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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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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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 Friendly reminder that Crabgrass starts up in actual newspapers next Monday June 27th! Grab a copy if you spot it in the wild!Big Nate Year 1 (May 23-24, 1991)   Old School Peanuts (Aug 5, 1953)  idgi Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 5-6, 1991)   Blind Alley  Support Adam's Patreon here.
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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kidcoelacanth posted:yeah that was the safe bet, was mostly just wondering based on him mentioning WW2 damage Nekonaughey 
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Murdstone posted:I am positive Kotzky had a mirror at his drawing table and that's why his facial expressions are so great. Tommie was modeled after Lucille Ball, which is why she has the best facial expressions of the three roommates
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Ghostlight posted:It wasn't "damage" that it suffered during WWII - the body remained unrepaired after the earthquake and during WWII the Japanese government legally reclaimed it for the purposes of smelting it down for war materials, leaving only the severed face intact.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Translator's footnote corner: Right, that's a bit of imprecision with the translation to save space on my part - I translated it as "the body was destroyed" but it's "destroyed" in the sense of "requisitioned, purposefully destroyed and melted down" and not "destroyed by bombs". Just writing "the body was requisitioned" felt to me like it might have the sense that they used it as-is somehow, and there wasn't really space for more than one word, so something like "the body was melted down for scrap" wouldn't have fit. maybe 'recycled' ?
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I don't think you could really cram in what actually happened into the comic with word choices. It's just one of those supplementary details that this thread as an audience probably isn't familiar with while q-rais' intended audience might be. Part of the fun of reading foreign comics is these small little stories about the world I might otherwise have never been exposed to, which is why I elaborated on the buddha being "destroyed" in WWII (which it was, just not by enemy action)
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Modesty Blaise: Top Traitor 
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Ghostlight posted:I don't think you could really cram in what actually happened into the comic with word choices. It's just one of those supplementary details that this thread as an audience probably isn't familiar with while q-rais' intended audience might be. Part of the fun of reading foreign comics is these small little stories about the world I might otherwise have never been exposed to, which is why I elaborated on the buddha being "destroyed" in WWII (which it was, just not by enemy action) Yup yup, and thanks for giving the extra bit of history! I don't think I'd translate it differently today; losing a bit of nuance is just the necessary byproduct of translating in a way that favors "readability to people who don't necessarily know anything about Japan, its culture, or its history" over "accuracy"*. While I'm firmly in the "faithful to the readers" camp, I do appreciate Nabokov's love of "footnotes like skyscrapers," and like being able to explain my translation choices when I can. *Just for example, over in the BYOB webcomics thread, I've been translating a light romance comic (that's probably a bit too anime to really fit in here), but I had to lose a fair bit of infomation encoded in people's choice of honorifics and whether to use someone's family or given name in favor of something that actually sounds like how high school students talk to each other in English.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Translator's footnote corner: Right, that's a bit of imprecision with the translation to save space on my part - I translated it as "the body was destroyed" but it's "destroyed" in the sense of "requisitioned, purposefully destroyed and melted down" and not "destroyed by bombs". Just writing "the body was requisitioned" felt to me like it might have the sense that they used it as-is somehow, and there wasn't really space for more than one word, so something like "the body was melted down for scrap" wouldn't have fit. Perhaps "the body was scrapped"?
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readingatwork posted:Big Nate Year 1 (May 23-24, 1991)
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If Nate likes it it sucks. I'm with the squares.
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It's A Sketchy Life for June 17, 1926, and the Broadway number begins with an entry from Robert Orcry(?). At the time of its closing in 1927, Abie's Irish Rose, the story of an interfaith marriage between an Irish-Catholic woman and a Jewish man, was the longest running show in Broadway history, at 2,327 performances. Life's theatrical critic Robert Benchley came up with a few capsule descriptions for it before the initial run's inertia wore him down, including (ahem) "Something awful", "the comic spirit of 1876", and (my favorite) "Hebrews 13:8", which, in the King James Version, reads “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Loren Stout:  Peter Arno:  Gluyas Williams: 
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Tiggum posted:Why do all the adults think Rusty Sienna is poo poo? I had thought it was just Nate's father, but no; the art teacher also seems to think his show's garbage. Rusty is a parody of Bob Ross who was still alive in 91' and had something of a reputation for being bad and tedious. Ironically a lot of people have rediscovered Bob Ross's work in recent years and really enjoy it so it would seem that Nate has retroactively been proven right. E: Here, judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrAMRxBB5KI readingatwork fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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In today's Blueberry: Lt. King does not respect terms of parley - how'd the hell he get promoted, anyway?, or Pearl gets the last laugh, or Please make sure that your inflatable jacket is on securely before exiting the train  
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (July 13, 2000)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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readingatwork posted:Rusty is a parody of Bob Ross who was still alive in 91' and had something of a reputation for being bad and tedious. Didn't know he was seen like that when he was still alive and making his show. He's like pretty universally beloved at this point.
