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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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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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garfield hentai posted: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 Green Intern posted: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. Just a note here that whoever converted the Cal Arts debate into lazy meme form threw in Gumball Watterson as an example, and if a person's core complaint is about a numbing sameness of art style across animated cartoons, it is a massive tactical mistake to rope The Amazing World Of Gumball into that discussion. But then again, I'm the guy who doesn't really mind the Tatulli style, so I don't exactly have my finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist.
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Apr 7, 2022 19:47
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Doomykins posted: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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Apr 7, 2022 20:38
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Murdstone posted:I was thinking this exact same thing as I was posting it. The entire premise makes zero sense and I can only assume she just wanted to shove "NFTs are BAD" into Mark Trail. She's barely giving a reason even why they are bad beyond they vaguely use more energy. If this is an attempt to inform readers of the downsides of NFTs—which I think could be valuable—she's doing a poor job of it. For years my big complaint about James Allen's run was that he is a climate-change denier, and environmental strip Mark Trail should be handled by someone who cares about the environment. That monkey's paw finger has certainly curled.
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Apr 7, 2022 20:45
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Kennel posted:Dustin 
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Apr 7, 2022 20:52
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Aug. 20, 1950) Doesn't this dude still have an Army like right outside? Not that I don't appreciate the baby-sized chopping block, but doesn't this dude still have an Army right outside? Assuming this is how it concludes, this is one of the rare Valiant story arcs that I don't think quite lands.
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Apr 7, 2022 21:23
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Schwarzwald posted:Doesn't this dude still have an Army like right outside? Not that I don't appreciate the baby-sized chopping block, but doesn't this dude still have an Army right outside? It's MAD He has an army right outside but also has an opposing army occupying his homeland about to kill his d00ds
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Apr 7, 2022 21:31
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Schwarzwald posted:Doesn't this dude still have an Army like right outside? Not that I don't appreciate the baby-sized chopping block, but doesn't this dude still have an Army right outside? 600 of his men are disarmed prisoners in the courtyard, and the rest of the army is fairly demoralized by the amazing defenses caused by an invisible enemy.
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Apr 7, 2022 22:07
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Schwarzwald posted:Doesn't this dude still have an Army like right outside? Not that I don't appreciate the baby-sized chopping block, but doesn't this dude still have an Army right outside? You will note how he himself is basically a prisoner, along with his wife and child.
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Apr 7, 2022 22:40
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Murdstone posted:
I said it before but I appreciate Phantom still willing to stick to the "save savarna" plan Savarna: Free, enjoying life, got revenge. Absolute A+ here Kit: Mostly fine it's fine Heloise: okay she did lose a gal pal but she DID get a happy life out of it Kadia: alright this one sucks actually Diane: Moving away is sad but understandable The Phantom Lineage: I'll manage it somehow! Me: Out for one last bit of revenge sure okay, been there done that, who hasn't! Worked great for Savarna
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Apr 7, 2022 23:06
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth
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Apr 7, 2022 23:09
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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! Ah, this is my time to shine! Selkies are fairies, which means the seal AND the human forms are both part of their nature, thus they enjoy spending time as both. In reality, selkies were probably inspired partly by Artic-living peoples, who had animal-skin clothing that sometimes became waterlogged, and needed to be removed in order to dry out; from far away, the long-haired men would look like magical creatures who emerged from the water as seals, then removed their skins to reveal their human, presumably female, forms. It's worth noting that selkies are not native to the folklore of the British Isles, and were brought to the Northern Islands by Norse invaders. Seal women are common in the folklore of Arctic and sub-Arctic cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, which carried to some of the cultures that they had contact with. It was believed that selkies could control the waves and what they brought to shore. Fish was important, of course, but more vital was seaweed, which people used as fertilizer. Thus it was taboo to hunt or bother seals in many places, or to skin a dead seal. If the selkies felt disrespected, they could withhold seaweed for crops, or even attack sailors and fishermen on the water. Taking an abandoned seal skin was especially not okay, as we'll see. (I'll hold off on the rest of the selkie lore, I don't want to give anything away.)
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Apr 7, 2022 23:10
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Heart looks fine and Luca looks great imo. More importantly though drat Aleta, that’s some ice cold poo poo right there.
