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He's like Blackjack, but without the charm. Edit: I checked just to make sure I wasn't mixing his name up with someone else, and I found the Dick Tracy wiki. It has this little gem in it: Dick Tracy Wiki posted:Blackjack was an early original creation of writer Mike Curtis, appearing in Curtis' Dick Tracy fan fiction. Which unfortunately doesn't have a source (in fact, it appears there are no sources at all on this wiki), but drat does that explain a whole lot. catlord fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Green Intern posted:So, is Wal going to kill that lamb/ewe? Either that or he's going to do a rapid castration. Dog does refer to it as a bloke. Hostile V posted:Called shot: Aunt Tildy has undiagnosed and untreated diabetes. I hope it's a storyline about the dangers of Four Loko.
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catlord posted:He's like Blackjack, but without the charm. Pray to whatever dieties you believe in that I can't find Curtis' fanfics.  riderchop posted:i don't know how you see this Dick arc and NOT go "holy poo poo i need to see how bad this gets until the end of time"
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goatface posted:Either that or he's going to do a rapid castration. Dog does refer to it as a bloke.
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Ghostlight posted:you castrate lambs with a rubber band, not a knife. Hence the rapid.
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the reason you use a rubber band is because if you just knife the balls the lamb will bleed out and die or get an infection and die. that lamb is being killed with that knife regardless of how wal uses it.
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Johnny Walker posted:Pooch Cafe That sound effect makes me very uncomfortable.
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FrumpleOrz posted:The Lockhorns drat, some underrated comics were slammin' today.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Frazz Don't roll your eyes, you fucker. Maybe the kid has a weak heart or something, and the dad's right that the kid suddenly going into freezing water would kill them. root posted:Look at the miserable expression on her face. Do you think Les ever asks her about how things are at work, what she did, how, she's feeling, what her name is? Nope. The sole purpose of her existence is to endure Les' endless whining ("Hollywood wants to make Lisa's Story into a movie again!?
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waaaah...") and be constantly reminded of how St Lisa was the greatest and best there ever was and she won't loving go away because that giant library of vhs tapes are her phylactery.
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FrumpleOrz posted:MOther GOose & Grimm You know, this is a strip I remember from my "I must obsessively read all the comics" attitude that I had as a child, and while it wasn't something I couldn't understand and skipped, like Rex Morgan or Doonsbury, it was still something I found pretty inexplicable. Looking at it as an adult, I have to admit it's pretty good.
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EasyEW posted:Gripey Griperbean This is a man who truly hates his own life and the concept of life in general.
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dracky posted:God those character descriptions. 2/3's of the female characters are witches who will curse you if you look at them the wrong way. The others are "pretty and knows it" and "jealous others are more popular". He spends 5 paragraphs talking about the nuances of drawing Rita. You savages got me curious enough to look up WD on GoComics. There is an EXTENSIVE back catalog in case anyone wants to throw more misery at this thread. Modesty Blaise  
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In lieu of Cathy I'm going to post Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For. Bechdel is more broadly lauded for her 2006 memoir Fun Home but her cartooning career begin in 1983 with the self-syndicated strip Dykes to Watch Out For. Initially a single panel strip before expanding to one-page vignettes and eventually the episodic narratives the comic is best known for, DtWOR appeared in an array of small press queer papers and magazines throughout the 80s, beginning with the feminist paper WomaNews before spreading to over 50 other independent publications including Hot Wire, The Philadelphia Gay News (my personal go-to for waiting rooms), Lesbian Contradiction, and Chicago Gay Life. DtWOR isn't perfect, in particular Bechdel appears somewhat tentative and uncertain in handling trans characters as the strip progresses, moving from a single tonedeaf reference in a 1987 strip to fairly well-executed trans supporting characters in the 90s. But aside from showing its age here and there, it's a super important document of lesbian history and queer cultural production. I'm going to start with the strips in the first Firebrand Books compilation from 1986 and then leap forward to the serialized stuff. These are undated because none of these collections are especially well curated and offer very little in the way of bibliographic information! But all of this first run will be from 1986, as far as I can tell.    And if that's not your speed, here's Barnaby! (4/29-5/1/1942)    Barnaby's wish to become an air raid warden is played up as a humorous counterpoint to Mr. O'Malley's more romanticized suggestions, but would have been a familiar fantasy to children of 1942. Fliers, posters, and radio jingles urged American families to practice various forms of diligence and preparation (many of which we've seen already in, especially, Mopsy), and Barnaby eventually winds up dealing with quite a few branches of civic war-time tasks, a motif that would not at the time been especially discordant with Crockett Johnson's leftist convictions or the politics of the progressive papers running his strip. I'm not a WWII scholar so I'm not sure if readers of 1942 would have been doubly amused by Barnaby's adoration for air wardens and the relatively prosaic nature of their responsibilities, but I think that is a theme that develops as this storyline progresses.
