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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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EasyEW posted:Mutts EasyEW posted:Mutts EasyEW posted:But enough of that, welcome to "Lazarus Risen" day in Mutts! I know it's just "reference a thing" humor that we get mad at other comics for, but I've been really enjoying this week of Mutts! I think the difference is that Patrick McDonnell is taking special care to craft these characters in "Mutts style" as opposed to copying or doing whatever hell-merger of styles Batiuk is trying right now. I've always been a bit of a sucker for Mutts though. It's cute, it's simple, it's very rarely funny but I usually smile at it. I'm never sad to see Mutts. It is a nice staple to have around. It reminds me of what Wally Wood said about Bushmiller-era Nancy: "By the time you decided not to read it, you already had."
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just what the kids want (e, f, new page): dismas posted:YOOOOO: https://deadline.com/2022/09/slylock-fox-animated-film-based-on-comic-strip-in-works-from-king-features-1235119157/
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Sep 15, 2022 17:11
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Oh I am ALL ABOUT a Slylock Fox animated movie. Especially if the background art is filled with tons of little details that have nothing to do with the actual case, but you think they should. I'll lose my poo poo if Slylock has to spot six differences between two pictures to solve a case.
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Sep 15, 2022 17:13
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give slylock a gun
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Sep 15, 2022 17:15
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Finally the internet will fill with the sexy fan art we've all been craving.
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Sep 15, 2022 17:15
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I feel this, some of the happiest I've been at a job has been customer service because it feels nice to help people compared to staring at a computer for 9 hours to make Value for shareholders in an office. But those good days don't outweigh the poo poo treatment from the companies and bad customers, plus the other issues like poo poo pay, pressure to never use holidays or sick days, etc.. If I could make what I do now in my meaningless office job with similar levels of autonomy I'd probably consider service sector work again! But that's never happening.
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Sep 15, 2022 17:18
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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Countblanc posted:I feel this, some of the happiest I've been at a job has been customer service because it feels nice to help people compared to staring at a computer for 9 hours to make Value for shareholders in an office. But those good days don't outweigh the poo poo treatment from the companies and bad customers, plus the other issues like poo poo pay, pressure to never use holidays or sick days, etc.. I actually really liked selling TVs and computers and video games to people, and I LOVED working in the backroom and unloading trucks. If I could have made enough to sustain a reasonable living doing that, I would probably have stayed there instead of going into student debt. (Which is still worth the trade-off, given the money and lack of supervision I have now.) One thing about working retail, which Retail really understands (and so did the show Superstore, which owed a lot to Feuti), is that the parts of the job that make it a bad job are almost entirely from corporate and middle management. The customers are bad, yes. But it's not as bad as the low pay, always being short-staffed, lack of benefits, general poo poo treatment from upper-levels, all stuff that corporate could change but doesn't. The worst customer is still not as bad as the best corporate suit. And you can put up with a lot more poo poo from customers when you make $25 an hour than you can at $8 That's why I like when Feuti includes little details like Marla waiting with the little girl. Showing that it's not the work that's really the bad part, it's the Stewarts.
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Sep 15, 2022 17:29
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I am morbidly afraid of the internet getting horny for Cassandra Cat
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Sep 15, 2022 17:29
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I'm ready to get horny for Count Weirdly.
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Sep 15, 2022 17:32
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Low-hanging fruit.
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Hwurmp posted:I am morbidly afraid of the internet getting horny for Cassandra Cat Happened awhile ago, though it'll be much more widespread and likely to pop off on the artist hivemind. Speaking of horny: Jucika "458 - Jucika And The Dog Owner"  "459 - Jucika Starts The Season" 
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom I mean I guess you could pull those rocks off your dead dad's belly and bring him home to the cave and poo poo, but that does seem like a lot of effort. dismas posted:YOOOOO: https://deadline.com/2022/09/slylock-fox-animated-film-based-on-comic-strip-in-works-from-king-features-1235119157/ In this gritty reboot of the popular comic, a bitter retired Slylock must solve the case that ended his career (he put the wrong raccoon in prison)
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Sep 15, 2022 18:09
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Sep 15, 2022 18:17
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Sep 15, 2022 18:26
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Yeah, Slylock is fine and all that, but when are we getting our Inspector Danger cartoon?
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Sep 15, 2022 18:30
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Bad Machinery
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Kennel posted:I'm ready to get horny for Count Weirdly. ah man, count weirdly has absolute tumblr sexyman vibes now that i think about it 
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Sep 15, 2022 18:32
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Haifisch posted:
Man these lambing season strips are rough. I hate to get all emotional over critters I wouldn’t blink at eating sooner or later.