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Apr 7, 2022 23:14
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EasyEW posted:Just a note here that whoever converted the Cal Arts debate into lazy meme form threw in Gumball Watterson as an example, and if a person's core complaint is about a numbing sameness of art style across animated cartoons, it is a massive tactical mistake to rope The Amazing World Of Gumball into that discussion. If I'm thinking of the right meme, it also only "works" because the person who put it together drew all of the characters off-model to fit their argument. Schwarzwald posted:Doesn't this dude still have an Army like right outside? Not that I don't appreciate the baby-sized chopping block, but doesn't this dude still have an Army right outside? The Bloop posted:It's MAD Pigsfeet on Rye posted:600 of his men are disarmed prisoners in the courtyard, and the rest of the army is fairly demoralized by the amazing defenses caused by an invisible enemy. Green Intern posted:You will note how he himself is basically a prisoner, along with his wife and child. Yeah, Hap-Atla's army failed to take the castle even before a bunch of them were trapped and disarmed, Aguar's army is currently still out wrecking the Inner Lands, and Hap-Atla and his family are right this second inside the castle and surrounded by Aguar's allies. I'd like to think the executioners are for show (inviting him inside to negotiate and then assassinating him wouldn't be very ~honorable~), but the point is that his whole plan is already in shambles and they're giving him a way to technically fulfill his promise to his dead dad and cut his losses. Powerful Katrinka posted:Ah, this is my time to shine! This post rules, thanks for the info! 
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Apr 7, 2022 23:18
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery
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Apr 7, 2022 23:27
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EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater (November 4-5, 1938) gently caress, yes, Toar is back.
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Apr 8, 2022 00:56
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Haraiso Days  Night Visitors  Monya the Grey: Start chapter 5!  
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Apr 8, 2022 01:23
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Giant Ethicist posted:Haraiso Days that's totes a chick, callin it
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Apr 8, 2022 01:51
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Murdstone posted:lol that they threaten to chop the head off the baby. also, Hwurmp posted:that's totes a chick, callin it
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Apr 8, 2022 01:57
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Pickles Zits 
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Apr 8, 2022 02:07
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One strip goes away, something new must be added for balance. That's the way I play the Game of Thread. We'll get to it in a moment, but first... Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (July 10, 1934)  Peanuts (April 10, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  In case you haven't been keeping score, this is the third time travel story since the post-Lisa time jump. Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (November 7, 1938)  Out Our Way (July 11-13, 1938)    And now, as advertised, Something New Has Been Added. Our Boarding House was a single-panel comic created for the Newspaper Enterprise Association by Gene Ahern. It debuted in the fall of 1921, about a half a year before Out Our Way, and if you go through as many old comics pages as I do (including the one I grew up with, because OBH managed to run all the way until 1984), you'll often find Out Our Way and Our Boarding House sitting side by side like conjoined twins. Once Ahern settles into his long-haul style, you'll see that both panels have a sympathetic aesthetic. At the outset, Ahern was drawing from his experiences as a boarder, but it didn't take long for the strip to catch on in such a big way that King Features poached him from NEA in 1936 at double his old salary to draw an OBH knockoff. The reason was that in the process of finessing his initial premise, Ahern managed to create one of the most indelible characters of the between-the-wars comics page. He hasn't shown up yet, but please be patient. (September 19-21, 1921)    Toonerville Folks (December 16-18, 1918)    Dok's "Oh, Are We Going After Teddy This Time?" Duck (January 16, 1914)  Little Lefty (March 20-22, 1936)    Blondie (From Zero) (October 29-31, 1931) 
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Apr 8, 2022 02:14
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Outbursts of Everett True April 18, 1919 And He Did! April 19, 1919  Cat Tales March 28, 1925  Oaky Doaks September 29, 1936  Mopsy December 7, 1937  Up Front March 12, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems June 18, 1952  Those Were the Days November 26, 1959  Wee Pals June 21, 1966  Dogbert March 6, 1967 
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Apr 8, 2022 02:15
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Please for the love of god Monky Dunderchump do not have this grown-rear end man meet his wife in the past when she is a little girl and be like "you should marry my past self". I do not want this.
