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Well I got my new porn name.
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Crab Dad posted:Well I got my new porn name. Zebra Sausage?
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Mister Olympus posted:i can't imagine that there isn't a direct correlation between the decline of newspaper readership and the decline of standards for newspaper comics Blondie classic was strained half the time too, to say nothing of all the old garbage that was forgotten or only survived because of thorough archiving. I suppose every era has good and bad, and we definitely have great modern strips with proper comedy like Arlo and Janis. Rae the Doe is also a wholly unique decent strip that, thinking about it, is like the Boarding House of the modern day. Loads of incomprehensible contemporary nonsense. I can't help but prefer that certain something a lot of older newspaper artists had with classic training in comedy and cartooning, making the jokes and timings dramatically better. Even classic Garfield was amazing just by the strength of Davis' cartooning. ... which is a shame since a lot of the hall of shamers in the modern day could reform their craft with a few weeks of studying fundamentals. I do wonder how much a newspaper comic strip doesn't make to justify both why we get the worst of the worst and why editors never prune them for pure lack of quality.
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Aug 30, 2023 02:08
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F Minus Mark Trail  That is the lowest-effort cardinal I've ever seen. You can do better than that, Jules. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Can't Babudan take him to someone? Maybe he doesn't drive but I bet he could figure it out enough to get somewhere. Savarna can just leave then, and the prophecy is broken. Hell, if he just goes with them that changes everything. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Aug 30, 2023 03:09
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Our Boarding House, the Rae the Doe of 1924. (June 26-28, 1924; spoilered for a nasty bout of Chinese laundry "humor". And yes, one of our parlor boys does the voice.)   Toonerville Folks (August 29-31, 1921)    Dok's "Too Exhausted To Be Clever About This Tonight" Duck (November 20, 1914)  Little Lefty (January 12-14, 1939)   
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Aug 30, 2023 03:10
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Newspapers (broadly defined to include the antecedents of magazines as well) were the best place to make a living as a cartoonist back in the day. Winsor McCay published in newspapers because there was nowhere else. Later, early comic books certainly had geniuses working in them, but by and large they were the cheap alternative to the sophisticated and prestigious newspaper comics page, especially during the peak of the feud between Pulitzer and Hearst (Hearst himself was a comics lover and patronized avant-garde artists like George Herriman). Even those who arrived later than that still benefited from the institutional editorial attitudes of those days. What happened was television. For entertainment, newspapers could compete with radio and film, but not with television, which was an increasing factor in people's daily lives. So they began to focus on their biggest and most specialized advantage - timely written news - and cut costs on the funnies, by reducing the number of strips purchased and the size at which they were printed. The more the popularity of television increased, the more the comic artist depended on merchandising, following the model seen in other media where the original artwork is the loss leader that establishes the market for actually profitable spinoffs and adaptations. Even before the invention of the webcomic, the last holdouts were the merch empires, the inheritors of legacy strips whose prestige still commanded a good price, and the Wattersonian curmudgeons with a strong artistic affinity for the daily format (for while this was going on, other media were carving out and widening niches where a comic artist could survive). And the internet changed the whole equation. The fact that online publishing is more-or-less free has led to an incredible blossoming of comics, but not much of a corresponding blossoming of comic artists getting paid. That's why the best modern newspaper comics have the same kind of strong, singular authorial voices that was found among the most memorable works of the fat old days: because modern newspaper comic artists are indomitable freaks who are doing it for the love of the game, and managed to hustle their way into one of the few remaining paychecks. God bless 'em.
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom As I recall, in the original prophecy story, the only doctor in the area is a veterinarian who does a perfectly fine job of patching up our purple hero, but as the Phantom recovers he half-consciously blabs a lot of details to Savarna who then takes them and screws up the entire future Phantom timeline. He might request that Savarna takes the truck and goes her own way, leaving Kit and Babudan to their fate, but at this point I don't think she'd be willing to do that. That kind of seems to be the whole point of Mozz's prophecy, that no matter what he does, the Bad Future Timeline WILL happen, one way or another.
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If I was The Phantom I would merely torch the Jeeps with a molotov cocktail, grab Savarna by the arm and ride off into the sunset to eat 10 pounds of lamb to avert the timeline.
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Hostile V posted:I Was Gonna Say Something About The New Plotline But Then Today's Steampunk Commission Comic Made Me Want To Just Go Sit On A Chair On The Porch And Feel The Night Air On My Skin For A Bit Having the strips be posted in huge batches makes it easy to realize just how much of a complete rear end in a top hat Fiona has been to everyone in college. What an awful person, goddamn. Anybody else think just now of that weasel who disguised herself as a turtle to avoid the evil people who wanted to skin her? No? Just me then?  Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Cherry solves what now? She did absolutely nothing, Jules, much like her husband! Murdstone posted:Apartment 3-G This "practical joke" better not be having her falsely accuse Papagoras of sexually assaulting her. 
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I suppose he could thwart the inevitability of the prophecy by killing her. Then again, the Bandar chief can't drive, and in about a minute of real time (three weeks to a year in the Bandar tongue) Phantom will be incapacitated. Hmmmmm.
