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Five pages in and all we have are Mike du Jour edits? Philistines! Mike Du Jour Mike du Jour is the rare triple entendre: the main character's name, the artist's own name and an honest description of the strip. "Like the freedom of a chef designing a menu every day based on what's fresh, MDJ is whatever fresh idea I can cook up," he says. Mike (the character) is an autobiographical composite. He's "a combination of Walter Mitty, Buster Keaton and moi. He's single, a bit of a loner and a situational counter-puncher, heavyweight division". Mike works in a generic office environment known as Big Bottom Line Inc., and since he and his co-workers don't have enough problems, they invent them. "Office work is boring," says Lester, "or so they tell me." From the artist himself: "Put a kid in a room alone with nothing but pencils, paper, his own imagination and you get me. By normal standards I should be an anti-social home pest exterminator by day and WWF fan by night. But I'm not. I'm a cartoonist and for two reasons: I could not hit the curve but I could hit a nerve. I am classically trained to be able to find the classical station when I need to. Beyond that, I've been making it up since I was in that room alone. Truth is, God was in there with me just like he is today and we've managed to knock out some pretty decent work in a number of different areas working with some incredibly talented people and for some great clients. There are more wooden plaques on the wall than I ever imagined. All of them spelled my name right and frankly, I deserve them." Mike Lester is also an award-winning editorial cartoonist (syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group) and commercial artist. 2000 National Cartoonist Society: Best Book Illustration 2004 National Cartoonist Society: Best Advertising Illustration 2006 National Cartoonist Society: Best Book Illustration 2008 National Cartoonist Society: Best Book Illustration 2010 National Cartoonist Society: Best Book Illustration 2003 Georgia Press Association Designer of the Year 2007 and 2010 recipient Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartoons given by the Society of Professional Journalists. 2009 Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for work on the children's book Cool Daddy Rat. He also authored and illustrated "A is for Salad" a New York Times best-seller.            
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Marmaduke Circa 1968 Marmaduke is a giant hound from hell that when he appeared in 1954 was a terror to everyone including his "owners". The years have not been kind to this demon dog and as time passes his overwhelming evil becomes ever more blunted and the strip is doomed to the realm of a zombie-comic about dorgs (and in the most milquetoast way possible). The 1968 era Marmaduke still has moments of diabolical evil, but more and more it is simply a comic about a big dumb dog.  meh.  meh.  There's the old killer canine!
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Monty Monty is an American comic strip created, written and illustrated by cartoonist Jim Meddick. Monty spoofs suburbia, trashes tacky TV shows and offers absurdest commentary on everything from hosing down spider monkeys to the latest conspiracy theory. Monty Montahue, the brainy, bumbling bachelor who's unlucky in work and love, is the star of the strip.              
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Mike du Jour Marmaduke circa 1968  Monty 
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Johnny Walker posted:
Hot steamy teen action. If you like the notion of a loaf of wonder-bread in a blonde wig snogging in a sub-compact car. Mike du Jour  Monty 
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Part of why Foxy Grandpa works for me is you don't need the dialogue. In some instances it helps, but it isn't strictly required. I know most current strips are "past" visual slapstick type gags, but imagine trying to get any laughs out of almost any of them if they were pantomime strips.
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Pakled posted:Everett True What I wouldn't give to see turn of the century graffiti. How do you tag a poster to expose the models ankles?
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Captain_Maclaine posted:I imagine it's not particularly different from what you'd get these days. The high art of drawing dicks on things goes back to at least Roman times, if not earlier. B-o-r-i-n-g.... But you are probably right.
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Tunicate posted:The preserved graffiti from Pompeii is pretty funny. My favorite graffiti is in the Hagia Sophia. The content isn't any big deal, but bored viking bodyguards in a Muslim temple is an amazing image.
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Vastakaiun posted:It would've been an Orthodox church back when the vikings were around. Regardless, the fact that pious persons of one devotion or another hired heathen bodyguards to kill their enemies on holy days is amazing.
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Mike du Jour   Monty   Less a joke, more a poignant lesson. If you don't know Jack about cars, crack a book and at least learn the basics. 
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Mike du Jour Monty  Obligatory song about pandas dying Indolent Bastard fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jan 14, 2014 |
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Hey man, don't mess with Astronauts.
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Mr. Cool Ice posted:In today's installment: Slipping on a banana peel. Sexy Grandpa Abroad. Unintentionally he hurts the feelings of a Parisian Count, but he gives him full satisfaction on the field of honor. (If you know what I mean  ).
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By request Monty     Mike du Jour    
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Elohssa Gib posted:I know this is old but isn't 800 square feet a big apartment, cause I live in an house the same size with 6 other people, and 2 semi-regular guests. This is the authors idea of poor. Wasn't it him that thought minimum wage was $12?
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Some Guy TT posted:It's All Right Chief Dharma I almost never "get" this strip. Monty  Mike du Jour 
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Trent posted:What the hell is he wearing on his head? A helmet while driving a car? Its a flat-hat. 
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Volume posted:I'm trying to figure out what the purpose of this contraption is for. Would it help narrow things down if I told you his new neighbors are cows?
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Because you are a spaz you bee murderer. Monty  Mike du Jour 
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