very rich. It's not unheard of. 
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Jan 7, 2022 14:00
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~Coxy posted:Can you really say True Story (!) if it's a fictional comic strip? To my memory, there's been no previous reference of this in the strip. I think it's Holbrook referring to something that happened to him (or someone he knows) in real life.
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Jan 7, 2022 14:01
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Val, you should invite the efreet down for some food. Aleta would, and would charm the beast into leading you to treasure.
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Jan 7, 2022 14:12
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis is I guess just lying about copyright dates now.  If I was in charge of the comics, I think I'd find Curtis a new writer, it needs a fresh voice. I'd say Tauhid, and he'd be good because he can write realistic children voices, but also I'd worry I'm just saying Tauhid because he's like the only young black person on the comics page right now.
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Jan 7, 2022 14:37
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I chuckled at Luann today. Stopped clocks and all that. Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave I adore these Silent Conversation Wallace strips. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Zofie's World  Pondus   Herman the Heathen  
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Steeple: Clotted Crime Part 4 – Jason Guilt Ponies and Tits on a Cracker John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:I’m sure you know who Capability Brown was, but if you don’t, perhaps due to being born in the 18th century or later, here’s the information you need. For you Discworld fans, Capability Brown was part of the inspiration for Bergholt Stuttley (Bloody Stupid) Johnson. Also, from Georgia Dunn's Instagram  Georgia Dunn posted:These very good buds. ❤️ Iggy's getting big!
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Jan 7, 2022 16:03
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I would convince Billingsley to only do Kwanzaa strips all the time. Just a strip of weird-rear end fairy tales.
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Jan 7, 2022 16:04
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Billingsley can do fairy tale strips and stupid cartooning ideas like My Roommate Is A Zombie!!! Put a bullet in Foxtrot's shambling zombie brain while we're discussing the undead. Replace Nancy with reruns of Bushmiller strips. Olivia can do Sundays if they're not adults in kids bodies naval gazing. Get Jules a partner. Editor, writer, assistant artist, whatever. I think Mark Trail could be great but the daily workload requirement caught her off guard and she never has time to review anything written. I know comics doesn't usually make enough to justify paying a second person for a bad legacy strip only psychopaths like us read but this is a fantasy mental exercise and all. Also she can't use the narration box outside of the first panel recap. On that note Rip Haywire is forced to read a bunch of other action comic strips for research and study and has a strict dialogue limit of 25% of what he was going to actually put down. Daddy Daze must be written as though the baby was a baby. Ban all Garfields after a specific golden age date, probably by 2000 at the latest. Reruns from this period are fine, no new strips from Paws Inc are accepted unless an actual cartoonist drew them and wrote a new joke. Copy-paste banned on principle. Bring back the really wild full page spreads like 1900s had where a talented artist told a completely insane fairy tale. Thanks for posting historic comics, all of you, by the way. Kind of want to throw out a generic "drop Luann, Funky, Dustin, etc" on all truly bad comics but that seems the most sensible and boring choice. Maybe force them to swap artists and writers. With others, not each other.
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Jan 7, 2022 16:15
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 1/6/02  Brenda Starr 12/7/47   Smokey Stover 6/24/45  Everyday Movies 9/21/34 
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Jan 7, 2022 16:19
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Esplanade posted:
Force Lina Neidestam to make more Zelda strips 
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Jan 7, 2022 16:20
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Samovar posted:I don't know if Tauhid ever read this thread (I know he was around during the time in which the forum existence was up in the air), but Crabgrass is very good. I don't think he ever expressed awareness of the thread itself, he just put out a confused but grateful message on his Patreon when his supporter count ballooned to a giant number out of nowhere. Which surprised me, since it implies he doesn't have access to his own referral links. How much is he making anyway? I've always kind of idly wondered if someone could ask him to make a reward goal for "will not get mad if someone posts my bonus comics on Something Awful" because I'm not a Patreon guy but I would definitely consider sending money his way if I could read the bonus comics the only place I ever read any comics, at all.
