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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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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Vargo posted:What is the joke here? Why am I supposed to believe that "trapping rainbows" is any more or less ridiculous than making matter (but only salad) appear from nothing? Imagining a better timeline where Billingsley is the talented cartoonist to somebody else's story. There hasn't even been a joke all week, Gunk has literal magic that solves world hunger permanently, apparently. "Just one bowl saves families loads of money!" Yes, that is the limit of this miracle bowl! Hey we just had like a month of Curtis' dad stressing out and his family being on the poverty line, I hope the strict Curtis canon accounts for this development. Curtis is very silly.
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Drimble Wedge posted:Scary Gary Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons panel 1 has permanently turned my graphic designer rear end against tinkersons dad
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Aug 16, 2022 15:08
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  "And before you ask, yes, we all saw you masturbate all those times." Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  "I really want to know what's going on with the Harwoods in Rex Morgan MD." —Nobody Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Aug 16, 2022 16:41
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (October 27, 1934)  Peanuts (August 19, 1975)  Welcome back to "Oh for gently caress'S sake!" week at Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater  Oh, get a load of the efficiency expert over here. Out Our Way (August 7-9, 1939)   
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Green Intern posted:I thought we were free of more Lisa Tapes With a little luck, it'll turn out these aren't sappy messages, they're just Deep Space Nine reruns that Lisa set the VCR timer for because they came on at stupid o'clock in the morning. Bizarro  The Family Circus  Continuing my understudy duties for riderchop: Heathcliff  Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (September 08, 2000)  Rae The Doe  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Aug 16, 2022 17:11
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.How did she have all the time and energy to secretly film and distribute all this schmaltz while simultaneously dying of Extremely Dramatic and Righteous Cancer?
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Jucika "402 - Jucika And Preservation" "403 - Jucika And Laundry"  quote:Mark Trail Rushed art week apparently, whew! Strips like these remind me of when the thread was debating the merits of working on a legacy IP and that it can pad a resume and I always imagine a future employer checking Jules portfolio for that time she couldn't draw backgrounds, hands or perspective. I guess Rex is teleporting during the conversation and much like the maligned anime side mouth, he possesses an anime side chin cleft in panel 2. quote:The Phantom I hope Phantom is about to get dunked on by all the flaming skeleton dads of his lineage, which is interesting because this means Mozz is writing and knows about this. "And then you get shot and die foolishly but not before every past Phantom tells you that you were wrong to doubt Mozz, and Mozz is so cool, maybe you should invite Mozz into the skull cave more often."
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Doomykins posted:Rushed art week apparently, whew!
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Aug 16, 2022 17:36
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I noticed 1-2 of the last few weeks had detailed art in almost every panel, so it's a curious pattern. As most of my theories of Mark Trail being awful are related to inability to handle a daily deadline I do wonder what the approach is. I've heard of many comic artists who do huge batches of comics months in advance. Hell, the thread jokes about Batiuk having a 6 month pick up time of current trends.
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Aug 16, 2022 17:43
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Aug 16, 2022 18:11
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~Coxy posted:Crankshaft EasyEW posted:Peanuts (August 19, 1975)
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Aug 16, 2022 18:11
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Into Ilves  Off to a new adventure! Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Aug 16, 2022 18:35
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Kennel posted:Dustin honestly i'd prefer if the strip was just 100% making GBS threads on dustin instead of the ed kudlick observational hour
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Tiggum posted:Judge Parker Marculiano is really bad at writing this strip. Modesty Blaise: The Magnified Man  
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Aug 16, 2022 19:24
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Bad Machinery
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Aug 16, 2022 21:01
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Aug 16, 2022 21:05
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Arnold (June 6-12, 1983)      
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Aug 16, 2022 21:20
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There is no way in hell real babysitters have it that good.
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Aug 16, 2022 22:40
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This Is From Green's Twitter Because It's Easier For Me To Transfer But Also This Is The Same As What's On Comics Kingdom. Hustle And Grindset Your Way Out Of An Economic Crisis, 2009 Edition. Oof.         Uncle dog, so what.
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Aug 16, 2022 23:06
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Hwurmp posted:There is no way in hell real babysitters have it that good. UrbanSitter's 2020 National Childcare Rate Survey found that, on average, parents pay babysitters $17.73 for one child, $20.30 for two children, and $21.49 for three children. Regions of course vary, but i bet you could get $30+ an hour for being available for last minute sitting.
