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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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LadyPictureShow posted:I've been away from this thread for some time. When did Mark Trail get hip? That's a long story, but I want to say it's been a couple of years now. The former Mark Trail artist, James Allen, had thoroughly established himself as a right-wing shithead, but the final straw was when he used the official Mark Trail twitter account to make sexually inappropriate jokes about a congresswoman. He was finally removed by the syndicate, and replaced by a new artist, Jules Rivera, who has introduced such radical ideas as "actually drawing everything instead of endlessly recycling clip art", and "updating the characters to not be quite so 1950s", and even "acknowledging the reality of things like climate change". And that doesn't even get into how one of the last villains in Allen's run on the strip was based on one of the posters in this thread. Or how people mocking him on Twitter caused him to try actually drawing some of his own art instead of cut-and-pasting Jack Elrod's old sketches, with hilarious results.
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Powered Descent posted:And that doesn't even get into how one of the last villains in Allen's run on the strip was based on one of the posters in this thread. You left out the part where said villain was a Bigfoot/Yeti conspiracy nut, who claimed that said cryptid took his leg, but it was actually juvenile diabetes. Also, dude died in an avalanche. Alone. It was a fuckin trip.
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CzarChasm posted:You left out the part where said villain was a Bigfoot/Yeti conspiracy nut, who claimed that said cryptid took his leg, but it was actually juvenile diabetes. Also, dude died in an avalanche. Alone. It was a fuckin trip. Technically we don't know that he died, Mark and company did not look for him. At all. They just watched him run off and the avalanche and went "well, sucks to be him" and went home.
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Mikl posted:Sort-of relevant to the thread: Italian actress Monica Vitti died today; she played Modesty Blaise in the 1966 movie of the same name, adapted from the comic strip. I've been thinking about doing something, and then you go and share this news. So, what the hell! Modesty Blase: In the Beginning  
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i'm starting to get concerned about qrai's relationship with food
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The Far Side     Pickles  Zits  This popped up on my youtube feed today. I'm halfway through it, and it's not terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ha2TDtuVsw
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Giant Ethicist posted:Night Visitors yessss this is the kind of untranslatable nonsense that I crave
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Feb 3, 2022 01:31
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I love Q-Rais so much
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CommonShore posted:yessss this is the kind of untranslatable nonsense that I crave rannum posted:I love Q-Rais so much
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Nekonaughey ["Snow huts" are called kamakura and are traditionally erected during the festival of the same name, which takes place on the first full moon of the year. Traditionally they contain alters lit to honour water kami in order to ensure a good rainfall in the coming year, but they're also really cozy to hang out in] Bogor 
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side This has always been one of my favorites, very specifically for the mermaid on our right. Just look at her. She's delightful.
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Slammy posted:So It Seems April 14, 1952 Smooch Comics
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Feb 3, 2022 02:57
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And He Did! February 21, 1919 Kidnapped byEverett True February 18, 1919  Gay and Her Gang March 3, 1930  Oaky Doaks August 1, 1936  Mopsy October 9, 1937  Up Front November 15, 1944  Up Front November 29, 1944  Dark Laughter October 28, 1950  So It Seems April 15, 1952  Those Were the Days July 31, 1958  Wee Pals April 23, 1966  Dogbert November 29, 1966 
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Transmodiar posted:I've been thinking about doing something, and then you go and share this news. So, what the hell! Is this a special collection, or just the very earliest newspaper strips?
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Crab Dad posted:lol timely indeed Yeah I was gonna say that's some incredibly serendipitous timing for that rerun. I feel like I know where this is going and I hope it doesn't make her mad at him. 
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ZeeToo posted:This has always been one of my favorites, very specifically for the mermaid on our right. Can we get an avatar-sized version?
