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[buries my face in my hands] god I am not looking forward to revisiting January 2021 even if I did experience those strips in real time and can't remember them.        Miranda you gotta sever from your dads. You have to. Don't Make Biscuits On Me 
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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon They’ve shown that table of stuff a few times now—are we supposed to recognize those things? The mask kind of looks like the cloaked henchman’s gold mask from the 1980 Flash Gordon movie.
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Into Ilves Still no idea what the plan is supposed to be and why the piglet is so important, but knowing this comic it's something pretty nonsensical, but ends up working anyway.  Nancy  Dustin 
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Guys I have romantic inclinations towards the Roo plugger
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Kennel posted:Still no idea what the plan is supposed to be and why the piglet is so important, but knowing this comic it's something pretty nonsensical, but ends up working anyway.  I've lost track as well but since it's Into I just trust that it's really important he save this pig and I'm having a good time watching him go to so much trouble.EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater (June 30, 1940) These are extra hilarious side by side, going from the good antics of Popeye taking a literal straight line to his destination as a walking wrecking ball to Randy loving up a pure action strip with the same gusto. There's so many art errors between panels 5 and 6 that I'd swear he asked Jules to help him. The Thimble Theater is a great reminder that Popeye is as much of a stubborn jackass as Pappy is, which is probably why Popeye almost immediately forgave him for the abandonment. 
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Selachian posted:I should note that the current Pluggers artist, Rick McKee, is also a political cartoonist, and pretty hard right. At least he doesn't let it leak into his Pluggers work. i mean, it doesn't really need to; the entire concept of Pluggers from its inception is dogwhistle central (seriously, that archived website is hilariously bad)
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someone awful. posted:i mean, it doesn't really need to; the entire concept of Pluggers from its inception is dogwhistle central (seriously, that archived website is hilariously bad) What dogwhistles are you hearing? It's mostly grumbles about how the characters are old, overweight, or underpaid, which I find hard to translate directly to translate into calls for a race war.
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Yeah it’s boomer stuff but not like, that kinda boomer stuff.
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i don't think pluggers itself is actively harmful, but it's definitely interested in propping up the kind of anti-"elitism", white conservative americana normatism, joe the plumber type boomer poo poo that enables a bunch of other really bad stuff and it's kinda uncomfortable
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someone awful. posted:i don't think pluggers itself is actively harmful, but it's definitely interested in propping up the kind of anti-"elitism", white conservative americana normatism, joe the plumber type boomer poo poo that enables a bunch of other really bad stuff and it's kinda uncomfortable ? It’s jokes about getting old. 20 years ago I didn’t find it funny and now I hate that I’m actively in half of the punch lines.
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someone awful. posted:i don't think pluggers itself is actively harmful, but it's definitely interested in propping up the kind of anti-"elitism", white conservative americana normatism, joe the plumber type boomer poo poo that enables a bunch of other really bad stuff and it's kinda uncomfortable Conservative thought certainly preys on the perceived normality of the not-quite-middle-class white majority, but that's very different from thinking any depiction of (plausibly) white old men complaining about getting old and work sucking is "enabling" "bad stuff." Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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emSparkly posted:Yeah it’s boomer stuff but not like, that kinda boomer stuff. for that kind, see Dustin. The Pluggers would see Dustin is trying, and think he's got salt.
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Crab Dad posted:? Everyone seems to be going through a phase lately where we all work as hard as we can to avoid enjoying things and making sure other people avoid it as well. Everything is problematic when you put the work into figuring out why and goons are rolling up their sleeves...
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Weembles posted:Everyone seems to be going through a phase lately where we all work as hard as we can to avoid enjoying things and making sure other people avoid it as well. this is also part of getting old
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I was initially deterred from posting vintage Pluggers, because only the thumbnails exist on archive.org and are almost illegible: Then I found a random neural image upscaler site, and ran it through:  If I can figure out a workflow that doesn't completely suck, I might just start posting these too.
