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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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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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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  Classic Arlo and Janis (April 21, 2000) 
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Mar 29, 2022 06:55
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Giant Ethicist posted:Monya the Grey Maybe try an iron and towel first, before trying to rig up a homemade straightener. Hell, having someone else do it is way safer then when I do it.
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Mar 29, 2022 07:14
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse goddddddd I forgot how this arc just keeps getting worse and worse e: for those who didn't read comic strips in canada 25-odd years ago, the next month of this poo poo is going to make you cringe almost as hard as those of us who did Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Mar 29, 2022 07:21
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse 
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Mar 29, 2022 08:25
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Samovar posted:In today's Blueberry: In the words of Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart, or Blueberry gets upset at everyone, or Blueberry gets exceptionally upset at Vigo 
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Mar 29, 2022 08:47
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Twelve by Pies posted:I can only assume that Holbrook finally saw comments from people somewhere saying it was hosed up that the snake got repeatedly transformed against his will, and this is his attempt to retcon poo poo to be less horrific. It couldn't have been this thread, or he'd have done it ages ago, maybe he saw comments on a hosting site or Twitter or something calling him out. This was my assumption as well. It's a deep, deep rear end-pull.
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Mar 29, 2022 08:58
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Guindon  Gahan  
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Mar 29, 2022 09:45
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Payndz posted:I'm absolutely loving this. No matter how bad things get for Blueberry, there's always someone ready to betray him and make them even worse! Blueberry and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad adventure.
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Mar 29, 2022 10:03
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 6/7/48 
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Mar 29, 2022 11:01
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 3/28/02  Brenda Starr 6/10-12/48    Smokey Stover 1/5/47  Everyday Movies 12/27/34  "Well, Miss Dana, and was Santa Claus good to you?"
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Mar 29, 2022 12:08
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Vintage Valiant (Jun. 25, 1950)  
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Mar 29, 2022 12:34
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Luann
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Mar 29, 2022 12:45
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Esplanade posted:Guindon this rules. also, thanks for posting Gahan Wilson! As a way-too-young kid I would sneak my dad's copies of Gahan Wilson and Charles Addam collections and read them in my room, so this is very nostalgic.
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Mar 29, 2022 13:03
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Mar 29, 2022 13:07
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Jucika "120 - Jucika Is Washing Strawberries" "121 - Jucika And The Frogman" 
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Mar 29, 2022 13:28
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Nancy 1947
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Mar 29, 2022 13:59
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Esplanade posted:Gahan I really love both of these. Also "plaque" Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jun. 25, 1950) Takeshi's Castle was a good show. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Mar 29, 2022 13:59
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Did Lynn know her son was gay when she made these strips? I vaguely remember a lot of newspapers not wanting to print them at all.
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Mar 29, 2022 14:11
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Cowslips Warren posted:Did Lynn know her son was gay when she made these strips? I vaguely remember a lot of newspapers not wanting to print them at all. I have no idea when the real Aaron Johnston came out; I do recall seeing an interview where Lynn said the story was inspired by her brother-in-law, who was also gay. And yeah, the story did draw a lot of controversy and hate mail back in 1993.
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Mar 29, 2022 14:49
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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:Night falls, which means it’s time for Susan to perform an out-of-context hover. A bit of classic J. Allison improvisation there. They’ll miss me when I’m gone. Also, Allison has revealed the next Steeple story-line that he will be posting in may, after the Lottie story that starts in April. It looks like Shelley Winters will be heading back to Tredregyn. Note that the art on this comic will be done by frequent Allison collaborator Max Sarin. (I know not everyone likes Sarin's style of art)  also has anyone heard from Vargo? I've noticed he hasn't posted the past few days, which is a bit of a shame as two of the comics he regularly posts, Breaking Cat News and Wallace the Brave, just celebrated the fifth (BCN) and fourth (WtB) anniversaries of being printed in the newspapers. I hope he is okay. The_Other fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Mar 29, 2022 15:23
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The story was, iirc, extremely ground-breaking for the time. It was a big deal. It was something to be applauded when so much media simply refused to acknowledge that gay people even existed. I've mentioned that my mother really liked foob back in the day. This story was one of the reasons why. It also is so intensely uncomfortable to read now, and it really, really doesn't work when you pretend the strip is current day, at least because we've had gay marriage in Canada since 2005, but also because these are thirty year old attitudes. God, I live in a goddamn redneck city and it wouldn't feel right here. 1993 was four whole years before Ellen came out on her show, remember. The first movie I ever saw with an explicitly gay character was My Best Friend's Wedding, also 1997, and that was mildly shocking in a "quick glance at my parents to see their reaction" type of way. So yeah, I'm cringing so badly, but also, the cultural context here really matters.
