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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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And He Did! March 28, 1919 Outbursts of Everett True April 1, 1919  Cat Tales March 10, 1925  Oaky Doaks September 14, 1936  Mopsy November 22, 1937  Up Front February 14, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems June 3, 1952  Those Were the Days July 23, 1959  Wee Pals June 6, 1966  Dogbert February 8, 1967 
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Big Nate Year 1 (Jan 30-31, 1991)  Old School Peanuts (Jun 9, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 13-14, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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Mar 23, 2022 03:08
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readingatwork posted:Big Nate Year 1 (Jan 30-31, 1991) Big Nate ran in my local paper in the late 90's. I've found the way he draws the sister's breasts to be off-putting for over 20 years.
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Mar 23, 2022 03:18
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Bimmi posted:The Comics Journal just published a lengthy thinkpiece on the matter of legacy strips, with insights from Moy & Brigman, Jules Rivera, and Olivia Jaimes. Oh my, this is a lovely contribution to the conversation. quote:The first few times I heard creators tell me this sort of thing [that reboots like Jaimes’ Nancy come from a sincere place], it was easy to write it off as so much PR finessing - the sort of thing you tell an interviewer when your syndicate’s media manager is sitting on the other end of the conference line. But now I’m not so sure. There is something oddly, ineffably beautiful about this image of a culture that has become degrees removed from some original work of art, and can no longer access whatever its original audience did, yet knows somehow that there is beauty there. I think these creators really do believe that there is something of value in these strips. Maybe they, and we, can’t quite pin it down; can't even really say what it ever was. But maybe by shuffling it, and reversing it, and subverting it, and winkingly making fun of it, we can make ourselves see a little glimmer of that original, simple beauty, even if it's only for a moment.  Which is a pretty bold preface to one of my half-assing days, but there you are. Mutts   Sally Forth   Pearls Before Swine   Skippy (June 25-26, 1934)   Peanuts, in which Linus develops a new side hustle. (March 24-25, 1975)   Funky Winkerbean didn't read Monday's PBS.   Crankshaft   Mutt and Jeff   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater (October 20-21, 1938)   Out Our Way (June 6-8, 1938)    We're a little late, etc. etc.
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Mar 23, 2022 04:12
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Dozeu Bookstore  Night Visitors  Monya the Grey  
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Mar 23, 2022 04:15
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I feel like that article is a year late to new Trail and new Nancy becoming really half assed and/or awkward and phoning it in after their initial SLUGGO IS LIT hype for the new guard taking over legacy strips. Well, as much hype as a dead medium followed by weirdos can get.Giant Ethicist posted:Dozeu Bookstore holy poo poo!! Doomykins fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Mar 23, 2022 04:16
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EasyEW posted:Pearls Before Swine
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Mar 23, 2022 04:29
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Tiggum posted:The pandemic is ending? In a very technically correct sort of way, yes. If governments and medical NGOs begin to treat it as endemic Which they are beginning to do
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Mar 23, 2022 04:31
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not even close, but people (and more importantly governments) are sure ready to tell everyone that it is
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Mar 23, 2022 04:31
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Tiggum posted:The pandemic is ending? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGC6C4vuOao
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Mar 23, 2022 04:31
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The smug self importance of Funky really is something. “This is AA, ofc these lowlifes will want to hear me drone on about the boomer adventures me and my wife has been through!”
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Mar 23, 2022 04:56
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Tiggum posted:The pandemic is ending? Geez Louise, it's almost as if Pearls Before Swines doesn't have a good grasp on actual reality. But enough of my general annoyance at PbS, it's time for today's Blueberry! Where: I know that I've interspersed a lot of Spanish into this comic (and I confess, some, if not most, of it may be inaccurate), but I think everyone can understand what 'Joder' means, or So, I said that Lopez has started to become Wile E. Coyote yesterday, well..., or Huh, I wonder who it is that recognizes Blueberry...   
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Mar 23, 2022 05:52
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Ah, yes. Comics.
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Mar 23, 2022 06:31
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Mar 23, 2022 07:12
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons lol Garfield  Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  riderchop@Athena:/mnt/c/Users/Ariel$ bash ck.sh On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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Mar 23, 2022 07:37
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riderchop posted:Heathcliff Heathcliff is delightfully weird.
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Mar 23, 2022 09:16
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 3/22/02  Brenda Starr 5/27-29/48    Smokey Stover 11/24/46  Everyday Movies 12/19/34  "But I don't want to give my letter to the wrong Santa Claus THIS year, Ma!"
