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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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| 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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Doomykins posted:What is this "I've never had a deadline in my life oh my god scribble something and put it out the door now now now" shlock, have there ever been other newspaper comics that've broken down in real time? Usually they get health problems or die but even Thimble Theater kept going and you might not notice unless you read the author names changing. Frank Bolle, late-stage Apartment 3-G?
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Jun 23, 2022 22:04
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War Lady Sicko Mode Comix —  Q-Rais Talks to Himself  
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Jun 23, 2022 22:08
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Even when you can see it coming War Lady Sicko Mode is so cool.  Selachian posted:Frank Bolle, late-stage Apartment 3-G? Any easily accessible examples? Sounds fascinating.
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Jun 23, 2022 22:33
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Jun 23, 2022 22:39
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Doomykins posted:Even when you can see it coming War Lady Sicko Mode is so cool. Credit to the comic: I did not see that coming.
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Jun 23, 2022 22:41
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Doomykins posted:Any easily accessible examples? Sounds fascinating.  https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/nothing-is-happening-in-apartment-3-g-a-statement-that-will-be-only-more-true-after-tomorrow/
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Doomykins posted:Even when you can see it coming War Lady Sicko Mode is so cool. It was the sort of thing you had to notice week to week, since every individual strip was pretty comprehensible, if bland, but there was just no consistency of location or action. Characters would be in completely different places between days, and he really couldn't keep track of who was doing what at what time, or what time it even was.
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Jun 23, 2022 22:42
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Can someone with Comics Kingdom account share the final unfinished Mandrake arc (May 27 2013 until July 6)? It was a trip. Sadly the pics posted to 2013 thread are dead. Lee Falk's final story (starting here) was also completely nonsensical.
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Jun 23, 2022 23:05
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Wasn’t someone going to post Dunce at some point? What ever happened with that?
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Jun 23, 2022 23:08
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Dick Locher went off the rails near the end of his Dick Tracy run and Fred Fredericks deteriorated hard on Mandrake, but I think Frank Bolle really had it the hardest. I hope Jules is okay.
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Jun 23, 2022 23:12
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Kennel posted:
Holy smokes!  Thanks everyone!
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Jun 23, 2022 23:14
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Here's a great one: "At the E.R."
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Jun 23, 2022 23:20
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Drimble Wedge posted:
(senior thread translator voice) But actually it would be extremely unethical to include a pun in English unless there was also one in the original language.
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Jun 23, 2022 23:28
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They are actually ON HORSES with REINS in their hands. If there was ever a time for the correct phrase REIN IN, this is absolutely it.
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Congratulations! Judging By The Date Stamps This Is Probably An Analogue To The 2007-08 Writers Guild Strike        
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Jun 23, 2022 23:28
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Jun 24, 2022 00:37
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My Lovely Horse posted:Well, I think this one deserves a higher res version - click through for original size. Thank you, this was lovely and I appreciated the background information on the artist and the times, too
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Jun 24, 2022 01:11
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Doomykins posted:I'd say the Pondus style is decent, especially for self-taught. It shows best in the hospital staff strip from the other day. By the same rubric I'd quantify Pondus as being about Piranha Club level. It's not actively maliciously offensive like say Dilbert is, although I think Dilbert is more trolling than bigoted. But most of the time the jokes really just aren't good enough to overlook its other flaws. I still can't get past that time awhile back it just did a random Seinfeld reference. That would be hacky even for a translator, let alone the original writer (never got a clear answer on who was responsible for that to be fair).
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Jun 24, 2022 01:31
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readingatwork posted:Wasn’t someone going to post Dunce at some point? What ever happened with that?
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Jun 24, 2022 02:03
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (February 23-25, 1939) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTFdjs_QGWc
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Jun 24, 2022 02:03
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Mister Olympus posted:It was the sort of thing you had to notice week to week, since every individual strip was pretty comprehensible, if bland, but there was just no consistency of location or action. Characters would be in completely different places between days, and he really couldn't keep track of who was doing what at what time, or what time it even was. My favorite was the time when a couple of characters were supposed to be meeting at a restaurant, and Bolle just drew them standing around an apartment. (It's especially funny/sad when you know that Margaret Shulock, who wrote the comic, is an artist herself and used to draw little simplified storyboards for each strip, which Bolle apparently ignored.) I suppose you could dig out more Apartment 3-G from the old iterations of this thread if you're really curious.
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Jun 24, 2022 02:09
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Walt got a good chuckle out of me. Vater & Sohn was soooooooooooo good!
