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KC Green's contract with King Features is up in March, so wrap up any storylines you were following Re: historical comics: if you're having to spoiler every single one for racism i wonder whether the good outweighs the bad w/r/t continuing to post it? IDK. I am p sensitive about that stuff.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Re: historical comics: if you're having to spoiler every single one for racism i wonder whether the good outweighs the bad w/r/t continuing to post it? IDK. I am p sensitive about that stuff. The historical comics are really interesting to see what people made jokes about and what people were anxious about in the early 20th century. I also think it's interesting to see how the concept of racism has changed over time. A lot of the pre-war "Out Our Ways" could be considered racist against Germans, which is a nonsensical concept to my 21st century ears. And I'd argue that the Powerful Katinka is as much a caricature of a minority immigrant as any of the Chinese laundry owners from that one I keep skipping because it's always five or six people speaking in folksy paragraphs. None of it is great to our modern sensibilities, but it's a snapshot in time, if an embarrassing one.
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Steeple 20: Extreme Freaks in which we see what's become of Brian John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:Now here’s a sad schism. The old pals, rent in twain. But Brian always keeps a good thought for people and Tom is no exception. I’ve had “Brian goes straight” on my to-do list of Steeple stories right from the start. Ayahuasca
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:KC Green's contract with King Features is up in March, so wrap up any storylines you were following Well, in the case of the Sunday Scarlet O'Neils, I'm having to spoiler them because a Chinese boy is a main character in the current storyline. If it's really bothering folks, I can always skip them until a new story starts up. Pogo 3/3-5/52    Archie 4/14-16/49    The Virtue of Vera Valiant 11/25-27/76    "You Turned Off the Light Switch of My Lonely Heart" would be a great country song title.
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn   Wallace the Brave   Heart of the City   Alley Oop   Curtis  
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Free Market Solutions        a shameful popeye 
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Jan 17, 2024 00:50
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Hostile V posted:Man I love the fashion that's going on, really good job with the colors and shapes and styles. Also all of them having medals. Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD goatface posted:No, it's a different one. He's dismissing their real shared experience and talking about a whole new thing. Old Man Mozz foretold this doom over the course of seven hundred daily strips.
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Jan 17, 2024 01:00
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The only thing I can add to the talk about antique racism that I haven't touched on a jillion times before is adjacent to what Safety Dance was saying: it's instructive how shockingly narrow the concept of "white" was before WW2. Anyway, a family emergency is cutting into my effort post time for for the immediate future, which mean Mousetrapped is what's for dinner tonight.  Randy's notes posted:Finally, we meet Dinkly Doodle and Weakheart. Dinky and Weakheart were Walter Lantz creations for Bray Studios, preceeding Pete the Pup by a few years. They followed a rather similar format to Pete’s later cartoons, though.
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Jan 17, 2024 02:33
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Vargo posted:Curtis This Curtis story feels like it might get weird. Didn’t Curtis used to have a different friend from like polynesia or something? Did he end up being too much of a racist caricature?
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Jan 17, 2024 03:18
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Gunk only shows up when he has a plot device to deliver. Curtis having a regular school friend who isn't Chutney feels relatively new, though.
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I AM GRANDO posted:This Curtis story feels like it might get weird. Didn’t Curtis used to have a different friend from like polynesia or something? Did he end up being too much of a racist caricature? Gunk was a wacky foreigner but he's also a little white blond kid without any racially othering features. Also he was randomly magic. And named 'Gunk'.
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Jan 17, 2024 03:28
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hasn't heartthrob or whatever that kid's name is always been around?mycatscrimes posted:Gunk was a wacky foreigner but he's also a little white blond kid without any racially othering features. Also he was randomly magic. And named 'Gunk'. the curtis wikipedia article (lol) says that gunk is an initialism for "Gladimus Umfred Nostradamus Klaustauvicke", so that's, a fun fact
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I AM GRANDO posted:This Curtis story feels like it might get weird. Didn’t Curtis used to have a different friend from like polynesia or something? Did he end up being too much of a racist caricature? someone awful. posted:hasn't heartthrob or whatever that kid's name is always been around?
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mycatscrimes posted:Gunk was a wacky foreigner but he's also a little white blond kid without any racially othering features. Also he was randomly magic. And named 'Gunk'. Gunk was from a place called Flyspeck Island, which was filled with weird stuff. Whenever he brought out something from home, ***wackiness*** always ensued. EasyEW posted:The only thing I can add to the talk about antique racism that I haven't touched on a jillion times before is adjacent to what Safety Dance was saying: it's instructive how shockingly narrow the concept of "white" was before WW2. And not just before the war. Look at Tommy Noletti's family of Italian caricatures in Brenda Starr, for instance.
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Luann She made herself boring because Gunther was always whining whenever she wanted to do anything besides sit and watch TV. Now that she's sitting and watching TV he's whining about that. And somehow it's her fault. Gil Thorp  I don't think the guy getting punched yesterday was Coach Kaz, but a different coach we don't know yet. (Kaz has earrings.) The guy who punched him is one of his players who was pissed off he didn't get enough play time.
