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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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lol to start the page
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Jan 7, 2022 22:19
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tinaun posted:kill all strips over 25 years old - can never be re-run or rebooted 
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Jan 7, 2022 22:24
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consistently making me laugh
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Jan 7, 2022 22:29
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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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Jan 7, 2022 22:57
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I just remembered, if I were in charge of Comics Kingdom I'd bring back a rebooted Apartment 3-G. I think a good writer and artist could do a lot with a strip about three young women sharing an apartment in NYC.
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Jan 7, 2022 23:28
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it never gets old
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Jan 7, 2022 23:28
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako  
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Jan 7, 2022 23:38
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba smooth operators here
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Jan 7, 2022 23:43
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Chacha Chako is amazing
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Jan 8, 2022 00:00
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rannum posted:smooth operators here
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Jan 8, 2022 01:21
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Murdstone posted:I just remembered, if I were in charge of Comics Kingdom I'd bring back a rebooted Apartment 3-G. I think a good writer and artist could do a lot with a strip about three young women sharing an apartment in NYC. The curse of the monkey's paw is that Stephanie McMillan gets Apartment 3-G.
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Jan 8, 2022 02:20
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My big change would be: no zombie strips. If the creator isn't doing any actual work besides signing their name, let the actual workers start a successor strip. Keeps profits and control in the hands of actual creatives, and ensures there's turnover, instead of I don't know how effective any changes would be, because I don't know who reads the strips in the paper and online. If it's just old people, keeping reruns going is better; if there's an actual audience that cares, you need some kind of turnover.
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Jan 8, 2022 02:35
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Esplanade posted:What would you do with the power of the comics syndicate behind you? For one thing I'd leverage my backlog of old strips into a streaming service you can subscribe to for a monthly fee. I'm genuinely shocked that there's nothing like that out on the market at the moment. Then I'd use the new streaming service as a testing ground for new talent and slowly start pushing out the more tedious legacy strips in favor of fresher ideas. Like, I know you all love Heathcliff (and so do I honestly) but it's a classic example of a strip that only exists because newspapers are a particularly weird medium that lets bad comics ride on momentum for decades. E: Also, cartoons made instantly for Wallace the Brave, Crabgrass, Peanuts (normal-dog Snoopy era), Dustin (now super gay and progressive just to make Kelley mad), and maybe even a reboot of Vater and Sohn. Crabgrass  Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Apr 8, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 12-13, 1990)   Blind Alley  https://kumerish.com/blind-alley readingatwork fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jan 8, 2022 |
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Jan 8, 2022 03:13
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Vargo posted: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. Probably. But also Tauhid would absolutely kill it with a Kwanzaa story. Cobalt-60 posted:My big change would be: no zombie strips. If the creator isn't doing any actual work besides signing their name, let the actual workers start a successor strip. Keeps profits and control in the hands of actual creatives, and ensures there's turnover, instead of Mine would be mostly the same, with one addition. The new creator the strip goes over to would have to be a real person or a duo who can sign their name. No strips made by committee or ghost writers, like we get with Beetle Bailey and the like.  That Luann has a future in Fast Food?
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Jan 8, 2022 03:22
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Cobalt-60 posted:My big change would be: no zombie strips. If the creator isn't doing any actual work besides signing their name, let the actual workers start a successor strip. Keeps profits and control in the hands of actual creatives, and ensures there's turnover, instead of See that sounds nice but that gave us Intelligent Life so
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Jan 8, 2022 03:25
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And He Got It! January 27, 1919 Outbursts of Everett True January 30, 1919  Gay and Her Gang February 8, 1930  Oaky Doaks July 10, 1936  Mopsy September 17, 1937  Up Front October 21, 1944  Dark Laughter June 17, 1950  So It Seems March 24, 1952  Those Were the Days December 5, 1957  Wee Pals April 1, 1966  Dogbert October 25, 1966 
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Jan 8, 2022 03:46
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Slammy posted:
Four brilliant avs, ripe for the taking...
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Jan 8, 2022 04:24
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days December 5, 1957 This strip ran til 1983. I cannot wait for Beeman in the late 1960s
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Jan 8, 2022 04:32
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Slammy posted:
Je ne parle pas francais. I don't get the joke; something about a misunderstanding?
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Jan 8, 2022 04:44
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Dykes to Watch Out For #147 (1992), by Alison Bechdel  Skimping on the notes today because I got home late and I'm tired, but I think Mo is full of poo poo here. I dunno if that many goons are actually young enough to need to hear this, but 30 is nothing. In the handful of years since I turned 30 I've grown and changed in ways that I never could've in my twenties, and I'm happier and healthier than I've ever been. So Mo, go sit on an egg. The name of the bagel shop changes between pages but if there's a joke there I don't get it.
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Jan 8, 2022 04:58
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Cobalt-60 posted:Je ne parle pas francais. I don't get the joke; something about a misunderstanding? The US GI's phrase book failed him so he's resorted to clumsy chicken charades to find eggs
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Jan 8, 2022 04:59
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Cobalt-60 posted:Je ne parle pas francais. I don't get the joke; something about a misunderstanding?
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Jan 8, 2022 04:59
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confirmed: the chicken came first
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Jan 8, 2022 05:00
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How Wonderful! posted:I dunno if that many goons are actually young enough to need to hear this, but 30 is nothing. In the handful of years since I turned 30 I've grown and changed in ways that I never could've in my twenties, and I'm happier and healthier than I've ever been. So Mo, go sit on an egg. Speaking as a 40-something, aging (so far) isn't quite as bad as this scene from a movie of my youth would suggest, but it's still something to keep in mind... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqX6z6djbD4&t=82s
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Jan 8, 2022 05:09
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JethroMcB posted:The US GI's phrase book failed him so he's resorted to clumsy chicken charades to find eggs Judging by the sweat, he's been at it for awhile, and the locals have been observing his interpretive dance with some fascination
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Jan 8, 2022 05:18
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #147 (1992), by Alison Bechdel Oh I totally agree, and I hit 40 last year. Looking back I wish I had been more adventurous in my 20s and 30s but I don't feel my life has been a waste. Of course, at 30 I didn't feel that way either. But hey, ask me again closer to election time.
