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 quote:Old ones, new ones, American ones, Finnish ones, good, bad, or incomprehensible, this is the thread for them. As long as it ran in a newspaper it goes here. Anything on Comics Kingdom or GoComics is fair game, but if you really want to drive the thread wild, scan some classics you've got lying around. Don't worry about who normally posts it or whether anyone wants to see it, if it's a newspaper comic you can post it  Previous Incarnations
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Welcome back, and the condensed cream of the Hall of Fame is all you get at half past two in the morning... (Borden)   (David's Package)  (Depressing Box)   (Not a clue, and the trail's gone cold.)
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Adam Ames by Lou Fine. Storyline 3 (of a total 6) is beginning.  Ella Cinders by Conselman and Plumb. Started from strip 0 a month or so ago, so we're still in the first few weeks.  That Rookie from the 13th Squad by Percy Crosby. You'll see more of his work in this thread - Skippy. 
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts: Year Six (October 3-5, 1955) It most certainly is not!
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Isn't it "olly olly oxen free"? I have no idea what it means or entails, but I at least know the phrase.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Isn't it "olly olly oxen free"? I have no idea what it means or entails, but I at least know the phrase. I think that's the joke; that is, that the other girl also has it wrong. Mark Trail typically features biology tidbits on Sundays, terrible adventure plotlines on weekdays, and a mixture of copy-paste and terrible drawing courtesy of James "Jam Esallen" Allen.  Pearls Before Swine is almost always wordplay or Stephan Pastis complaining about something. His pun setups are infamous.  The Phantom features a Sunday storyline and a weekday storyline, with different artists (Terry Beatty and Mike Manley) but the same writer (Tony DePaul). Inexplicably the Sundays are usually better written.   Pooch Café is Paul Gilligan's increasingly desperate warning about the dangers of owning a sentient dog. 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Isn't it "olly olly oxen free"? I have no idea what it means or entails, but I at least know the phrase.
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New thread, so here are some of my edits from the last one:       And also this: 
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Thanks to the previous incarnation of this thread I'm now hate-reading Luann, Funky Cancercancer, and Rex Morgan MD, and I now have an affinity for 20s/30s/40s newspaper comics. drat you, thread. Happy new year.
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Hi new thread. I'm the one who posts Rhymes with Orange, which continues to prove that dad jokes know no gender.  And Pros and Cons, a well-regarded strip about lawyers, psychologists, waitresses, and cops.  I also post Edge of Adventure and Buni, but those won't be around till tomorrow at least.
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Jan 1, 2017 14:21
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I want to thank everybody for the years of entertainment. Artists, colorists, posters, all o' dang y'all. Have some terrible Sunday strips. Intelligent Life  Take It From the Tinkersons  The Finnish comics haven't updated yet, so have a bonus Fort Knox 
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I like that the first strip I read this last year was an Arlo and Jannis new years sex jokeWanamingo posted:
And it ended with the same thing. Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Selachian posted:And Pros and Cons, a well-regarded strip about lawyers, psychologists, waitresses, and cops. Pros and Cons is great, but sometimes it ventures into "That's not a joke that's a thing that happened to me yesterday" territory, which is why I like it so much.
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Jan 1, 2017 14:32
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Have some Intelligent Life edits that may or may not have been posted before.   
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Jan 1, 2017 14:44
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While Pros and Cons is being mentioned I feel obliged to repost this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ZAFRWk6sk
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Pop Team Epic Takeshobo is most known for mahjong manga! Honey Come Chatka  [TIMG]http://i.imgur.com/hc7QFoH.jpg][/TIMG]Quick recap: Sachi has been reunited with her gay roommates from her time on Broadway, while Tayo's brother competes in the Olympics. Meanwhile, the fans were turned into godzillas during a freak Pokemon GO mishap.
