Comic Strips 2023: It's not a fetish or anything, I swear

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The_Other: Dec 28, 2012; Welcome Back, Galaxy Geek.

Steeple 16: Hell on Wheels Part 1

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John Allison posted:

Panel 4 is a reference to a cover of Der Spiegel from 1992. Quite why I have remembered it for 31 years, I do not know. It was in our school library.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 01:25

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# ? May 14, 2024 19:09

JethroMcB: Jan 23, 2004; We're normal now.
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The_Other posted:

Steeple 16: Hell on Wheels Part 1

John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store
Steeple website

I had to know.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 01:36

thisusedyet: Feb 14, 2012; My post... it sucks!!!

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Muffins are probably really good stakeout food for real.

Definitely better than pistachios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyGZAg3lo9A&t=21s

# ? Jul 10, 2023 01:47

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Nekonaughey

Bogor

# ? Jul 10, 2023 02:19

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

An Enchanting Evening Of Race-Faking Under The Sea

# ? Jul 10, 2023 03:10

catlord: Mar 22, 2009; What's on your mind, Axa?

Hostile V posted:

Ignoring for the moment how loving weird this whole thing is, I just want to say I thought she was a clown at first glance.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 03:17

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Hostile V posted:

An Enchanting Evening Of Race-Faking Under The Sea

Just a bunch of teens at their school prom taking a bunch of mind-altering substances and losing all sense of self. Wholesome stuff.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 03:20

Drakyn: Dec 26, 2012

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

The punchline is the comic's title.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 03:28

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.

It's A Sketchy Life for July 7, 1927! Our cover this week (and a piece of the inside matter) is from John Held Jr.

Russell Patterson:

J. Norman Lynd:

Enrique River�n:

Ellison Hoover takes you to a Florida school board meeting:

Johnny Gruelle:

# ? Jul 10, 2023 03:53

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Green Intern posted:

Just a bunch of teens at their school prom taking a bunch of mind-altering substances and losing all sense of self. Wholesome stuff.

They're gonna grow up and end up in positions of government and then have to explain all of the high school and college photos of them basically doing blackface for prom.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 03:56

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

Fingerpori

ANSU

That's the end of this book of ANSU! I have one book left, but scanning these is so work-intensive that I'll take a break before continuing to the last one.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 04:43

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Muffins are probably really good stakeout food for real.

Mary's stakeout muffins are probably laced with cocaine to keep her awake.

that's right, she eats cocaine

# ? Jul 10, 2023 06:10

mycatscrimes: Jan 2, 2020

EasyEW posted:

Johnny Gruelle:

I might not understand this comic but I appreciated "John Alden's Baked Bean Eating Place".

# ? Jul 10, 2023 06:11

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

davidspackage posted:

Mary's stakeout muffins are probably laced with cocaine to keep her awake.

that's right, she eats cocaine

the traditional way

# ? Jul 10, 2023 06:21

riderchop: Aug 10, 2010; av by @daikonquest!

Heathcliff

Compu-toon

Garfield

Overboard

Monty

For Better or For Worse

Classic Arlo and Janis (August 06, 2001)

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

On The Fastrack

Safe Havens

# ? Jul 10, 2023 06:38

emSparkly: Nov 21, 2022; I'm open to interpretation!

davidspackage posted:

Mary's stakeout muffins are probably laced with cocaine to keep her awake.

that's right, she eats cocaine

I put that poo poo on everything.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 07:11

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

# ? Jul 10, 2023 09:30

Hippocrass: Aug 18, 2015; That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

Krazy Kat(May 13, 1917) timged for a single panel

Little Nemo(October 7, 1906)

A good moon in this one.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 09:35

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

EasyEW posted:

Ellison Hoover takes you to a Florida school board meeting:

I would wish to know more of the context of this strip.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 10:38

Mercury Hat: May 28, 2006; SharkTales!
Woo-oo!

EasyEW posted:

It's A Sketchy Life for July 7, 1927! Our cover this week (and a piece of the inside matter) is from John Held Jr.

Love whatever's going on here (six fingers notwithstanding).

# ? Jul 10, 2023 10:41

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Giant Ethicist posted:

After School Ghost Stories

The end! No moral, other than perhaps �don�t let someone punch your doppelganger death specter.� (My reading is that punching the death specter caused some sympathetic-magic thing to happen to make Abeken get punched.)

My slightly more sinister read is that the doppleganger swapped places with Abeken, which is why he's evasive about his eye and uninterested in Inamori dating someone else.

