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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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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Some Guy TT posted:Really? Why is the size variable? Are smaller sizes used to indicate when someone is whispering or is it just a desperate attempt by the author to fit what he wants to write in the text bubbles? It seems to be just that the author is sometimes getting too wordy and has to fit a lot of text in limited space. Here's an example of a strip with large text:  Meanwhile here's the strip in question:  I have to be a bit creative sometimes, but I don't feel like I'm dropping any plot important information, when I keep it easily readable size.
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rannum posted:no....no!!!! they kissed
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As for the mini-dustup over yesterday's Peanuts, the only useful thing I have to offer is a quote from Sparky himself: ”Losing is funny, because only a few people ever experience winning, but we all experience losing” Mutts  Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Peanuts (March 23, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire And The Curse of Tangaroa! (January 2, 9, and 16, 2021)    A Sketchy Life (March 18, 1926), this week leading with Marge (Marjorie Henderson Buell), who's better known for a character she created for the Saturday Evening Post, but before that she also did newspaper strips for awhile, so she belongs in this thread as much as anyone.  Art Young:  Don Herold:  T.S. Sullivant:  And another full page from Fred G. Cooper: 
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"Expect a cease-and-desist order from Orville Redenbacher"? The gently caress does that even mean?
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Mar 21, 2022 01:00
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:"Expect a cease-and-desist order from Orville Redenbacher"? The gently caress does that even mean? Corny joke.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:"Expect a cease-and-desist order from Orville Redenbacher"? The gently caress does that even mean? I think it's a roundabout stretch to corny.
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Mar 21, 2022 01:13
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Oh. Thanks. Yeah...very roundabout joke.
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Mar 21, 2022 01:17
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it is, as the happening youths might say, cornsville
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Mar 21, 2022 01:19
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Resident Idiot posted:That was a fun strip, thank you for all the work! empty quote
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Mar 21, 2022 01:24
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Twelve by Pies posted:Like, I know this is what Peanuts was for the majority of its life and what it's best known for, but still. "Ha ha, he's miserable and hates his life because he's not good at anything and has no self-esteem! Hilarious!" The actual joke is probably supposed to be "He's massively overreacting and it's silly to imagine being a person being paved over for a parking lot" but that isn't really the punchline, the punchline is just "I will always be worthless" and as a person with brain problems it really bothers me. I'm not mad about Peanuts or anything but it's just early Peanuts was good fun and very light-hearted, and most of "modern" (for lack of a better term) Peanuts just feels spiteful and mean-spirited towards Charlie Brown, and he just becomes the butt of the joke because he sucks at everything. Wholeheartedly agreed. Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba Also wanted to join the chorus of thanks for translating and posting this strip, I came to really like it!
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Mar 21, 2022 05:06
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they definitely kissed and opened up that combination curio shop/bar they fantasized about
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Mar 21, 2022 05:24
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba I really enjoyed it, thanks for posting.
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Mar 21, 2022 05:37
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Modesty Blaise: The Gabriel Set-Up 
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Mar 21, 2022 05:50
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Some full-page Guindons today:    And regular-size J. Wesley Smith  
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Mar 21, 2022 06:03
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics, mercifully with scan quality back to normal      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  No Mandrake & Johnny Hazard on Sundays. Computoon: Origins  If the original joke is antihumor, does that make this anti-antihumor?
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In today's Blueberry: The gang ain't out of danger yet!, or Finlay isn't so dumb after all..., or Grand Theft... Wagon? I dunno  
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Esplanade posted:Some full-page Guindons today: I'm getting some Ballard Street vibes out of these and I'm here for it. Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Mar 21, 2022 07:14
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Haifisch posted:
Been a while since somebody got bit by the rarebit.
