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Are the OG Flash Gordon comics collected anywhere? I'm guessing there's nothing equivalent to the Fantagraphic Valients, but surely there's something?
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise: In the Beginning Hell yeah Modesty Blaise! Starting the new year off right!
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise: In the Beginning Something I feel that should be mentioned (though I'm sure it may have been mentioned before) - Young Modesty going around with a nail-stiletto was something Peter O'Donnell witnessed a young girl going around with during his stint in WWII. It stuck with him, and effectively inspired him to create the character (going from half-remembered interviews from the collections).
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Well, as promised:Pancho Jueves posted:Luann I think it's more accurate to say it was once about middle schoolers, then it was about high schoolers who acted like middle schoolers, and now it's about college students who act like, at best, startlingly immature high schoolers. The art criticism is extremely on point! quote:Take It From The Tinkersons Hey, I hate it for its artwork and its weirdly stilted language. Does occasionally land a good joke though. Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon Said "oh hell yeah" out loud when I saw this.
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Always wanted to ask - why is the Fastrack lady so pale? Is she undead? Goth? Anthropomorphic a’la Kevin and Kell?
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Deathany(*from "On The Fastrack") is just goth. She also supposedly has a bunch of tattoos and piercings(that are never drawn).
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:I haven't been in these threads for the past few years but here's something interesting I found (also looked the name of this up in SA's search just to check to see if it got posted before and it seemingly hasn't in these threads): The Fantastic Funnies, a tv special from 1980 (produced by the people who made the Peanuts specials) going over various popular comic strips of the time, including the very first animated appearance of Garfield; features a bunch of comics you probably wouldn't have heard of if it weren't for these threads. This swings violently back and forth between fun (some of the animated bits, the Johnny Fever sketch), meh (other animated bits), interesting (the cartoonist interviews), and extremely cringe-inducing (the songs, particularly the "four little boxes" one at the end). Thanks for posting it!
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Steeple 20: Extreme Freaks John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:It’s 2024! Welcome back to Steeple, let’s visit Tredregyn one last time! Much has changed in the last three months, as you will discover… but clearly, not Bob Warren’s taste in trousers.
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Haifisch posted:Deathany(*from "On The Fastrack") is just goth. She also supposedly has a bunch of tattoos and piercings(that are never drawn). She has tattoos, they’re just white on white. (May not be canon.)
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I am absolutely here for this Flash Gordon thing. If it'd started with shenanigans like this I'd've been worried, but with a solid month of very good comic under its belt, it's earned some trust. We Are Reproducing is an award-winning series by author and essayist Uchida Shungicu. Starting in 1993 (and in some ways very much a product of its time) this is a frank, sex-positive, feminist look at pregnancy, childbirth, child rearing, and single motherhood. 
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Pogo 1/28-30/52   Archie 2/21-23/49    The Virtue of Vera Valiant 10/21-23/76   
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Do not show posts to babby, he doesn't even have proper object permanence yet
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Do not show posts to babby, he doesn't even have proper object permanence yet That's good, it won't remember posts
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Selachian posted:The Virtue of Vera Valiant 10/21-23/76 This is so good.
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Happy new year, new thread! Scary Go Round (December 7-9, 2004)   
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Happy new year! Crabgrass   Big Nate  
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Powered Descent posted:
Yesssssss  Also, on the recommendation of the previous thread, I looked into Schkade's Lavender Jack. It's fantastic, thanks goons!
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readingatwork posted:Happy new year! Big Nate bringing the big laughs from me.
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Schwarzwald posted:Are the OG Flash Gordon comics collected anywhere? I'm guessing there's nothing equivalent to the Fantagraphic Valients, but surely there's something?
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One last hurrah for The Demons of Baseball in the 2023 thread!Some Guy TT posted:As promised, one last finale. I'd hoped to do finish this before the year ended, but Pancho was gracious enough to leave the thread open long enough that I could close out The Demons of Baseball with some fairly gigantic posts. Apologies if the tension of how I space these is key to your enjoyment. Only one way to find out!
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Happy New Year thread. Rose is Rose is the funny pages equivalent of "Live Laugh Love" wall art, but there was some discussion late in the 2023 thread of of people wanting to see it again. So I'm posting it until communal favor turns against it once again (I am guessing as soon as The Baby shows up.)  As always: Dustin Burn in Hell.
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JethroMcB posted:Happy New Year thread.  Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon OWNSOWNSOWNSFUCKINGOWNS Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  I've recently started posting Alley Oop which is a comedy strip about a time-traveling caveman and scientist, I like it - it's got Jay Ward/Rocky and Bullwinkle vibes but thread response is still uncertain.  Curtis 
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Before we get too far from page 1, you may want to read these posts that readingatwork was kind enough to put together to explain what's going on in Blind Alley. It's a bit hard to understand without them.
