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riderchop posted:Compu-toon by Charles Boyce deserves the world, and a big physical collection. I wish nothing but the best for Charles Boyce and his wonderful understanding of technology. No, none of the jokes ever make sense. It's perfect. Compu-Toon is charming as hell, so I looked up Charles Boyce on Wikipedia and read this paragraph: quote:In February 2008, Boyce was involved in a protest which called for a greater representation of black cartoon artists in newspaper comics. The protest sought to bring attention to the problem of “tokenism” in newspapers, and brings to light the issues that many black comic artists face when trying to publish their works. In addition to Boyce, the artists that participated in the protest were Jerry Craft, Charlos Gary, Steve Watkins, Keith Knight, Bill Murray, and Tim Jackson. For one day, these cartoonists all drew a very similar comic strip, which showed a scene with a white reader looking at a minority-drawn strip and complaining that it is a rip-off of the Boondocks. So if nobody hears from me for a while, it's because I'm looking for Boyce's contribution
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Kennel posted:Dustin If ever there was something that would set a fire under people's asses to pack the court... Happy New Year! This is one of several threads that finally prompted me to join SA. It's become my daily newspaper page and I'm grateful for the thought put into it.
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How Wonderful! posted:Also, I had a hell of a 2021 and due to many reasons was just not able to keep up with Dykes to Watch Out For. I had health issues, and moved into a very fixer-upper house, and sadly in the scuffle I still have no idea where a bunch of my Bechdel is (incidentally I did hold on to all of my Goethe but it is...also trapped in a mystery box somewhere in the basement or attic). But when I find them, I really would like to get back into posting them? In the OP now so you have to post it. Now that you're not a moderator anymore I outrank you so no backtalk!
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New year, new thread! You love to see it. My only contribution to this thread (other than the complaining about Funky Winkerbean and Luann, two top tier hate-reads for me) is to post the one-panel strip Ballard Street. Drawn and written by Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street shows us a window into a community ripe with crazy (but delightfully benign) boomers. There are no recurring characters to speak of, and in my years of reading it, I think I've only seen one example of an overarching plot (lasting a whopping two days). But many of the people on Ballard Street own dogs, who tend to be just as crazy as their masters. I try to post once a week, usually Friday or Saturday. Jerry Van Amerongen is currently enjoying his well-deserved retirement, so these are all re-runs.        
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Jucika is a strip I picked up posting after I fell in love with it a year or two back when another goon was sharing it. They stopped posting but with all the strips available online (Jucika In Order on Twitter) I plan to finish our current two-a-day trek to the end and then repeat it at least once. So Jucika is fine cartooning, well drawn, good punchlines, cute girl, but what really sells it for me is that it's so cheerful and wholesome. Jucika is super hot, obviously, but also strong, clever and kind without the strip ever being overly self-indulgent or obnoxious, as Jucika can also be flawed or the butt of the joke. I also like how a lot of the jokes are "drat, girl hot" but somehow not pandering or too sexist beyond the fact that it's a 1950-70s strip but it seems pretty empowering and forward thinking. There's a few great strips that turn the tables with men doing sexual pandering and so on and Jucika is always in control and never afraid to rebuke a guy who gets out of hand. There's also some lowkey powerful lesbian energy if you look hard enough at a few strips. It has a very loose continuity in that it has one(Jucika gets married about 350 strips in, Jucika is terrified of the sound of thunder) but also drops it at any given moment in service of a joke(Jucika's Husband can be absent as needed and reappear seamlessly, they both seem unfaithful yet also ridiculously passionate and always eager to continue sharing their life together, Jucika has held as many jobs as the punchline setup requires, etc.) I also plan to share a few extras from the twitters and maybe a good fanart or two as I have done before. There's a decent bit of it since Jucika was recently rediscovered within the last 3-4 years or so and the internet but also a lot of it is low quality porn that misses the point of the strip because the internet and girl hot. Jucika "478 - Jucika And The Courteous Bus Conductor"  "479 - Jucika And The Robot Man" 
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Thanks, as always, to the people who put the effort into posting the funnies for another year. And remember: Dustin Burn in Hell
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ukonvasara posted:Happy new year comics thread! My new year's resolution is to make more edits. Let's see if I abruptly abandon it in favor of something else, like a Luann plot line, or stick with it for an excruciatingly long time, like a Rex Morgan plot line.
