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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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Jucika "360 - Jucika And The Conductor" "Remiz = Cart house/coach" "361 - Jucika And The Safety Helmet" 
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Haraiso Days Cthulhu and Girl  As far as I can tell, most or all of the strip titles are taken from the (Japanese edition of the) Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.
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Unfortunately no Aragones for the time being, I need to scan and edit and I’m on vacation at the moment. We’ll be back next week! Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Jul 26, 2022 22:47
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Oh boy, I've been reading some comics that are in my translation queue and I can promise you that there's some solid hate-reading material scheduled for autumn 2025. Stay tuned!
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Jul 26, 2022 22:58
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oh dunk, the internal screener/storyboard animatic for the cancelled Popeye cartoon movie got leaked https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/genndy-tartakovskys-popeye-animatic-video-leaked-219062.html
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Jul 27, 2022 00:03
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Kennel posted:Oh boy, I've been reading some comics that are in my translation queue and I can promise you that there's some solid hate-reading material scheduled for autumn 2025. Stay tuned! Good, good
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Dick Tracy Contest: The Solution(s) As I mentioned when I first started posting the Dick Tracy contest strips, each newspaper that ran the strips had its own set of judges and prize pool. The Chicago Tribune contest was judged by Chester Gould himself, who drew his own solution. But first, let's take a look at what folks in other cities came up with -- starting with the St. Louis Star-Times, since they were good enough to actually reprint the panels that included the St. Louis Star-Times 5/5/49   You have to admit that's some pretty sharp-eyed newspaper detectiving there, even if I'm not quite clear how the bag got from the bus to Widow Dubbs's basement. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, the winner came up with the most obvious and least interesting solution possible: Honey Keyes gave the bag to The Lobe on the bus, and he stashed it at the bus station. Yawn. You suck, Philip King of Inglewood. Los Angeles Times 5/29/49  The Miami contest was judged by cartoonist Zack Mosley, of Smilin' Jack fame (and Deathless Deer non-fame), who picked the same solution as the St. Louis judges: Widow Dubbs's basement. The rather short list of prizewinners suggests most Floridians weren't interested in the contest. Also, Kinter Berkebile is one heck of a name. Miami Herald 4/17/49    More to come! Selachian fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Jul 27, 2022 |
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kidcoelacanth posted:really want to see if he can stretch this a whole week
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kidcoelacanth posted:really want to see if he can stretch this a whole week How old is he supposed to be anyway?
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Jul 27, 2022 02:22
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https://twitter.com/SystemMastery/status/1552103245568303104
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Jul 27, 2022 02:35
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Haha you beat me to it
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Jul 27, 2022 02:36
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This is sort of my fault and I'm so loving happy.
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Jul 27, 2022 02:44
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F Minus Mark Trail  Professor Bee Sharp? Mary Worth  I hope he tells her everything and she rats him out to HR. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Technical issues cut my evening payload a little short... Our Boarding House (June 29-July 1, 1922)    Elsewhere in the paper, something that feels like it's relevant for our continuing dive into the 1920s. Meet Lois Hatch, a University of California student who is the head of an anti-flapper club.  Based on the old "how ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm" stereotype, her purity patrol pivoted off the idea that flappers are incurable, and the only treatment to prevent an outbreak is social isolation. According to the article, "Each co-ed will be presented with a set of rules, warranted to be 100 per cent anti-flapper. Any hazing that is permitted will be turned in the direction of the flapper. "We must educate it out of them," she told reporter Marian Hale. "Flapperism is absolutely opposed to good scholarship, good sportsmanship and to college ideals." Really, a lot of flappers we've been exposed to through this thread seem to be very good sports, but whatever. Anyway, since tonight's going to run a little short, here's another snippet of the days of the other '22.  Toonerville Folks (September 15-17, 1919)    Blondie From Zero (July 18-20, 1932)  Because this feels like it could be useful later... 
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Jul 27, 2022 03:12
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oh no but also oh yes
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Jul 27, 2022 03:24
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Not enough pot in the world
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Jul 27, 2022 04:05
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I'm an hour in. It took them 48 minutes to get to the actual RPG, and everything up to that point (and quite a bit of it after) is the hosts unpacking K&K lore. Their exasperated outrage is a genuinely beautiful thing. As an act of "you're not alone, I'm seeing this too", highest possible recommendation. And yet, the one guy keeps calling Bill Holbrook "Hal Holbrook", which makes me suspect he'd rather spend an hour and forty-three minutes talking about Mark Twain Tonight. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jul 27, 2022 |
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Jul 27, 2022 04:10
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EasyEW posted:Blondie From Zero (July 14-16, 1932) Probably the origin of Dagwood's habit of taking baths in modern Blondie. Mister Kingdom posted:How old is he supposed to be anyway? According to one strip, Ed is supposed to be 54, which based on Dustin's 2010 debut, would mean he was born in 1956. The_Other fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jul 27, 2022 |
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Jul 27, 2022 04:26
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EasyEW posted:I'm an hour in. It took them 48 minutes to get to the actual RPG, and everything up to that point (and quite a bit of it after) is the hosts unpacking K&K lore. Their exasperated outrage is a genuinely beautiful thing. As an act of "you're not alone, I'm seeing this too", highest possible recommendation. I didn't make it too far because most of what they were doing is basically repeating the same conversations we have here, but with even less clarity as they mix up what goes on in On the Fastrack with Kevin and Kell and also completely fumble Safe Havens. Which, I mean, it's fine they don't understand the Greater Holbrook Experience, but it does mean that they don't really have anything new to say to a long-time reader of this thread. It also sounds like you get the major details on the TRPG right away-- in that it's only vaguely related to K&K as a universe and there are weirdly specific rules for combat which doesn't really make sense for emulating a Soap Opera comic strip and just adds to the fact that it's a TRPG with the thinnest veneer of the Kevin and Kell theming.