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Nancy is a beloved comic by an award-winning cartoonist Guy Gilchrist. Today's Dogg is a beloved comic by an award-winning cartonist Guy Gilchrist.  And let's start 2017 with Dustin 
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Can't forget the Dance Parties: Comic Strip Dance Party! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG1VIvldVJc Same Old Dance Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-2rJv3LWQc (Both posted to Youtube by JeepJumpJr... sorry I don't think he/she used the same name here, but credit wherever it's due because these are STILL awesome.) ETA: I'm thinking this was maybe Borden TofuDiva fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jan 1, 2017 |
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Fingerpori is a pun-oriented, and often impossible to translate, Finnish comic by Pertti Jarla. 'eläviä muistoja' could also be understood as 'living souveniers'     'that didn't quite go down the tube' this is one of those untranslatable ones. a ski tube or ski tunnel (hiihtoputki) is a round the year ski facility, but 'putki' also stands for doing something for a long time in a row, eg. "he's been having a drinking tube since Christmas" and conversely if you fail at something then you can say it didn't go into the tube.  This is a perfect example of Fingerpori: sexual pun, Donald Duck cameo and a setup that is only barely understandable for non-Finns (Donald Duck is Finland's most popular comic book magazine and is delivered every Wednesday)
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I'll post my comics for today in a little bit. But first, FALLING OFF THE CLIFF: 2016, A Year In Mark Trail, In Review          It's been quite a thrilling time in sexy women* falling off cliffs this year, and I have high hopes for even more exiting stumbles in 2017! *and Mark Trail
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Jan 1, 2017 19:05
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If people want info on comics, let me know and I can edit the post later. With that said; Tina's Groove  Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  Foxtrot 
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Asaekkiga is a Korean comic by Yang Young-soon. It's frequently strange and sometimes totally incomprehensible but usually funny. A lot of these were posted (and translated!) in a long-ago thread by Some Guy TT - I've been reposting because we could always use more crazy international comics. New Thread Bonus: I have this one filed away with my Asaekkiga comics but it looks completely different. I don't know where it came from! 
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Jan 1, 2017 20:14
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Arlo and Janis Arlo and Janis Classic (Oct. 26, 1994) 
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I usually just lurk this thread, but I think I'll pick up some comics I like that as far as I can tell have been dropped by others. Pickles by Brian Crane  Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson  timg'd because I felt they were a little big after posting. I'll just resize them down a little in the future.
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Sunday comics! With recaps for new people and old people who like recaps! The Amazing Spider-Man follows the same story on weekdays and Sundays. In the latest adventure, assholes from space (and the Guardians movie) keep landing on Earth and kicking Spidey's rear end. See below:  Sally Forth is a nice little joke-a-day family strip by Judge Parker writer, Ces Marciuliano. It's generally highly regarded, even though it has occasionally ventured into depressing territory over the last year. Though there is an overarching plot, Sunday strips usually stand alone.  The Heart of Juliet Jones is a romance soap strip that comes to us from the late 50's and early 60's, depending on whether you're reading Sundays or weekday. It's about a nice wholesome lady named Julie Jones and her nice wholesome sparkplug of a sister, Eve, and their nice wholesome dad, Pops, living their lives in the small wholesome town of Devon. It's a lot more fun than you'd think from that description, and the art is fantastic. (According to an article we saw last year, the artist on this strip was a pioneer in drawing recognizable emotions on the strip's characters rather than having them all just blankly stare at everything. You'd think that wouldn't have taken until the 50's to figure out.) The latest Sunday storyline starts today, so you know as well as I do what's happening!  Prince Valiant is that comic that you always skipped on the way to Garfield when you were a kid because you thought it was boring. Turns out that you were an entirely stupid child because Prince Valiant is and always was a badass. The current storyline is more or less wrapping up, but the jist is that  Phantom Classic, it turns out, does have the same story on weekdays and Sundays, but Comics Kingdom publishes them out of sync, so it doesn't seem that way. Sundays are ahead by several months, so if you start reading the weeklies and feel like it seems familiar, that's why. Anyhoo, the current Sunday plotline centers on Phantom's wolf, Devil, who just rescued Prince Whatever's son from a rampaging wild boar. It's 1951 and the Prince digs hunting, so of course his response is to show his gratitude by capturing Devil and forcing him to fight bears until he dies. Presumably when the Phantom finds out he will not be amused.  Big Ben Bolt used to be a boxer, but now he's a reporter, see? And sometimes he's a sports reporter and sometimes he just reports on general stuff. I don't know, I liked it better when he was a boxer, but I guess this strip is still good. The Sunday plot involves a pair of con artists with ridiculous fake French accents that they seem disinclined to pull out today. They conned Ben into smuggling the Mona Lisa into America, I guess. I don't know. This storyline kind of lost me early on. 
