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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Grando is prime av material. Might even rename myself I am GRANDO!. Is that a good idea?
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Kennel posted:
New year, new me. Thanks, Mandrake.
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Jan 1, 2022 22:51
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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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Jan 2, 2022 06:08
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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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Jan 2, 2022 06:28
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I’ve just realized how stylized Curtis’ hat has become. It’s in the same category as the Lockhorns’ feet now.
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Jan 2, 2022 17:52
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Give her the Aldo Kelrast treatment.
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Jan 5, 2022 04:43
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Has Mary Worth ever killed off a regular character before? I feel like Wilbur has been there since the 70s.
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Jan 9, 2022 22:56
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I think Aldo was introduced specifically for that storyline.
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Jan 9, 2022 23:29
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CommonShore posted:Wasp's nest, eh. I'll allow it. Wasn’t there a kid who could see ghosts or angels or something? I think she was involved in a baking competition.
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Jan 10, 2022 17:21
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Kennel posted:Oh yeah, the child was terrified of a doctor with evil aura or something. Did the child end up being correct?
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Jan 10, 2022 19:32
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Kennel posted:OH YES! Dr. Jeff is very blasé about criminal negligence killing somebody, but jeez, Mary, like you’ve never needed a little horse to get through the day?
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Jan 10, 2022 20:20
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Murdstone posted:They're right but you gotta get it done while the iron is hot. A week from now no one is going to buy that shirt. I’m starting to believe there’s a chance the shipwrecked Castaway desert island Wilbur story might actually happen. Then he’d be big again a year later when that story comes around and he’s rescued.
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Jan 12, 2022 19:59
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Why have I been on the edge of my seat for each day's Mary Worth post for days in a row now? I know in my heart that Wilbur is unlikely to be dead, but I have to know.
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Jan 14, 2022 18:38
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So Wilbur’s just going to be rescued and that’s that? Not even an interval on a desert island first? That’s a huge let-down.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:12
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Those are pretty clever. The charge against the Joseph Miller jestbook is that the jokes are worn out from overuse, not that they’re weak.
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Jan 16, 2022 17:51
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At least we get a weird desert island arc with Wilbur. That’s more than I thought we’d get.
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Jan 17, 2022 07:45
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Just leave him on that island until 2023.
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Jan 17, 2022 21:50
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Doomykins posted:Tomorrow will be the last of the fanart and then I'll start over from the beginning. The zipatone on that first nsfw one really anchors it in that 60s era.
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Jan 24, 2022 04:58
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Did Moy get told that she couldn’t kill Wilbur and had to immediately restore the status quo? There was so much potential in that story, all snuffed in three days.
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Feb 2, 2022 00:13
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My Lovely Horse posted:Kinda getting 90s Vertigo vibes from that Phantom, with the sleazeball villain and violence and slightly grimy artwork. Crisis on King Features. I’d want Mary Worth and Mark Trail in on it too, classic and modern versions. Apt 3G sacrifice themselves to save the multiverse.
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Feb 7, 2022 01:49
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So Dustin is just openly about the dad now?
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Feb 8, 2022 04:22
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Has the Shaturday Morning Cartoon youtube series ever been mentioned here? It has a horrible title, but is of relevance to the thread. It’s a series from The Found Footage Festival where they watch old Saturday-morning cartoons. They frequently have Caitlin McGurk on as a guest—she’s an archivist and faculty member at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State University, which is the premiere US archive of newspaper comic strips. She often brings archival materials of interest. Here’s an episode with the Garfield Halloween Special, with the Garfield parts removed because of a copyright strike from Jim Davis. At about 19 minutes in, Caitlin McGurk shares archival photos of weird and surreal stuff from the Ireland archives. Some of it is Garfield-specific, like Jim Davis wearing a ponytail, but much is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZc1by7DxAo The Garfield poo poo really shows how nakedly commercial the whole thing has been since the start.
