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Mister Beeg posted:Here's a "Ozy and Millie" strip that Bill Holbrook drew as an April Fools switch in 1999. Dana drew "Kevin and Kell" that day, but it wasn't archived, apparently: It's actually available in the Extras section of the K&K site: 
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Halibut Barn posted:It's actually available in the Extras section of the K&K site: Huh, so it is. Thanks!
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There's a bit of a disconnect reading "Jane is the lesbian heir to the hard-luck Charlie Brown, somehow always winding up as the punch line in her own comic", and then immediately reading a comic where she basks in her success and lays down sick burns on the strip's hopeless everyman character. Did the strip lose its way somewhere along the line, or did Paige just read a very different version of Peanuts than I did?
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^^^^^^^ We're currently in a weird state of nested flashbacks. Literally flashbacks within flashbacks. I'm not sure what Paige is up to. ^^^^^^^ Speaking of edits, here are a bunch of beauts I've saved! I'm sorry, I don't remember the editist, please feel free to add credit where credit is due. Mark Trail     Dick Tracy  Mark Trail and Mary Worth and Rex Morgan!   
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Thorn (July 26 and 29, 1983)  Yeah, Jeff Smith's appearing in the strip again. Nina's Adventures (October 8, 1993)  Lucky Cow (February 2-4, 2004)   
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Bitchtits McGee posted:Ham Shears Pretty sure it's not unrequited, I think it's just never explicitly confirmed to try to avoid complaints. Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus is a zombie strip by Jeffy Keane, the current artist and author. Created by father Billy in 1960. It started out interesting, but has become preachy and saccharine. The father's Bil. I believe Billy is most directly based on Glen, but the only child in the strips who shares a name with one of Bil's real-life children is Jeffy. Aardmania posted:Judge Parker So, are we expected to believe that she didn't kill that woman?  Mr. Maltose posted:Cow and Boy was a pretty mediocre gag a day strip that occasionally went beyond the average but got booted off syndication. The creator tried to continue it as a webcomic, probably as a temporary measure until he could get it back into papers, but it didn't work out. The last month or so has been the Cow and the Boy discussing their inevitable end. It started out really good, it just kind of lost steam a bit toward the end and became a bit repetitive. The cast of characters was cut in half and it started relying more on callbacks and in-jokes. The early strips are really good though. Anyway, here are some of my edits from the last year. The "Amazing" Spider-Man        Apartment 3-G     Dick Tracy  Dilbert  Garfield   Jane's World  Luann  Mary Worth   Momma  Pooch Café  Rex Morgan, MD   What? Who is this?  And for anyone who's interested, I have this blog where I post edits and other stuff, and I also do the Twitter and have a Facebook.
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Everyone keep posting their edits! It's the only way some comic strips can be funny. An edit of an edit of an edit... editception! 
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Heathcliff Heathcliff is the best cat in comics. He beats up dogs, makes mice worship him, steals fish and meat effortlessly. The strip is kind of low-effort and ends up being very surreal as a result. I look forward to Garbage Ape 2014.  Mandrake the Magician Mandrake the Magician was created in 1934 by Lee Falk, who also created The Phantom. Long-time Mandrake artist Fred Fredericks retired last year in the middle of a story about aliens masquerading as a fat Asian man. The syndicate has been doing re-runs ever since. The muddled faces and incoherent stories of the later Fredericks years have been replaced with cleaner linework and the tersest, manliest dialogue in comics. Previous stories include the origin of Mandrake, Mandrake's brother Luciphor...known as Cobra breaking out of prison, getting haircuts and wearing Groucho Marx glasses in (successful) attempts at evading the law. Right now we're in the middle of a story about Mandrake and his friend Lothar fighting against a frog alien from outer space..."Way out." The Frogman is the winner of the 2013  Award for Best Comeback. Marmaduke Marmaduke is a big dog. Sometimes I edit them, lately I've been too lazy to do it. Marmaduke has been done by artist Brad Anderson since it began in 1954, which is pretty impressive in its own right.  