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Crabgrass   Peanuts Through the Ages (Mar 6-11, 1966)       I'm pretty sure this is actually Woodstock's introduction we're seeing here. Though I don't think he gets named until 1967. Big Nate    Blind Alley 
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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The_Other posted:Steeple 17: Hell on Wheels Part 2 Neither. The Amstrad CPC used a 3" format.  E: this bad boy holds a whopping 180 KB per side. Tendales fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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The_Other posted:Trying to determine if that is a 5.25" or 3.5" floppy disk. Who else remembers those? Bunch of 3.5"s still sitting on my shelf at work, mostly there because, why not?
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (September 26, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Vintage Valiant (Jan. 04, 1959)
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jan. 04, 1959) I swear, if Val pulls off a Blondel...
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Krazy Kat(October 14, 1917) Little Nemo(March 10, 1907) 
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse I know the focus is supposed to be on "wow, look at this little poo poo mess with the neighbor and her pet!" but all I can think of is how the parents keep leaving their toddler to wander around unsupervised, jfc.
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 A call for help! Starting Sunday the 3rd through the 15th, I will be traveling and will be on a really bad internet connection, so I will probably be absent from the thread, or at least browsing with images turned off. I'm looking for someone who can post Nancy in my absence. I've got all the images scanned, and can give you the bbcode img tags all setup by date. Literally all you have to do is copy/paste and  until I get back!E: Huxley has offered to post! ======= Nancy 1943  Pluggers 
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Buni Hey, it's Bird Dustin. Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 8/29/03  Brenda Starr 8/9-11/51    Smokey Stover 7/15/56  Everyday Movies 9/23/36  "Let me pay for it. My husband's got an expense account." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 2/5-7/42    Let’s talk about natural gas holders, ‘cause I just think they’re neat! And they’re a nostalgic thing for me, because of these:  The Elmhurst gas tanks were a major landmark in Queens for 80-odd years from their construction in 1921. I must have traveled past them hundreds of times on the Long Island Expressway, being reminded that GAS HEATS BEST every time. Tanks like these dotted the map in city residential areas, providing gas for heating and cooking to the houses around them. You may notice in the photo that one tank is lower than the other — this is because they weren’t solid metal, but instead made of telescoping segments that would rise up and sink down depending on how much gas was in the tank. At full height, they were 200 feet tall, so that's a hell of a climb Hippy made, and they towered over everything else in suburban areas. They held up to 10 million cubic feet of gas each. Improvements in gas storage technology eventually made the tanks obsolete, and they started getting torn down in the 80s and 90s. The Elmhurst tanks were finally removed in 2001, and there’s a park where they used to be. One other fun detail about the Elmhurst tanks I discovered while reading up on this: the bottom of each tank was a pool of water to seal in the gas, and there was a rowboat inside that was used to perform inspections while the tank was empty. Eventually, they moved on to using cameras and electronic sensors to monitor the tanks’ condition, but they never bothered to take the boats out, and they were still there when the tanks were demolished. (See also Gasometer Town in Vienna, four gas tanks that were turned into apartment and office buildings.) Selachian fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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manero posted:
I'd be happy to lump this in with A+J posting while you're gone. A+J 
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Huxley posted:I'd be happy to lump this in with A+J posting while you're gone. perfect, I'll PM you the info. Thanks!
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (September 9, 1935)  Peanuts (September 1, 1976)  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (April 3, 1940)  Out Our Way (September 7-9, 1942)   
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Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 2/7/42 
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Ardeem posted:That reminds me, did we run out of The Timid Soul, or did the guy posting it vanish? I've got a bunch more of it and I'll resume posting it before the end of the year.
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Selachian posted:You may notice in the photo that one tank is lower than the other — this is because they weren’t solid metal, but instead made of telescoping segments that would rise up and sink down depending on how much gas was in the tank. Whoa! Rad! Also, heartfelt thanks to any and all Bushmiller Nancy posters.
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you know i generally like Sally Forth but every goddamn time the kid pipes up about a band performance, I think I'd rather stab myself in the foot than hear anything else about it. Wait, who IS watching the toddler in Foob?
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse For a second I thought this would be the infamous dog death story line, but no...wrong dog. As far as I can remember it's as Funky Winkerbean as Foob ever got.
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse I don't regularly read FOOB so my first thought when seeing this was that the daughter was named Sera. E: poo poo. Beaten to the punch.
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Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 2/5-7/42 Comic Strips 2023: SILENCE, SIMP!
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Bizarro The Family Circus  Slylock Fox 
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Cowslips Warren posted:Wait, who IS watching the toddler in Foob?
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Samovar posted:I swear, if Val pulls off a Blondel... "Only my friend Gawain knows of the game Marco Polo."
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Boomers are always like “kids don’t know how to write a letter anymore” but never go on to say “and it’s my fault for not teaching them how”
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Breaking Cat News       Phoebe and Her Unicorn      Wallace the Brave       Heart of the City     Dad, what is up with your one long arm? 
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Green Intern posted:Boomers are always like “kids don’t know how to write a letter anymore” but never go on to say “and it’s my fault for not teaching them how” In this case its just filling out a form and she told him the things to do so I think while its still a "kids these days!" joke it feels less in the realm of "those fuckers" especially since in this case the side joke is "this is a lot of steps all at once"
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