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Conan: The Blood Egg Part 1 John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:In the rough world of Conan, I find it hard to imagine that a restocking fee is ever honoured.
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It's A Sketchy Life for March 1, 1928! John Held Jr. contributes our cover this week. Frederick Strothmann:  Herb Roth:  J. Norman Lynd:  Don Herold:  Will B. Johnstone:  And here's a name you might be familiar with if you've got a long thread memory: Harry Haenigsen, at the young end of a career that would culminate in the midcentury teenage strip Penny. In '28, though, he was drinking from the Gluyas Williams well, as this centerfold demonstrates. 
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Krazy Kat(November 24, 1918) Gasoline Alley(October 26, 1919)  Little Nemo(April 19, 1908) 
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F Minus Mark Trail  So the CK Sunday comics are quite brightly colored, aren't they? Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  He totally peed in that chair. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Flash Gordon 
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD oh my god its even more boring than i suspected!
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (April 01, 2002)  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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1981 Nancy is low-key one of my favorite strips in the thread. It's absolutely god-awful bad, but it's still clinging to the conventions of what made a joke in the 30s, so it routinely fails to tell a joke while also vaguely appropriating the images of an actual joke. It feels like when people set up the AI to make infinite Seinfield or The Simpsons scripts from pre-existing data, except it's real people, presumably cashing in real paychecks around a senile ghost of a cartoonist.
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It's trying to be Bushmiller Nancy but is sloppier about it so nothing hits very well. Re: Flash discourse, I like that so far Azura's motivation seems mostly to be "in it for shits and giggles." She could be part of the evil plan, she could just be letting chaos happen for its own sake.
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail I think it's because Jules has just given up on shading at this point that the brightness stands out more. Murdstone posted:Mary Worth "The bond that links your true family are respect and joy in each other's life" and "Adapt to changing circumstances that he turned in his favor" sure are ways to describe this scumbag tricking and lying his way into this mother and daughter's life. gently caress you, Mary Worth.
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riderchop posted:Compu-toon This one made me laugh, after some time. Not because I finally got the joke, but because I felt myself going a bit crazy and had to either laugh at myself or have a lie down. LvK posted:1981 Nancy is low-key one of my favorite strips in the thread. It's absolutely god-awful bad, but it's still clinging to the conventions of what made a joke in the 30s, so it routinely fails to tell a joke while also vaguely appropriating the images of an actual joke. It feels like when people set up the AI to make infinite Seinfield or The Simpsons scripts from pre-existing data, except it's real people, presumably cashing in real paychecks around a senile ghost of a cartoonist. Maxwell Lord posted:It's trying to be Bushmiller Nancy but is sloppier about it so nothing hits very well. I wasn't sure what you guys were talking about because I thought, "Surely 1981 Nancy is Bushmiller Nancy...?" But apparently he had Parkinson's at this point and was being assisted by a couple of other artists: Al Plastino and Mark Lasky, who would succeed the strip officially (though briefly) following Bushmiller's death in 1982. Sorry if I'm just repeating lore that is well-known to the thread, but I figured if I missed it, maybe someone else did too. Did anyone ever speak publicly about the degree and nature of the 'assistance' that was happening during those last few years?
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FINGERPORI  Alright, there's layers to this poo poo today. The Finnish original was "kaduilla on petollisen liukas", which literally means "the streets are deceptively slippery", which doesn't explain why there's a giant kaiju slipping and falling on someone's house. But while "petollinen" is deceptive, "pedollinen" is beastly. Now of course there's a difference between T and D, even in Finnish, and here we have to notice that the kaiju was saying "aagh, voi rähmä" in the original. "Voi rähmä" (which is literally 'oh, eye boogers', but is just a very mild expletive) was something of a catchphrase of Pertti "Spede" Pasanen, a legendary Finnish comedian. One staple of his comedy was replacing Ds in words with Ts, and vice versa. His comedy also frequently featured people falling over things. Yes, it doesn't take much to entertain us Finns. So if we apply the Spede rule, then petollinen/pedollinen works. And here is Spede himself. 
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:FINGERPORI On first glance I thought the lizard monster thing was complaining that it had injured its nuts on one of the buildings.
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 3/3/04  Brenda Starr 10/2-4/52    Smokey Stover 2/21/60  Everyday Movies 4/21/37  "I wonder which one of them he blew his room rent on THIS week after stalling me again." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 4/1-3/43    Closer Than We Think! 2/21/60  Camp Century had to be abandoned before the 1960s were out due to shifting ice, and is now a potential environmental hazard thanks to leftover fuel oil, sewage, and nuclear waste buried under the ice. Selachian fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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THORN, May 28-June 1, 1984  And that concludes Spring 1984! Tomorrow we'll start the summer quarter which is a quick one and a big tonal shift.
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Frank and Ernest (3/4/1994)  (3/5/1994)  Ziggy  (9/25/1971)  If you can't read it, it says "The Thrills of Skydiving"
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Siberia remains the best character in this comic.
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Chicken Parmigiana posted:I wasn't sure what you guys were talking about because I thought, "Surely 1981 Nancy is Bushmiller Nancy...?" But apparently he had Parkinson's at this point and was being assisted by a couple of other artists: Al Plastino and Mark Lasky, who would succeed the strip officially (though briefly) following Bushmiller's death in 1982. I wasn't sure the extent of any assistants/ghost-cartooning off the top of my head, but at that point Bushmiller had been doing the gig for over 50 years and was one year away from dying, I assumed that the comic strip zombification process was already in place.
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Selachian posted:Closer Than We Think! 2/21/60 IN THE FUTURE! Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (February 10, 1936)  Chuck Brown: On The Run (March 7, 1977)  Crankshaft  I've only been to one place with a check-in screen. It was an understaffed lab work place, and not only was there no receptionist, the waiting room wasn't even designed to have one. It was a profoundly creepy experience, at least the first time around. I realize these characters only exist to deliver the punchline, but never more so than today. Rip Haywire  Li'l Abner (January 2-4, 1936)   Thimble Theater (October 7, 1940)  Out Our Way (February 24-26, 1944)   
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This whole Retail arc reminds me of a thing a management buddy of mine said once, which was, "As soon as someone tries to leverage an offer against you, no matter how important they are you let them take the offer and go. They're already gone, anyway." You don't have to have hard feelings about it or undermine them or whatever. But if they come to you and say, "So and so has made me an offer ..." the only answer is, "Great, happy for you, thanks for your time here and good luck." Counteroffers never keep a person longer than it takes them to leverage THAT into something else. And having that as a standing policy keeps people from pulling a bluff. Huxley fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon I'm just gonna say it, Azura, once you earn the "Witch" prefix in "Witch-Queen" ain't nobody gonna forget it
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Scary Go Round (August 23-26, 2005)    Extra long post to wrap this one up, both for pacing and because I missed yesterday. Starting tomorrow, Welcome to Oldbourne! Also, Allison starts drawing the comics by hand again, which is a refreshing visual style and also a hell of a throwback to mid-2000s webcomics. We'll get to see his style evolve over the next few
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So, because someone was a silly-billy who forgot to upload pics yesterday, have a double-helping of the usual today! Corto Maltese       Blueberry     
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise: The Wicked Gnomes  The title panel, Willie will set your hat on fire, that toasting reverend. The energy in this story is divine already!
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The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family() No strip for September 5, 1910 Baron Bean(March 6, 1916)  Polly and Her Pals(February 3, 1913)  Gasoline Alley(October 27, 1919)  Us Boys(March 4, 1912)  The Gumps(April 2, 1917)  Krazy Kat(December 29, 1913) 
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