Comic Strip Megathread XVII: I have a special recipe (cackle-cackle)

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sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Slammy posted:

Dick Tracy (November, 2009, click for big)

That tiger!!!! :kimchi:

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 16:05

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 08:25

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Nenonen posted:

YOU can swim from Tierra del Fuego to Kamchatka across just one ocean!

it's so empowering

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 19:06

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

MariusLecter posted:

What?

This could easily have been a piranha club strip

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 16:25

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Evil Mastermind posted:

That says so much about the Luann commenters, and what it says is sad as hell.

It takes a level of skill to masturbate unnoticed at the breakfast table

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 20:01

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

WindyMan posted:

Where does the castle gate slide into when it's raised? That doesn't seem like there's enough space above it for the gate to move up.

This comic strip isn't very realistic.

It rolls up like a polyurethane garage dor.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 02:57

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Why do Mr and Mrs dustin even bother going out to eat? To feed an inner sense of superiority?

# ¿ Feb 13, 2017 01:23

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Curtis rules and I get the sense the artist is at least a little self-aware

painynumbs posted:

Piraro is one of the worst working cartoonists. By far. Guy can't land one single loving joke and is also outright offensive at times to boot.

I feel like part of it is just the expressions on every character's face, in every strip. Everyone looks so loving full of ennui, like they all look like that Super Fun Pak parody of the Lockhorns, they know they're in the comic, they know they're part of a probably not good joke, and they're just going through the motions. Everyone just delivers their wry quip with no physical emotion or conviction whatsoever and it's almost draining to look at any strip for more than a few seconds.

90% of Bizarro strips:
:geno:

The minorities, eh?
:what:

Yes, I, too, have seen them depicted in media.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2017 03:06

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Selachian posted:

Here's my favorite Actually Funny Bizarro (which I like mostly for the stupid pun):

That is actually good

# ¿ Feb 15, 2017 00:10

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

I like that they made a lesbian character, but named her Prudence so the older readers know she's not a threat.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2017 00:34

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Some Guy TT posted:

Tracksuit

Well at least winter's almost over.

I feel like a lot of these have been going over my head recently, but this one made me laugh out loud. The expresisons are so great

# ¿ Feb 20, 2017 03:43

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Retail is a very good newspaper comic.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 01:25

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

I'll disagree, not least because Norm Feuti isn't a huge, gaping, flapping rear end in a top hat

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 01:59

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Manuel Calavera posted:

Family Circus

Dolly, that's a nostril

# ¿ Feb 24, 2017 01:04

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ZeeToo posted:

Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz

Help. I know Inspector Danger is impenetrable 99% of the time but what the gently caress is the cpation even talking about this time? Nobody in this strip is wiping their glasses, was there an extra line-up panel that got cut to fit the format?

# ¿ Feb 25, 2017 22:54

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Manuel Calavera posted:

One Big Happy

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 21:41

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Aardmania posted:

Heathcliff

the better Hanson song.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 00:35

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Working Daze is a shadow that casts itself.

quote:

Luann

omg i hate you so much you dumb comic strip character

# ¿ Mar 10, 2017 00:01

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Slammy posted:

Tweedy (January, 1956, click for big)

I'm missing something here- does the joke have something to do with the glass table or the lady's miserable face?

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 23:50

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Shugojin posted:

A little of both. If you look, she's also kicking/nudging her husband under the table as well as glaring at him, so he knows she does not want him to stay.

Thanks, despite Tweedy's obvious eyeline and the inclusion of the glass table for a narrative purpose I missed that. :doh:

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 00:16

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CommaToes posted:

Um... they used the wrong time change.

lol drat

I mean I guess if there's 9 am mass and 1030 mass they can just wait for the next one but lol

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 12:26

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Nenonen posted:

what kind of dating service is that??

dammit you got me

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 20:43

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Slammy posted:

And He Did. (March, 1916)

They'll Do It Every Time (May, 1940, click for big)
[5img]https://i.imgur.com/zZrDyvzh.png[/5img]

I love days like this in the And He Did comic where you get a glimpse of something you shouldn't be able to relate to, but feels relatable anyway.

And the TDIET! The groom to be's frustrated hand gesture!!

sweeperbravo fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Mar 14, 2017

# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 02:12

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Manuel Calavera posted:

Compu-Toon

Others are quote

# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 16:32

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Slammy posted:

That's not TDIET, that's thread favorite The Gay Thirties! I'd have to do a bunch of research, but I'm wondering if Gay Thirties was one of the first gag-a-day strips to show young married couples in domestic situations. From my limited browsing, many of them are oldsters.

