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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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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

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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

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer

Slammy posted:

Those Were the Days April 21, 1960


Was this a thing that happened outside of the cartoonist's immediate family?

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

That strikes pretty close to home. Our kitchen is calico because we refused to bend to the dominant color theme.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange



Get Fuzzy 4/27/02



Brenda Starr 8/19-21/48





Smokey Stover 8/3/48



Everyday Movies 2/2/35



Havana Notes

Yes, Everyday Movies is leaving Florida behind and moving on to Cuba. Hopefully this won't get too problematic...

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Dec. 24, 1950)


Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Haifisch posted:


1979 comics


This domestic abuse arc is different than the last, because it has two victims.

quote:



I'm kinda expecting this to end in a reconciliation now that Karl has lost everything due to his own arrogance, but for the time being I'm over here in my Sickos shirt.

quote:

Johnny Hazard


Did they really expect him to use his real name?

manero
Jan 30, 2006

Nancy 1947

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Mister Kingdom posted:

How long has this robot story been going on?

Robot Club has been a core part of Jaimes' Nancy for most of its run.

Hostile V posted:

Food Safety for Cannibalism Comics


Holbrook, you can't do this. You haven't even shown anyone wearing masks in this godawful hellworld.

Green Intern fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Apr 28, 2022

Zamboni Rodeo
Jul 19, 2007

NEVER play "Lady of Spain" AGAIN!




manero posted:

Nancy 1947

Kinda looks more like The Brute Man than The Mad Monster.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable


Are these guys nude?

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

His Divine Shadow posted:

I'm glad we don't got a prom tradition in my country, I mean high school was bad enough for me, the idea of trying to / being expected to get a date might've actually driven me suicidal. I was not in a good mental shape in high school... I feel prom time must be so bad for so many akward teeenagers in the US.

Like others have said, dressing up with pals and going without a date can still be pretty fun. I don't really like Prom King/Queen stuff generally since it's usually going to just reinforce whatever the established social order is at the school.

Good Listener
Sep 2, 2006

Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool
When I was a senior, I ended up winning homecoming king in high school and was on the prom court. It's still kind of weird to me cuz I was just the fat tuba playing guy in marching band. I guess it's just cuz I was a friendly and nice person? I went stag to prom one year and ended up taking a date in senior year but to be honest, it was just taking another band friend with me and we just kinda hung out part of the time at the actual dance.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
I read Carrie way before my prom so I was already leery. But then I got a summer job offer to work the Census, so I spent my prom night in training there. For $15 an hour in 2000, for simply filing paper while I had my headset on, summer jobs didn't get any better.

Then again I didn't like dancing. And the first dance I went to my freshman year, I was rather startled to see some seniors grinding away on freshman girls who seemed a bit too worried to say no.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

riderchop posted:

Safe Havens

Yes, how dare they not reveal their real species to you after finding out you are literally one of their primary predators, and when even still as a mouse you continued to salivate every time you thought you smelled snake. Yes. Fault is entirely on them, not you.

riderchop posted:

Safe Havens

So the writer really did forget/is trying to ignore that the snake had no say in the matter in the first place, huh.

Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Apr 28, 2022

Huxley
Oct 10, 2012



Grimey Drawer
A+J


If next week we start a story back with the kids where like, Gus dies or something, I'll start to get worried.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Vater finally forgets his roots :ohdear:

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.

Green Intern posted:

Are these guys nude?

I was wondering when someone would notice that. :D

Banker and The Butler started off as a New Yorker knock-off, but as a strip in the Sunday edition of a US Communist paper, you were kind of left waiting for the other shoe to drop.



(January 19 and February 2, 1936)

In recent weeks, things had escalated a bit. (May 31, June 7 and 14, potentially NSFW because of (ahem) cheeky humor.)




Mutts


Sally Forth


Skippy (July 27, 1934)


Peanuts (May 1, 1975)


Funky Winkerbean drags on.