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Archyduchess posted:In lieu of Cathy I'm going to post Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For. Bechdel is more broadly lauded for her 2006 memoir Fun Home but her cartooning career begin in 1983 with the self-syndicated strip Dykes to Watch Out For. Initially a single panel strip before expanding to one-page vignettes and eventually the episodic narratives the comic is best known for, DtWOR appeared in an array of small press queer papers and magazines throughout the 80s, beginning with the feminist paper WomaNews before spreading to over 50 other independent publications including Hot Wire, The Philadelphia Gay News (my personal go-to for waiting rooms), Lesbian Contradiction, and Chicago Gay Life. I remember someone posting some of the narrative era strips in one of the old threads and that I absolutely hated the protagonist and wondering why any of her friends put up with her. These early ones seem fine though.
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Tiggum posted:I remember someone posting some of the narrative era strips in one of the old threads and that I absolutely hated the protagonist and wondering why any of her friends put up with her. These early ones seem fine though. That was me. Bechdel addresses this in one of the later ones with an in-character segment where the characters are contrasting whether they're better off being represented by obnoxious radical dykes that are true to life or more obviously sympathetic mainstream lesbians that are palatable to straights. This whole philosophical aspect of the strip dates it very weirdly, since by the time Dykes to Watch Out For was finished the latter argument had basically won, but as we're seeing today it's starting to feel like maybe they shouldn't have. I think part of why Bechdel trailed off and gave up writing it was because her characters didn't really have any purpose anymore, forced to live in a modern lgbt culture that was everything they had fought against. None of this context necessarily makes Dykes to Watch Out For any more readable, although it might help some of you get a better idea of where Bechdel was coming from. On a less aesthetic note my Dykes to Watch Out For strips were very crudely collected from the Internet Archive off of now-defunct sites that used to host them, resulting in many obnoxiously large gaps in between comics. So if something happens that you don't remember seeing, there's a very good chance you never actually saw it in the first place. Kudos to Archyduchess for actually going with a proper distribution method this time. We all appreciate the effort. Cheer Up Boss Dharma     Guy Fenix giving Taku a run for most obviously goony comic representative here.
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Some Guy TT posted:That was me. Bechdel addresses this in one of the later ones with an in-character segment where the characters are contrasting whether they're better off being represented by obnoxious radical dykes that are true to life or more obviously sympathetic mainstream lesbians that are palatable to straights. This whole philosophical aspect of the strip dates it very weirdly, since by the time Dykes to Watch Out For was finished the latter argument had basically won, but as we're seeing today it's starting to feel like maybe they shouldn't have. I think part of why Bechdel trailed off and gave up writing it was because her characters didn't really have any purpose anymore, forced to live in a modern lgbt culture that was everything they had fought against. None of this context necessarily makes Dykes to Watch Out For any more readable, although it might help some of you get a better idea of where Bechdel was coming from. Yeah, my impression from the last time it was posted in here was that sure it was historic and significant and groundbreaking and all that but it also wasn't particularly readable as a comic strip.
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