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Jul 27, 2022 04:28
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Well yeah, the downside is that nobody can do a deeper dive than we have.
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Jul 27, 2022 04:40
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EasyEW posted:Well yeah, the downside is that nobody can do a deeper dive than we have. God have mercy upon us.
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Jul 27, 2022 05:00
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Sep 4, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (May 4-5, 1991)   Gocomics goes into reruns at this point but for some reason the next bunch are still listed under 1991. Big Nate  Appreciating the thread title btw 
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readingatwork posted:Gocomics goes into reruns at this point but for some reason the next bunch are still listed under 1991. IIRC Bill Watterson went on a 9-month hiatus during this time, so GoComics is posting the reruns that would have run in papers during that time.
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The_Other posted:According to one strip, Ed is supposed to be 54, which based on Dustin's 2010 debut, would mean he was born in 1956. Even in 2010 that song would have been on a classic rock/oldies station. The time to go "Oh no Bon Jovi is on the oldies station I am old now" is long past gone. e: Like this is the equivalent of someone going "I can't believe it, they're calling NES games retro!" Twelve by Pies fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Jul 27, 2022 |
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Life in Hell The bottom left portion also works for ADHD.
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Jul 27, 2022 09:08
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Vintage Valiant (Jun. 15, 1952)  
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EasyEW posted:Elsewhere in the paper, something that feels like it's relevant for our continuing dive into the 1920s. Meet Lois Hatch, a University of California student who is the head of an anti-flapper club. My grandmother was a flapper back in her day. I wonder what she'd have made of this. Also, strong Eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg vibes from that ad. Popsi  Isn't that cannibalism? Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 7/26/02  Brenda Starr 3/6/49  Smokey Stover 3/13/49  Everyday Movies 5/24/35  "Sing that one again about 'Oh it isn't love until you've got a wedding ring.'" Bonus ad! For some reason, the dog-head-collecting fad never got off the ground. 
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Just wanted to say that I too love the lingo and general gist of Our Boarding House. Is there a specific point the Major becomes a breakout character or is he just a well done early sighting of a classic character archetype? And drat, that Val. Val is gonna ruin this dude.
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The_Other posted:According to one strip, Ed is supposed to be 54, which based on Dustin's 2010 debut, would mean he was born in 1956. Bon Jovi first hit in 1983, so he would have been 27 at the time. Seems just a bit too old for Bon Jovi since they strike me as appealing to mostly teens to maybe early college-age.
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It also feels pretty off-brand for Ed to like a song about the struggling working class.
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Jul 27, 2022 12:50
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Doomykins posted:And drat, that Val. Val is gonna ruin this dude. E: and my two cents is Nate is an enormous rear end in a top hat. At least Calvin and the Boondocks kids have reasons for being dicks, Nate just seems to be a bad person for the sake of being a bad person and we're supposed to shrug and accept it because ??? Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Jul 27, 2022 |
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Marlys! Holy poo poo this is raw.
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My Lovely Horse posted:It also feels pretty off-brand for Ed to like a song about the struggling working class. not as much as he likes Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen
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Jul 27, 2022 13:03
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Hwurmp posted:not as much as he likes Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen You beat me to the comparison. Lyric-illiteracy is rampant in Americans.
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If anyone is unfamiliar with System Mastery podcast, Jef and Jon go on tangents all the time. This is just an extreme example of there being very little to actually talk about with the RPG system itself.
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Doomykins posted:Just wanted to say that I too love the lingo and general gist of Our Boarding House. Is there a specific point the Major becomes a breakout character or is he just a well done early sighting of a classic character archetype? I love Toonerville, but my eyes just roll off Our Boarding House. I think it's the sheer volume of lingo in almost every one.
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My Lovely Horse posted:It also feels pretty off-brand for Ed to like a song about the struggling working class. There is nothing more American than white guys from a solidly middle class background who have worked white-collar jobs for their entire lives imagining themselves as a scrappy, disenfranchised hardnose who came from nothing and lived on the borderline for years before they achieved upper-middle class success. "I worked a physical labor job part-time for one whole summer before I started law school! For a semester or two I had to eat ramen noodles! therefore I know exactly what it's like to be at the bottom of society!"
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A+J
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