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Jan 7, 2022 16:58
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Docks  Retail   Popcom  
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Jan 7, 2022 17:05
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Some Guy TT posted:I don't think he ever expressed awareness of the thread itself, he just put out a confused but grateful message on his Patreon when his supporter count ballooned to a giant number out of nowhere. Which surprised me, since it implies he doesn't have access to his own referral links. I mean, he specifically mentioned SA, and I can imagine that, even with referral links, he could still be confused. He was struggling for attention and traction and was still well away from syndication. Sudden attention from one site when you feel small and unseen can be overwhelming.
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Jan 7, 2022 17:11
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He posted once or twice on the discord I believe, very early on when it was unclear if SA would stick around.
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Jan 7, 2022 17:30
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Esplanade posted:What would you do with the power of the comics syndicate behind you? I would have more adventure comics that draw the audiences attention to the barbarism of colonial attitudes.
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Jan 7, 2022 17:38
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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Jan 7, 2022 18:06
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Kennel posted:Dustin Dustin hit a very special "gently caress off and die" spot today Selachian posted:Get Fuzzy 1/6/02 I'm always delighted by jokes based around "look at these high-end computer specs." They age like milk but also give me that fun burst of "Man, Remember when?" nostalgia
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Jan 7, 2022 18:50
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JethroMcB posted:I'm always delighted by jokes based around "look at these high-end computer specs." They age like milk but also give me that fun burst of "Man, Remember when?" nostalgia Always reminds me of this genuinely funny dilbert panel from the before times 
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Jan 7, 2022 18:59
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Green Intern posted:I adore these Silent Conversation Wallace strips. This one features the Golden Ratio!
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Jan 7, 2022 19:06
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Bad Machinery
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The Bloop posted:Always reminds me of this genuinely funny dilbert panel from the before times The ones that always spring to my mind are the Foxtrot strips that involved computer shopping. In 1990, Andy wanted to upgrade from the family's old Apple II so she could file her newspaper columns "By modem":   In the late 90's, Bill Amend was VERY concerned about one missing feature on Apple's newly announced hardware line:   And before settling on the "iFruit," Jason made a plea for the family to go with something a little less user-friendly (Though you can see that Amend learned his lesson about dropping specific tech details that would be outdated by the time the strips actually hit the papers:) 
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Jan 7, 2022 19:47
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JethroMcB posted:Dustin hit a very special "gently caress off and die" spot today 
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Jan 7, 2022 20:01
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Professor Wayne posted:Mary Worth is the best comic in this thread.  Esplanade posted:I've already mentioned I'd like to put Norm Feuti on Dustin and turn the entire strip on its head. And having written Gil, he could actually do something with the neighbor kid, whose name I can't be arsed to remember. riderchop posted:make Randy Milholland the permanent Popeye guy F Minus  He's right. Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Guys I think Wilbur's really going overboard. Looks like I'm staying up late tonight to check Mary freaking Worth. Not for the first time. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Jan 7, 2022 20:41
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom We ARE still in the story that Mozz is writing in the blank book, right? Because if so, this is getting kind of meta.
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom  did Mozz write "I should've listened to Mozz, he's so wise and always right" into his own cautionary tale.Jucika "490 - Jucika & The Stuck-Up Colleague"  "fõnök = boss" "491 - Jucika As An Autograph Hunter" 
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Jan 7, 2022 20:57
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth 
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Jan 7, 2022 21:06
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I can't believe some of you people think Karen Moy needs writing assistance or replacement.
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Jan 7, 2022 21:07
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Esplanade posted:What would you do with the power of the comics syndicate behind you? kill all strips over 25 years old - can never be re-run or rebooted syndicate val and isaac get an arch indie weirdo like malcy duff a strip
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Jan 7, 2022 21:16
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Replace every American comic with badly translated Fingerpori.
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Jan 7, 2022 21:19
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Esplanade posted:What would you do with the power of the comics syndicate behind you?
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Jan 7, 2022 21:27
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My Lovely Horse posted:Being a young webcomic creator would be actively detrimental to your chances of getting the job. Not sure why you'd make this a requirement. Why wouldn't you want someone who practices and shows commitment in their youth? Like, yeah the webcomics pool has a lot of muck you need to rake through, but also that's how a lot of brilliant creators get their start.(though the really great ones can do far better than newspaper comics)
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Feb. 27, 1949) 
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