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Aug 16, 2022 23:21
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¡Aragones!  Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Aug 16, 2022 23:22
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Uramachi Sakaba Cthulhu and Girl 
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Aug 16, 2022 23:30
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Hwurmp posted:There is no way in hell real babysitters have it that good. As someone who lives in a big city: they absolutely do.
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Aug 16, 2022 23:41
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Hwurmp posted:There is no way in hell real babysitters have it that good. quote:As someone who lives in a big city: they absolutely do. $25 an hour has me competing for bottom-of-the-barrel where I live. I've lost two of my last three babysitters to full-time nanny gigs that provided loving housing in the deal.
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Aug 16, 2022 23:50
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Yeah, I don't have kids, but have friends who do who make it pretty clear they're out a minimum $100 before they leave their homes if they want to go out for dinner.
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Aug 16, 2022 23:53
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery and that's when mildred killed her, splitting the timeline
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Kennel posted:Dustin
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom IS YOUR ROOM CLEAN, YOUNG MAN?
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Aug 17, 2022 00:48
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I like how all the Phantoms are clones of each other. Also, breezy, what the gently caress is wrong with her face in panel one.
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Aug 17, 2022 02:57
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Outbursts of Everett True July 18, 1919 And He Did! August 2, 1919  Cat Tales July 2, 1925  Oaky Doaks December 25, 1936  Mopsy March 8, 1938  Sweatin’ It Out July 23, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems September 15, 1952  Those Were the Days January 25, 1962  Wee Pals September 17, 1966  Dogbert July 20, 1967 
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Aug 17, 2022 03:12
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Kennel posted:Dustin I'm wondering what restaurant they're at that serves what appears to be plain spaghetti, (a very green) kimchi with chicken/fish, and red wine. There's no way that a place that has the first and last items has 'Pungent' kimchi. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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Our Boarding House (August 14-16, 1922)   Well, you don't get to be a breakout character if you don't break out once in awhile. Toonerville Folks (October 30-November 1, 1919)    Dok's "The Part That Comes After 'Out Of The Frying Pan'" Duck (April 21, 1914)  Little Lefty (March 18-19, 1937)   On March 6, 1937, Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a formal apology to the German Embassy for insulting remarks New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia made about Adolf Hitler three days earlier. According to Haaretz (paywall link, but incognito is your friend here): "La Guardia, speaking on March 3 to the Women’s Division of the American Jewish Congress, had proposed building a 'chamber of horrors' at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. Hizzoner suggested that the pavilion have, 'as a climax … a figure of that brown-shirted fanatic who is now menacing the peace of the world.'" La Guardia never minced words when it came to Nazis, and that was before his sister and her Hungarian husband were sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp during the war. She was fortunate enough to survive. Anyway, back to '37, La Guardia had another stroke of fortune in that Hull's boss knew which way the wind was blowing. Haaretz posted:President Franklin D. Roosevelt mentioned the incident in a cabinet meeting, also on March 6. In “The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes,” which was published posthumously, the secretary of the interior reported that Roosevelt turned to Hull and asked him, “What would you say if I should say that I agreed completely with La Guardia?” In response, Hull said he believed Roosevelt should reprimand La Guardia. According to Ickes, “The President, still with a grin on his face, touched his left wrist lightly with the first two fingers of his right hand and remarked to Hull: ‘We will chastise him like that.’” And another missing whatchamacallit:  Blondie From Zero (September 1-3, 1932; spoilered for the usual nonsense.)  
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Hostile V posted:
Just carrying around a bottle of Poodle Squeezings.
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Aug 17, 2022 03:32
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Green Intern posted:Just carrying around a bottle of Poodle Squeezings.
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Slammy posted:Outbursts of Everett True July 18, 1919 I don't understand what is happening in this Everett True at all.
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Aug 17, 2022 04:00
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Grocer has recessed bottoms on his fruit baskets so they hold less than they appear to.
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Aug 17, 2022 04:01
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Crabgrass  Old School Peanuts (Sep 22, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 3-4, 1992)   An accurate depiction of the kid mindset, lol. Big Nate  
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I'm extremely disturbed by the fact that zoos exist in Hellworld, and that schools regularly tour them. Especially because animal species are treated like human ethnic groups, and so this just makes me think of the old, exceptionally racist practice of human zoos where non-white people were kept in captivity for white people to gawk at and feel superior to. This is just yet another in the seemingly infinite examples of "Holbrook doesn't actually think about things when he writes" but it's pretty hosed up!
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