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Apr 8, 2022 02:17
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Hostile V posted:Please for the love of god Monky Dunderchump do not have this grown-rear end man meet his wife in the past when she is a little girl and be like "you should marry my past self". I do not want this. Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Smug
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Apr 8, 2022 02:25
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BSS: Bisexual Super Son › Comic Strips 2022: You cannot konk a ghost!
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Apr 8, 2022 02:26
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Hee hee. Hwurmp posted:that's totes a chick, callin it yup Hostile V posted:Please for the love of god Monky Dunderchump do not have this grown-rear end man meet his wife in the past when she is a little girl and be like "you should marry my past self". I do not want this. Also gently caress John Darling in his gol dang ear.
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Apr 8, 2022 02:30
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Hostile V posted:Please for the love of god Monky Dunderchump do not have this grown-rear end man meet his wife in the past when she is a little girl and be like "you should marry my past self". I do not want this. Nah, he will find her in the vidja arcade and encourage her or his past self to keep playing/be nice to each other. He should go back and warn Lisa not to go on the field trip to Chernobyl but that would destroy Les. If his wife doesn't die from cancer, whatever happen to HIM?
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Apr 8, 2022 02:31
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Big Nate Year 1 (Feb 26-27, 1991)  Old School Peanuts (Jun 22, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 9-10, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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Apr 8, 2022 02:31
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Cowslips Warren posted:Nah, he will find her in the vidja arcade and encourage her or his past self to keep playing/be nice to each other. He will give her the helmet to complete the time loop. He will then realize that he no longer has his time machine, go back to the bench, and wait to be killed by time cops/wraiths/worms. Regular old time will get him instead, in three days.
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Apr 8, 2022 03:04
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quote:This is the most brutal murder I've ever seen.
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Apr 8, 2022 03:41
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EasyEW posted:
This sounds fun. One of my favorite reads from this thread was the stretch of Thimble Theater when Segar invented Popeye and realized that he struck gold.
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Apr 8, 2022 03:53
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Hwurmp posted:that's totes a chick, callin it
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Apr 8, 2022 04:44
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In today's Blueberry: These boys have this very well planned out, or Blueberry takes advantage of the situation, or ...I wonder if those last two panels were actually supposed to be one? Mashed together, they certainly covey the same information, and separate, they give the illusion that time has passed even though it really hasn't.  
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Apr 8, 2022 05:29
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readingatwork posted:Big Nate Year 1 (Feb 26-27, 1991) What the gently caress is going on with her legs/feet in the first panel?
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Apr 8, 2022 05:33
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics  "Turns out it just says BUTTS LOL"    Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake  Johnny Hazard  Computoon: Origins 
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Apr 8, 2022 06:02
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Twelve by Pies posted:What the gently caress is going on with her legs/feet in the first panel? Has to pee VERY much
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Apr 8, 2022 06:16
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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 (May 01, 2000) 
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Apr 8, 2022 06:26
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riderchop posted:
A+J once again showing an excellent understanding of people, because that's my dad, though nowadays with Google maps rather than physical ones. Because even if technology changes people don't.
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Apr 8, 2022 06:40
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Samovar posted:I propose that it is the single, greatest Calvin and Hobbes strip. Certainly in my top ten but my favorite is tie between the Rex Morgan style strips and Tyrannosaurus in a fighter jet.
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Apr 8, 2022 06:57
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Medenmath posted:If I'm thinking of the right meme, it also only "works" because the person who put it together drew all of the characters off-model to fit their argument. Yeah, all of them are a bit off model and the similarities are pretty superficial to begin with. The "bean-like" facial shape has been a pretty common way of denoting young characters in cartoons forever and anime/manga "chibi" styles use similar shaping. The piano teeth smile has been a common thing in cartooning forever. Also of the main shows the memes focus on: Steven Universe, Gumball, OK KO, Star Vs, and Gravity Falls, only the last two were even created by a CalArts alum. Also all of those series have a very massive amount of variety of character styles. fondue posted:Certainly in my top ten but my favorite is tie between the Rex Morgan style strips and Tyrannosaurus in a fighter jet. The first strip of that style is my all time favorite just for the rabbit baby 
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