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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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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 2/7/02  Brenda Starr 2/16-18/48    Smokey Stover 1/27/46  This is at least the third time Holman has recycled this particular gag. Everyday Movies 10/28/34  "I'm sorry they disturb you next door, Miss Simpson. I asked if they had children or a dog, but should I think to ask if they had an accordion?" Bonus driving tips! 
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Slammy posted:So It Seems April 18, 1952 Uncle Milty being Milton Berle, the comic w/ the famously large penis. It's weird to have a media culture where there's one guy everyone agrees is funny. What would that even be today? Zerilan posted:He spent most of last year on a storyline started during pride month where his main gay character cheated on his partner with a homophobic woman. From what I gather of Wallis' twitter, he's now doing another WWII storyline which is curiously kind to the Nazis. Haifisch posted:Origins of the Sunday Comics It is my understanding that an annoyed rooster would basically muller a child, so Pete's extremely tough. Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Of course Arlo and Janis is the one newspaper strip to have a funny take on cryptocurrency.
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Feb 8, 2022 13:23
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Powered Descent posted:I had always imagined Modesty and Willie as being a decade or so older than this. (Although I suppose this is the very beginning, and they have many adventures ahead.) In addition to this, it's interesting that Modesty's fortune is half a million pounds, which would be about £11 million today (~15 million US dollars). I suppose she might have other assets that Tarrant doesn't know about, or maybe I'm getting confused by the fact that she's often staying at the homes of old contacts or being indulged by that one billionaire friend, but I would have guessed she was worth a lot more than that. Schwarzwald posted:An uncommonly unheroic depiction of war from the comic. Foster is careful to note that the women and children are unhurt, but yeah, there's no food or shelter and they have no homes to go back to. It's pretty grim. readingatwork posted:Blind Alley I believe this is what they call a mood. Mr. Squishy posted:Uncle Milty being Milton Berle, the comic w/ the famously large penis. It's weird to have a media culture where there's one guy everyone agrees is funny. What would that even be today? Of note to this thread, when he was young Milton Berle played the role of Buster Brown. Vintage Valiant (Sep. 04, 1949)    That last panel
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Feb 8, 2022 13:30
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Julet Esqu posted:I guess Team Evans got jealous of Sally Forth. We're looking back on olden times this week. Is that her brother? He's drawn like a hairy ballsack.
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Feb 8, 2022 13:47
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John Allison Mystery Comic: Giant Days John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:What is the number of this issue of Giant Days? It’s “self-published #4” on my computer. Useless information for continuity fans. I think, by rights, it should slot in around issue 20. But rest assured that it addresses absolutely no relevant historic plot points whatsoever. It is self contained, like an oven-ready lasagne.
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Feb 8, 2022 13:51
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics
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Feb 8, 2022 13:54
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Jucika "21 - Jucika and the Heat" "22 - Jucika and "Romeo"" 
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Feb 8, 2022 14:18
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 2/16-18/48 I will never get over how casually sociopathic everyone in this strip is.
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Feb 8, 2022 14:27
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Yes but you see she was fat.
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Feb 8, 2022 14:29
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Nancy 1947
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Feb 8, 2022 14:29
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manero posted:Nancy 1947 this is a prime example of Bushmiller's writing strategy of thinking up a funny final image and then working backwards, but that slenderdog is very cute.
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Feb 8, 2022 14:43
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: neighbours (October 10-16, 2005)       Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Feb 8, 2022 15:31
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The_Other posted:John Allison Mystery Comic: Giant Days I’ve been an intern at a museum. At one point I got to help carrying around a sarcophagus that was thousands of years old, and heavy to boot! But the highlight was when they showed me a mummified head that was the spitting image of Rudy Giuliani. I mean, chillingly similar. That’s my mummy stories.
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Feb 8, 2022 16:07
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BigglesSWE posted:I’ve been an intern at a museum. At one point I got to help carrying around a sarcophagus that was thousands of years old, and heavy to boot!
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Feb 8, 2022 16:33
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Mr. Squishy posted:It's weird to have a media culture where there's one guy everyone agrees is funny. What would that even be today? I think the closest you'd get would be Weird Al Yankovic. Not everyone is a rabid fan, but it's very rare to find someone who straight-up dislikes him. Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Feb 8, 2022 16:44
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Crab Dad posted:Kids start rebelling the second they figure out how to say "no". Usually that's there 2-3rd word after "Mommy" and "more". The preceding strips went out of their way to show us April was feeling kind of grossed out after listening to a nursery rhyme about swallowing flies and spiders and other fun animals. Even Elly seems to get that April isn't hungry. But April's not going to be able to articulate that so she does the next best thing and gets the offending food out of her field of view.