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Mar 23, 2022 11:54
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Vintage Valiant (May 21, 1950)   The guy Val dueled with is still recovering from an injury himself, so he's probably not a great choice for this mission, although I assume Val picked him mostly to make sure there's no continued bad blood between them. I like the panel asking "Who else but Rufus Regan?" as though the audience has any idea who this person is.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:43
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: Vote Dewclaw (June 12-18, 2006)       Whole lotta one-off characters in today's batch; like I said yesterday, these are all people who paid to get written into a strip. Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Mar 23, 2022 12:44
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readingatwork posted:Big Nate Year 1 (Jan 30-31, 1991) Where Funky Cancerbean has the requisite smirk-face, Nate seems to have at least one person looking at the fourth wall.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:49
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riderchop posted:
Oh, as if you won't just DNA magic another assistant from a squirrel you have lying around.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:56
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Nancy 1947
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Mar 23, 2022 13:15
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Jucika "108 - Jucika Is Cleaning" "109 - Jucika Wants To Go To Rome" 
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Mar 23, 2022 13:16
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Medenmath posted:I like the panel asking "Who else but Rufus Regan?" as though the audience has any idea who this person is. Rufus by name, Rufus by hair, at least.
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Mar 23, 2022 13:48
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riderchop posted:Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon I wish RTD would go back to tortured puns.
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Mar 23, 2022 14:12
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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:That’s right, the grappling hook from the 1989 Batman movie. You recognised it correctly. Give yourself a pat on the back.
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Mar 23, 2022 14:18
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A+J
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Mi-gosh!   Johnny Hazard   Computoon: Origins 
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Mar 23, 2022 14:30
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Vargo posted:Curtis I hate to be that guy but wrestling is very real. There's no way to fake getting body slammed on a table (at least not in front of a live audience). Wrestling is scripted which is different from it being fake. Yes, they're actors playing roles, and they're following a script, but there's a reason wrestlers get seriously injured and a lot of them get hooked on painkillers because they hosed up their bodies by being body slammed onto hard surfaces repeatedly. riderchop posted:Safe Havens Hey, maybe you could hire a person, who like, wants to work in your field, and is knowledgeable about it, and you could loving pay them. Or I guess you could just grab a random animal and magic them into a person and force them into slavery like you did with your other assistants. gently caress you!
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Mar 23, 2022 14:38
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Giant Ethicist posted:Dozeu Bookstore quote:Night Visitors Doomykins posted:I feel like that article is a year late to new Trail and new Nancy becoming really half assed and/or awkward and phoning it in after their initial SLUGGO IS LIT hype for the new guard taking over legacy strips. Well, as much hype as a dead medium followed by weirdos can get. maybe not in this thread, but in general I still see the strips get passed around on twitter a bunch, and not even just the sundays.
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Mar 23, 2022 14:38
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Bimmi posted:The Comics Journal just published a lengthy thinkpiece on the matter of legacy strips, with insights from Moy & Brigman, Jules Rivera, and Olivia Jaimes. The writing of this article was a bit pretentious, I thought, but the interviews were interesting and I especially liked this quote from the artist of Mary Worth: 
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Mar 23, 2022 14:43
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*looking up from my phone with a scowl* little?
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Mar 23, 2022 14:47
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"It almost seems like there's a dead gay forum that follows the strip..."
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Mar 23, 2022 14:55
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rannum posted:I think that on the whole most people still like new nancy I've made my peace with Mark Trail by deciding it's fundamentally a gag strip that uses the plot as an excuse for more gags instead of it being a plot-centric strip like old MT. It's still not always a hit but it's clearly not interested in having coherent plot arcs so I'm not going to expect it to have those. 
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Mar 23, 2022 14:58
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rannum posted:I think that on the whole most people still like new nancy Haifisch posted:I've made my peace with Mark Trail by deciding it's fundamentally a gag strip that uses the plot as an excuse for more gags instead of it being a plot-centric strip like old MT. It's still not always a hit but it's clearly not interested in having coherent plot arcs so I'm not going to expect it to have those.
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Samovar posted:Geez Louise, it's almost as if Pearls Before Swines doesn't have a good grasp on actual reality. What happened? I feel like the first few years of Pearls were really good, and then I took a break from reading the strip, and now it's the exact poo poo that it used to decry, taking up space in the funnies.
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Mar 23, 2022 15:24
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Twelve by Pies posted:Hey, maybe you could hire a person, who like, wants to work in your field, and is knowledgeable about it, and you could loving pay them. Or I guess you could just grab a random animal and magic them into a person and force them into slavery like you did with your other assistants. gently caress you! Look, if we hired actual scientists, they might find out about the magic DNA research that we are being paid to do but are refusing to publish or implement and are actively suppressing through sorcery, and we'd probably have to get rid of them by permanently turning them into animals or living decorations or some other kind of useful abomination.
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Mar 23, 2022 15:28
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And then making them gently caress animals.
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Mar 23, 2022 15:36
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics The person being grilled by the police on suspicion of murder (of someone she had a motive to kill) is... nervous? Must mean she's guilty, there's no other reason for her to be anything but relaxed and happy in this scenario.  Bizarro  I'm just impressed that he found a way to draw a whale making a recognizable hand gesture without fingers. The Family Circus 
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus I am very sorry 
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