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I don't post any comics but I love this thread and appreciate everyone who posts comics. Even the person who posts modern Overboard, even though I loving hate that strip and everything in it except Scratch, who is the best character and makes any strip good with his appearance. Also if it stopped being posted I'd miss how the guy who writes it has no idea what animals look like, such as the "reindeer" in the storyline last month which were just dogs with antlers. I was hoping that Monty was listening to Machinehead by Bush, oh well. Kennel posted:Mandrake I agree with that one poster in the last thread who talked about Mandrake, the older strips I know exactly what the storyline is, what's happening, what their goal is, who they're after, and so on. These newer strips feel like a fever dream and I have no idea what the hell is going on or what's happening with anything. Like who is this Grando guy? Where are they? What led to this point in the storyline? I have no idea! Meanwhile in older Mandrake I know that they're after Lady Ermine, who posed as a fake mummy after a movie company had another guy pose as a fake mummy to drum up publicity for their movie, and they have now captured her right hand man, "Tattoo," by using a tattoo contest. They have also captured her chauffeur, who she pushed out of her car after he unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Tattoo. Modern Mandrake though it's like uh...I remember a thing about Narda being framed for jewel theft? And Mandrake busted into the courtroom right before the verdict was read and did...something, to some guy, which apparently made him confess? I guess? And I honestly don't have any idea if it's related to Grando or what's going on right now.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Modern Mandrake though it's like uh...I remember a thing about Narda being framed for jewel theft? And Mandrake busted into the courtroom right before the verdict was read and did...something, to some guy, which apparently made him confess? I guess? And I honestly don't have any idea if it's related to Grando or what's going on right now. 
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Twelve by Pies posted:Also if it stopped being posted I'd miss how the guy who writes it has no idea what animals look like, such as the "reindeer" in the storyline last month which were just dogs with antlers. it's a true christmas joy  
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Uramachi Sakaba (lit. "Backstreet Pub," but that sounds dumb so I broke my usual rule of being sure to localize everything and kept the Japanese name) is an indy slice of life-ish comic about a bunch of barflies who are regulars at a little unnamed bar in a deep sub-level of a cyberpunk-ish megacity. It's self-published - web and self-printed zines essentially - and AFAIK I'm the only person translating it to English and this and the other webcomic thread are thus the only place to read it in English. People have described it as "Cyberpunk Cheers" and that's probably as on-the-nose as you can get. There's a lot of implied setting, but it's basically a romanticized mid- to late-20th-century working-class Japan with sci-fi trappings. The author, Maruoka Kuzo, really knows how to tell a tight little character-focused story in 4 pages and it's a god-drat shame he's not more popular than he is.  ChaCha Chako is the current Q-Rais long-form comic I'm sharing here. Q-Rais is probably most popular for his 4-panel Sad Bear, Fat Cat, and Brain-Damaged Bunny Muse comics, but in the last couple years he's started doing longer narrative comics, and this is the first. It's a spin-off of the extremely surreal Chako, which I shared in last year's thread. As with Sakaba, there's no official English translation I know of, so mine is all there is! Enjoy! (Apologies for the terrible quality of the cropping and text on these, BTW, I've slowly been getting better at that stuff but this was still relatively early in my fan-translation days.)  
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Medenmath posted:(I don't like the thread poll because it won't let me pick all four options.  The lack of an "all of the above" option is criminal. Murdstone posted:The current storyline is a story being told to the Phantom of why he should not go rescue an old ally of his from prison. Somehow this rescue is supposed to lead to the end of the Phantom line, but they're taking their time getting to how that happens. It's kind of annoying, since none of this is actually happening but the strip reads like it is and eventually Phantom is just going to go rescue her anyways.
