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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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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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Mikl posted:This is my favourite thread in the forums, and I super enjoyed it. Be well, y'all. You take care of yourself, Mikl.  She's been a tutor for like one day
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Big Nate Year 1 (Feb 24-25, 1991)  Old School Peanuts (Jun 21, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 7-8, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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Julet Esqu posted:You take care of yourself, Mikl. It's like that old saying: "If at first you don't succeed, you're a complete failure and should give up and never try anything again."
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Tiggum posted:It's like that old saying: "If at first you don't succeed, you're a complete failure and should give up and never try anything again." ...I feel seen.
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Tiggum posted:It's like that old saying: "If at first you don't succeed, you're a complete failure and should give up and never try anything again."
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Alhazred posted:TegneHanne
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My Lovely Horse posted:Ohser had basically no choice in it if he wanted to keep working. Remember how he used to draw explicitly anti-Nazi cartoons too, before they came into power. I had managed to avoid confronting the realities of Ohser's situation until I saw these and, hey, maybe it's because you're not doing kicky translations and important notes, but these seemed way more verbose and way less mirthful than usual. Now I'm just sad about a cartoonist who did a cute little comic strip with a ton of heart but, in the face of an inhuman regime, fought fascism the only way he knew how until the fascists took his platform, his livelihood, and his freedom, then only stopped short of his life because he took it first. poo poo, sorry, I got weird again. Have an edit. 
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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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 30, 2000) 
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Apr 7, 2022 06:22
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake  Every time Lothar appears in these classic Mandrake strips is painful.  Johnny Hazard  Computoon: Origins 
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Apr 7, 2022 06:22
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 4/6/02  Brenda Starr 7/1-3/48    Smokey Stover 3/9/47  Everyday Movies 1/8/35  "I hate to throw these socks away, Duke. They'd be perfectly good if it weren't for the feet."
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Haifisch posted:Mandrake I'm also fascinated by the idea that a man with two heads might need a mask (two masks!) to prevent being identified. LvK posted:I had managed to avoid confronting the realities of Ohser's situation until I saw these and, hey, maybe it's because you're not doing kicky translations and important notes, but these seemed way more verbose and way less mirthful than usual. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days November 19, 1959 Cartoonist's Tip: if you ever get tired of reusing the same setup and punchline for a strip, just reverse them instead.
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Apr 7, 2022 09:39
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 7-8, 1990) 
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Poil posted:I love this one, it's great. I propose that it is the single, greatest Calvin and Hobbes strip. Seconded only possibly by the Gauguin one.
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Endless Mike posted:Spud being a good rapper is my favorite I love this too  Mikl posted:Quick drive-by post: having a terrible time with lots of stuff, and I'm for the moment unable to keep up with posting K&K (both Classic and Modern). In case someone wants to tag in, the latest Classic strip I posted was Sunday, July 2nd, 2006. I don't remember what the last Modern strip I posted was, but you can check my post history to find out. I hope everything is okay and that things calm down for you soon! My Lovely Horse posted:You know what, let's just get the Nazi propaganda over with. I knew it had to happen eventually.  Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery More carrots! Yeah!! BLOP Vintage Valiant (Aug. 20, 1950)   
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Docks  Retail   Popcom (double Apple edition)   e: Out of curiosity 
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I'm not sad to see Pearls Before Swine leave the thread, it's amazing how hard that strip fell off when Pastis became a middle-aged man complaining about everything and also nothing. I used to love it but it irritates the hell out of me now. Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City 
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Jucika "138 - Jucika's Net" "139 - Jucika Is Waiting For Her Guest" 
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A+J You've got so many reasons for not being with someone. But Janis, you haven't got one good reason for being alone. Huxley fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Helmet was too tight, caused a subdural hematoma, and this is all his dying dream. Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Aug. 20, 1950) Haha Aleta, classic prank. Everyone have a laugh. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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Vargo posted:Heart of the City
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Aug. 20, 1950) "Ha-ha! So, since we're all friends now... think you could recall your soldiers who are out burning my villages and farms?" The Family Circus   Bizarro  
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A Mug That Reads "Don't Talk To Me Until I've Had My Funny Online Animals" K&K        
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Using Hap-Atla's wife and infant son to show him that his ambition is silly is diplomatic skill, but then setting up a second block and executioner specifically for said infant son is a goddamn ice-cold loving power move holy poo poo Vater und Sohn: Adventure with a goldfish that wasn't (1937/09) 
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Storm P The next few pages will be Peter and Ping, starring Peter Vimmelskaft and his penguin (who will remain untranslated, as most of what he says is nonsense anyway). 