Somehow I quoted the wrong image while quoting the correct title- gonna fix my post.

edit: You trickster, it's because you had TDIET listed under "Mopsy" :cop:

sweeperbravo fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Mar 14, 2017

# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 21:07

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Savidudeosoo posted:

Last Kiss

How vintage glam do you have to be before you get sparkly nipples?

# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 23:30

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Wow, Bernice is really and honestly the worst.

I really enjoyed this week's Tina's Grooves.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 20:12

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Slammy posted:

Archie (November, 1955, click for big)

I love classic Archie. Ms Grundy looks so disappointed in the last panel :shobon:

EasyEW posted:

Out Our Way (June 1-2, 1930)

Why've they all tied their clothes up like that though?

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 02:22

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IronSaber posted:

So I looked up what this "rarebit" is, and apparently it's like... cheese sauce over toast? And apparently this is a crazy enough dish to give people these Kafkaesque dreams.

Why don't you try making yourself some, like the rest of us did, and see the magic for yourself?

(I've made it a few times now, but it's hard for me to say whether it causes nightmares since that's all I ever have anymore anyway :smith:

Some friends who indulged the rarebit reported back having had crazy dreams afterward though)

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 17:36

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Darthemed posted:

Ripley's

They missed the opportunity to make it "Ripley's Bean-lieve it or not" :colbert:

# ¿ Mar 23, 2017 21:23

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

That's not even a well-drawn pizza and I'm hungry. :mad:

# ¿ Mar 23, 2017 23:05

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Strontium posted:

Take It From the Tinkersons

That's nice of the dad's one coworker to come to his daughter's party.

hambeef posted:

And this made me laugh out loud, thanks.

Also- did I miss something, or did Funky Winkerbean literally go from "Funky explores an abandoned house, completely devoid of narrative context" to this dumb comic-artist flashback? What was the point?

# ¿ Mar 26, 2017 16:18

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Evil Mastermind posted:

I hate everything about this, up to and including the fact that "On the Fast Track" still exists.

The thing I like least about it is it's actually "Fast Rack," what even is that

# ¿ Mar 27, 2017 19:08

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

zits: Call her friends and enlist their help to throw her a surprise party. Guests bring $5 to cover pizza or whatever. But I guess that wouldn't be funny and wacky and relatable enough, lol, girls, right, always wanting things

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 01:30

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Selachian posted:

Edge of Cheesecake

I know this is like the least worst thing about this strip, but ... how many women in 1937 wore bikinis?

Also: "I'm so glad everything is over." You don't even know who poisoned your buddy and trashed your room, how is everything over?

Do people actually just lie with their face in the sand like that? I mean aside from, like, the kids in Out Our Way?

ed: also what hand is holding that glass it doesn't look right

# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 20:32

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

bad posts ahead!!! posted:

"Erare" just doesn't bring to mind the sound of a cat screaming, no matter how much the cartoonist insists it does.

No I can hear it (first like 10 seocnds I guess)
another example

Mostly it makes me think of that stock cat scream sound, which is what I was trying to find when I found the above two videos, but you know the one- whenever they show someone in a movie or TV show walking through an alley and knocking over a trash can, the environmental stray cat always makes that stock sound. "Erare" is a servicable way of spelling it out.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2017 01:11

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Sloths are well-known for being slow-moving, and are often characterized as "lazy."

# ¿ Apr 10, 2017 21:08

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

bernice is the worst

# ¿ Apr 14, 2017 19:23

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Johnny Walker posted:

F Minus

This made me laugh really hard IRL.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2017 20:19

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Darthemed posted:

I'd add a 'Dethany from On the Fastrack' label to that Big Nate strip, but couldn't find an edit with that on the first page, so laziness wins.

Anyway, I was at a Barnes & Noble the other day, picking through their magazine selection, and one with the title Creeps caught my eye. I pulled it down, flipped through the first few pages (it turned out to be a horror comics anthology), and found the following in the letters column, so I bought it to share with the thread.

I still think Jam Esallen is a scourge but this interaction was cute

# ¿ Apr 18, 2017 23:55

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 08:25

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Tiggum posted:

The "vendo"?

From which other comic would you expect British sounding slang, than Funky Winkerbean?

# ¿ Apr 23, 2017 14:51

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