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Feb 8, 2022 17:05
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PetraCore posted:Mummies are great and people shouldn't have eaten so many of them. I hear they found a pregnant mummy and they're theorizing now why it's the first one found, given that statistically she's probably not the first mummy to have been pregnant when she died and was mummified. Vater und Sohn: Air mail with penalty surcharge (03/1937) 
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Feb 8, 2022 17:20
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Feb 8, 2022 17:40
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Feb 8, 2022 17:57
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse "My infant child is my sworn enemy. Her every waking moment is motivated by spite, born of her white-hot hatred for me. We do not negotiate with terrorists."
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Feb 8, 2022 18:12
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Dad's got to have mom's back there, though. You can't be the parent swooping in to save the day once the other has made the call. Disagree all you want, but you have to take it up backstage and talk about how to handle it next time. You're much better off with a united front. One overblown (safe, normal) punishment isn't going to affect anything long-term, but showing the kid they can run to one parent for help when the other lays down the law is going to get really messy really quickly. Huxley fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Feb 8, 2022 18:20
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Giant Ethicist posted:No, she's basically looking for something to distract Chako so she stops inadvertently destroying the world out of boredom. Also melon is what got chako to be a little more thoughtful, so making a melon with Issues was clearly something the mom should've done ages ago
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Feb 8, 2022 18:46
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Modesty Blaise: La Machine 
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Feb 8, 2022 19:13
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Huxley posted:You're much better off with a united front. The dad made this exact argument just the other day when they punished Michael for missing his exit off the highway.
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Feb 8, 2022 19:49
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The_Other posted:John Allison Mystery Comic: Giant Days I just want to point out the way the three of them are all walking, but differently, in that last panel, and how well the artist drew that to suggest their different strides and attitudes. I'm obviously not an artist but it jumped out at me, other comics usually have a sort of clone brush look for 'three or more people walking together' pose, but there's a lot of dynamic stuff going on there.
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Feb 8, 2022 20:15
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Presto posted:The dad made this exact argument just the other day when they punished Michael for missing his exit off the highway. Yeah, heh, I had already forgotten how that story ended. Having gone back, I now assume the comic is making my point ahead of me not just being pointlessly contradictory.
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Feb 8, 2022 20:20
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F Minus Mark Trail  The Phantom  I was going to go back to check the strip referenced, but archives on CK are messed up for me right now. I'll try again later. Pooch Cafe  Speaking of icons like Uncle Milty, when do you think Ahhnold will stop being the universal strong-guy reference? Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Feb 8, 2022 20:20
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I see Jules has been watching Yellowjackets
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Feb 8, 2022 20:45
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Since I'm not likely to upload it in time the morra, have an early Blueberry, where today: Blueberry learns that money is needed in exchange for goods and services, or Blueberry has an unexpected benefactor, or So... who didn't see THIS coming?  
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Feb 8, 2022 20:46
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ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:I just want to point out the way the three of them are all walking, but differently, in that last panel, and how well the artist drew that to suggest their different strides and attitudes. Does anyone have a panel of a synchronized LuAnn strut?
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Bad Machinery
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North Star-Guided Animals
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom I gotta say, for as long as this current storyline has dragged out, I am loving impressed that they can target the exact date in their archives when a previous plot point occurred, especially considering that some other strips lose continuity from one day to the next. Like FOOB, for example: Huxley posted:Dad's got to have mom's back there, though. You can't be the parent swooping in to save the day once the other has made the call. Disagree all you want, but you have to take it up backstage and talk about how to handle it next time. Presto posted:The dad made this exact argument just the other day when they punished Michael for missing his exit off the highway.
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Feb 8, 2022 21:49
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Uramachi Sakaba  Lots of embarrassing dropped letters here, but I can't be hosed to go back and fix them at this point. rannum posted:Also melon is what got chako to be a little more thoughtful, so making a melon with Issues was clearly something the mom should've done ages ago ChaCha Chako   Night Visitors 
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Feb 8, 2022 23:49
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Giant Ethicist posted:Night Visitors Did you mean to leave the last panel untranslated? Not that I'm sure it would help too much.
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Feb 9, 2022 00:17
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I think the last panel is just incoherent screaming, judging from the brazen bull. What's the first panel about, though?
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Feb 9, 2022 00:20
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Cobalt-60 posted:I think the last panel is just incoherent screaming, judging from the brazen bull. What's the first panel about, though? The first panel in all of these is just random surreal strangeness from the mind of Q-Rais. There's something sinister in his bathtub! What could it be? Who knows?
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Giant Ethicist posted:Yeah, it's just "Arrgh!" essentially, and the Bull of Phalaris is labeled - I figured context would help. Ironically I could read "bull of/'s bull" without difficulty but couldn't make heads or tails of "fararisu," so thanks for clarifying. For the first panel I liked the one a week or two ago where he was just laying on the floor staring at the ceiling. Sadly it was very relatable.
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