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Happy New Year! (Fred G Cooper) For the past few years, this is where I rattle off the comic strips which are newly dedicated to the public domain in the US (and thus available for artistic reimagining without legal repercussions), but for 1926 that list is a little harder to come by than usual. The one thing that sticks out for me is a final late-period run of Winsor McKay's Little Nemo before the master retreated to the editorial pages and eventual retirement, meaning the entire Slumberland saga from end to end is now available for retooling. Besides, the big ticket "get" for print media liberation from copyright jail is the first Winnie-The-Pooh book. So instead, let's thumb through a random January 1, 1926 newspaper and see what merriment we can OH CRAP...  One unfamiliar strip that popped at me was Just Kids by Ad (August Daniels) Carter (January 2, 1926)  It's one of what seems like a platoon of Little Rascals-style strips that were sprouting like weeds in the 1920s and early 30s, originally designed as a knock off of Gene Byrnes' better-remembered "Reg'lar Fellers".  (November 15, 1924) But like all the things that catch our attention, it wasn't that simple in the long run. Lambiek Comicopedia posted:Despite starting out as a rip-off, 'Just Kids' gradually became more Carter's own thing. It spawned a bunch of merchandising and comic book reprints, no less thanks to Hearst's aggressive marketing strategies. 'Just Kids' had its own Safety Club as well, which informed children on how to be careful. According to some reports it once had 3.000.000 members. The comic also lasted far longer than 'Reg'lar Fellers', which already ended in 1949. As the daily 'Just Kids' ended in 1949, its Sunday page kept running for another eight years. The only major change during this period was that the title changed to 'Mush Stebbins and His Sister' in 1950. Anyway, apart from a dearth of new-to-me titles, a lot of from-the-newspaper-morgue thread favorites kept unspooling over the year, including...  Whoops. You haven't even met Mickey McGuire yet. Forget you saw this drawing. Mutts (Patrick O'Donnell) was a spur-of-the-moment addition just a few weeks ago, so I don't really have much to say about the current version of it just yet. Starting in 1994, it's the story (if you'd call it that) of a Jack Russell terrier, a tuxedo cat, and...well hell, I don't know, you tell me. Charles Schulz loved this strip back in the 90s, giving it a honey of a cover quote for the book collections. I remember there being more dialogue in the early years, but the art style is still deeply appealing to me, so here it is.  Sally Forth (Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe) is either one of the best bits of reading in post-millennium newspaper comic stripdom or a wall of words with occasional pictures. I'm the guy posting it, so you tell me which side I'm on.  In some ways, Pearls Before Swine (Stephan Pastis) fits perfectly in the "everything on fire forever" hellword that can't seem to escape, to the point where one sequence about a government overthrow that was scheduled to run the week after the Capitol riot got shelved until things mellowed out a little. When that didn't happen, they just punted it to the middle of summer. Another interesting year.  Skippy (Percy Crosby) was created for the first version of Life Magazine (which we pull from for Skippy on Sunday). As summed up by Don Markstein: "Once, the name "Skippy" was associated in the public consciousness with an extremely popular comic strip about a little boy and his small town adventures. Comics historian and critic Coulton Waugh (whose cartooning credentials included having taken over Dickie Dare from Milton Caniff) said it "was no routine, ordinarily good job". It's no exaggeration to call it the Peanuts of its time. Now, the name only refers to a brand of peanut butter. There's a connection between the two, and the story behind it appears even more sordid than what's been going on between Disney and the licensor of Winnie the Pooh." (April 20, 1934, and yes, this is yesterday's, since it only goes up on a Monday-Friday schedule.)  Peanuts (Charles Schulz), the 50,000-watt border blaster of mid-to-late 20th century newspaper cartooning. (January 1, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean (Tom "Goddamn" Batiuk and Chuck "Not Enough Soap To Wash Those Hands Clean" Ayers) continues to find new and "exciting" ways to piss us off when it's not boring us to tears. The "highlight" of 2021 was a storyline about overdue recognition of women who worked in the Golden Age-era comic book industry...which got hijacked by a reunion of TomBat's Stan Lee and Jack Kirby surrogates. That's a hell of a trick, since he killed off his not-Jack years ago.  Crankshaft (Tom "Goddamn" Batiuk and Dan "Your Crosshatching Is Freaking Me Out And I Can't See That As Anything But A Pube Couch" Davis), presents the other side of the Funkyverse. This is where I talk about how this strip is set ten years in Funky Winkerbean's past, but both are supposed to represent the present day (as seen through a one-year buffer that makes any current events jokes completely pointless), but 2021 was the year that TomBat effectively broke the timeline to tell a hamfisted "small business in the year of the plague" story, so there doesn't seem to be much of a point to hanging a lampshade on it this time around.  