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Mutts  Sally Forth   Pearls Before Swine   Skippy (May 16-17, 1934)   Peanuts (February 4-5, 1975)   Harry Dinklebean   Meanwhile, Crankshaft threatens us with a Les Moore crossover.   Mutt and Jeff   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater (September 2-3, 1938)   Out Our Way (March 7-9, 1938)    Toonerville Folks (September 9-11, 1918)    Dok's "Vicious Businessman" Duck (December 19, 1913; timg'd because I don't even know, man...)  Little Lefty's pen pal is revealed (for our purposes, anyway). (January 13-15, 1936)    Jacob Burck was a Polish-American political cartoonist and muralist who was active in the US Communist party (including The Daily Worker and The New Masses magazine) from 1926 to 1936. And this sequence is right at the beginning of '36! Wow, what a coincidence! Well, the story is that Burck's trip to the USSR was the straw that broke the camel's back. He was in Moscow supervising the installation of one of his murals in the Intourist offices in Moscow, but it was the peak years of Stalin's "cult of personality", and the officials demanded a few too many "Stalin ROCKS!" changes in his work. Eventually he walked out on the job and the Communist movement. Burck didn't do too badly for himself in the long run, though. Within a few years he started a highly influential, award-winning 44 year run with the Chicago Sun-Times, but his Red past made things highly uncomfortable during the McCarthy years. Because he never formalized his citizenship, the government tried (and failed) to have him deported. Blondie (From Zero): Match called on account of parents. (August 13-15, 1931) 
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Slammy posted:Oaky Doaks August 1, 1936 I'm not entirely sure here why the King wants to wear a woman's bathing suit. quote:Mopsy October 9, 1937 Feeling very irrationally angry that Gladys Parker has a better grasp of the rules of football than Tom Batiuk does. quote:Up Front November 15, 1944 I hope Bill Mauldin's OK. quote:Up Front November 29, 1944 And he was! quote:Well...relatively speaking anyway.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Wait is the Mark Trail arc over? Did anything happen? Thanks!
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Slammy posted:So It Seems April 15, 1952 I don't understand what's happening here. Slammy posted:Those Were the Days July 31, 1958 Shut the gently caress up, Beeman. 
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Scary Gary   
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Julet Esqu posted:I don't understand what's happening here. She's in pain because she's standing on the bus in heels, while he looks smug because he kept his seat. He's sitting because his feet hurt, but everyone's looking at him in contempt because he didn't give his seat to the lady who obviously doesn't need it.
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Feb 3, 2022 05:27
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 Good thing these ladies all know the same man or there'd be nothing for them to talk about.
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THAT IS NOT HOW ICE CUBES WORK
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Crabgrass is on break Old School Peanuts (May 4, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Sep 2-3, 1990)   Calvin's rage face up there is fantastic. No Blind Alley today
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Oh good another exciting round of discussing how Tiffany is a grotesque blob of hideous proportions when her character design is nearly indistinguishable from the pre-fat version.
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Murdstone posted:
I'm hoping they move on from Wilbur for a while honestly
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Feb 3, 2022 07:07
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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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Murdstone posted:I assume "long distance" is somehow about the outhouse since there's no other reason for it to be there but beyond that I have no idea what joke he's getting at.        90s Overboard is wearing out its welcome for me, so maybe I'll start posting 2001 Computoon instead. 2018 Spiderman  1979 comics     OK, so the ad producer guy is obviously supposed to be the villain(he works in advertising, so I won't argue with that), but is it really supposed to be shocking that an ad agency is going for looks over reality? Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Mandrake   Johnny Hazard   90s Overboard 
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Drakyn posted:Xtreeem Mopsy Very good
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Haifisch posted:90s Overboard is wearing out its welcome for me, so maybe I'll start posting 2001 Computoon instead. 90s Overboard, while I still think it's better than the current version, is running a lot of jokes into the ground, so I can see how it'd get a little tiresome. The biggest thing I'd miss if it stopped getting posted is that I'm curious when all the talking animals came into the strip.
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I want to call it a fraud thing. Can't be share price related as it all seems privately owned. Something to do with wiping out debts to suppliers, maybe? The company has never seemed flush with cash. Advanced money laundering?
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons So what kind of tax scheme is this and which one of them is getting eaten by a shark?
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: Kell saves the day (September 5-11, 2005)       Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Fire Movie (This whole chapter is really creepy to me; the way all of Shauna's friends got mind-controlled like that & the way they look pale and sick due to apparently eating only onions for the past how long is scary!)
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 2/2/02  Brenda Starr 2/5-7/48 Who said "I wonder what's happening with Tornado?" Nobody? Too bad.    You'd be weak and exhausted too if you'd lost 100 pounds in, what has it been, half a week? Smokey Stover 12/23/45  Everyday Movies 10/22/34  "It ain't a fair race -- I gotta stop for passengers, but you couldn't beat me on Sundays." Bonus Ad!  If you're ever in Dallas, drop by Commerce Street and have a moderate highball with Hal!
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EasyEW posted:Meanwhile, Crankshaft threatens us with a Les Moore crossover. I can see it now: Les reads the book and tells her that murder mysteries don't sell, and what she really needs to do is a write a memoir about someone tragically dying of cancer.
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days July 31, 1958
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