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EasyEW posted:As for the mini-dustup over yesterday's Peanuts, the only useful thing I have to offer is a quote from Sparky himself: ”Losing is funny, because only a few people ever experience winning, but we all experience losing” I disagree with this completely. Losing can be funny, sure. Al is a loser in Married With Children, and that's funny. But it works because Al isn't always a loser. Sometimes, he gets a win. Sometimes, he takes a loss, but he keeps his dignity/pride. Seeing him succeed sometimes is what keeps things humorous. The only characters where it's funny if they always lose are if they're a villanous character, or just an rear end in a top hat. Like Newman from Seinfeld. It's funny if he always loses because you aren't supposed to like him. Or hell, Wilbur from Mary Worth. It's funny if he always loses because he's a complete loving jackass. That's where Peanuts fails. Charlie Brown is never allowed to succeed. He always loses. He's terrible at baseball, he's terrible at flying kites, he's terrible at personal relationships, he's terrible at being a pet owner, he's terrible at loving everything. And this would be okay if Charlie Brown was a piece of poo poo, but he isn't. He's a good kid and he has serious self-esteem issues. And again, the strip I quoted, the joke wasn't even "Charlie Brown's team lost at baseball." Like, he's done that strip, and it can be funny, like if someone asks "Can we win at this point?" and Charlie Brown says "Well I guess there's a chance the entire opposing team could get injured and forfeit and we'd win by default." That's funny, because the joke actually is "The team is losing badly." No, the "joke" in the strip I quoted is "Charlie Brown thinks he is worthless and can never do anything right and would be better off if he was buried in a parking lot." How the hell is that funny? That's how depressed people literally feel about themselves! And that's supposed to be humorous? Okay, now I think I actually am mad at Peanuts. I'm just gonna sleep.
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Mar 21, 2022 07:40
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bobbins For real I would not have pegged that as a milk container in a million years. What milk looks like in my world 
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Mar 21, 2022 07:45
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One of the very last storylines in Peanuts, possibly the last multi-strip story, let Charlie Brown be quite successful at marbles.
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Guindon does contented faces like no one else. Thanks for all the kind words, thread! I'll look into MangaDex to share Uramachi Sakaba, although "established online communities I'm not familiar with that have lots of rules" make me nervous. The good news is, I checked up on Maruoka's site and he released the print collection of his new comic just last week, so I bought it and will be sharing it! I want to build up a bit of a backlog of translations, so I'll pad time by sharing some of the pre-Sakaba comics Maruoka drew in the setting. They're short! The first is Cape Sunazuri Dozeu Bookstore, starring a familiar schlubby traveling salesman.   Whether it represents his past, or his possible future, I do not know! It was drawn well before Sakaba started. Night Visitors  This is referencing the title of an apparently very popular, and very 1984, tune from 1984. Monya the Grey  
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His Divine Shadow posted:For real I would not have pegged that as a milk container in a million years.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba Count me among the chorus thanking you for translating and posting this comic! It was a lot of fun! Giant Days x Batman  John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:Poor old Esther. Things never quite slot into place for her.
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riderchop posted:Monty You can't reinflate the tyre before you put it back on the bike!
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Mar 21, 2022 10:48
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What milk looks like in my world
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Buni isn't coming up today. Rhymes with Orange  Get Reruns 3/20/02  Brenda Starr 5/23/48   Smokey Stover 11/10/46  Everyday Movies 12/17/34  "Can you spare fifteen or twenty cents, Mister? I want to donate to the Christmas fund."
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Mar 21, 2022 11:29
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Two Fingerporis.  Also, Pertti Jarla, the Fingerpori cartoonist, is doing political cartoons now.  
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Yes hello, I decided not to check the forums at all over the weekend, instead I spent it relaxing and visiting family. Classic Kevin & Kell in: hey remember Edgar? (May 29 - June 4, 2006)        Modern Kevin & Kell   
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~Coxy posted:What milk looks like in my world Goddamn you! I was going to make that joke!
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Mar 21, 2022 12:15
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Vintage Valiant (May 07, 1950)  
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Nancy 1947
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Jucika "104 - Jucika And The Skimpy Skirt" "105 - Jucika And The Costume Ball" 
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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Mar 21, 2022 15:14
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What is the correct way to post a comic from GoComics?
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Mar 21, 2022 15:16
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Huxley posted:What is the correct way to post a comic from GoComics?
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Mar 21, 2022 15:20
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Tiggum posted:You mean because it blocks right-click -> Save Image? If you right-click -> Inspect, you should be able to find the image file and save it pretty easily. Or if you have an account, you can add comics to your favourites and save them from that page because they forgot to block it there. Or you could do what I do and just screenshot it (Shift-Command-4 on Mac, I assume Windows has a similar tool).
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Mar 21, 2022 15:39
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Windows Snipping Tool works great.
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Cool! I don't want to jump anyone's claim or anything, but A+J is the best comic here and we are midway through a ~lore~ storyline so I figured I'd pick it up a bit unless there's objections. Arlo and Janis       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra  
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