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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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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons Without the first panel this is most of my life.
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Bongo Bill posted:I once got in an argument with a flat-earther. It got so heated that he swore he was going to go walk off the edge of the world just to prove me wrong. But I know he'll come around eventually.  Vintage Valiant (Apr. 04, 1954)     1/3 2/3 3/3
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Buni  Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 11/13/02  Brenda Starr 10/31 - 11/2/49    Smokey Stover 3/25/51  Everyday Movies 10/14/35  "Confound it! Why can't those lovers neck in the vestibule instead of this self-service elevator?"
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goatface posted:Without the first panel this is most of my life. Carry On Wayward Son used to be one of my favourite songs for a long time before I stopped to think about it and realized how well it described me as well and how it probably immediately spoke to me on some subconscious level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_2IdybTV0 Maybe one day I too can lay my head down and rest.
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The_Other posted:From a few pages back but I just wanted to thank EasyEW for posting this. I always find it interesting looking at the earlier years of legacy strips. I also wanted to post a link the this article about the history of Blondie by the late comic historian R.C. Harvey. Might be of some interest to readers of this thread. quote:According to an article in The Saturday Evening Post (April 10, 1948), Young “steadfastly refused” to be “bullied” by “skittish readers” into getting the Bumsteads twin beds. “He holds, and the fan mail he gets from clergymen sustains him, that twin beds constitute a major threat to the solidity of marriage. He is very stubborn about this.” Does anyone have a link or access to this article? I'd be interested in reading it.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Carry On Wayward Son used to be one of my favourite songs for a long time before I stopped to think about it and realized how well it described me as well and how it probably immediately spoke to me on some subconscious level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJzecKumufM&t=86s
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readingatwork posted:
ROCK KEEPS ROCK BOTTOM GETTING BOTTOMER
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Good Listener posted:I don't see the harm in letting your employees use the "make static electrical energy by being petted" machine. lovely cat boss. Digging how usually when we refer to the "cat boss" in the thread it's about a completely different character who would never admonish his furry employee for engaging in such behavior.
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Solver: The Urn John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:Nero was indeed mentioned in Solver 7 – here, in fact – but no more was revealed. Perhaps we will find out more next time. Once Claire is done screaming.
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Nov 14, 2022 16:00
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Arnold (September 30-October 6, 1985)   Bullwinkle 
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I had to run my AC all weekend and this morning it was below freezing. Everything's fine. The_Other posted:Solver: The Urn Delighted once again by the deployment of Claire's lisp to indicate her level of excitement
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We just need more oblique references to climate change drawn by
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (January 10, 1935)  Peanuts (November 17, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  So we brought Ruby back just long enough to get rid of her once and for all. Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (June 15, 1939)  Out Our Way (April 29-May 1, 1940)   Spoilered for being a skinny-dipping comic with some vaguely uncomfortable energy behind it. 
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Ghostlight posted:When Ball died I followed up with his estate to see if they were planning to rerelease any collections since even here in New Zealand they've been out of print so long the only place you can possibly find them is second-hand stores (tbh primarily because I wanted a good source to post here). They said they were focused on getting strips digitised and up on the website, but given the pace that's seemingly progressed at and that it's been half-a-decade with no news I unfortunately suspect the estate is largely running on fumes and far from courting a publisher. Honestly a lot of the comics in this thread would just kind of vanish into thin air if they suddenly stopped being on Gocomics/CK/whatever.  2018 Spiderman  1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins  Legends in the Heights 
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EasyEW posted:
Gonna need Red & Rover out here, cuz I have no idea if this is supposed to be a joke or utterly mundane exposition.
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Pancho Jueves posted:Gonna need Red & Rover out here, cuz I have no idea if this is supposed to be a joke or utterly mundane exposition. Are we gearing up for a week of Supply Chain Comix?
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Didn't seem Iris was in all that much danger. I suppose she might have been pulled off the cliff but she wasn't exactly leaning way over the edge. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  The noises that must be coming through that door... Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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You know that's actually a good comic and a good twist in today's Trail and all but Really? We're gonna get blueballed on the combination elephant/tiger rampage? Boooooo!