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Jun 24, 2022 03:01
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Outbursts of Everett True June 23, 1919 And He Did! July 5, 1919  Cat Tales June 6, 1925  Oaky Doaks December 1, 1936  Mopsy February 9, 1938  Up Front June 14, 1945  https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/points-system-us-armys-demobilization Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems August 21, 1952  Those Were the Days May 18, 1961  LOL Doomykins posted:What is this "I've never had a deadline in my life oh my god scribble something and put it out the door now now now" shlock, have there ever been other newspaper comics that've broken down in real time? Usually they get health problems or die but even Thimble Theater kept going and you might not notice unless you read the author names changing. Wee Pals August 24, 1966  A more recent strip from the 2010s  Dogbert June 13, 1967 
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Jun 24, 2022 03:05
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Hostile V posted:Odds, Ends, Etc. This is perhaps the single most platonic expression of Holbrook's ethos. His middle-aged dad OC is way cooler and stronger than the strawman predator, in this case a comically dated parody of Dog the Bounty Hunter. There isn't actually any logical reason why the OC should be cooler or stronger, he's literally just physically larger than the strawman character, but it's still presented as a moral victory anyway.
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Jun 24, 2022 03:12
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 Yep. Just taking this whole week for these two dummies to discover the foreign concept of "friendship."
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Jun 24, 2022 03:21
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Slammy posted:Outbursts of Everett True June 23, 1919 If there were a second Everett True, I'm convinced he'd deck himself.
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Jun 24, 2022 03:42
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Schwarzwald posted:If there were a second Everett True, I'm convinced he'd deck himself. They would fight to the death
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Jun 24, 2022 04:01
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I'm imagining a motionless stand-off between the E Trues. Just waiting for one of them to sneeze so the other can iai strike him before a "Pardon me," is uttered. Docks   Retail   Popcom (double Tommy edition)  
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The Bloop posted:They would fight to the death I don't know. He seems pretty unbonkable outside of Mrs. True.
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Jun 24, 2022 04:24
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Doomykins posted:Can the sasquatch teach Jules basic perspective Mister Olympus posted:It was the sort of thing you had to notice week to week, since every individual strip was pretty comprehensible, if bland, but there was just no consistency of location or action. Characters would be in completely different places between days, and he really couldn't keep track of who was doing what at what time, or what time it even was. Kennel posted:Here's a great one: 
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In today's Blueberry: Hickock gets put on the RSPCA blacklist, or Vittorio makes this awkward for everyone, or Blueberry tries his hand at stand-up, much to Pearl's disapproval    And... that's the end of this adventure! And... I also think I will be taking a break from uploading these for a while. Please note, this is not me saying I'm giving up - it's just that this story was the longest of the bunch, and I burned through my back-log doing it. As anyone else who does translation work for this thread will note, translation work is not easy... and this comic is pretty darn prolix. I also need to check something about the publication date of certain adventures to make sure things are posted in the correct order. I can't say when I'll start updating, but it shouldn't be too long from now. All I can say is Blueberry WILL return... same Bat-channel, but not same Bat-time.
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:I don't know. He seems pretty unbonkable outside of Mrs. True. Then it would be an endless stalemate. Locked in battle for all time like (certain versions of) captain America and the red skull
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Kennel posted:https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/nothing-is-happening-in-apartment-3-g-a-statement-that-will-be-only-more-true-after-tomorrow/ One of my favorite arcs:  Margo walking around lost, hungry, no idea who anyone is, getting robbed and/or buying a buttered roll from a waitress(?) outdoors(?)at a restaurant(?) since the loving background art never seems to change, no matter where they are.
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Jun 24, 2022 05:33
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The Frank Bolle Apartment 3-G saga feels like it was just yesterday. drat. Dinky Dinkerton and Flyin' Jenny Sundays Mar 9, 1941   gently caress you, Cyril.
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  A relevant blog post by Murray about Dog's name(or lack thereof). The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Some Guy TT posted:By the same rubric I'd quantify Pondus as being about Piranha Club level. It's not actively maliciously offensive like say Dilbert is, although I think Dilbert is more trolling than bigoted. But most of the time the jokes really just aren't good enough to overlook its other flaws. I still can't get past that time awhile back it just did a random Seinfeld reference. That would be hacky even for a translator, let alone the original writer (never got a clear answer on who was responsible for that to be fair). You have to understand that for certain subset of boomers Seinfeld is the greatest show ever made and they will never stop quoting it.
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Jun 24, 2022 07:09
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (July 17, 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 24, 2022 07:12
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Mister Beeg posted:There's one in the US, too, Joe Kubert School. A lot of notable comics people came from there i have a coworker who went there! (i do not work in the comics field, sorry.) he's mentioned being acquaintances/pals with some artists that have come up in the thread. he also mentioned being one of the very few students in his year who went there for the purpose of doing newspaper comics (since a lot of people wanted to go more the comic book route). apparently the way the comic book-inclined students would joke with the newspaper ones was to go "gonna draw rex morgan?" because even then it wasn't particularly interesting.
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Jun 24, 2022 07:17
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 how the hell does this kid have a relationship if Tiktok is where he gets his info from?
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i got bad news about today's teens
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