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Zerilan posted:Didn't know he was seen like that when he was still alive and making his show. He's like pretty universally beloved at this point. My recollection was just that it was a very niche show and not necessarily bad. Back before any episode of any show was accessible at any time and you could watch stuff while working and so on, there was much more exciting stuff. And while maybe as a kid I would rather watch Mister Roger's Neighborhood or cartoons or whatever, I don't remember anything negative ever said about it that wasn't down to matters of interest.
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Drakyn posted:He writes Dethany's fashion choices like Rose Is Rose wrote Rose's consumption of jalapenos: with a needlessly self-amused sense of awe. I could never quite find the words to say this so concisely; this is perfect! Zerilan posted:Didn't know he was seen like that when he was still alive and making his show. He's like pretty universally beloved at this point. I think Bob Ross is primarily adored (now) as a TV presenter; as far as I know, it's not like there's been a massive reappraisal of the quality of his art, which is generally, like, "fine". The idea seems to be that it's a bit ridiculous for Nate to think of knockoff Bob Ross as the Best Artist Ever, amplified by the weird mean-spiritedness present in every interaction in the comic.
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 Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Classic Nancy 1947
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Solver Autumn Special John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:There’s a point in this comic where you can detect how completely I’ve internalised the logic of Seinfeld. It’s not the panel where Charlotte is flanked by both Energy Crow and a bat. That’s my own thing.
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manero posted:Classic Nancy 1947 Nancy testified before the House of Un-American Activities
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ukonvasara posted:I think Bob Ross is primarily adored (now) as a TV presenter; as far as I know, it's not like there's been a massive reappraisal of the quality of his art, which is generally, like, "fine". The idea seems to be that it's a bit ridiculous for Nate to think of knockoff Bob Ross as the Best Artist Ever, amplified by the weird mean-spiritedness present in every interaction in the comic. 
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Lungi Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 6/19/02  Brenda Starr 12/20-22/48    As you may already have guessed, this story is gonna be dumb even by Brenda Starr standards, so strap in. Smokey Stover 8/8/48  Everyday Movies 4/13/35  "That's gratitude for you, because I get along with cranky customers, they're going to take me out of sub-deb department and put me in the stylish stout." ("Sub-debs" were younger (<16) teen girls.) Bonus Ad! Have this and be the coolest dad on your block! (And that "big 52-inch screen"? They mean 52 square inches.) 
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Vintage Valiant (Nov. 04, 1951)   Val is maybe not the best suited to care for a toddler
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Potsticker posted:My recollection was just that it was a very niche show and not necessarily bad. Back before any episode of any show was accessible at any time and you could watch stuff while working and so on, there was much more exciting stuff. And while maybe as a kid I would rather watch Mister Roger's Neighborhood or cartoons or whatever, I don't remember anything negative ever said about it that wasn't down to matters of interest. Honestly, most of the things on American public television in the 80s were niche. Bob Ross showed up in that last stretch of PBS space before marketing consultants started running the game. On our state network, he used to be slotted with shows like Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel or The Woodwright's Shop. Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (September 10, 1934)  Peanuts (June 23, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (January 19, 1939)  Out Our Way (February 16-18, 1939)   Meanwhile, the Moonfixer saga gets the parents involved... 
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EasyEW posted:Meanwhile, the Moonfixer saga gets the parents involved... $14 in 1939 is worth $294.40 today. Holy hell kid.
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riderchop posted:Safe Havens You're a MONGOOSE, and also a predator of small mammals! You're in exactly the same situation! You were also, as far as you knew, secretly a predator of the person you were dating! You're upset because he didn't tell you he was actually a snake, but you didn't tell him you were actually a mongoose so I have no idea how you can still be on this level of moral outrage! I am so annoyed about this!!!
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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A Very Dick-Out Pop Culture Kevin and Kell Christmas       
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davidspackage posted:Nancy testified before the House of Un-American Activities Look out, Little Lefty
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Vater und Sohn: Marooned
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Jucika "288 - Jucika And Discretion" "289 - Jucika At The Museum" NSFW Nudity 
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth 2018 Spiderman  1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Dinky Dinkerton (getting timg'd), Flyin' Jenny (puttin' two and two together), and The Shadow (bombing Nazis) Mar 6-8, 1941          It was probably bound to happen at some point, but Dinky is definitely going behind the timg of shame for the foreseeable future.
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