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Haifisch posted:
I won't go into too much details, but I've been working on archiving the complete run of "Arnold" for something, and I even managed to get the syndicate to send me scans of the comic (after I paid them $$$), and oof, comic strip preservation is hugely complicated. Making it worse, while the syndicate had majority of "Arnold", they didn't have everything, especially the Sundays, and I had to look through newspaper archives to fill in the blanks.
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Some Guy TT posted:Does anyone have a link or access to this article? I'd be interested in reading it. I was able to find the article, "The Dagwood and Blondie Man", on the Post's website. It was the feature article for that issue so you should be able to read it for free, although the Post's reader is a little cumbersome
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Necromonger Rules But Dumber         And so it came to pass that Kell was the new CEO of Herd Thinners. I must graciously and humbly welcome you all to hell.
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Darthemed posted:Popcom I think these ended up in reverse order.
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Hostile V posted:Women be quittin'! Though to be frank if these chucklefucks were my contemporaries I'd be in her shoes. They made her draw, ink and color a cover for a book she isn't even working on. gently caress these assholes.
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Us and in-setting fans will always have memories of Ruby's amazing contributions to the Funky Cinematic Comicsverse, like... uhhh.... Come on, surely she helped them make up some of the League Of Absurdly Boring 4th Tier "Rejected By City Of Heroes Players On A Lazy Creative Day As Too Generic" Losers, right? No? Uhhh... I think I vaguely remember Wayback Wendy got a cover, which was mentioned and shown once like two years ago, mirroring Ruby's fate. Man, imagine if Batiuk intentionally hated women! Then again it's not like most of the others in his strips get off much better. Thanks for dying, Saint Lisa! And that gal who gave Les the freaking Oscar... he has to unintentionally think these are all character moments, right? Jeez, and there's the nice lady everybody inexplicably hates in Crankshaft too. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Nov 15, 2022 |
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Giant Ethicist posted:
Persona 5 (2016, Various)
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I'm convinced the Out Our Way guy is "currently" suffering brain decay on the level of Charles Boyce. How are two kids talking about another kid watching them skinny dip "empire builders?" He just wrote random nonsense that meant nothing at this point because he no longer understood the meaning of words. It's literally the only thing that makes sense.BigglesSWE posted:Looking forward to Sunday with the inevitable “Strong Female Character standing up for the environment” fake cover, coupled with a tip of the feltcap to some guy who drew it, since no women artists would pick up the phone. It's not like it was hard to call this I guess, but I'm still going to give you credit for it. Jesus Christ, he couldn't get a single actual woman to draw the cover for his "woman artist drawing a cover" storyline? Then again I guess there's no reason to ever have expected TomBat to actually respect women given the strip's entire history.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I'm convinced the Out Our Way guy is "currently" suffering brain decay on the level of Charles Boyce. How are two kids talking about another kid watching them skinny dip "empire builders?" He just wrote random nonsense that meant nothing at this point because he no longer understood the meaning of words. It's literally the only thing that makes sense. Goldie is the "empire builder" and the other two are self-aware lugs, as per the character dynamics established and worn into at least a year of strips. The one boy jokes that Goldie is admiring his strength because Goldie himself is so preoccupied with being a smart businessman type that he neglects physical training. The other boy points out that Goldie is so god drat smart he's fated to become a businessman that uses his mind to bamboozle strong laborers into making him a fortune. 
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Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey
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Twelve by Pies posted:I'm convinced the Out Our Way guy is "currently" suffering brain decay on the level of Charles Boyce. How are two kids talking about another kid watching them skinny dip "empire builders?" He just wrote random nonsense that meant nothing at this point because he no longer understood the meaning of words. It's literally the only thing that makes sense. Other way around. The swimmers are imagining that the kid reading the book is a (would be) empire builder, because why else would he be reading instead of having fun?
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Dec 13, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 14-15, 1992)   Big Nate  No we don't. We have exactly zero work to be done here. Leave him alone Nate. Blind Alley 
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