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Jan 1, 2017 21:12
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Modesty Blaise needs no introduction. 
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Peanuts (Charles Schulz) has been an inescapable fact of the Western world for well over half of a century. It's also one of my few cherished childhood memories that isn't an abject embarrassment when I pay it a revisit (which is at least once a day). So that's my excuse. (January 4, 1970) Up until relatively recently, Funky Winkerbean (Tom "Goddamn" Batiuk) was advertised as "a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues affecting young adults in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner". I will never get tired of reminding people of this, and when you see what the first shot of 2017 is, you'll understand why.  Also, to reiterate what I said when I started posting this strip last year: gently caress you, here's Crankshaft (Tom "Goddamn" Batiuk/Chuck "You Could've Escaped By Now If You Really Wanted To" Ayers). It's the story of an rear end in a top hat school bus driver and the friends and family that grudgingly tolerate him. This strip inhabits the Funkyverse, but its timeline is ten years behind Funky Winkerbean, and yet both are set in the present day. They also cross over a lot recently. It's really only confusing if you don't stack the two strips on top of each other, which is exactly why I started stacking the two strips on top of each other. Suffering builds community!  Out Our Way is a single panel strip about cowboys, machine shop workers, turn-of-the-century small town nostalgia, sibling rivalry, high-strung mothers,, and BOYZENDORGS. Out Our Way With The Willets (J.R. Williams, genuine cowboy) is the Sunday page spinoff, which is basically "Why Mothers Get Gray: The Series". Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs just hitched a ride on the top deck of my usual sources, so you get that as a bonus because newspapers were generous with their Sunday sections back in the day. (January 29 and February 5, 1928)  
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean No, his knee could have touched the ground before the ball crossed the plane. That would make him down by contact at the spot where his knee went down, where the ball ends up after that doesn't matter. Maybe they're lying to him to make him feel better, I don't know.
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Of course they are. It's just a shame he won't remember it by morning.
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Kazinsal posted:Thanks to the previous incarnation of this thread I'm now hate-reading Luann, Funky Cancercancer, and Rex Morgan MD, and I now have an affinity for 20s/30s/40s newspaper comics. Mountaineer posted:I usually just lurk this thread, but I think I'll pick up some comics I like that as far as I can tell have been dropped by others. Incidentally, to resize comics you get from imgur, just add an "h" to the filename before the extension: http://i.imgur.com/St7eM9Lh.png. That does it automatically. I also link the original so if someone wants it for editing or just to see the larger size, they can. [ url=imguraddress][ img]imguraddressh[/ img][/ url] (without spaces, of course). If I edit a comic I post, I link to the original. Speaking of which, I don't have a whole lot of edits from others, as last year my old laptop died, but I have this Mart Trail one from way back:  And a few I did. I haven't been doing edits long so they're not anything to write home about, but I try to throw one out every once in a while. I fairly regularly change just dialogue as well.     Anyways, I usually post: F Minus is a one panel gag-a-day comic that I usually find funny. I like Carrillo's style. His facial expressions are very well done and his animals are usually very cute.  Apparently they are adding a title panel to this comic this year. Mary Worth is a classic soap comic. It follows the adventures of retired widow Mary Worth, who meddles in the lives of the people around her, mostly her neighbors in her condo complex Charterstone. Last year the artist changed, and the frankly competent art we now get has taken away some of the charm the strip once had, but it's still goofy and I still enjoy it so far. Right now one of Mary's neighbors, Iris, is on a date with a much younger man (her son's age) and has embarrassed herself by wearing a skirt and blouse to a rock-and-roll show!  Rex Morgan MD is also a classic soap comic, following the life of the titular RMMD and his family: wife June, daughter Sarah, and now baby Micheal. Sarah was recently hit by a car and has lost her memory of about the last year, but that has nothing to do with today's Sunday strip, which is one of Rex's nurses (who is a veteran) on a date with the butler (who is also a vet, but also is missing a leg) of their billionaire friend who married their nanny. There is also a millionaire former mob wife. There's a lot of money and good fortune constantly getting thrown at the Morgans, but since taking over both writing and drawing, Terry Beatty seems to be trying to veer away from that.  Jungle Jim is only on Sundays, and is a vintage strip I've been posting for a little while now. It's frequently racist to a degree that is, to me, uncomfortable, but I post it anyways. It's otherwise unremarkable so far.  I post a couple of other vintage strips, Secret Agent X-9 and Apartment 3-G, but those are weekdays, and I'm tired of writing, so that's it for today.