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Feb 20, 2022 02:52
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There’s also The Man Who Hated Laughter, a 70s primetime special featuring all the King Features syndicate characters in a mash-up story. If you’ve ever wanted to see Mandrake and the Phantom rescue Beetle Bailey, this is for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiIpwYfYqI There’s some more excellent archival stuff from the Ireland museum in this one as well.
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Feb 20, 2022 02:59
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Surely we’re not getting a “Toby is seduced by a student” story in Mary Worth now? The Wilbur fakeouts have got me so jangled that I don’t what a realistic expectation is any more.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:43
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I appreciate the directness from Billingsley in that one. Syndicate stuff is usually a bit more anodyne.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:46
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days May 7, 1959 Is the pill speed?
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Mar 9, 2022 04:31
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Murdstone posted:
I hope this story develops by having that student run into Wilbur, who coaches him into becoming a pathetic, needy wiener. Or Ian is one of his other professors and during office hours he unknowingly helps the kid hit on his own wife.
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Mar 13, 2022 17:26
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Darthemed posted:Hey, yeah, whatever did happen with those murder hornets? Disappeared about the same time as Super Frog, I believe.
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Mar 18, 2022 05:54
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Darthemed posted:Docks Uh, I don’t know about that one. Were the syndicates really hands-off in 2003?
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Mar 18, 2022 17:38
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JethroMcB posted:Wait nine months to a year Was that guy who got blown up in the Iraq occupation simulator pre-timeskip? Funky might actually take place in our future, so they’ll reminisce about what they did back during the invasion of Ukraine.
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Mar 24, 2022 03:44
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Also Toby’s problems could be solved entirely by a single conversation, two conversations, tops. Did she even try to tell that nosy faculty member that the student just approaches her and starts talking about art?
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Apr 3, 2022 00:07
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It’s so strange to imagine a time when teaching was seen as a stable and comfortable career.
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Apr 3, 2022 14:36
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I’m really struck by how the old guy in Funky Winkerbean is just straight-up narrating every aspect of the time travel story almost before it happens and not being surprised or struck by anything at all. It’s like he’s in a hurry to wrap it all up as fast as possible. “Hey, this bench looks new. I’ve gone back in time.” “Oh look, that tv just happened to give me the exact date.” “My younger self is in there and perhaps I will cause a paradox if I talk to him.” How old is Crankshaft in 1980? I always get confused over whether Crankshaft is set in our past or if Funky is set in our future.
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Apr 10, 2022 15:43
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EasyEW posted:Funky OH OF COURSE IT COMES BACK TO HER Did they have stranger danger education in 1982? I feel like we’re getting real close to him terrifying his former friends because he’s a strange old man trying to enter a high school. This whole story reminds me of a weird memory I have from elementary school of an old man trying to force his way into our class to tell something to a friend of mine, but our teacher blocked the door and told him to leave, and eventually he did. At lunch we deduced that it was my friend’s future self come back to warn him, and we all agreed that is was important for him to remember that it didn’t work so that he can try a different strategy when he gets to that point on his own timeline. In retrospect, the whole thing seems very weird and disturbing, but it was probably some embarrassing family situation that my friend didn’t want to think about and would rather use fantasy to escape from like all us losers did.
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Apr 17, 2022 17:01
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“Get out of this town before it sucks your life away! Look at what it did to me!”
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Apr 17, 2022 17:14
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Alhazred posted:L-Innsikt And they say newspaper comics can no longer speak to the reality of daily life.
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Apr 18, 2022 13:18
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Jeff Keane seems like a cool guy. He was interviewed this week by the Found Footage Festival (it’s at the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVEEHYizSXs
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Apr 20, 2022 03:37
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Bil was a cool guy as well. I think he gave consent to the existential family circus or whatever it was back in the 00s as well, a kind of pre-Garfield Without Garfield blessed by the creator.
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Apr 20, 2022 03:55
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I wonder which of these strips convinced the cia that Boyce was the man to design the Keypad Kid for them.
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Apr 25, 2022 04:30
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What’s the thing on the fork? A lemon?
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Apr 30, 2022 18:13
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