Mutt and Jeff (Bud Fisher, but really, who the hell knows? (keep reading)) was inserted when 9 Chickweed Lane descended into deeply creeptastic territory. Here's how I set it up last spring: EasyEW, friend to cartoons everywhere, posted:In many ways, Bud Fisher's creation is the granddaddy of everything you've seen in every . While it may not have been the absolute first daily strip in American newspaper history, it was the one that sparked the trend. The way Fisher told it, it took some time to convince his editor that people would read something laid out horizontally across the page. He also managed to nail down the copyright to his own characters, not only avoiding the type of wrestling matches other creators had over Buster Brown and the Katzenjammer Kids, but making himself a mint in the process. Basically, we're getting a few decades of the strip on shuffle play. Sometimes you can tell, but mostly it all runs together like the mirth automaton it was by the the 50s. Anyway, y'all seem to dig it much more than 9CL, which no one has dared to start posting on a regular basis since then.  Rip Haywire (Dan Thompson) is a send-up of the type of square jawed, two-fisted action hero that only jerks like us seem to read anymore.  Thimble Theater (Elzie Segar), the story of a mutant sailor and his many hangers-on, is reaching a point of departure, although nobody involved could possibly know that at the time. The departure is strip creator Segar himself, who's been fighting leukemia throughout 1938. It doesn't end well. (August 2, 1938)  Out Our Way (J.R. Williams) Cowboys, machine workers, nostalgia , moms, BOYZENDORGS! Goldie (first panel) became sort of a break-out star last year. That is, a lot of you wanted to see that adolescent overachiever break out in measles, mumps, maybe even explosive diarrhea. Anything that would pick him up and shake him. (December 27-29, 1937)    Toonerville Folks, a world of rickety trolleys, town characters, and proto-feminist icons. (Fontaine Fox) (July 11-13, 1918; spoiler because even if there's a "warts and all" policy on all of the vintage stuff, I reserve the right to drop a curtain over the type of racial caricature that has aged about as well as milk on a radiator. The presence of antique racist humor in any of the really, really old strips I post does not reflect my implicit approval. It's pretty much industry-wide background noise for the period I'm sifting through.)    The Duck. By Dok. (Dok Hager, later known as "Dok's Dippy Duck"). The story of a smartass Seattle-based duck hanging out on a street corner. Sometimes he picks fights. Sometimes fights pick him. Created by a dentist who took up cartooning in middle age and became a regional legend. (November 30, 1913)  Little Lefty (Maurice del Bourgo (d/b/a "del")) would make a good centerpiece in a hypothetical People's History of the United States Cartooning Industry anthology. It was published in The Daily Worker, the literal mouthpiece of the United States Communist Party back when Trotsky and Stalin were still alive to antagonize each other. The Worker's circulation never got higher than 35,000 a copy, but that Lefty even exists at all shows a Yankee Red interest in counterprogramming the mega-capitalist bootstrap narratives of Harold Gray's Orphan Annie and the industry standard of racial depictions. Or to spin a Phil Ochs quote, to turn Elvis Presley into Che Guevara. Lefty obviously didn't do that. But from the evidence so far, it wasn't from lack of creative effort. Del Bourgo was effectively doing Lefty on the sly for the Worker so he could still take commercial gigs to keep the lights on at home, but it's really obvious that once he warmed up to the job he brought his A-game. Some of his panels look like they could be sketches for WPA murals.  (December 1, 1935) And unlike a number of other talents who had a cup of coffee with the Depression-era Reds, he seems to have had a solid career in the Cold War era, contributing art to numerous Golden Age-era comic books, including Classics Illustrated.  When the Detroit Jewish News printed a mini-bio of Del Bourgo in 1954 (which matched point-for-point a slightly more anonymized bio he contributed to Worker in '35), his work on Lefty didn't come up at all, for what I hope are obvious reasons. However, because Dr. Wertham had published Seduction of the Innocent in the same year, his comic book work didn't come up either. The key achievements they listed? His advertising art agency and a syndicated diet feature called "Kalorie Kate". Anyway, Del and Lefty deserve better. This is a slice of invisible America, my favorite type of history. So pull up a chair and take a bite. (November 11-13, 1935)   On the off chance you haven't been following along, Peanuts just beat the tar out of a racist bully and then scared the compatible-with-Marxism equivalent of the love of God into him with superior numbers. What comes next? A note that says, "Hi, Comrade Del can't come to the revolution right now. Please accept this temporary substitution." This already happened once before, but subbing in whole other features does mix up the mix in interesting ways.   And here's where I usually post early-days Blondie, but holy crap, I've already burned a couple of hours putting this much together. Effort posts are efforts, dammit. I'll make it up to you tomorrow. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Jan 2, 2022 |
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So did Crankshaft have covid appear in the strip and break the timeline, or is it that Funky Winkerbean is set in 2041?
