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Vargo posted:Curtis I don't know why I like this so much but I do.
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The_Other posted:Yeah that was the first thing I thought of too. Second thing I thought of was Jim Gaffigan's manatee routine on Dr. Katz I'd forgotten who'd done the manatee bit. Thank you, thank you.
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EasyEW posted:
Oh, this is gorgeous work, especially Cinderella's roadster. drat.
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Jan 11, 2021 00:07
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Tiggum posted:Are we supposed to think the kids are being unreasonable here? Those kids weren't 100% physically active the entire time they were at the ski slopes so clearly they were lazily faffing about, laughing with their friends all muppet-mouthed and ignoring their chores at home. How dare they.
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Jan 25, 2021 11:20
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Here goes Holbrook mixing the messages like so much DNA.
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Jan 25, 2021 14:02
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This is pretty much how a good sound effects engineer would work. A nice ripe melon or gourd dropped from six feet makes for an excellent body-hitting-the-ground effect. A large bag of Jell-O also works if you are worried about making a mess, but it's not as concussive. (For some really excellent horror audio, check out a Canadian series called Nightfall and one episode in particular called The Repossession. The end sequence is incredibly disgusting and involved an sfx artist moving his hand underneath the raw skin of a dead chicken to start.)
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Jan 26, 2021 08:07
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Slammy posted:Hitz and Mrs. (November 1923) I was curious why Milt Gross would use the common "applesauce" for the bullshit panel instead of his own "Banana Oil!" catchphrase, so I looked it up and it turns out this strip was a month away from Banana Oil's debut. So here he's playing with the concept before he realizes he needs a change of fruit.
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Jan 31, 2021 13:21
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Get hosed Ed Kudlick
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Slammy posted:Oaky Doaks (August 7, 1935) This is suitable-for-framing fantastic.
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Feb 4, 2021 12:57
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Oh, we're going to keep this poo poo up all week, aren't we.
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Feb 9, 2021 08:37
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The Bloop posted:I thought it was determined that tinkersons guy is just a dorky fan and not a paid shill Yeah, and the amusement park the Tinkersons guy plugs is like the small hometown park he grew up going to, not something big like Six Flags. I've always found his hamfisted plugs kinda charming. Maybe they give him free funnel cake now.
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Feb 11, 2021 01:19
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You made an awesome post, no one needs to apologize for posting awesome. I love the throwback flashback panel with Mildred's bear badge. It's perfect.
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Feb 12, 2021 13:51
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FOR THE LUVVA MUD! Sounds like Ben Grimm read Ella Cinders while growin' up.
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I hate this Zits storyline soooooo much for using an absolutely toothless strawman statement at the center of a bad faith argument about cancel culture. Cause golly, if they can "cancel" Jeremy for merely making an innocent observation about penguins, what will they cancel you for? There's no way Scott would have let Jeremy say something actually repellant and ignorant, because then the aftermath would have/should have involved him actually listening to people and learning something and making amends rather than just pointing his head up and hollering "WHAT DID I DO!?!" Scott and Borgman are sliding down the same aging white male trail that Rick Detorie blazed for 'em, and I'm pretty disappointed.
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Feb 18, 2021 23:11
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Parahexavoctal posted:Fibber McGee and Molly, brought to us by Johnson and Johnson. (July 18, 1937) Oh, wow! This is the first I've heard of any FM&M comic strip/ad series and it looks like one of the rare radio adaptations which keeps the feel of the show's characters and dialogue (that ad where Jack Benny pulls one over on Mary was pretty dire). If the Jordans and/or Don Quinn didn't actually write this stuff I'd love to know which house writer could. Howard Beale fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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 (I joined this site twenty years ago to post snark and mostly-low-effort Photoshops, why change now)
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Feb 23, 2021 04:59
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JethroMcB posted:My grandfather's favorite kind of green beans were "Southern style." My mom's generation's attitude towards vegetables was boil em down and put either vinegar or Lowry's seasoning salt on em. It was years before I discovered that broccoli and carrots actually tasted good.
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Feb 24, 2021 03:13
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Green Intern posted:It's another "Displaced In Time" gag. The man is in oldfashioned clothes and is asking the gimmick Horse Carriage Ride For Tourists to drive him like it's a modern cab. The original Delmonico's closed in 1923, which helps the displacement joke.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Ella Cinders This is wonderfully meta! The girl in the newspaper picture is Colleen Moore, who played Ella Cinders in the 1926 film adaptation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WlowTI6Arc
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Feb 26, 2021 00:16
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My brothers and I would get singles like Ghostbusters which would have the instrumental track on the B side, so we could record ourselves singing it. Put the tape recorder up to the stereo speaker, hit record, and holler along. Now you are rock stars. 
