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Even if D2WO4 doesn't catch on with you, everyone should go read Fun Home. It was one of those I blitzed through in a day, woke up the next morning and read cover to cover again. Highly recommended. The follow-up about her mom, not so much, though.
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Vargo posted:Baldo In my headcannon they're reading Fist of the North Star. Also Wallace continues to be a treasure. Crabgrass  Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (May 19, 1951)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 4-5, 1986)   Robbie and Bobby (Jan 8-9, 2015)  
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Regarding this Mary Worth storyline, Iris’ first doctor may seem like a loving rear end in a top hat who should have done his job, but my wife also developed Hashimoto’s and it took like well over a year and a significant/memorable incident for us to actually realize it was something we should check out and get treated. Also that first doctor was an rear end in a top hat who should be booted from his field.
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Kennel posted:1997  Compulsive comic editing disorder.
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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, the narrative strips in particular play this up a ton with the main character, Mo, especially, who tends to flip out whenever one of her friends does something that strikes her as a concession to the establishment. She's a huge rear end in a top hat during the wedding story, for example, but she also acts as a mouthpiece for some good points when there's stuff about the increasing visibility of Log Cabin Republicans or the commodification of pride marches and such. IIRC she's has the most irritating and dated reactions when trans characters begin to be introduced-- she's definitely kind of a proxy for Bechdel but she's a deliberately exaggerated and distorted one, like Roberta Gregory's Bitchy Bitch. None of this makes her any more or less appealing to actually read about but there's some context. The strip begins at a moment where queerness is still firmly in the realm of the countercultural and effaced (the intro comic to The Essential DtWOF includes the infamous 1981 NYT headline calling AIDS "a rare cancer seen in 41 homosexuals"), and takes a clear stance as that begins to change. So there's a real polemic element undercutting the social satire of a very insular world that sometimes reads as at cross purposes. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Docks  Zip  Rip  Dick  Duck 
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Darthemed posted:Docks How quaint
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2017 Spiderman 1978 Comics    Dick Tracy  Locher Tracy is...ah...hmm. Yeah I can't really defend this one.  (I looked ahead, this is the worst it gets about this.) Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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Darthemed posted:Docks alan keyes?
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Being trapped on the same island with a naked, furious Modesty Blaise is probably* not the worst way to die. *conditional because I still have very little experience of dying
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Kennel posted:Dustin God Kelly is so bad at his loving job. If you put it on the 3rd it would have been a decent "Dustin is Lazy" joke, but you waited for two weekends to to come and go so now it's just a lovely boomer comic. Also like, you know his dad would throw a FIT if he had to work even a single Saturday.
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While hunting for Staton/Curtis' Tracy fanfic(did you think I was joking?), I stumbled on these Minit Mysteries from the 50s. Enjoy:    
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Kennel posted:Surgeon's Tales I beg your pardon
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Bloom County December 20th + 22nd, 1980 (there was no listing for the 21st, I'll check the physical books later and edit it in if there is one)  
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I think it's that Bloom County doesn't have any Sunday strips until May 10th, 1981.
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Bongo Bill posted:I beg your pardon It's clumsy (and probably grammatically wrong because I followed the original structure too closely), but I was in a hurry and couldn't come up with better phrasing. I guess the better translation would be: "if the moose had been polite enough to get shot." (it's an intentionally humorous sentence) Kennel fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Darthemed posted:I think it's that Bloom County doesn't have any Sunday strips until May 10th, 1981. I think it might just be that there's not always a Sunday strip. We had one on the 14th
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Dykes to Watch Out For (still 1986)     Barnaby (May 2nd-May 7th, 1942)      The OCD here is the Office of Civilian Defense, established in 1941 and dissolved in 1945. At its peak it "employed" over 11 million volunteers, including children, and the office covered all sorts of stuff from air raid drills to fire-fighting and organizing scrap drives. Wartime civic service remains a prominent part of this strip throughout Johnson's run. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Jan 24, 2020 |
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Kennel posted:It's clumsy (and probably grammatically wrong because I followed the original structure too closely), but I was in a hurry and couldn't come up with better phrasing. I think replacing "themselves" with "them" at the end would do the trick. It changes who exactly is being shot.
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Bongo Bill posted:I think replacing "themselves" with "them" at the end would do the trick. It changes who exactly is being shot. Yeah, in hindsight, that's pretty obvious. Thanks for the input btw. I guess people don't usually bother nitpicking about internet post grammar, but unfortunately it means that my skills aren't improving very quickly.
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Kennel posted:Yeah, in hindsight, that's pretty obvious. You're doing a great job here and I appreciate it - I'm really enjoying getting to read the strip. If you'd like, I can continue to offer suggestions as needed.
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Kennel posted:Thanks for the input btw. I guess people don't usually bother nitpicking about internet post grammar, but unfortunately it means that my skills aren't improving very quickly. Your translations are excellent, by and large.
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Bad Machinery quote:Deep into the tenth Bad Machinery case, my preoccupations are fairly well defined, sewage and sewers chief among them. What's going on down there? Enquiring minds... want to know.
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Savidudeosoo posted:God Kelly is so bad at his loving job. If you put it on the 3rd it would have been a decent "Dustin is Lazy" joke, but you waited for two weekends to to come and go so now it's just a lovely boomer comic. Or New Years' Day, which was a Wednesday.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Mar. 27, 1937) These are really amazing and special, thank you for posting them
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Got to love how the colorist didn't notice the "A few days later" or that they're wearing totally different shirts now. 
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Transmodiar posted:Classic Working Daze
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Archyduchess posted:Barnaby (May 2nd-May 7th, 1942) I remember the last time it was posted, it's nice to see it again. But I'm just never able to get over just how perfectly clean the entire thing is drawn. Just the constant, near perfect linework that makes it seem like a cut-and-paste vector based comic from this century. Despite being a generation prior, and the product of a -lot- of work and skill, I assume. It's vaguely eerie in a way I just can't really express.
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SubNat posted:I remember the last time it was posted, it's nice to see it again. Yeah the cleanness really reminds me of Achewood more than anything else. It's like ligne claire to the nth degree, I can't think of anything else of that period which looks quite like it.
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Evil Mastermind posted:How dare you Oh, I dare.
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Haifisch posted:While hunting for Staton/Curtis' Tracy fanfic(did you think I was joking?), I stumbled on these Minit Mysteries from the 50s. Enjoy:
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My Dad is Dracula  🎉 WELCOME TO GUEST COMIC WEDNESDAY 🎉 Our premiere guest comic is by my wonderful wife, Julai Whipple! Shout out for her etsy shop, Checked Out Style, where she makes fashions inspired by vintage pulp and young adult book covers! Pickles  Zits 
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