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I AM GRANDO posted:So did Crankshaft have covid appear in the strip and break the timeline, or is it that Funky Winkerbean is set in 2041? What broke the timeline was Ed's grandson running the movie theater that hosted the Starbuck Jones premiere ten years after he closed it for good during COVID in a Crankshaft sequence, and the new owner turned it into a strip club. And then suddenly it was a strip club in Funky Winkerbean, too. When that stuff happened in Back To The Future, at least they played fair by continuity rules. The only thing Ed himself got in the timeskip Cancerverse was older and more decrepit.
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I like the idea that changes in Crankshaft reverberate down the timestream into Funky Winkerbean whenever Batuik forgets that he did something.
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Oh no I just did a continuity error. Don't worry, these things don't publish for weeks. Just come up with some bullshit to save the theater at the last minute. But if I do that, my readers won't know that selfish non movie theater going people are letting the perverts take over America. Hm, gee, that is quite the dilemma.
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Crankshaft has kept acting like Covid is over, though. According to rumors, Batuik operates with a one-year buffer, so whenever he's doing something topical he's loving guessing. ... And doesn't revise it when Covid turns out to be Very Much Not Over by the time the strips run.
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Stuck out of state and away from my computer thanks to Covid wreaking havoc on the airlines but I'm still alive and planning to pick up posting Crabgrass, Blind Alley, etc later next week. Here are some comic summaries you can put on the OP if you want though: Crabgrass:  A slice of life comic about two BFFs from the guy who made A Problem Like Jamal. A genuinely charming and funny thread favorite. Old School Peanuts:  It's Peanuts but back when it was actually funny. Calvin and Hobbes:  Do I really need to explain this one? Is there a single person on the planet who doesn't know what this comic is?? Blind Alley:  Birds aren't real you idiot. You absolute moron.
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2018 Spiderman Newspaper Spiderman is about the world's stupidest superhero and the even dumber situations he finds himself in. It ended in March 2019, but reruns keep the magic going. I've slowly been posting old strips starting from 1999, and it's taken me a couple years(with posting a week's worth of comics at a time for A While, but I keep it to one comic a post now) to get to 2018. He's currently returning from the GRONNK arc in Florida and being just barely smarter than a TSA agent. 1979 comics - I post a variety of comics from the St Petersburg Evening Independent. Why that paper? Honestly it's because I was searching for vintage Newspaper Spiderman a couple years ago and it's what came up. The scans I have don't have Sundays, which confuses people occasionally.  Encyclopedia Brown is about the son of a cop who supposedly memorized the entre encyclopedia and uses that knowledge to accuse people of crimes. His logic varies from plausible to really stupid, but nobody's ever going to call him on it or question why he's being brought in to solve crimes, because he's the son of a cop. Each case only lasts a week, so at least it doesn't overstay its welcome. Congrats to whatever goon called flag code as being the answer to this one. 70s NSM is like modern NSM, but in black and white and with an angrier Peter and a wilder MJ. Carole also existed as a "will Peter go after her or MJ???" element but as of last arc she appears to have been written out of the strip. 70s Rex Morgan is better than modern Rex Morgan because things actually happen in it, even if they still take typical soap strip lengths to resolve. We're currently this close to it finally owning this abusive fuckhead, after it's been teasing us about it for months. 70s Mary Worth is like modern MW, except it features a rotating cast of assholes instead of Wilbur being the only rear end in a top hat(I don't think Wilbur even exists yet in the 70s strip). It's Nancy. You know the drill.Sometimes I post interesting things I notice elsewhere in the paper. Right now it's a lot of articles about the oil crisis so have a Dear Abby.  