The Phantom Lord of the Jungle, the hero who stalks, The beasts call him brother, the ghost who walks! Phantom! Comics Kingdoms puts it really well: The Phantom is a classic comic strip about a masked superhero with a patriarchal birthright to restore justice in the most dangerous parts of the world. The Phantom lives in the jungle nation of Bangalla with the Bandar tribe alongside his wife and children, just like the previous 23 Phantoms. The Phantom, created by Lee Falk who also created Mandrake the Magician is currently being written by Tony DePaul and drawn M-Sat by Paul Ryan and on Sundays by Terry Beatty. Sunday installments are a separate storyline than weekdays. The current weekly storyline is about some rear end in a top hat who is taking advantage of a reporter in order to find the secret Bandar treasure that he thinks exists. The current Sunday storyline is about the fifth Phantom's wife, apparently.  Pickles Pickles, by Brian Crane, is about the retirees Earl and Opal. Earl is an old man who enjoys doing grandpa things like messing with his grandson's head and telling bad jokes. Opal enjoys messing with Earl and being a grandma. Their grandson Nelson often appears, and sometimes their daughter Sylvia also shows up. I haven't seen Sylvia's husband Dan show up in awhile, but he exists. In 2013 it won the Reuben award.  The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man is still written by Stan Lee, which is probably why it's so insane. 2013 was a big year for our Webslinger: he was almost crushed by an elephant in Las Vegas, hitched a ride to San Francisco where he was beat up by Daredevil, was tricked into drinking milk, got hit by a falling pipe, and fought against Kingpin. He then headed to South America by getting on a plane while in his suit because his ticket was stolen. He got past the gates by calling up his good friend Barack Obama. He then proceeded to deal with a bratty kid, giving us this gem of a strip:  He then fought alongside Tarantula (who made an appearance by jumping out of a burning truck) to free the country of Costa Verde from the vicious dictator El Condor. Now he's finally back in New York, where JJJ has put out headlines claiming that the Spidey getting off the plane isn't really Spidey, and now he's using an old Iron Man suit to track the heartbeat of our hero in order to point him out. Of course, since this is newspaper Spider-Man, instead of leaving like anyone who doesn't have brick-induced brain damage would do, he's instead decided to...   I'm currently posting Spider-Man in place of Julet Esqu, who is out for the holidays. Sunday Rip Haywire On Sundays, Rip Haywire runs pages from the Rip Haywire graphic novel, Rip Haywire and the Curse of Tangaroa. So far we've learned a little bit about Rip's childhood and relationship with his mother, how he first met Cobra, and now he's unleashed an ancient wizard ghost.  Classic Prince Valiant   I'm posting the original Prince Valiant from the beginning. It's a very good and very badass comic. Right now, Val is the squire of Sir Gawain, and is single-handedly trying to take back a castle from a man known as The Ogre. Fighting fear with fear, Val has dressed up as a demon. This sequence inspired the design of Etrigan the Demon. The first story about Val as a child and his first quest with Sir Gawain can be found here.
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:drumroll: Or, more probably,  HERE IS THE HALLOWED CSMT DERP COLLECTION! Mostly from 2012, and 2013, and still being added to. Cheers, and Happy 2014 to everyone! It's pretty huge, so thumbnailed... 
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Going back to the "Retail" discussion, I figure I'd repost its crossover with "Dustin"
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RandomPauI posted:Who is or was Jack MacAskill? A poster who made many funny edits and posted some good comics who vanished around summer of last year. FactsAreUseless posted:Hey, this edit wasn't me. I'm not sure who it was, but all my Spider-Man edits are text-only and not animated. I knew saving these would become useful one day.                       That's all I have. e: I lied              Some misc edits of yours:   e2: Christ, that's a lot of edits. Should I timg? What do you think, thread? GorfZaplen fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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GorfZaplen posted:e2: Christ, that's a lot of edits. Should I timg? What do you think, thread? 's ok.. it's the beginning of a new thread dadgummit! 
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If we're throwing in edits, here's some stuff I made in the last thread that I'm not too embarrassed to repost.  And one by tiistai  Ulfhednar:  Kennel:  R Ubbish:     Plus some Luanne avatar fodder:  And Mandrake being amazing:  The Amazing Spider-Man wins, though. This is just one instance. 
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GorfZaplen posted:e2: Christ, that's a lot of edits. Should I timg? What do you think, thread? Have you considered an imgur gallery? Like the one AxeManiac posted earlier. I find they're easy to curate and much simpler to refer back to than a big ol' post on some page of a thread but you can't remeber exactly when you made it...