Crankshaft


Mutt and Jeff


Rip Haywire


Thimble Theater (November 28, 1938)


Out Our Way (September 12-14, 1938; timg'd for the usual etc etc)




Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

EasyEW posted:

I was wondering when someone would notice that. :D

Banker and The Butler started off as a New Yorker knock-off, but as a strip in the Sunday edition of a US Communist paper, you were kind of left waiting for the other shoe to drop.



(January 19 and February 2, 1936)

In recent weeks, things had escalated a bit. (May 31, June 7 and 14, potentially NSFW because of (ahem) cheeky humor.)




I realize that this strip is in all likelihood meant to be insulting, but I support this Banker and Butler's relationship.

quote:

Out Our Way (September 12-14, 1938; timg'd for the usual etc etc)


I'm impressed the kid didn't kill himself with hot oil.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Sheesh. The kid obviously loves cooking, and fresh donuts are totally something you could sell from a cart on the street. Put him in business!

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
Breaking Cat News


Phoebe and Her Unicorn


Wallace the Brave


Heart of the City


Curtis


I mean.... does she? The only thing different is her hair, and that's barely different. This feels a lot like Curtis' modern redesign to having "a slightly smaller hat."

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

Vargo posted:

Wallace the Brave


Kids her age shouldn't throw breaking pitches Wallace Dad, you'll shred her elbow.

Nostalgamus
Sep 28, 2010

Storm P

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

I mean, if you thought that Boondocks' "Huey looks at TV, looks at reader" style was lazy:

Vargo posted:

Heart of the City

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

riderchop posted:

Classic Arlo and Janis (May 21, 2000)


Truth. To see exactly who a show is aimed at, watch one commercial break.

Slammy posted:

Those Were the Days April 21, 1960

Maxwell Lord posted:

Was this a thing that happened outside of the cartoonist's immediate family?

It absolutely was, especially for people who moved overseas. Intercontinental phone serviced existed (at least in a lot of places), but it was ruinously expensive. So people mostly kept in touch by letter, sometimes augmented with a little reel of tape on which they'd recorded a spoken message. For a lot of people, this might be the only time they'd hear each other's voice for years. And even using a new tape every time would be vastly cheaper than the equivalent phone call, but there was nothing stopping anyone from reusing the same few tapes and shuttling them back and forth.

My parents have told me about doing this for a few years in the 60s when they lived overseas, where my dad was stationed with the Navy.


Bizarro


The Family Circus

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Vater und Sohn: Weepy music (22(1937)

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise: The Mind of Mrs. Drake



Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

God drat that's a roomy sedan

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Into Ilves



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




TegneHanne

L-Innsikt

M

Yes, a sentient rubber chicken is one of the recurring characters in M comics.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007





You can spare the small effort to be nice to your wife who is trying to cheer you up, you turd.


Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Docks




Retail




Popcom (dubba Gumps edition)


Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bad Machinery

John Allison posted:

You remember Jack's sister, Jessica, right? Their relationship is so tender.

Jack's truly a newsman in the making.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


Zamboni Rodeo posted:

Kinda looks more like The Brute Man than The Mad Monster.


Creeper, creeper, creeper...YOU GIVE ME THE CREEPS!

F Minus



Mark Trail



Mary Worth



And they begin wildly kidding.

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



I believe the dog.

Apartment 3-G

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth



And they begin wildly kidding.

Holy poo poo it looks like he's about to strangle her.

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD



"It turns out that if we do a loser superhero with a shovel theme, we'd actually owe money to William H. Macy."

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Yvonmukluk posted:

Bad Machinery


Jack's truly a newsman in the making.

lol I never noticed the "IDIOT NEWS" header before

coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

Murdstone posted:

Pooch Cafe



Taking a fish to a seafood buffet seems like poor form

davidspackage posted:

Holy poo poo it looks like he's about to strangle her.

:pray:

somepartsareme
Mar 10, 2012

Diggle Hell is a Real
(Swingin') Place
Fish eat fish

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Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007





You and Jaden Smith both, kid.

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