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Breadmaster posted:I'm sorry, when did that happen? Heloise shared a cab with a Mary Worth character once a while back I believe (it might have been Mary herself), nothing too interesting Larryb fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Bill Amend is a pretty cool guy. In the 90s he responded to fan mail from my friend with a hand-drawn Slug-Man, and doodled on the envelope too. Tech-wise he's one of the few cartoonists I've seen (through several decades even) get right parts of Internet culture like MMOs and services like AOL and families adjusting to email and other new methods of communication, and I respect that.
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Breadmaster posted:I'm sorry, when did that happen? Larryb posted:Heloise shared a cab with a Mary Worth character once a while back I believe (it might have been Mary herself), nothing too interesting This, basically. It wasn't exciting, but it was weird that it was an actual Mary Worth/Phantom crossover. I really don't know why they decided it was a thing that had to happen, but hey.
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Jun 8, 2023 04:17
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Aug. 18, 1957) penultimate panel, just a beautiful "shut the gently caress up while grown folks is talking" face.
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Howard Beale posted:Bill Amend is a pretty cool guy. In the 90s he responded to fan mail from my friend with a hand-drawn Slug-Man, and doodled on the envelope too. Tech-wise he's one of the few cartoonists I've seen (through several decades even) get right parts of Internet culture like MMOs and services like AOL and families adjusting to email and other new methods of communication, and I respect that. That's my understanding too, and it's part of the reason I post FoxTrot on Sundays. The man has nerd cred, and he gets his nerd culture right. Just try not to think about how if the characters aged in real time like Foob, Jason would be in his mid-40s now. 
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Crabgrass Peanuts Through the Ages (Feb 14-15, 1954)   Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 26-27, 1993)   Big Nate  Dunce Will resume this weekend once I've had a chance to collect some more strips.
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Howard Beale posted:Bill Amend is a pretty cool guy. In the 90s he responded to fan mail from my friend with a hand-drawn Slug-Man, and doodled on the envelope too. Tech-wise he's one of the few cartoonists I've seen (through several decades even) get right parts of Internet culture like MMOs and services like AOL and families adjusting to email and other new methods of communication, and I respect that. His interactions with tech and geek stuff feel very "being written from the inside." It's endearing when he spends a whole sunday strip to set up a math pun.
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 27, 1993) 1993? Survivor and Big Brother, the first things we'd recognize as modern reality TV, were still years in the future. What was
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Jun 8, 2023 05:37
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^^^ that too ^^^Powered Descent posted:1993? Survivor and Big Brother, the first things we'd recognize as modern reality TV, were still years in the future. What was my guess is candid camera, americas funniest home videos, that sort of thing
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Hwurmp posted:stuff like Cops, probably ellie the beep posted:my guess is candid camera, americas funniest home videos, that sort of thing Those all make sense, but yeah, Cops in particular is almost certainly what he was talking about.
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And look how far we've come 30 years later!  1980 comics       Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: :-)  Legends in the Heights 
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Cowslips Warren posted:oh poo poo Mary Worth needs to go undercover and rescue dogs. I'd loving love if, without explanation, Mary just retrieves two pistols from a shoebox in her closet and goes to shut down the dog ring with gratuitous violence, then at the end puts them back, pretends to others that she has no idea what happened and winks to the reader. Haifisch posted:Computoon: :-) Aside from the one guy having his monitor tilted away from him that's a pretty solud joke, Charles!
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse  Legend of Bill   
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Breadmaster posted:I'm sorry, when did that happen? November 2015                  Incidentally this was right after Phantom's John X story. Kennel fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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davidspackage posted:I'd loving love if, without explanation, Mary just retrieves two pistols from a shoebox in her closet and goes to shut down the dog ring with gratuitous violence, then at the end puts them back, pretends to others that she has no idea what happened and winks to the reader.  (the text hasn't been edited) Kennel fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (July 05, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Hostile V posted:
Honestly, I like the idea of Wendell as a character. On paper, he's like the only sane person in Hellworld. Not only is he justified in his hatred of predators, he's also doing doing things like question the nature of the world here. In practice, Wendell falls victim under one of Holbrook's well-loved story beat for Hellworld: Prey species is forced/manipulated into spending time with people who have the power to kill him until the Stockholm Syndrome kicks in and he learns to accept them and their animal-eating ways. It's just uncomfortable how often it's the prey animal who has to be the one to see the light, so to speak. Anywho Wendell is also frickin' annoying because his stories are all. the. loving. same. We seriously don't need another Easter bunny story, Holbrook.  Julet Esqu posted:Gil Thorp I bust out laughing when I saw that tiny "traitor". The levels of pettiness on this coach is off the charts. Honestly expecting the son to cut off his dad years later and for the dad to start posting in r/EstrangedParents though.
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Kennel posted:November 2015 Dear god, that art is horrendous. Really makes me appreciate Brigman's artwork.
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Rhymes with Orange Gocomics isn't working for me this morning so no Get Fuzzy. Brenda Starr 2/18/51  Smokey Stover 2/13/55 Spoilered for stereotypical depiction.  Everyday Movies 6/29/36  "Well, what's it gonna be? Just plain ice cream or a frankfurter and popcorn and then castor oil when you get home?" Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 8/17/41  -
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Nancy Comics that go hard Spoiler for Asian stereotypes  Sorry, no Pluggers since gocomics seems to be having problems!