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Happy Public Domain Day 2024! In the US, our honor year is split between 1923 for audio recordings and 1928 for everything else. The liberation of early Mickey Mouse is sucking up all the oxygen in the so-called legitimate media, but for our purposes, The Daily Cartoonist has a quick summary of all the strips that are newly available for repurposing, so I get to be lazier than usual this year! Hooray! (Don't read the comments, though. Let's just say Tom Batiuk isn't the only one who sees the world through collectibles.) There are a number of long-runners that started in 1927, but the one that really caught my eye is a feature from a cartoonist we should be familiar with by now that I didn't even know had newspaper gig: Ellison Hoover's The Outline of Oscar. So you see? He really was auditioning in those Life pieces.  Anyway, on to the night shift. Our Boarding House (Gene Ahern) is slowly but surely expanding the supporting cast. Did you know the Major had a brother? And if anything, he's a bigger mooch than the Major. A reverse Mycroft Holmes. (January 23-25, 1925)    Last year was the tenth anniversary of my decision to do Out Our Way, a year where we managed to clear the first twenty years. That's a lot of distance to cover, so it's a reasonable time to revisit one of the recurring early-days themes: Out Our Way: The School Ma'am Saga (January 23, 1925; pops up whenever something that fits the theme shows up next to OBH in the paper.)  One of my favorite discoveries last year was that the syndication of the Fontaine Fox feature I've been labeling Toonerville Folks for convenience (because it didn't get that name until much later) goes back a lot further than a lot of writers thought it did. Behold, the new candidate for "source of the Nile".    (June 23, 24, and 26, 1911) Anyway, we're up to 1922 on the main timeline (April 6-8, to be exact).   For the cursive impaired: PATHETIC FIGURES: The back yard gardener who is just starting away with the 3rd load of top soil from the vacant lot when the owner of the property appears.  Meanwhile, we've made it to January 22, 1915 for Dok's Dippy Duck (Dok Hager), and I can't sum the current state of affairs better than Mister Olympus did. Mister Olympus posted:also that wacky seattle duck being so flippant about the slow demise of a generation's youth is really incredible With that in mind, please enjoy tonight's installment of Dok's Dippy Death Cab. (spoilered for regrettable art choices applied to a presumably-African background character).  In the time we've been following Little Lefty (Maurice del Bourgo (d/b/a "del")), it's gone to some unique places, but in recent weeks it's kind of gone off the deep end. And that's because we were just informed that our US-Communist-Party-sponsored Depression-era kid gang strip is about a sea serpent now.  Oh, don't sweat it..at least not yet. The strip is still called Little Lefty. Little Lefty is, in fact, still in it. But the focus has shifted to the adventures of a proto-woke Loch Ness Monster who, as we join him tonight, is going into the movies. And we're here to watch it happen, one strip at a time. (September 7-9, 1939)   
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave the voice of our generation
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Pancho Jueves posted:One last hurrah for The Demons of Baseball in the 2023 thread! I am now getting into pages that I've decided should not be rushed after all, so go ahead and close the old thread. Thanks for hearing me out on that.
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Haifisch posted:Deathany(*from "On The Fastrack") is just goth. She also supposedly has a bunch of tattoos and piercings(that are never drawn). She is a goth character written by someone who doesn't really know the culture.
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https://twitter.com/JonLamArt/status/1741545927435784424 so the midjourney artist list leaked as part of court discovery (i don't actually know what lawsuit its from!) check this out   
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Training AI on Computoon should lead to some genuinely fascinating and meta results
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EasyEW posted:
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maybeadracula posted:Training AI on Computoon should lead to some genuinely fascinating and meta results I'm more worried about Brooke McEldowney. Imagine the gamacious maw of the hellbeast an AI trained on that would unleash
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thisusedyet posted:I'm more worried about Brooke McEldowney. Imagine the gamacious maw of the hellbeast an AI trained on that would unleash
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was looking for something in the `22 thread and oh no, this poster had the curse of prophecyI AM GRANDO posted:Crankshaft will slowly get bleaker as the Funky characters filter in and take over, like how Outland shifted back into being Bloom County after eight months.
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riderchop posted:https://twitter.com/JonLamArt/status/1741545927435784424 J.R. Williams is on that list. Did I feed an AI a diet of boyzendorgz? 
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Strontium posted:Macanudo Yes, that is in fact how the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade works. I don't actually hate Macanudo, but it's definitely lower on my list than a lot of other comics.
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Fingerpori This is a bit topical once again. One of our right wing ministers was complaining about "the union mob" a few days before Christmas, which is yet another example of them aping poo poo from their American right wing idols. Unions are just a fact of life in Finland and practically everyone joins a national union the moment they get a job, and often even before then, because most unions for professionals offer student memberships. As a result our workers actually enjoy pretty good benefits and security, which our right wing government is trying to erode as best they can right now. And "bonus prison pay" is a take on our "bonus vacation pay", which is literally called "the returning from vacation money" in Finland, and is paid every year after your yearly vacations. It used to be a more meaningful thing, because it was basically used as a bribe to convince workers to actually come back to work at their old jobs after their vacations instead of just loving off somewhere else. These days it's just more of a symbolic thing, but again: we have strong unions and a long tradition of strong unions, so we sure as gently caress ain't giving up benefits people fought for.
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