amigolupus posted:

Huh, I guess the name of this character got changed for the ComicsKingdom version? I vaguely remember they had a Japanese name.

Strontium posted:

Have a holiday helping of Otsikkoaika. In case you didn't know, it's an infrequently updating comic by Samson, of Dark Side of the Horse fame, riffing on actual headlines. There hasn't been an update in over a month, but here's a select few that I was capable of translating from finnish.

John Allison posted:

Oh no, Lorraine Lumsford, the scourge of Tredregyn Parish. She’s the Bishop’s fixer and she really has it in for Billie and Reverend Penrose. Last appearance: The Silvery Moon.

amigolupus posted:

Huh, I guess the name of this character got changed for the ComicsKingdom version? I vaguely remember they had a Japanese name.

Georgia Dunn posted:

…I forgot! 🤦🏻‍♀️ I PUT IT IN NEWSPAPERS AND EVERYTHING!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁🧡 “And an oh @#*1! to you too!”

John Allison posted:

Everything about "Count My Toes" was thrown together in a panic. I was working on another book and this story became the poor relation.

What saved it from being totally without merit was the fact that i could sit in the garden in the sun and write it. So greatly did I enjoy sitting under my inexpensive canopy that most comics had twice as many words as were strictly necessary.

I realise now that this was a bad example to set the young.

Confessions: the title doesn't mean anything (although I pretended that it did). The plot reprised a few popular characters who had to all intents and purposes been put away because I had nothing left for them to do.

In delivering my warmed-over "greatest hits", Scary Go Round became "the comic where Shelley dies, repeatedly". Of course, in this story, she doesn't die. As any fool can see, she just has a series of rather unpleasant and unfortunate accidents.

And in its original form, the comics were lettered in a way that made them hard to read. But who hasn't made a mistake in their life? I bet you, reader, have made a mistake at least once. It happens! To compound insult and injury, I ended the story on a cliffhanger which I had no intention of ever resolving.

So, in the spirit of reconciliation, I've attempted to mend everything that ailed this tale. I've been through every panel mending rushed art, I've drawn new panels to fix cut corners, and I've written an ending that, if not exactly a satisfying pay off, should let people rest easy at night. [editor's note: you do not get this version. we are chuggin' from the internet archive faucet of SGR here.]

And I've even worked on repairing myself. As I nursed (through the late summer months) a drawing hand that had become little more than a withered claw, I made a decision. All comics would now be drawn by telekinesis (or as I dubbed it, "movey-mind").

Selachian posted:

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 10/28/51

Selachian posted:

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 10/28/51

Hostile V posted:

[a deep, rattling, soul-draining sigh that rapidly sounds like a long-overtaxed motor seizing, choking, dying and coughing up its lungs before finally sputtering to a silent final stop]

The_Other posted:

Also, in Thanksgiving related Breaking Cat News...

Giant Ethicist posted:

We Are Reproducing

I’m starting to catch up with my translation queue (two pages a day of a text-dense comic is hard during midterms) so I’ll switch to a page a day for the next chapter I think.

As for the essay, it’s a bit of a shame that this feels a little vague and wooly in English, in part because modes of “good” essay writing are so different in the two languages (and in part because my experience translating long-form writing is mostly limited to brochures, technical manuals and the like). It probably doesn’t really need clarifying, but Uchida’s point here about unwed mothers is that the only two “choices” are “mother” and “unwed mother” – the “unwed mother” is defined by her unmarried status, therefore the “mother” is necessarily presumed to be wed, and thus “motherhood” is inexorably tied up with the concept of marriage and in consequence (traditionally, which is the milieu in which she is living in Japan in 1993) to subservience to men.

Strontium posted:

Take It From The Tinkersons

Selachian posted:

It's More a Shelbyville Idea 3/9/58



250-mph monorails with low fares! Any day now!

Some Guy TT posted:

I'm really enjoying these a lot, by the way, so please don't push yourself too hard and burn out if you've got other stuff going on regarding midterms. Is it too personal for me to ask whether you're a teacher or a student, and in what subject? I'm running behind myself, but I'll be darned if I don't take every chance I can get to encourage you friend

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Doomykins posted:

Jucika "400 - Jucika, As A Witness"

Some Guy TT posted:

The Demons of Baseball

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