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Gunther's not happy when his girlfriend is blogging. He's not happy when she's not blogging. Put his head on a pike and hang it over the door as a warning to future boyfriends.
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My take on it is a bit different. Gunther wasn't happy fully sacrificing himself to her needs, but isn't happy with her fully sacrificing herself to his either. Neither one is good.
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EasyEW posted:Anyway, a family emergency is cutting into my effort post time for for the immediate future, which mean Mousetrapped is what's for dinner tonight.
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Bruceski posted:My take on it is a bit different. Gunther wasn't happy fully sacrificing himself to her needs, but isn't happy with her fully sacrificing herself to his either. Neither one is good. That's probably what they're going for, but the Luann writers are pretty incompetent at getting things across.
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Corto Maltese   Blueberry    Also, best wishes, EasyEW Samovar fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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1981 comics      Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins  Mexikid Stories 
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MexiKid Stories rolling up on Vera Valiant to take first place as best new thread addition of 2024.
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (February 13, 2002)  Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead 
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 Untranslatable Fingerpori   This one's some next level poo poo. The key word here is "keskustammaksi", which is a loving mess. The base of the word is "keskusta" or "keskus", which means "center" but practically means "downtown", "the center of the city". But it is then conjugated to be the comparative form, and then the translative form of that, so we basically go from: "keskusta" -- city center "keskustampi" -- more city center "keskustammaksi" -- to be more city center, or in practise "to be closer to the city center". But that conjugated form can also be a compound word consisting of "keskus" (center, but also with the colloquial meaning of "telephone operator") + "tamma" (mare), and again the translative form of that, translative being the form that indicates the outcome or result of something. So the guy either wants to be closer to downtown, or wants to become a mare phone operator. I'm trying a new format here where I spoiler the version that has the joke pun in it, and the explanation, so people can try to guess what the gently caress is going on first. Better? Or is the big spoiler section irritating and I should just go back to posting both and the explanation without the tags? Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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I don't mind the spoilered explanation, I will still be baffled by how Finnish is something people can be fluent in either way.
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Selachian posted:Flash was a polo player in the original strip. They changed him to a football player in the Sam Jones movie because to an 80s audience, polo was a prissy rich guy's sport unbefitting an action hero. American football does kind of make more sense for an action hero, since it's practically simulated combat already. Or maybe he should have been a fencer, given that he fights with a sword a bunch. Strontium posted:Macanudo Give me, warm! Give me, soft! Vintage Valiant (Apr. 16, 1961) 
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JethroMcB posted:FoxTrot Classix Look for a man with black sunglasses in Delfino Plaza - he's at the beach, close to the fruit stands. When you've gotten 30 bucks, he'll sell you a pair of sunglasses to wear, which will darken your screen appropriately.
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Haifisch posted:It's almost certainly just going to be a "kid has crush on adult who was nice to them, maybe some hijinks ensue but it's all from the kid's end, it's all harmless" story. I don't remember "Heart=Throb" from when I was reading Curtis in the 90's, but he's definitely been slotted into the position that Gunk was back then.in the strips I've seen posted in the thread, with Gunk backburnered. Is this the first time we've seen "Heart-Throb's" first name?
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riderchop posted:
Y'know, I've found that often in cooking, one can reduce the amount of sugar in dishes by up to a half, and it still ends up tasting fine. Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Apr. 16, 1961) Aw, the eldest brother stopping one of the twins from messing with the other. Just like the maid stopping him from tugging on his mother's skirt when the twins were having their christening.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Apr. 16, 1961) I'm going with "yelling so lustily" having a rather different meaning in the previous century.
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maltesh posted:I don't remember "Heart=Throb" from when I was reading Curtis in the 90's, but he's definitely been slotted into the position that Gunk was back then.in the strips I've seen posted in the thread, with Gunk backburnered. Nah, Curtis's mum always uses it.
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"Well, kids, Wildcard won out, and we drew Blasted from the hat. I guess next year we'll specify 'chosen from the three above' but for now it's probably best if your parents sit this one out."
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My Lovely Horse posted:"Well, kids, Wildcard won out, and we drew Blasted from the hat. I guess next year we'll specify 'chosen from the three above' but for now it's probably best if your parents sit this one out." It's been two decades but the syndicated comic strip cabal will unfortunately not let us run a strip depicting a performance of Avenue Q.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I'm trying a new format here where I spoiler the version that has the joke pun in it, and the explanation, so people can try to guess what the gently caress is going on first. Better? Or is the big spoiler section irritating and I should just go back to posting both and the explanation without the tags? I'm neutral on it, so whatever you and other readers feel is best, but I do want to thank you for doing it, either way. It's a highlight to see insanely untranslatable Fingerpori pop up, regardless.
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