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I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. 64 26.02%
I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. 42 17.07%
I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. 88 35.77%
I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. 52 21.14%
Total: 246 votes
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Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007







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Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Docks




Retail




Popcom


F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse


This week on Foob: A Very Special series on police brutality.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

This week on Foob: A Very Special series on police brutality and why it's the teenagers' own fault.

Huxley
Oct 10, 2012



Grimey Drawer
A+J

don Jaime
Apr 3, 2004

EasyEW posted:



Out Our Way (December 2, 1939)



My brain saw that one kid as having a weasel’s head and it’s still hurting me.

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FUaPpb9ees

O no Aaron you got beat to the punch by an MTV ad a year earlier


Hey this was actually a clever turn

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


CzarChasm posted:

What does that phrase "Niggly as an all black front row". It sounds racist, but I can't parse it.

In another, sideways related story about poor timing, JFK and Rocky and Bullwinkle I have this. R&B was hugely popular and there was a chapter of the show which took place in the fictional state of Moosylvania. Fans wrote in tons of letters talking about the fairytale land. The show runners managed to find and purchase a strip of land in the middle of a lake between Minnesota and Canada, and they decided to petition the government for statehood. Just a big goof publicity stunt, as the strip of land was too small to have any population. So the show runners went cross country, gaining signatures, with the idea of ending the tour at the white house, and presenting their petition to JFK directly. Unfortunately, while they were crisscrossing the country, the Cuban Missile Crisis was happening, and they were promptly, and rudely turned away by White House security.

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/when-statehood-for-moosylvania-was-thwarted-by-the-cuban-missile-crisis/
Then, later, JFK was assassinated. Coincidence? You be the judge!

F Minus



Mark Trail



Mary Worth



The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink

For the record, Snuffleupagus has been visible and recognized-by-adults member of Seasame Street since 1985.

Mister Beeg
Sep 7, 2012

A Certified Jerk
Arnold (July 2-8, 1984)




Bullwinkle

Giant Ethicist
Jun 9, 2013

Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...
Chako




Cthulhu and Girl

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bad Machinery

John Allison posted:

Of course Charlotte has a sister, of course she does. She showed up in the Case Of The Simple Soul, but her first appearance was way back in 2005. What do you mean, she looked completely different, I can't see it myself.

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
Pickles


Hagar the Horrible


Zits

ukonvasara
Aug 16, 2012

a mixture of gravity and waggery


you sure about that?

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Murdstone posted:

The Phantom



loving NONE, DIANA. FOR THE LAST YEAR NO PROGRESS WHATSOEVER

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Hippocrass posted:

Why did he go from a ..bear? to human. I'm pretty sure I've seen monkeys and apes in this comic.
gently caress you Holbrook.

He was (hypotehtically) a rabbit/fox hybrid. So long ears, paw pads, stuff like that. He looks more like a bear here because he was as metnioend earlier, his ears and stuff were shrinking

he's turning into a human because his mom is actually a human turned rabbit.
duh

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Into Ilves



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake

Bibliotechno Music
Dec 30, 2008

On vacation so I won’t be reading or responding, but by God I’ll be posting.


¡Aragones!




Life in Hell



Sylvia



Marlys!

NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

Haifisch posted:

1980 comics


Maybe it's just because I haven't heard this version before, but "June and January" makes it sound way worse than "May to December".

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
Our Boarding House (October 19-21, 1922)






Toonerville Folks (January 15-17, 1920; timg'd for incidental invocation of the usual issues)






Dok's Dippy Ditchweed (May 13, 1914; timg'd because this one bugs me too)


Little Lefty (May 27-29, 1937)




Blondie From Zero (November 17-19, 1932)

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.
In today's Blueberry: Blake rudely interrupts Kelly, or Mike decides to head into the lion's mouth, or FAKE NEWS!!!



Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Jun. 07, 1953)


Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.
Uh-oh, Val.

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
His three toed paw just magically turns into a five toed foot. No actual explanation, just pure magic. loving Holbrook, man.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
I would have thought Safe Havens made it abundantly clear Holbrook doesn't give a good god drat about biology or the workings thereof.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Heathcliff


Compu-toon


Garfield


Overboard


Monty


For Better or For Worse


Classic Arlo and Janis (October 17, 2000)


Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon


On The Fastrack


Safe Havens

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

Murdstone posted:

The Phantom



Reusing the same storyline for the past two years is a might bold way to quiet quit your job as a writer.

ukonvasara
Aug 16, 2012

a mixture of gravity and waggery

riderchop posted:

On The Fastrack


this mf said "vengance"

Hattie Masters
Aug 29, 2012

COMICS CRIMINAL
Grimey Drawer
every time i accidentally read a holbrook cartoon i wish more and more for the man to end up with his hands in a woodchipper and tried for crimes against art, logic and humanity.

gently caress i hate him so much

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Hattie Masters posted:

every time i accidentally read a holbrook cartoon i wish more and more for the man to end up with his hands in a woodchipper and tried for crimes against art, logic and humanity.

gently caress i hate him so much

exactly, keep shoveling the garbage in my mouth

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Macanudo


Dark Side of the Horse

manero
Jan 30, 2006

Nancy 1947

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Strontium posted:

Daddy Daze


When will he tell the baby it's heriditary?

Vox Valentine
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

I legit have to wonder how much of a real thing "porch pirates" are.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Hostile V posted:

I legit have to wonder how much of a real thing "porch pirates" are.

It's a real thing. People get stuff swiped from their doorsteps all the time in my city.

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

When I lived on the other side of town, FedEx / ups just flat-out refused to leave packages at my door because of the number of thefts in the area. I had to pick them up at the processing center the next town over. Big annoyance.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



Strontium posted:

Take It From the Tinkersons


This was my standard for whether I needed a new phone, but it turns out that my ancient 3G slider phone wasn't going to cut the mustard in 2022 and beyond.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Hostile V posted:

I legit have to wonder how much of a real thing "porch pirates" are.

Extremely real. I live on a high traffic street so I've only been hit once (and they dumped it over a neighbor's fence because it wasn't worth anything to resell) but deeper in the neighborhood it's weekly if not more.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Into Ilves



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake

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EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
As long as we're talking about crimes against storytelling logic: A Suitably Stupid Ending. At least I hope it's ending.


In case this is our last chance, here's to Mitchell Knox, a strong contender for the most hilariously incoherent writing for a new character of 2022, and we still never found out why he became a John Darling mega-fanboy, which strongly implies that it would've been inexplicable. The only genuine emotion in this silly story arc was over real life children's show hosts, and none of that had anything to do with anything. Bad writing, bad characterization, bad character art (because don't think I didn't notice he lost his dentures in the middle of yesterday's strip), bad bad bad.

So. Wonder what they're going to do next week?

Crankshaft, on the other hand, just goes for "trite". Just...industry-standard trite.


Mutts


Sally Forth


Peanuts (September 27, 1975)


Mutt and Jeff


Rip Haywire


Thimble Theater (April 26, 1939)


Out Our Way (December 4, 1939)




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