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I used to post a strip, but it ran out. Then I posted another strip, but it sucked. For now, the return to this page of Lio and Red and Rover.  We're posting our own edits??? Okay, but that's effed up.         
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F Minus Here are some avatars I made over the past year:  The dog was done with it, so we popped it on and filled it with cereal.      Would you like to donate a dollar to this sad little kid?  I'm no alien being I'm just a golf ball ellie the beep fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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Nuts. This has to be the best possible time for me to miss a day but I already translated and imgured everything. Theoretically I post 5 times a week, but it's more often 3 or 4 because of boring work reasons. I never bother apologizing, though, since I'm not under any actual obligation to this thread and I don't think anyone actually notices. The reason I'm mentioning this is because if you're scared of posting due to uncertainty about whether you can be consistent, don't be. It's not actually that big a deal. Post when you can, even if it's only once a week or once a month. Unless someone tells you to stop, obviously. Comics (November 9th 2006) I called this syndicated classics last year but that sounds pretentious so I'm just calling these comics from now. These come from my alma mater's college newspaper's online archives. They're a cross-section of comics that appealed to young people seven years ago, so I figure, hey, why not post? Boondocks  Don't get too attached to this one. These are reprints from MacGruder's final hiatus so they're going to be gone in a few weeks. Doonesbury  There's actually a dedicated Doonesbury thread here but as you can see it hasn't been updated for awhile. Poor Doonesbury, too political for normal comics, too mainstream for the political cartoon thread. These ones don't count as political since Republicans have retroactively repudiated everything Trudeau made fun of back then. F-Minus  These are the only comics from the set that are particularly difficult to find, since old F-Minus strips don't appear to be archived anywhere more coherent than an old university page. Drawn by Tony Carrillo. FoxTrot  Probably one of the comics you recognize from your childhood, assuming you're a hip young person today. And yes, it holds up. Drawn by Bill Amend. Non Sequitur  This one is more ambivalent. Wiley is in the awkward place of having good art but punchlines that are only kind of "meh" when you think about them. This one's pretty decent though. --- Eyebeam  Written by Sam Hurt, Eyebeam was one of the last independent comics published in newspapers before syndication completely took over. Right now it's in the early eighties I think. It's All Right Chief Dharma  Published in The Daily Focus and written by Park Sung-Hoon, It's All Right Chief Dharma is a Korean office comedy. Well half of them take place outside the office but that's the connecting theme is that all the characters work in the same place. This is not a syndicated comic- South Korean newspaper comics are either owned outright by the papers that publish them or leased by an artist who has an online site somewhere. Chief Dharma's the easiest of the bunch to understand, as it has traditional punchlines. The others tend to either be really informal or are basically non-fantasy manga serials. Asaekkiga Part 1  The first two panels are just "humans are different from animals" and "they can use tools". Asaekkiga Part 2  Oh right, Asaekkiga is a Korean comic written by Yang Young-Soon and published by...well I'm not really sure. New ones stopped being made a few years ago. Supposedly they showed up in a combination porn / sports magazine but I've not been able to verify this personally. These probably won't last all year- just until I run out of Korean blogs that have reposted them. You only get two a week, so that they'll last longer. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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You know, all that talk about Li'l Abner in the last thread, I forgot to mention that there was a short lived series of animation done in 1944 for theatrical release by Columbia Pictures. Columbia had their own in-house animation studio called Screen Gems (they still use the name today on their horror films). The reason why you never heard about Columbia's animation (aside from UPA) while you may be familiar with Warner Bros., Disney, or MGM is because their cartoons aren't that good. While their cartoons are generally well-animated, they're wern't really funny, although they managed to make some that are amusing. At best, Columbia cartoons are just pure "WTF" for how drat bizarre many of them are. Their most popular series was the "Fox and Crow", which was one of the only things they got right  Screen Gems made five Li'l Abner cartoons. Apparently Al Capp wasn't pleased with how the cartoons came out, so further production was cancelled. Anyway, here they are. The cartoons were all made in TechniColor, but due to Columbia being sucky at preserving their early short films, some of them only survive in black and white copies. Sadie Hawkins Day Kickapoo Juice (only survives in black and white) Amoozin' But Confusin' (three minute excerpt)