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Thanks for finally burying 9CL. It's sad to watch someone's mental decline play out in such an grievously horny fashion.
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Mar 3, 2021 20:49
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Tara's going to get up and dust herself off and go "Whew! Good thing I learned how to roll!" and none of it is going to make a drat difference.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Ella Cinders Mervyn LeRoy was a Hollywood director and producer who got his start in silents. At the time of this strip he was working at First National Pictures as a gag writer for Colleen Moore, writing for the Ella Cinders adaptation and Moore's other films. LeRoy's name wouldn't be well-known until the 1930s when he made films for Warner Bros like Little Caesar and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, so I am reasonably certain its inclusion in the strip (and probably also his caricature) was meant as a nice little inside joke just for him.
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Slammy posted:Hitz and Mrs. (December 27, 1923) I love this way of handling a strip transition.
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Mar 13, 2021 07:13
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He is So. Bad. At. Exposition.
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Apr 3, 2021 10:36
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean When it comes to empty Boomer nostalgia, Tom Batiuk's work is the comic equivalent of those 50s Diners which cover their walls with pictures of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean hanging out with Elvis in heaven.
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Slammy posted:The first is from the December 21, 1936 St. Louis Globe Democrat. Here is the comics page from that day - to give you a sense of the time. And a Merry Christmas to good ol' Maw Green, faithful mouthpiece for Harold Gray's "Generosity is Foolish" gospel. Also on this page is Edwin Alger, which was a pseudonym picked by Jay Jerome Williams to evoke Horatio Alger. It's the best pen name for a strip about a polite and earnest young man who isn't afraid of a little hard work for some honest pay, no sir.
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The Bloop posted:When I worked for RadioShack back in the day, a store manager chased a shoplifter outside over a $50 TV remote and got stabbed and died I worked at a supermarket in a strip mall and was there the day when an employee at the liquor store next door chased a thief out into the parking lot, was stabbed, and ran into our store for help. Our rear end in a top hat assistant manager yelled at us while we were taking care of the guy, calling 911, etc. ("THAT'S why you don't chase shoplifters, people!") and then I got to mop up the trail of blood from the entry through Produce into the back room. Lesson learned, dammit.
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Slammy posted:Dark Laughter (February 24, 1945) I don't mind the poor image quality because I'm really enjoying Private Bootsie Goes to War.
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"How much did you buy the eggs for on Malta, Private Bootsie?"
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"How often do computer geeks get [dignity and respect] from a woman?" Between this and that mean evil jock Vin Vulpin, Holbrook's got some loving Dominic Deegan-level geek resentment simmering over and I hate it hate it hate it.
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Apr 23, 2021 11:28
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Slammy posted:Banana Oil! (February 28, 1924) I'm pretty sure the Steeplechase Park and laughter reference comes from the fact that amusement parks used to have these "Laffing Sal" automatons, usually parked outside the fun house. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMyJOCt7xMg e: also hell yes Jucika getting someone punted out of the panel
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amigolupus posted:Batiuk's method to finally bring up the topic of covid in the Funkyverse is gross. He's pretty much using this AA meeting as a backdrop so he can preach about how he's so relevant and on top of the pandemic. And yet he's not drawing everyone in masks so that makes his sentiments ring hollow. I want to know what he's got against PBS which, I presume, isn't broadcasting Covid coverage around-the-clock.
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD An entire week of the same panel of Jordan and Michelle mashing lips would be hilarious. I know Terry Beatty won't commit to that kind of bit, but one can dream. e: a shameful snipe
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I can't believe Batiuk is trying to SOME GIZMO the story of Funky's fall towards the first step. Incredible. I'm enjoying Princess Deer because I think it's a great example of outsider art and some brilliant trolling by Neysa McNein. She just put a striptease on the comics page for a week and I have no idea how it was received, but I hope she considered it a success.
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Apr 30, 2021 13:31
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amigolupus posted:Team Evans really doesn't want Gunther to do anything wrong, so now he's not even allowed to participate in the conversation. I dunno, leaving the conversation was one of the smartest things Gunther's done.
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Shugojin posted:people really do this and i hate them for it "How about some winning lottery numbers?  "
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Wallace the Brave continues to own.
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