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I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. 64 26.02%
I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. 42 17.07%
I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. 88 35.77%
I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. 52 21.14%
Total: 246 votes
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Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Phantom isn’t going to go after the buyers then?

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goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
He just needs to punch the girls for almost being trafficked and it's a near perfect war on drugs analogy.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Docks




Retail




Popcom


Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Let's catch up on Junk Drawer because it is a good comic.








I'm into it.


Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
2018 Spiderman


1979 comics






Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats


The Lockhorns



Mandrake


Johnny Hazard


Computoon: Origins

LvK
Feb 27, 2006

FIVE STARS!!

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Vater und Sohn: Who's got the last laugh?



The vault of extra episodes is running dry, which means that soon we can go back to regular installments, with a big change waiting in the wings.

Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

Haifisch posted:

Origins of the Sunday Comics

'seriously my friend I was just about to gently caress that fish! oh! huh! how I am upset!'

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD



"...but they'll probably be very boring."

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
Mutts


Sally Forth


Pearls Before Swine


Peanuts (April 6, 1975)


Funky Winkerbean


Crankshaft


Mutt and Jeff


Rip Haywire And The Curse of Tangaroa! (February 13, 20, 27, 2022)






A Sketchy Life (April 1, 1926 (the Easter number))

Starting with two from T.S. Sullivant:




Frederick Strothmann (whose work I almost credited to the wrong guy in another post because I can't tell As from Os anymore)


John Held Jr.:


Jack Farr:


Charles Forbell:


Fred G. Cooper:


And just in case you think there aren't any words in this magazine, a cartoon without pictures:

Life (still April 1, 1925) posted:

Learn to Swim

The old advice that you shouldn't go near the water until you learn to swim is so silly.

The really dangerous part about the whole thing is learning to swim before you learn to drown.

Now listen. There are many ways of learning to swim. The simplest is as follows: be a beautiful girl.

Then any one will teach you. Every one will teach you.

That's the trouble. You have so many teachers, you must learn at least a dozen times every season.

Just for the fun of it let's agree that you do not care to be a beautiful girl.

It naturally follows that you do not care to be a homely girl, because homely girls are not beautiful.

Then you must be a man. Is that satisfactory?

All right. You are a man.

Better run around the block and develop a few muscles.

That's better. Now run around on your hands.

That's fine. Rest while we explain

The old way of teaching a man to swim was to dress him in his Sunday clothes and send him out riding in a canoe.

But that isn't the new way, because it is too old.

Do you see that guy on the raft out there?

You do? Well, you're learning fast.

That guy on the raft is a bootlegger.

Don't forget to kick your feet.

--Tom Sims.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

Keep calm and Harry on.

Haifisch posted:

1979 comics


Guest appearance by one of the Cosby Kids.

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

So what was the point of those Funky strips with the old guy telling his captive audience about his grocery shopping during Covid? What the gently caress was all that about?

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



Drimble Wedge posted:

So what was the point of those Funky strips with the old guy telling his captive audience about his grocery shopping during Covid? What the gently caress was all that about?
That's an alcoholics anonymous meeting, IIRC.

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise: Mister Sun



Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Drimble Wedge posted:

So what was the point of those Funky strips with the old guy telling his captive audience about his grocery shopping during Covid? What the gently caress was all that about?
that was us (again) momentarily catching up to where batiuk had months-ago written all about how the pandemic was over before the story was shunted back into the reality where it isn't.

Powerful Katrinka
Oct 11, 2021

an admin fat fingered a permaban and all i got was this lousy av

Selachian posted:

Brenda Starr 6/21-23/48





I have not the faintest idea what word "s------ly" is supposed to stand for.

"Smelly," I think

Esplanade
Jan 6, 2005

Drimble Wedge posted:

So what was the point of those Funky strips with the old guy telling his captive audience about his grocery shopping during Covid? What the gently caress was all that about?

Old people going on long, rambling pointless stories is the hot new trend in comic strips.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011


Man, this guy is weirdly offended by small talk about Charles Lindbergh.

quote:


Also uhhh did this kid die because the dog couldn't save him because I'm having trouble reading it any other way.

Vox Valentine
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Some Guy TT posted:

Man, this guy is weirdly offended by small talk about Charles Lindbergh.
To be fair Lindbergh was a Nazi, I would be too.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma

Powerful Katrinka
Oct 11, 2021

an admin fat fingered a permaban and all i got was this lousy av

Some Guy TT posted:

Man, this guy is weirdly offended by small talk about Charles Lindbergh.