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Sep 15, 2022 18:56
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someone awful. posted:ah man, count weirdly has absolute tumblr sexyman vibes now that i think about it Just get him voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Seeing the same color: there's subtle shifts (i don't even see the same hues in each eye, one's slightly redder) but by looking not just at color but how we respond to the relationships between them (brain scans, not just "taught that red and blue make purple") it's pretty clear that nobody's seeing "blue" for what others call "orange". We don't have a definitive answer. At least last I checked. Hanging upside down: If you wear goggles that flip everything, your brain will correct it because you've spend a few days doing that correction manually as you try to navigate the world. Hanging upside-down your brain knows what you're seeing is correct because of the feedback the body is giving, I don't think that would work. Sea cucumbers: yeah, they're gross. Vomit their stomach at things to eat them.
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Sep 15, 2022 19:41
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davidspackage posted:I mean I guess you could pull those rocks off your dead dad's belly and bring him home to the cave and poo poo, but that does seem like a lot of effort. At least having a body bag or something sturdy to carry the remains would help but absolutely yes. Trying to carry a corpse out of the wilderness will turn you into one too, most likely.
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Sep 15, 2022 19:43
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Murdstone posted:This is effort stuff. There might still be something to the "jules does multiple strips at once and gets tired of it" theory, even if it's not a whole week at a time.
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The books have arrived! So yeah, Rocky and Bullwinkle. I won't go into the show itself too much, but it ran 1959-64 for five seasons, the first two on ABC (as Rocky and His Friends), and the final three on NBC (as The Bullwinkle Show), followed by decades of reruns in syndication. Produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, the show featured a moose and a squirrel getting into Cold War-era satirical adventures. The show was massively popular, spawning tie-ins and merchandise, including books, toys, records, and of course, comics. The book goes into the history of the comic, but I'll give a brief overview in the paragraph below: Back then, comic strip tie-ins to popular cartoons wasn't unusual; properties such as The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear, Mickey Mouse, and others had comic strips running in papers, some for a surprisingly long time. This practice dwindled into the 1990s, but there were still a handful of later examples like Rugrats, The Simpsons, and Dr. Katz. So Bullwinkle getting a newspaper strip wasn't a weird decision. However, despite the show's popularity, getting the papers to buy the strip proved to be underwhelming. Part of that maybe because it was through a third-rate newspaper syndicate, Bell-McClure, which was never a major player compared to King Features. Because so few papers picked it up they opted not to add a Sunday feature, the strip only running Monday thru Saturdays instead. The combination of the strip under-performing in papers, plus the show getting cancelled lead to the strip having a short run, from 1962 to 1965 (one year after the show ended its run). Which is a shame, because the comic's not bad. It follows the show's charm really well, with witty banter and fourth wall gags present in the source material. Bill Scott, the show's co-producer and the voice of Bullwinkle, praised the comic in later interviews. The strip's artist and writer was Al Kilgore, who had a wide and varied career, ranging from comics to animation to even occasional acting. Anyway, I'll be running the strip alongside Arnold. Here are the first two pages; afterwards I'll run one page at a time. Unfortunately, whoever put the book together put the edge of the strip close to the spine. I'll do my best to scan it, but I also don't want to break the book's spine.  
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Sep 15, 2022 20:48
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Bruceski posted:Seeing the same color: there's subtle shifts (i don't even see the same hues in each eye, one's slightly redder) but by looking not just at color but how we respond to the relationships between them (brain scans, not just "taught that red and blue make purple") it's pretty clear that nobody's seeing "blue" for what others call "orange". We don't have a definitive answer. At least last I checked. Doesn't stop metaphysics classes in college from spending 3+ weeks discussing this as if it's a real thing.  "But what if you're really seeing the same thing, but were taught from birth that green is red and red is green..." "That's called language. Language, motherfuckers. Spectrum wavelengths are inarguable, you goddamn wastes of philosophical space." (Why no, I am not at at all bitter about having to take a metaphysics course as an elective while majoring as a biological engineer. Not one bit.)