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Mark Trail. As the Comics Curmudgeon points out, Mark Trail has a strange relationship with perpsective-skewed giant hornets, so this is possibly what we in the humour word call a "reference" or "callback." You'll notice the nature/soap-opera/drama strip Mark Trail has only one person's signature, the ominous Jackelrod. These days*, M Trail is largely assembled from recycled art, which gives it an eerie, unnatural quality and makes it a prime subject for edits. I post M Trail Monday through Saturday; I don't much care for the Sundays but I'll post them if they catch my fancy. An easy shorthand in M Trail is that anyone with facial hair (up to and including sideburns) is a villain and thus subject to Mark's fists of justice. * or, arguably, since 1978 when Jackelrod became sole proprietor of the strip Apartment 3G. Watch out! She's going for her gun!  Apartment 3G is a soap opera strip ostensibly focused on the lives of three young women who live in Apartment 3G. There's Margo, based on Joan Collins, who is a sociopath; Tommie, based on Lucille Ball, who has been absent from the strip for 6 months, in Italy; and Lu Ann, based on Tuesday Weld (whom I know only through her marriage to Juliet Jones (1956-10-08). I hear there's a medicated shampoo for that.  I love this goddamned strip and I wish I could remember who began posting it in the last thread; someone with a Ham Shears avatar, maybe? The Heart of Juliet Jones is a vintage King Features soap opera strip by Stan Drake with amazing naturalistic artwork. The main characters are the sensible Juliet Jones, her flighty sister Eve, and their elderly father. The characters above are none of these, both being newcomers to the town of Devon, where JJ is set. Carrol is a new clerk at Mr Jones', and his wife is helping Juliet out at her hat store.
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Modesty Blaise Modesty Blaise originally ran in London's Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001. Created by writer Peter O'Donnell and artist Jim Holdaway, the daily strip featured the adventures of Modesty, a young woman with a criminal past, now retired and living in England. Her companion Willie Garvin is a similarly skilled man. While their relationship is strictly platonic, either of them would give their life for the other if it came to it. After Jim Holdaway's sudden death in 1970, Enrique Baida Romero took over artistic duties for almost the rest of the decade. Keeping Holdaway's style when he first took over, Romero moved to his own style, which can be good or bad depending on what strip you consider. We're now in August 1972, the Watergate scandal is in full gear, the Berlin Olympics opened with great fanfare, and Modesty starts a new adventure.   Well this is gonna be a fun one. "Daddy, daddy, can we kill step-mama for you?" 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Juliet Jones (1956-10-08). I hear there's a medicated shampoo for that. Juliet Jones was posted by Julet Esqu, who should be returning in about a week or so.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Apartment 3G In a desperate bid for attention, Tommie has gotten engaged. I can't wait to see what ridiculous thing happens to Margo or Lu Ann to sideline her again. Do you think we'll actually get to see the fiancé or just hear about how the wedding's been called off after the fact? I'm hoping that someone proposes to Lu Ann again and the strip focuses entirely on that and we never hear another word about Tommie's forthcoming wedding.
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Gil Gil debuted exactly two years ago today and since I didn't start posting it until August 2012 I figured we'll take a look at the first eight months. And Gil, just be glad your mom hasn't discovered the unholy offspring of Scrabble and video games that is Words with Friends. Retail  Wow it's nice to see the stockroom supervisor grow up and set a great example in customer service for the subordinates. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Oh no Bleeker you're not watching Skip this very second he could be sticking a fork in an outlet or something! Dustin  Actually I think everyone knows that Christmas is one chaotic blur of activity. On the Fastrack  That's pretty much standard procedure for a lot of creative work done on company payroll during company time. Safe Havens  Samantha finds photographic voyeurism sexy I guess.
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Midnight Moth posted:On the Fastrack Still looks like crap compared to Nemi, though.
