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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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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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Scary Gary    I swear his shirt was always reddish-brown, not pink. Drimble Wedge fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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while we're evaluating the strips itt let me just add that I appreciate how every panel in Scary Gary seems to be individually drawn, and while the art isn't great it has some pretty good facial expressions.
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Jun 16, 2022 04:37
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you're right about the coloring though, maybe they got the strips from the same source as arcamax, they tend to have weirder colors there
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Jun 16, 2022 04:40
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I think you're right; it never used to remind me of highlighter markers. Glad it's enjoyed, regardless of the colouring. 
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Jun 16, 2022 05:00
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Yeah, the only thing I could say that could possibly compliment Gilchrist Nancy was that it was more competently drawn then anything Mookie has drawn.
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (July 09, 2000)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Jun 16, 2022 06:40
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics  How bad does it have to get before I start spoilering it?       And a dishonorable mention to Beetle Bailey:  Half the reason I didn't put BB into my rotation even though it actually tells a joke sometimes is that it just can't stop creeping on Miss Buxley. Locher Tracy  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Jun 16, 2022 07:26
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Malachite_Dragon posted:And some of 'em actually do just prefer doing porn. The artist for Ghost In The Shell and Appleseed went *back* to doing it after making it big, because they found it more enjoyable.  you're not kidding.Adam Warren's Empowered went the other way: started out as superhero bondage porn commissions, turned into a multi-volume series.
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I think that Olivia Jaimes' Nancy has a tendency to get stuck in ruts and become overreliant on the fairly dull gag of a character saying or doing something which their thoughts reveal to be hypocritical in an ironic way, but when it's good, it's really good, and it's good more often than a lot of legacy strips I don't hate. Jules Rivera's Mark Trail is an utter mess on weekdays due to plotting issues that seem to exceed mere sloppiness (though I am sympathetic to its bold and direct social conscience). However, its Sunday strips are excellent, pretty much exactly what you'd want from a nature-themed comic, and I stick around for those. R.K. Milholland's Popeye is just getting started and it'll probably take at least a year before we can start to get an idea of whether it'll turn out good. He's very sincere in his appreciation for the breadth and heart of the work of E.C. Segar and Bud Sagendorf, and seems to want to share that appreciation with audiences who are mostly familiar with Popeye through attenuated memories of the Max Fleischer cartoons. What remains to be seen is whether he'll manage to bring some of that breadth and heart himself, rather than just have characters allude to it.
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Tiggum posted:Good stuff. All fair assessments. I'll be happier scrolling past it at this point, I reckon. I do think there's a bit more to it than preference as far as things like the cast being so similar but if people like the wordplay, then alright. quote:Sluggo is lit I didn't expect this to be new Sluggo's character entirely but like the rest of the thread took it as a good sign for the direction and humor of the new strip. It vanishing was a disappointment for that reason, not for that not being the new Sluggo, 100% wacky Sluggo wouldn't be a good fit either. Sluggo hasn't been lit in two years. You get about two meta joke "Nancy is a vampire" a year. It'd be a better strip if Sluggo is lit was part of the revolving door of standby gags, which would also dilute the 90% word snark formula New Nancy has. I guess when I think about Sluggo's Bushmiller characterization I see the jokes about Sluggo getting small time jobs(soften it for modern times), being jealous of Nancy liking other boys, getting into fights with bullies and so on. He was pretty versatile. New Nancy doesn't need to copy Bushmiller as holy canon but there was more going on with Sluggo and the jokes he could do then "slightly chiller jaded child, lazy." Bongo Bill posted:R.K. Milholland's Popeye is just getting started and it'll probably take at least a year before we can start to get an idea of whether it'll turn out good. He's very sincere in his appreciation for the breadth and heart of the work of E.C. Segar and Bud Sagendorf, and seems to want to share that appreciation with audiences who are mostly familiar with Popeye through attenuated memories of the Max Fleischer cartoons. What remains to be seen is whether he'll manage to bring some of that breadth and heart himself, rather than just have characters allude to it. Bill once again being smarter than I am and summing up how I feel! I can give Mil a chance but what originally sparked my replies is the idea that he's in the same league as the other two recent changing of the guards. I hope he does well, at least. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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Jun 16, 2022 10:04
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Mark Trail is bad by any possible metric that determines whether a comic strip is good, the singular thing it's got going is that Jules is a better person than Jam, but he was actively a tremendous shithead so most people would clear that bar without any special effort.
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Jun 16, 2022 10:20
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse  Legend of Bill   
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Jun 16, 2022 11:06
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Classic Nancy 1947
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 6/15/02  Brenda Schmoe 12/12/48  Smokey Stover 7/11/48  Everyday Movies 4/8/35  "--and gee, Nellie, this feller I'm goin' out with now is quite a celebrity in his neighborhood. They call him Crazy Abe Blott." (no background? Wortman must have been pressed for time.)
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Hi hi, sorry! Here’s a double post, your regular posting schedule will resume tonight. ˇAragones!   Life in Hell   Sylvia   Marlys!   I absolutely love all her dorgs.
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Jun 16, 2022 12:38
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fondue posted:I love the art in this. Convincing water is hard to draw, so whenever Hal does a seascape I'm always impressed. Slammy posted:Those Were the Days April 6, 1961 Vintage Valiant (Oct. 14, 1951)   
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Jun 16, 2022 13:20
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riderchop posted:Safe Havens I hope you enjoy hantavirus, lady. Medenmath posted:Convincing water is hard to draw, so whenever Hal does a seascape I'm always impressed. Baby #2? Green Intern fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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Jun 16, 2022 13:52
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read the very last week of Gilchrists Nancy. I dare you.