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 I guess it's possible she's ~more popular~ what with being an influencer and all. But the rest of it?  Okay, NOW the GC commenters are bitching big time. This was interesting, though:  I might look into this
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¡Aragones!  Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Marlys! JFC Jim Jimmy Jim
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Okay, I decided to go for it. So here's an abriged, but still way too long, version of That Time Melissa Got Teen Pregnant in Gil Thorp. CONTENT WARNING: This is back when the strip was written by Jerry Jenkins who also co-wrote the Left Behind books, so that might inform you what angle this is going to go at this issue from. Expect anti-choice rhetoric and slut shaming. Also this is the old art and it's ugly as hell. Hope all y'all love flattops. We start on a Wednesday, for some reason. Melissa and Kyle are dating and doing fine.  Kyle is on the basketball team, but he seems distracted.   Kyle doesn't want to actually tell his friend what's wrong, but a few strips later, and after a break for Christmas, he spills the beans   This is the one that made me decide to go ahead and post these. That last panel is giving me strong Chick Tract vibes. Anyway, Friend is sworn to secrecy, so of course the very next day...  A few strips later Melissa finally takes a pregnancy test to make it official, and...    Good to see there are still some responsible teens out there! (The boy, anyway. The other one looks suspiciously like a girl and, spoiler alert, Jerry Jenkins will have you know that unwed girls cannot be trusted.) Telling the parents doesn't go well. Kyle is forbidden from seeing Melissa again. Will Melissa keep the baby? "Absolutely," says Kyle. Unfortunately, being a future teen dad is causing Kyle to suck rear end at basketball and, even worse, not care about the team, so Coach Thorp gets involved.    Blah blah blah. Let's finally get to why we're here. The A word   And now, the strip referenced today:  Oh no! A feminist! And it turns out the commenter from before was right. Original Gil told her NOT to get an abortion.  poo poo! They're everywhere! Somebody needs to get these women under control! Gil bargains with Melissa and gets her to agree that she will keep the baby if he finds a place for her to live where she will have access to help. She gives him a week to find such a place. The other teens have a tiff about what Girlfriend would do if she got teen pregnant. She would have an abortion because "It's my body!" "But what about the baby's body," Boyfriend asks. CHECK MATE, FEMINIST! But for some reason she just gets mad! Women, right? Gil and Mimi talk it over with their children and they all decide that Melissa will move in with them  The other teens patch things up because nobody knows or cares, least of all Jerry Jenkins. Teen girl tells Melissa she's glad she's keeping the baby (so I guess she decided not to be a feminist after all). Melissa doesn't talk to Kyle anymore because his parents won't let him, but she's over it. She bonds with the Thorps. But Then! Known fuckhead Marty Moon breaks the story that there is a pregnant teen in Coach Thorps house!!  It's his journalistic duty to tell the whole town which teens are the sluttiest! Hell, he's probably right to do so. You know how SLUTS are...    Melissa begins openly and awkwardly flirting with Gil. Mimi notices. Gil notices. EVERYONE notices. Melissa tries a flimsy and convoluted ploy to get herself a movie date alone with Gil, but it doesn't work because it's stupid. Gil and Mimi sit her down and set her straight.    Definitely a good rule for all Proper Married Men to have! There is are multiple boring basketball games that go on for ages that nobody cares about and I refuse to read and so it takes weeks for me to realize that we've just moved on to a new plot, apparently??? Huh, okay. In theory if I kept reading this plotline would pick up again eventually, but I'm not looking. So I guess Melissa had her baby and everything was just fine and it's totally easy actually to be a single teen mom. THE END And good riddance to Jerry Jenkins
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Kennel posted:Into Ilves Just wanted to say that I like Into Ilves, he's always got some wild stuff going on.
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Uramachi Sakaba Cthulhu and Girl 
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Mister Beeg posted:
This is already the best thing in the whole thread. Not only is the tone of the show and the characters correct, there’s some neat visual gags like Boris in a high chair or the Hertz guy tossing Bullwinkle into the car. Thank you, man. I can also see why it might not have been a success. As a kid, I received a small pile of random comics from my older brothers that included a first issue of Rocky and Bullwinkle. I had never seen the show, so it was impenetrable. Later I saw some episodes, revisited the comic, and it clicked. Both the comic book and this strip read just like a script of an episode. So if you didn’t like this, everyone, go watch some Bullwinkle and come back to it. It’s too good to miss.
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dismas posted:YOOOOO: https://deadline.com/2022/09/slylock-fox-animated-film-based-on-comic-strip-in-works-from-king-features-1235119157/ Literally the last comic strip I'd have guessed. COME ON PEOPLE WALLACE IS RIGHT THERE!  Crabgrass  Come on Miles don't be a wuss. Join the Jr crime league. Old School Peanuts (Oct 20, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Apr 28-29, 1992)   Big Nate 
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readingatwork posted:Literally the last comic strip I'd have guessed. COME ON PEOPLE WALLACE IS RIGHT THERE! readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Apr 28-29, 1992)
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Intelligent Life   Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life What in Tarnation….
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