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Tiggum posted:It's like that old saying: "If at first you don't succeed, you're a complete failure and should give up and never try anything again." For some of us, it’s a momentous step to ever break out of this mindset, is all I’m gonna say.
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Medenmath posted:Heart of the City seems nice to me so far. It doesn't always have a gag, but I think it's more of a slice of life strip. This story seems to be about Heart making friends with this other girl she's not gotten along with before now, which is cute (as long as it sticks - things constantly reverting to the status quo is always annoying). I don't think it's really about pop culture - its characters just reference it in the way kids would. It's both about and for tween kids, and I assume very few people reading this thread are in the ten to fourteen age range, so that might explain why people here find it boring. The strip's biggest crime is that it went from Mark Tatulli's singularly ugly style of art to an inoffensive blandness that, like you said, is present everywhere now:  The bug-eyed, potato-shaped smile at a 3/4 perspective gets exhausting to look at real quick. The muted color palette doesn't do it any favors, either. Modesty Blaise: Mister Sun  
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So why does a Selkie ditch their skin to swim as a human, again? Why not just stay in seal form? It makes sense if they want to come on land, but not to go swimming!Transmodiar posted:The strip's biggest crime is that it went from Mark Tatulli's singularly ugly style of art to an inoffensive blandness that, like you said, is present everywhere now: Is this the "Cal Arts style" thing I hear people complain about? I don't agree, but I also don't want to argue. All I can say is I don't find the art in Heart of the City ugly, and your example, Luca, is in my opinion a very pretty film. edit: Did you post Modesty Blaise at a tiny size or am I having some weird issue on my end? Medenmath fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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Medenmath posted:So why does a Selkie ditch their skin to swim as a human, again? Why not just stay in seal form? It makes sense if they want to come on land, but not to go swimming! The bean head potato smile reminiscent-of-Steven-Universe thing is what people derisively call the "Cal Arts" style, although my understanding is it's less that they actually teach that style there and more that the style just happens to be trendy and also everyone in the industry all met each other through Cal Arts. From what I can tell the "Cal Arts produces poo poo artists" thing was also a thing John K would say a lot that's since caught on but he'd also say that about anyone who wasn't Bob Clampett so whatever
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I can't believe Mr. Sun used a shrink-ray on Modesty Blaise 
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Aug. 20, 1950) F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons   Apartment 3-G 
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Apr 7, 2022 18:31
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My only complaint about Heart in the City is I wouldn't know she was in Blade Runner cosplay if they hadn't told me. But this is also my fault cuz I haven't seen Blade Runner. I recognize the Spike and..Judy Jetson(??) though. Honestly the strip is fine, I am always of the opinion 
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Medenmath posted:Is this the "Cal Arts style" thing I hear people complain about? I don't agree, but I also don't want to argue. All I can say is I don't find the art in Heart of the City ugly, and your example, Luca, is in my opinion a very pretty film. I don't think "Luca" or the new "Heart" is ugly - I just think the style is predominant this time. Tatulli's art is objectively unappealing, though. Modesty's back to full size, now, btw. 
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Real Life has taken priority over posting Classic Nancy, I hope to resume this weekend.
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Apr 7, 2022 19:32
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The Blade Runner strip is astoundingly bad but otherwise ehh, s'fine comic. I don't think I can even follow the nonsense soup in Mark Trail anymore. "Influencers won't learn about cricket powder for funsies." What if you just gave them money, there's not even a reason for the NFTs in this "scheme" Jules just wants us to know NFTs are bad which yeah sure they are but that's not a story.
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Medenmath posted:Is this the "Cal Arts style" thing I hear people complain about? I don't agree, but I also don't want to argue. All I can say is I don't find the art in Heart of the City ugly, and your example, Luca, is in my opinion a very pretty film. If you hear someone complaining specifically about "Cal Arts" there's a really good chance that they are some kind of internet chud and can be safely ignored. Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Toby is being a big dummy by not going to HR first, but I am here for more weird dreams.
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