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Jun 16, 2022 14:00
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That last panel here is ripe for editing.Synthbuttrange posted:read the very last week of Gilchrists Nancy. I dare you.
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Jun 16, 2022 14:07
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I think we did at the time.
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Jun 16, 2022 14:08
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Haifisch posted:
We call those times "Wednesdays"
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 I'm sorry. Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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Jun 16, 2022 14:23
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got a solid "heh" out of Rex Morgan today. Some Guy TT posted:Cooper's self-loathing and Marla's encouraging that self-loathing are fascinating to me, since we don't exactly have a lot of reason to think that Val is that far out of his league. They're both working the same terrible retail job after all, even if Val cleans up nice. It's actually kind of sweet in a way, that this is obviously coming from their both just having really high personal opinions of Val but comparably deflated ones about Cooper. I think its a combination of Marla and Coopers friendship that she's ragging on him and more that val is a fairly positive cheerful person and cooper is a super cynical nerd who works in essentially a cave. I believe at this point in the strip its revealed that val is also into nerdy stuff too. anyway Gatto Grigio posted:Lol gently caress y’all, NuNancy is great
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A+J
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Oct. 14, 1951) 
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (September 7, 1934)  Peanuts (June 19, 1975)  Based on a real event, by the way. Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Thimble Theater (January 16, 1939)  Out Our Way (February 6-8, 1939; timg'd for the usual issues)    And because exactly one of you requested it... 
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Selachian posted:Get Fuzzy 6/15/02 Considering the first thing the dog did was make fun of Bucky I think a little meanness is fair in this case
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His Divine Shadow posted:Btw. How does the Phantom hide his boner? Is there some ancient jungle wisdom for it? 
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Jun 16, 2022 16:54
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EasyEW posted:
Oh hell yeah, just what we need for social media, a 28-character hashtag. There's not much to contribute to the nu-comics convo that I haven't said already, but I just want to say there is no way you should/could divorce Gilchrist's work from his being a drunken sex predator. I'm always in favor of judging work on its own merits but sometimes that work is the definition of "telling on yourself", like how there are plenty of good/great Woody Allen movies but also wow-gee-whiz a whole lot of these movies seem to involve a young woman hooking up with a much older man, usually one with some position of authority over her. That's what Gilchrist's entire body of work is like. The whole thing is him being smug and sanctimonious while not making any attempts to hide his boner. On a different-but-related note, I recently tried to have a convo with a King Features editor about Dustin, and while it didn't go great, it was enlightening. I was honestly totally in the wrong for asking a stranger to give me backstory on their colleagues' work. I'm not going to give details (and I'm probably not going to be dunked on in a Dustin strip in two weeks), but I'll let you know that the editorial staff at King is reading/interpreting all these strips VERY differently than we are. Like, completely the opposite. So I wouldn't really put much stake in anything changing anytime soon. Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Literally explaining the concept of hashtags to the olds, Batiuk also throws a dull Kelly in the corner. Top form today.
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riderchop posted:Safe Havens Getting dangerously close to Rose is Rose territory here. Darthemed posted:Retail I'll claim the prediction square for "he's talking to his mom". Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Huxley posted:A+J How dare you steal my lines, Arlo! Also, Hal Foster was one hell of an artist, and this comes from someone who regularly posts Giraud. Edit: Thanks for the depressing insight, Vargo. Samovar fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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Jucika "280 - Jucika's Diving Competition" "Szépség-Dij = Beauty Award" "281 - Jucika Is Trespassing"  Vargo posted:On a different-but-related note, I recently tried to have a convo with a King Features editor about Dustin, and while it didn't go great, it was enlightening. I was honestly totally in the wrong for asking a stranger to give me backstory on their colleagues' work. I'm not going to give details (and I'm probably not going to be dunked on in a Dustin strip in two weeks), but I'll let you know that the editorial staff at King is reading/interpreting all these strips VERY differently than we are. Like, completely the opposite. So I wouldn't really put much stake in anything changing anytime soon. Really fascinating glimpse behind the curtain. I guess it speaks to American sensibilities that to many people Dustin really is just a lazy loser so potent it is detectable on sight, his sister is giving him well deserved ribbing with her rapier wit and Ed is just the nicest dang guy in the world to keep supporting his son. Honestly a lot of Dustin is western comedy tropes a century old but somehow always with just enough venom at times to hurt. Made myself a little sad imagining how many people read Dustin and have a chuckle at him getting what he deserves. I think it's the actual hellworld strip, though a more casual hellworld.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:
F Minus  Hiding cables is good, fires is too risky, but releasing ants is pro-level. Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Well she knows where Kit is. DOG WHISPER- ER  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  LuAnn was actually married to a pilot who was killed in Vietnam, but I can see why the character wouldn't want to talk about that with this dude. This is still the original writer so I doubt they forgot that. Murdstone fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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Jun 16, 2022 17:45
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Phantom just put an inflatable decoy in the cave to keep Savarna occupied.
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The street sweeper man seems like he is having serious brain troubles. He might need more than a GP.
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can we find out what the editorial take is on Mark Trail
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So with June Brigman on Mary Worth and now Bret Blevins on the Phantom, who will be the next mid-80s X-Men fill-in artist to take over a legacy strip? Rick Leonardi on Beetle Bailey? Barry Windsor-Smith on Apartment 3-G?
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