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Karma suggests he will be knocked from his saddle just as Val's stallion "accidentally" brings a hoof down.
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Retail  Popcom  And that brings us into the next issue!  
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Strontium posted:Macanudo What? No, no they aren't! Math is a shared game where we see how much we can invent from as few basic rules as possible. Playing with math is exactly how we should teach kids to engage with it! That's basically the entire gimmick of channels like Stand-Up Maths and two dozen others! Matt Parker's books are explicitly, textually, about helping people to engage with math for enjoyment. Imagination is expanded by understanding more things! "A few trees I climb on all the time" isn't 'imagination'. Imagination is reaching for new and different thoughts, it's exploring new things. Math is just as important for that as exposure to new art and philosophy, or history and psychology, or... gah This is always a twee and awful strip, but this is one of the worst single comics it's ever put out, discouraging readers from learning, encouraging them to stay in a little box of no new thoughts or experiences, and pretending it's for their spiritual growth.
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Try telling all that to all the math teachers who can't teach math for poo poo so kids just end up hating it.
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Darthemed posted:Retail I am also Richard Williams
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Darthemed posted:And that brings us into the next issue! What was it about fin helmets that so clearly spoke to people "clearly this person is from outer space"? edit: or was it? I read "Martan" as "Martian"
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Aug. 25, 1957)
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So kill two horses, is what you're saying
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ZeeToo posted:What? No, no they aren't! Math is a shared game where we see how much we can invent from as few basic rules as possible. Playing with math is exactly how we should teach kids to engage with it! That's basically the entire gimmick of channels like Stand-Up Maths and two dozen others! Matt Parker's books are explicitly, textually, about helping people to engage with math for enjoyment. Malachite_Dragon posted:Try telling all that to all the math teachers who can't teach math for poo poo so kids just end up hating it. I don't have time for complete thoughts on this right now, and I have to add the caveat that I'm forty this year and have no idea what it's like for Kids These Days. That said, while math should be fun and cool to learn, the way it's taught pre-university, in my experience, is all about memorizing things and doing drills so you can do well on whatever test is coming up. Some kids thrive in this kind of environment and go on to like math, but many don't, and there's also a cultural expectation that math is Very Hard that I think holds a lot of people back through sheer intimidation. Like Malachite is saying, your teacher can make a huge difference, but the way the whole system is set up is an issue. I'm no expert on education but the whole school system in the US seems designed to produce cogs to be worked to death to generate shareholder value, and now I'm getting political so I'll stop there, sorry.  To be clear I'm not saying the Macanudo strip isn't lame, is super is. Edit to add: The character in the strip is maybe eight or whatever, so he's probably doing basic arithmetic drills with the expectation that there is one correct way of finding the answer to each problem. Even if he knows a different algorithm for addition or whatever that makes more sense to him, he's likely to get in trouble for using it. Hwurmp posted:if you kill a horse, the number of horses in the world remains the same I mean this isn't the first time Val just found a horse somewhere, so it seems that way. Horses just exist. Medenmath fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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A friendly reminder: A few things from GoComics are still on Microsoft Start. Better bookmark it, because it's not in the drop-down menu. Not that it would've helped me much, but GoComics came back online as I finished typing this. Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (July 2, 1935)  Still true, oddly enough. Inflation doesn't affect everything. Peanuts (June 10, 1976)  Crankshaft  And the punchline is an eternal awareness of the grip of the Reaper. Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire finally remembered he's supposed to be the sheriff.  Thimble Theater (January 8, 1940)  Olive & Popeye  Welcome to Out Our Way 1942, and the opening theme of the New Year is everything is so shiny and clean, and we're deeply suspicious of what the hell they're gonna drop on us now. (January 1-3, 1942)    Speaking of which, the big thing on the front page is the fall of Manila on the 2nd and the Philippines being taken over by Japan. There's a good-sized selection (especially from the occupation period) of scans the English-language Manila Tribune. Because they were transitioning to full independence from the United States, the pre-invasion editions should look very familiar to us archive scroungers. Then the occupation forces show up and things take a turn.  But they still had a few strips lying around, and dammit, they were going to use them...or at least the ones that would pass the censors. That obviously didn't last very long, but one last whiff of pre-war while the new weirdness settles in. 
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Medenmath posted:I don't have time for complete thoughts on this right now, and I have to add the caveat that I'm forty this year and have no idea what it's like for Kids These Days. That said, while math should be fun and cool to learn, the way it's taught pre-university, in my experience, is all about memorizing things and doing drills so you can do well on whatever test is coming up. Some kids thrive in this kind of environment and go on to like math, but many don't, and there's also a cultural expectation that math is Very Hard that I think holds a lot of people back through sheer intimidation. Like Malachite is saying, your teacher can make a huge difference, but the way the whole system is set up is an issue. I'm no expert on education but the whole school system in the US seems designed to produce cogs to be worked to death to generate shareholder value, and now I'm getting political so I'll stop there, sorry. Agreed 100%. The whole system needs to be ripped out and replaced. (Replaced with what, I freely admit I don't know. But there's got to be something better.) Bizarro  The Family Circus  Slylock Fox 
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manero posted:Nancy Comics that go hard i don't want to edit the racial sterotype thing but pretend i changed this to be SPOTTED LANTERNFLIES
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