Vintage Valiant (Mar. 02, 1958)

# ? Jul 10, 2023 11:47

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

"Huh. Not my fuckin' problem!" - Val

# ? Jul 10, 2023 11:59

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

Ghostlight posted:

Bogor

Poorly Drawn Lines did it better.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 12:09

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Bogor at least got it over with in 3 panels.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 12:10

Vargo: Dec 27, 2008; 'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Breaking Cat News

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Wallace the Brave

Heart of the City

Curtis

# ? Jul 10, 2023 12:29

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Samovar posted:

I would wish to know more of the context of this strip.

Tremont and Boylston streets are in Boston, which was notorious back then for censorship, to the point where the phrase "banned in Boston" was used to describe anything salacious.

Locki

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 7/9/03

Brenda Starr 4/29/51

Smokey Stover 9/11/55

Everyday Movies 8/3/36

"Gee, Mae, why dinja tell me we was goin' to Staten Island and I woulda worn my slacks?"

Feeling like you need to dress up to go to Staten Island is a little boggling, I must admit.

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 10/26/41

# ? Jul 10, 2023 12:38

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

My god. Turtles again.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 13:22

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Selachian posted:

Everyday Movies 8/3/36

"Gee, Mae, why dinja tell me we was goin' to Staten Island and I woulda worn my slacks?"

If it was the woman saying it to the man then possibly because of the wind whipping her skirt around but I�ve never heard of a man�s name of Mae.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 13:42

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

It might say Mac.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 13:48

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

I think it says Mac.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 13:49

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Nancy 1943

Pluggers

# ? Jul 10, 2023 13:54

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

goatface posted:

I think it says Mac.

I checked another newspaper (the Tacoma News Tribune), which printed the caption in non-italic form, and you're right:

(It's also amusing that they changed the punchline to make more sense to a Washington audience.)

# ? Jul 10, 2023 14:34

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Selachian posted:

I checked another newspaper (the Tacoma News Tribune), which printed the caption in non-italic form, and you're right:

(It's also amusing that they changed the punchline to make more sense to a Washington audience.)

Hah I live in the sound so that�s a nice touch and funny they did that.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 15:11

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Hempuli posted:

That's the end of this book of ANSU! I have one book left, but scanning these is so work-intensive that I'll take a break before continuing to the last one.

Thank you for scanning and posting, I've been quietly enjoying it. :tipshat:

Bizarro

The Family Circus

Slylock Fox

I wonder if Slylock has ever found evidence that exonerates the accused.

# ? Jul 10, 2023 16:07

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Medenmath posted:

My slightly more sinister read is that the doppleganger swapped places with Abeken, which is why he's evasive about his eye and uninterested in Inamori dating someone else.

Vintage Valiant (Mar. 02, 1958)

# ? Jul 10, 2023 16:36

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.

Samovar posted:

I would wish to know more of the context of this strip.

In 1927, it would've probably been about Boston's infamous Watch and Ward Society.

MassMoments posted:

On this day [April 25th] in 1926, reporter and literary critic H.L. Mencken was arrested on Boston Common for selling a magazine that had been banned by the New England Watch and Ward Society, the city's self-appointed moral censors. A fierce defender of free speech, Mencken had traveled to Boston with the express intention of getting himself arrested. The minute he sold a copy of the magazine, the vice squad took him into custody. Not everyone in Boston agreed with the Watch and Ward Society, and the next day a judge ruled in Mencken's favor. He was acquitted on all charges. The victory was short-lived, however. Boston continued to lead the nation in the banning of books for another 30 years.

The phrase "Banned in Boston" has its origins in the early 1900s. Boston may have trailed New York in most ways, but it led the nation in practicing censorship based on moral grounds. The driving force behind the city's puritanical purges was the Watch and Ward Society, founded in 1878 to "watch and ward off evildoers."

According to the Globe, during the heyday of the Watch and Ward, "the Boston Public Library kept books the society considered objectionable in a locked room, the Museum of Fine Arts kept part of its Asian collection behind closed doors, and the label 'banned in Boston' became a selling point for salacious books from New York to San Francisco." The members of the Watch and Ward Society encountered little resistance � until they targeted H.L. Mencken.

Mutts

Sally Forth

Skippy (July 27, 1935)

Peanuts (July 12, 1976)

The New Adventures Of Mopey Pete

Mutt and Jeff

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (February 12, 1940)

Out Our Way (April 6-8, 1942)

# ? Jul 10, 2023 17:24

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Medenmath posted:

My slightly more sinister read is that the doppleganger swapped places with Abeken, which is why he's evasive about his eye and uninterested in Inamori dating someone else.

Vintage Valiant (Mar. 02, 1958)

boltar boltar boltar BOLTAR BOLTAR BOLTAR BOLTAR

# ? Jul 10, 2023 17:56