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Tiggum posted:The father's Bil. I believe Billy is most directly based on Glen, but the only child in the strips who shares a name with one of Bil's real-life children is Jeffy. Pff, semantics.  Tina's Groove  Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Fingerpori is a daily comic strip from Finland which I originally started posting here some four years ago because the strips often featured characters like Spider-Man and The Phantom, both of which the thread had previously enjoyed. It turned out that the thread equally enjoyed the comic's weird pun-based humour and unique Finnishness. Classics like Viperless Milk (sadly lost to me, does anyone else still have a copy?) are still remembered to this day. These days it's mostly posted by fellow Finnish Goon tiistai, although many others pitch in as well. Today's strip is a great example of Fingerpori at its typical:  Wait, what? Well, you see, "purist" in Finnish is "puristi", which is also the past tense of "puristaa", "to squeeze". So it looks like the child star is accusing the mayor of being a child molester. This is a running joke in Finerpori, the poor mayor getting all his words misinterpreted. Case in point this blast from the past:  And a couple others from my archives:         Aaand loads more either here or in a convenient ZIP file! Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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Tiggum posted:Pretty sure it's not unrequited, I think it's just never explicitly confirmed to try to avoid complaints. How do you figure that? Ingrid has never expressed any noticeable level of affection for anything, plus the strip is web-only as far as I know, so reader complaints are far less likely to be a concern. Kammat posted:Well this is gonna be a fun one. "Daddy, daddy, can we kill step-mama for you?" Dear Lord, not even ten strips in and already this guy's neck-and-neck with Uncle Happy for "Creepiest Blaise Villain"! But never mind that. Here's some comics I meant to post yesterday. Jim's Journal  I guess Jim just doesn't understand cats. Ham Shears   And now, another introduction: Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future is a seminal British adventure comic, published in the boys' periodical Eagle from its first issue in 1950 to its last in 1969. The central characters are the eponymous daredevil Chief Pilot of the International Space Fleet and his chubby, cheeky batman Digby, and atomic-age space opera is always the order of the day. Anyone wanting to catch up on or revisit Dare's previous adventures can find them albumed up on my imgur account, but as for the current one, it's still early enough for a full summary: A spaceship of unknown design somehow appeared in orbit over Earth without its approach having been detected. Dare, Digby, and submarine commander Lex O'Malley (just introduced) flew up to try and make it identify itself, but before they could do anything more than stare at it expectantly, it spontaneously exploded and the remains fell into the Pacific Ocean just off Japan. Digby swears he saw another bit of the ship shoot off elsewhere just before the explosion, but he's from Lancashire so nobody pays him any mind.   Bitchtits McGee fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Bitchtits McGee posted:How do you figure that? Ingrid has never expressed any noticeable level of affection for anything, plus the strip is web-only as far as I know, so reader complaints are far less likely to be a concern. I can't pull up any solid evidence, it's just the impression I've gotten from various strips.
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Oh yes, two 20-something women living together in an apartment with no obvious male attachments, They MUST be loving. You got it, you cracked the case. Good job, slugger.
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Jack McAskill was a great poster who introduced us to The Creeps I post it in his honor, in hopes that he returns once again and favors us with more funny edits. Cul-de-sac  The Creeps 
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:Cul-de-sac Did the colorist mistake Dill's hat for hair and color his face brown because of that. 
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Bitchtits McGee posted:And now, another introduction: Yay! Bitchtits, you rock!  Don't let anyone tell ya any different. Bitchtits McGee posted:...the scans usually look better than this, though. Or is that just me? Yep, the ones you did before looked a bit better. Did you change something in your method? Jane's World  Watch out Ted, there's a storm headed your way. Non Sequitur  Conduit. Well, conduit, and mousetraps. Problem solved. Heavenly Nostrils is yesterday's. Kliban's Cats  Huh.  1st 2014 addition to the derp collection, though.9 Chickweed Lane 1/2/2003   Zits  I think it would've been funnier if they were standing next to each other texting instead of actually speaking. I mean, how do you "say" those icons? Kevin & Kell   And, yes! The gears are turning in the UK again! Here's today's Metro's Nemi!  I'll confess, I've not seen a single episode of GoT (which I assume is what this is a reference to because of the author of the book), so I have no idea why Cyan's so pissed.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:And, yes! The gears are turning in the UK again! Here's today's Metro's Nemi! A number of somewhat upsetting events occur throughout the story. 
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Johnny Aztec posted:Oh yes, two 20-something women living together in an apartment with no obvious male attachments, They MUST be loving. There's more to it than that, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who sees it, but I don't have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the comic to go back through and pull up evidence, so I can't be more specific, sorry.
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