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be sure to check out the "Poetry" page. it is kind of interesting seeing ones early on that present knowledge of computers, then ones with reader attributions that are vehemently anti-computer. A war between a bunch of non-pluggers going "is this anything?" about hiding computer purchases from their wives and then pluggers writing in to say "pluggers don't do Windows!"
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LvK posted:be sure to check out the "Poetry" page. Pluggers don’t do Windows. They learned a bit of BASIC for the Apple II at school for a bit and that’s all they remember.
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Hwurmp posted:this is also part of getting old You'd think so, but I've been told that's a young folks game nowadays, too.
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD What is going on with Rene's shirt and beard though?
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manero posted:I was initially deterred from posting vintage Pluggers, because only the thumbnails exist on archive.org and are almost illegible: The joke doesn't make much sense, though, since real pluggers would be slamming McDonald's into their face.
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manero posted:I was initially deterred from posting vintage Pluggers, because only the thumbnails exist on archive.org and are almost illegible: Wow, I can't believe you'd post this horrible dogwhistle. May as well be posting Mein Kampf in its entirety!
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i guess i forgot stuff can't be contributing to an othering atmosphere without literally endorsing naziism, my bad i guess idk i absolutely do not read working-class solidarity off pluggers, i'd like it a lot more if that was the feel i got from it
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Endless Mike posted:Wow, I can't believe you'd post this horrible dogwhistle. May as well be posting Mein Kampf in its entirety! Modern Pluggers definitely has some weird dogwhistles. Masking, hyphenated last names, and gender-neutral bathrooms. I have a feeling Classic Pluggers is less of that, but don't hold me to it. McKee's other editorial cartoons definitely have some hot takes so it leaking into Pluggers doesn't surprise me.
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I really do not understand what is going on in these Sunday Phantoms. Is he trying to undo the stupid mystery man/unknown commander horseshit he’s cultivated in the Jungle Cops? Whichever phantom started that tradition must have been drunk.
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manero posted:Modern Pluggers definitely has some weird dogwhistles. Masking, hyphenated last names, and gender-neutral bathrooms. I have a feeling Classic Pluggers is less of that, but don't hold me to it. You might need a large sampling for them to show up, and to be keyed in to the culture wars of 30 (?) years ago.
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I think todays actively hateful groups are pretty open and proud about it and don't need to hide behind layers of meaning in the "fat blue collar cat/bear man has the same back aches and physical labor job as you/your dad" comic for elderly people and those working up to becoming elderly people. Edit: That WAR below me, wow-ee another entry for ejection into the sun. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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We Are Reproducing When translating this, I just couldn’t conceive of the possibility that the guy might actually be speaking literally and “joking” about his (presumably) friend’s husband/boyfriend “solving all his problems” by inducing a miscarriage, and assumed “a kick in the stomach” had to be some kind of idiom for something, but checked with some native speakers, and nope, he’s being entirely literal, just an incredible rear end in a top hat.
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Darthemed posted:Wow, that's actually some pretty dynamic art, let alone by the modern strip's standards. Macnelly ranked among the top cartoon artists when he was around.
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Scary Gary    Caption It! "Caption It!" is a new cartoon caption contest that runs every week in this space. Are you creative? Do you have a weird sense of humor? Then send us a submission along with your name and town! Email entries to captionitcartoon@gmail.com or go to @caption_it_cartoon on Instagram to comment/like. Remember to keep captions brief and clean. Good luck! 
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Mr. Squishy posted:You might need a large sampling for them to show up, and to be keyed in to the culture wars of 30 (?) years ago. The archived pluggers site that got linked literally has whining about kids these days and their nose rings: quote:Today, Pluggers continues to run in a growing list of newspapers, ranging from the Chicago Tribune and Boston Globe, to the Daily Quill in West Plains, Missouri. More than ever, the ideas for the cartoon come from real-life pluggers, via the post office and e-mail. And through these ideas, the definition of what it means to be a plugger in the modern world continues to evolve and grow. I've seen irl people who'd fit right into pluggers. You don't actually want to hang out around those people unless you're also a smug old miserable piece of poo poo.
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