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Mar 29, 2022 15:25
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Mar 29, 2022 15:41
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Kazinsal posted:goddddddd I forgot how this arc just keeps getting worse and worse I'm not going to say this is good or progressive or anything (especially since I haven't actually read this arc), but I do feel that this would have come off better 25-odd years ago. Ignoring the real life context (which is hard to do, but from the perspective of an average newspaper comics reader who doesn't keep up with authors' real lives), it seems like this will probably end with everyone accepting Lawrence for who he is (again, haven't read it, but I'm assuming) and a message of "Hey, some people are gay, and that's fine." Which for the time, would be fairly positive, and the reactions of Mike as a teenager in a culture where being gay was still frowned upon are what you might expect. As well as Lawrence saying "I wish I was normal" because yeah, at that point in time, gay people would have felt ostracized and as if they couldn't lead normal lives. Now, all that said, even if you still ignore the real life context...this poo poo is really uncomfortable for modern day. Attitudes towards gay people have shifted dramatically in over two decades, and unless Mike was raised in a very religious household (which the strip hasn't shown is the case), this reaction from him feels incredibly out of place for someone who's been raised completely in an era where gay people are (mostly) fully accepted by society and can even marry. Like, honestly, the conversation should more or less go "Hey I'm gay." "Okay cool."
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Mar 29, 2022 15:47
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Docks  Retail   Popcom (double School edition)  
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Mar 29, 2022 16:17
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Vater und Sohn: Vicious jab An early one, I think.
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Mar 29, 2022 16:26
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oh the FOOB "Lawrence is gay" story was a goddamn media sensation in Canada when it first ran. It pushed Lynn's media presence to the next level and brought her a tier of celebrity/notoriety that isn't usually associated with newspaper comics, even in an era where people gave a poo poo about newspaper comics. There was a period of about a month that summer where I swear that every single goddamn CBC radio show or Can-con platform had a segment about the story. Even though that scale is probably distortion of memory, it was without a doubt an extremely high-profile thing. I have a pretty strong memory (again, possibly a pastiche memory but based on other things in the Canadian media sphere from that time) of an episode of Cross Country Checkup that was hours of people calling in variously to congratulate Lynn for being "so progressive and brave," or to be "very concerned" about the strip.
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Mar 29, 2022 16:49
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse To be slightly fair to Lynn, even if she doesn't necessarily deserve it: this cartoon shows how far we've come as a society in a relatively short amount of time. I remember hearing the f-word a fair amount as an elementary and middle schooler in the '90s. Thankfully, you never hear it these days, at least in "polite" society (racial, sexual and ethnic slurs are a big reason why I don't do online multiplayer games).
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Mar 29, 2022 17:09
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yeah don't forget its 30 years ago, it ran in 1993 oh the website has a newer pride flag design  e: oh she did a new interview a bit ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEl9guAocIs riderchop fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Mar 29, 2022 17:11
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Mar 29, 2022 17:16
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That is such a bad animation. 
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Mar 29, 2022 18:06
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake  Johnny Hazard  Computoon: Origins  And while Vargo's MIA(  ) let's catch up with...Breaking Cat News       Phoebe and her Unicorn      Wallace the Brave      
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Mar 29, 2022 18:08
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https://twitter.com/lizzieohreally/status/1508589401705787397
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Mar 29, 2022 18:10
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ham shears, the early years
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Mar 29, 2022 18:11
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F Minus Mark Trail  Tiggum posted:What is the target audience for new Mark Trail? Who is this for? Does it just exist to piss people off? Because it's not good, but it's also not bad in a fun way. And it's thrown out almost everything that anyone liked about the old version (whether genuinely or ironically). I think they should have ditched the daily and just kept making the Sunday nature ones, and I think it's not unlikely that is what will eventually happen. Mary Worth  The Phantom  YES! Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Seriously what's with the feet? Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Mar 29, 2022 18:12
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Murdstone posted:
just the artist showing off that they know how to draw feet, even if they usually don't e: yeeessss phantom
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Mar 29, 2022 18:18
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Haifisch posted:
Oh, that's an actual BTS song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS3INdulIo. Points for hitting an actual appropriate musical reference for a young girl.
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Mar 29, 2022 18:18
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I will forgive Mozz if this leads to Phantom Heloise
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Mar 29, 2022 18:58
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Haifisch posted:Breaking Cat News From the BCN instagram;  Georgia Dunn posted:Some folks have been recognizing today’s Sunday strip as feeling familiar. No, your mind is not playing tricks on you! 😂❤️ Today’s strip is based on a personal comic from my journals that I have shared a few times over the years. As the kids have begun to enjoy Lord of the Rings, I wanted to go back and make it an official part of BCN. I did do this, and did it for many years… and it worked! Though Gollum is the Girl’s favorite 10x over, and she sees the movies as an epic tale about one more poor creature trying to get its property back from two thieves (filthy hobbitsies! 🤣🤣🤣)
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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