Also uhhh did this kid die because the dog couldn't save him because I'm having trouble reading it any other way.

I think that's supposed to be Lindbergh? It looks like it could be a flattering drawing of him

As for the second comic, the boy is gesturing to the dog to play in the water with him

Slammy
Mar 30, 2011

Great speech.
PPHPFT!!
And He Did! April 15, 1919


Outbursts of Everett True April 14, 1919

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_flush

Cat Tales March 21, 1925


Oaky Doaks September 24, 1936


Mopsy December 2, 1937


Up Front March 5, 1945


Bootsie’s Big ‘50s


So It Seems June 13, 1952


Those Were the Days October 22, 1959


Wee Pals June 16, 1966


Dogbert February 27, 1967

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Haifisch posted:



Computoon: Origins


Charles loving Boyce drew better looking sharks than Overboard

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
Pickles


Zits

Esplanade
Jan 6, 2005

Slammy posted:

Oaky Doaks September 24, 1936


Up Front March 5, 1945


Bootsie’s Big ‘50s


Some really nice art in this batch.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Nekonaughey

Giant Ethicist
Jun 9, 2013

Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...
Rootless Market



Night Visitors


Monya the Grey

Esplanade
Jan 6, 2005

Guindon



Gahan



E: finally realized what Moz's story in the Phantom was reminding me of:

Esplanade fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Apr 4, 2022

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Ghostlight posted:

Nekonaughey



Sans ketchup, you say.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

EasyEW posted:


Sally Forth



Dang that's some nice colour in that penultimate panel

EasyEW posted:


Frederick Strothmann (whose work I almost credited to the wrong guy in another post because I can't tell As from Os anymore)



It's always nice to see people bitching about modern day music in the past.

Anyway, onto today's Blueberry: God, I remember the days in which smoking wasn't banned in a lot of public places. I remember some people proposing that the smell of the places would be worse WITHOUT the smoke. Thank gently caress no-one listened to those idiots, or You can get more with a kind word and a gun, than you can with just a kind word..., or The people in the freight wagon days' just got REALLY bad.



davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Giant Ethicist posted:

Rootless Market



Whoa

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



MariusLecter posted:

Sans ketchup, you say.
here's a recipe for the thread (with optional egg) - just make sure your ketchup bottle isn't empty before you start!
https://sudachirecipes.com/spaghetti-napolitan-recipe/

Evrart Claire
Jan 11, 2008
So how many different "woman talks about how she dealt with sexism by being 'one of the guys'" backstories has Batiuk done at this point?

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
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 27, 2000)

Hel
Oct 9, 2012

Jokatgulm is tedium.
Jokatgulm is pain.
Jokatgulm is suffering.

riderchop posted:

Compu-toon


On The Fastrack



Classic Arlo and Janis (April 27, 2000)


It's funny how old school Arlo and Janis has a better understanding of the internet and how people use it than both of the tech/computer focused strips.

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Big Nate Year 1 (Feb 18-19, 1991)






Old School Peanuts (Jun 18, 1953)




Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 1-2, 1990)






No Blind Alley today.

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Macanudo


Dark Side of the Horse

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Sorry for not posting Bobbins over the weekend. I'm presently in a the midst of a battle with Covid so that's kind of wiped me out the last few days.
Bobbins

John Allison posted:

Sad to see that the Cold Iron Rod, Pat Lumsford, has already passed out.

John Allison posted:

“Office Christmas Party” is definitely a stock image search worth pursuing. Back when I worked in an actual office as a designer (1998-99), our stock image catalogues were full of pictures of comics writer Grant Morrison, whose bald-headed look was, at the time, compellingly novel. How the tables have turned. Now everyone is bald as an egg and Grant works in our local Tesco Express.
Bad Machinery

John Allison posted:

Splish splash she was takin' a bath! Or swimming. How clean you're able to get in the sea is doubtless down to how dirty you were before you got in it.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.



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Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Corni



Rhymes with Orange



Get Fuzzy 4/3/02



Brenda Starr 6/24-26/48





Easy prediction: it'll turn out the woman in the wheelchair is his sister or something, and she's the one who wrote all the music.

Nice collie, though.

Smokey Stover 2/16/47



Everyday Movies 1/4/35



"Oh, Mrs. Brown, come over tonight. Our neighbors across the court got a new radio for Christmas, and the reception is wonderful in our apartment."

Bonus Ad! This is a woman who would kill for some Spanx.

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