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God help me, but I'm kind of invested in where Iris' relationship is going. Will she come crying back to Wilbur, or will she and Zack bridge the gulf of their age? I'm hoping for the latter, because seriously, gently caress Wilbur.Mountaineer posted:Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson I love Phoebe and Her Uncorn, but forgot about it when I stopped noticing it being posted. Thanks!
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Julet Esqu posted:Big Ben Bolt used to be a boxer, but now he's a reporter, see? And sometimes he's a sports reporter and sometimes he just reports on general stuff. I don't know, I liked it better when he was a boxer, but I guess this strip is still good. The Sunday plot involves a pair of con artists with ridiculous fake French accents that they seem disinclined to pull out today. They conned Ben into smuggling the Mona Lisa into America, I guess. I don't know. This storyline kind of lost me early on. I was holding off comment, but apparently Murphy is yet another writer who thinks the Mona Lisa is painted on canvas (it's actually painted on a wooden panel).
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Selachian posted:I was holding off comment, but apparently Murphy is yet another writer who thinks the Mona Lisa is painted on canvas (it's actually painted on a wooden panel). Sure, it's easy to point fingers after the fact! It's a really good fake!
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Yay new thread! I get to explain my comics! The Dinette Set is a damning look at the trashiest of white trash. Julie Larson has a deep hatred for dully ignorant suburbanites, and she's not afraid to let it show. The strip ended a while ago, and is currently in reruns.  Working Daze is (in theory) a workplace comedy strip. What it actually is is a terrible strip about a bunch of lazy one-note characters, insufferable nerds, and lazy sub-Big-Bang-Theory references. It also sometimes veers into fetish territory due to two character having ultimate cosmic powers for some reason, and turning their friends into food, plants, or various inanimate objects. Also has a hilariously overdone Wikipedia page maintained by the strip's artist.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix started life as an irregular parody of newspaper comics pages, written and drawn by noted political cartoonist Reuben Bolling. It's now maintained as a daily comic by persons unknown. 
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WickedHate posted:God help me, but I'm kind of invested in where Iris' relationship is going. Will she come crying back to Wilbur, or will she and Zack bridge the gulf of their age? I'm hoping for the latter, because seriously, gently caress Wilbur. At least he'll always have his sandwiches.
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Calvin and Hobbes, the story of a boy and his imaginary tiger, created by Bill Watterson. Well, the tiger is real, but it's a stuffed animal. Except when it's not, which is usually when Calvin is by himself. Rendering their character dynamic in terms of Fight Club is loving worn-out. We're currently in February of 1994, but as I post three strips a day, that won't be the case for long.   One of the few times I can think of in which Watterson drew breasts in an even slightly eroticized style. Creep out your friends with that trivia.  Allegedly, Watterson also thought The Dark Knight Returns was really stupid. Outland is a continuation of Bloom County, a strip which was filled with talking animals, pop culture references, and a tendency to either discard characters without fanfare or work them for decades; at its best, it was better than that combo would suggest. Outland uses several of the same characters found in Bloom County, and the name change would seem to primarily be a way for creator Berkeley Breathed to shift to a Sundays-only format without having to worry about the syndicate getting someone to do a zombified version on weekdays.    Ripley's Believe It or Not! A strip with one of the most interesting histories of any of the news-paper page-fillers, this daily feature collects curios, oddities, anecdotes, and outrageous claims from its readers, gives them cursory verification, and illustrates them for you, the hungering audience, to marvel in wonder at the freakishness of the natural world and the life decisions of its inhabitants.  Oh, so that's why we don't eat people on New Year's, either.
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's Believe It or Not! collects curios, oddities, anecdotes, and outrageous claims from its readers,
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I've been away for three or four megathreads at this point, but I'd like to say I'm very happy that Computoon is still around and as incomprehensible as ever.
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