Locher Tracy  Locher-Era Dick Tracy is boring at worst, charmingly batshit at best. It's copaganda, of course, but with the tiniest arms you've ever seen. I don't post it, but in the interest of completeness: Modern Dick Tracy is boring and mostly involves the artists going 'hey, look how many references we can make!', with the stories ending in wet farts. Also sometimes it's about this weird creepy old guy who's married to someone ~50 years his junior. For some weird reason, nobody cared enough to pick up posting it after I stopped a couple years ago.   Apparently someone called Shelly Pleger took over the strip-drawing job from Joe Staton last October? There was an entire Sunday about his retirement and everything.  To top it off, a low-effort edit I couldn't resist:   Origins of the Sunday Comics  Origins is a curated selection of Sunday comics posted to Gocomics, usually with commentary. Sometimes there's repeats of stuff it's done before, or overlap with stuff posted by other people here, but I doubt anyone minds. Footrot Flats  Footrot Flats is mostly focused on the life of Dog on his master's farm in either New Zealand or Australia(I'm not sure if it's meant to be somewhere specific or just vaguely evocative of both). The strip is charming and funny, and also not afraid to show Dog eating the half-rotten corpse of a sheep. The Lockhorns  The Lockhorns is far funnier than a strip about a bickering boomer couple has any right to be. And considering the artist/writer is a 90 year old woman, it's somehow better at showing how people use(both generally and also specifically holding/interacting with) phones and tablets than a lot of other comics. Mandrake  Modern Mandrake is an incoherent mess I rarely read. Vintage Mandrake(CK's currently running comics from 1949 or so) is a nicely drawn coherent usually-not-a-mess. Shame about the old-timey racism and sexism, though. Lothar's not in the current arc, but when he pops up, oof. Johnny Hazard  Johnny Hazard is about a...spy? I'm not actually sure what Johnny's job is. Anyway, it's about the titular Johnny getting into all sorts of high-stakes drama involving a revolving door of ethnic stereotypes(mostly European ethnic stereotypes for once, like Wee Dorrie The Most Scottish Scotsman On Earth and the current arc's "germans just say Herr a lot right"). It's generally pretty good. 90s Overboard  Generally funnier than modern Overboard, and a lot less twee. It does still like to overdo certain jokes, but at least they're jokes. Note the focus on humans and the abscence of talking animals.
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How Wonderful! posted:I also think it was quite common to have nice leatherbound editions of Goethe's work in quite a few volumes. The thing is that unlike Shakespeare who really just wrote a bunch of plays and a healthy handful of poems, Goethe wrote A LOT OF STUFF and a lot of it is fairly dry if you're just a middle-class family trying to class up your home library a bit-- scientific inquiries, bureaucratic papers, travel journals, etc..-- there's a LOT and most of it probably sat on living room shelves untouched. I look forward to DtWoF, when you feel up to resuming it again! Your input and observations on them is also very insightful.
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Nancy 1947 I think this is probably one of the strips that got me instantly hooked on the old strips. Simple and effective. 
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I think it's explicitly New Zealand - Wal plays rugby (which tends to be a little more upper class in Australia), and talks about the All Blacks rather than the Wallabies.
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Haifisch posted:Johnny Hazard He seems like your archetypical Pulp Action Guy. Adventure just kinda happens around him and he's always happy to punch someone in the face. I think it was stated that is in-strip job is being a representative for some air-shipping company?
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 1/1/02  Brenda Starr 11/24-26/47    Smokey Stover 5/20/45  Everyday Movies 9/14/34 
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EasyEW posted:Happy New Year! I can't quite agree with some goons' ideas on this. Apart from a couple strips, these three seem to dog this kid's every waking step, acting like some self-bemoaning Greek chorus. Get yerselves a dog and snap out of it!
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Selachian posted:Rhymes with Orange Snatch did it better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b538ndRV9Do
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Kennel posted:
Why on Earth would any teacher want 100 notifications of a copy-pasted "I will not text in class" message to hit her phone?
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: taxes (March 28 - April 3, 2005)       Modern Kevin & Kell 
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