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Jan 8, 2022 05:27
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coronatae posted:This strip ran til 1983. I cannot wait for Beeman in the late 1960s I was wondering the other day if it was still new strips until the 80s or if it went into reruns at some point. Slammy, any idea?
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Jan 8, 2022 06:16
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Where's my poll option for enjoying analysis and banter?
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Jan 8, 2022 06:46
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Doomykins posted:Billingsley can do fairy tale strips and stupid cartooning ideas like My Roommate Is A Zombie!!! I would love to see Reuben Award-Winning Cartoonist Ray Billingsley go hog wild and illustrate all of Curtis' horror movie ideas.
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Jan 8, 2022 07:29
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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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Jan 8, 2022 07:47
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Slammy posted:So It Seems March 24, 1952  coronatae posted:This strip ran til 1983. I cannot wait for Beeman in the late 1960s Just alternating between dunking on hippies and being horny for braless women.
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Jan 8, 2022 07:55
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Potsticker posted:Not sure why you'd make this a requirement. Why wouldn't you want someone who practices and shows commitment in their youth? but also I do think if your chosen format is irreverent gag-a-day, visual metaphor for your emotional state or pop culture reference, that doesn't exactly qualify you for the kind of basically serious, straight-faced, storyarc-based adventure strip I personally have in mind. I would strive to get all those on the comics page as well instead of the legacy strips in reruns, just the adventure strip would be my pet project. The only people who seem to want to write them are stodgy middle-aged to elderly men though so it is a bit of a dilemma. Like, James Allen sort of had the right basic idea about going to other countries and having dramatic adventures, he just really, really sucked at doing it in multiple separate ways. I'd probably also try to get someone on Mandrake who has more interesting ideas about a crime-solving magician than "gestures hypnotically", both plotwise and visually. And going into fantasy or sci fi (Flash Gordon) is probably a safer bet than doing a real world based adventure strip anyway. readingatwork posted:and maybe even a reboot of Vater and Sohn And speaking of the two Vater und Sohn: Trying to skip school (34/1936)  I, uh. I guess it's a home remedy?
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Jan 8, 2022 10:03
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In today's Blueberry: So, I'm almost 100% certain that Moebius' art here is based off of the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde national park - although that's in Colorado, not Arizona. I cannot go into the history that it deserves, so I would invite people who are interested to do their own research - but I'll say this. The representation of it is very close to the real thing, or Luckner gets heat-stroke, or Great, NOW he's gonna become the Batman on top of all this poo poo?!  
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Jan 8, 2022 10:17
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My Lovely Horse posted:To be honest it's almost entirely a dunk on Mark Trail, which sucks Dana Simpson did some atrocious webcomic stuff before Heavenly Nostrils and Randy Milholland who did some fantastic Popeye strips has a long running webcomic of let's say uneven quality, but absolutely fits with serious, straight-laced and arc-based. There have been fantastic people doing webcomics that are far too good for the likes of the newspaper, too and have gone on to other careers in publishing, writing, cartoons and other things that I would also rate high above that of being a newspaper cartoonist.
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Jan 8, 2022 10:25
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Fingerpori A few pages old, but I still laugh at "Area Man Copulates with 300kg pig" or whatever from a few years ago. Fingerpori is always a favorite. Professor Wayne posted:
Oh my god lmao.
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Jan 8, 2022 12:10
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Potsticker posted:Dana Simpson did some atrocious webcomic stuff before Heavenly Nostrils and Randy Milholland who did some fantastic Popeye strips has a long running webcomic of let's say uneven quality, but absolutely fits with serious, straight-laced and arc-based. There have been fantastic people doing webcomics that are far too good for the likes of the newspaper, too and have gone on to other careers in publishing, writing, cartoons and other things that I would also rate high above that of being a newspaper cartoonist. To be fair to Simpson, Raine Dog was probably the worst thing they ever did (I seem to recall their early webcomic Ozzy & Millie being ok for the most part anyway)
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Jan 8, 2022 12:44
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Pondus  Herman the Heathen   Zofie's World  
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Jan 8, 2022 12:50
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Nancy 1947
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Jan 8, 2022 13:34
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: prom (May 9-15, 2005)       First appearance: it's blink-and-you miss it, but in the fifth strip for this week (the one about the pig blood bucket), the very first panel is the first appearance of Joan Hoof. Joan (the red-haired mare) is Rachel's girlfriend, and she's a suuuuuuuuper minor character: it's been more than sixteen years since this strip, and she either appeared or was mentioned in a total of forty-two strips since then -- most of them in 2014, when there's an arc where she and Rachel get married. So yeah, she's not anyone of consequence in the strip, I just thought I'd point her out. (Also, characters like Joan are why I don't keep a relationship tree of all K&K characters, only those who have a family or blood relation to the main cast, otherwise I'd go crazy.) Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Jan 8, 2022 14:26
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 1/7/02  Stephen Collins  Brenda Starr 12/8-10/47    Smokey Stover 7/1/45  Sigh. Well, it's still wartime, although not for much longer. Everyday Movies 9/22/34  "There was a time when fish was cheaper. Why, when I lived down the Lambert Cove road you could get all the fish you wanted for nothing." Selachian fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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