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Cowslips Warren posted:I do remember most of the cast but one of the best later strips was when one of the couple's kids went to camp, and his gay uncle worked there, and some kids began calling something gay, naturally meaning stupid and lame. The kid asked his uncle about this, and the uncle retorted that gay meant awesome, for example, his shirt, which was tight and form fitting and showed off his muscles; by comparison one of the other camp counselors likely wore the same shirt, stained and loose, because it was the only clean thing in his closet. Kid goes home and asks his moms to get him more tight fitting muscle shirts because "they're super gay." That was the first one I read, in one of the earlier threads, and frankly every time I think about it it makes me giggle. Also, Archyduchess, I'm gonna miss "what's she postin' in there?" but I love your new avatar. ukonvasara posted:These both really throw into stark relief how godawful the current Working Daze art is! Miller in particular has a sort of breezy 90s clipart style that's fairly pleasant to look at. (Also presumably helps that the classic strips we've seen so far are just fairly generic office humor and not nerd_thing.txt on repeat...) Yeah, they're not good, but they're not completely irredeemable like the modern crap. We've only seen three, but each one of those three is better than anything we've ever seen from the current ones in all the time it's been posted.
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Don’t school custodians normally custode when you know there aren’t kids around barring urgent incidents why is this creep always hanging around children
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The Dinette Set brings in a ringer. Working Daze is guest written by Charles Boyce.  I found this WD amusing, only because of the timing of people talking about how the older jokes are better than the current comic and yet this one dates back to the start of home computing and is still utterly unfunny. Super-Fun-Pak Comix still hasn't updated. I think I might have to find a replacement... Cul De Sac is doing it, the absolute mad lad! 
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Angular Cyrus posted:They'll Do It Every Time 8/1/46 "conglutinating"  Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Now, this flashback here? I can fully believe Jam drew this one all by himself without clipart.  Oh. I guess we're reading a rejected Three's Company plot now.
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Calaveron posted:Don’t school custodians normally custode when you know there aren’t kids around barring urgent incidents why is this creep always hanging around children Ghostlight posted:The titular Frazz is a man in his mid-thirties who is so wealthy he need never work again but chooses to continue serving as a school janitor as it affords him regular interactions with pre-teens with whom he builds a relationship that continues outside of school hours yet somehow the comic continues as if this is extremely normal behaviour that doesn't warrant official intervention.
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Julet Esqu posted:Oh. I guess we're reading a rejected Three's Company plot now. Who is the target audience?
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 King Aroo 8/25/53  They'll Do It Every Time 8/2/46  Mopsy 8/12/42 
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Angular Cyrus posted:They'll Do It Every Time 8/2/46 wow the boomers had boomers huh
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That third panel's a deliberate partial redrawing of the first. God I love this comic. Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Oh god. I think he's deliberately going to avoid using any clipart in this flashback. FrumpleOrz posted:The Lockhorns I had a suspicion, so I looked it up and there's a Ted Sklar practicing in New York who appears to have been the actual inspiration for this character in the comic. It appears likely Bill Hoest, the original creator of the comic, who was also a New Yorker, inserted him as the recurring Lockhorn attorney as a tribute. A couple other sites on the Lockhorns refer to him in passing as a "real life attorney". Julet Esqu posted:"conglutinating" It's a real word!
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Discendo Vox posted:It's a real word! I love English
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Daaamn. In today's Corto Maltese: And now we wave goodbye to the best character in the whole series, or 'I hope it's not CHRIS'S blood' - Corto, or Yep, that sure is an artist's rendition of Corto Maltese   
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Discendo Vox posted:I had a suspicion, so I looked it up and there's a Ted Sklar practicing in New York who appears to have been the actual inspiration for this character in the comic. It appears likely Bill Hoest, the original creator of the comic, who was also a New Yorker, inserted him as the recurring Lockhorn attorney as a tribute. A couple other sites on the Lockhorns refer to him in passing as a "real life attorney". I'm a Long Islander, and the Hoests frequently use real LI businesses in the background of the strip (Aboff's paint store, the Canterbury Ales bar, etc.). My family occasionally socialized with a Sklar family when I was a kid, but I don't recall if any of them were named Ted.
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Dykes to Watch Out For (still 1986)  One thing that's almost kind of comforting about these is how acute Bechdel's rage and despair at the trajectory of American politics is throughout these. I mean, it's super depressing that we can trace where that trajectory leads us, but it's also somewhat nice to have a sense of continuity. She becomes a little more caustic and self-aware about it when she introduces Mo but we see a bit of it here with the recurrent theme of being terrified of Reagan's nuclear brinksmanship, which carries over to her attitude towards Bush I in the Middle East.   Anyway I'm too impatient to wait until tomorrow-- next up is the really famous one:   There are plenty of variations on this you can play if you truly want to never leave the house without becoming depressed. I tried for awhile to apply the Bechdel test rules to representations of trans women in particular. Pretty rough week! Barnaby (5/8/1942-5/13/1942)      I'm doing a slightly longer block of these as well because I like the gag on the 13th. I initially thought the joke about the mysterious "Axis spy ship" was a reference to foo fighters, an at-one-time popular rumor about mysterious aircrafts that dovetailed into the nascent stages of American UFO mythology, but it turns out those weren't really a going concern until 1944. I presume if you're posting in BSS you know who Superman is, but I should note that he was tremendously popular in 1942. The first Fleischer cartoons debuted in 1941, the Adventures of Superman radio show was a hit, and the newspaper strip was in hundreds of papers nationwide. In the early 40s in particular the character was kind of in between the street-level socialist crusader of 1938 and the planet-trotting superhero he'd become, and it was not at all unusual to see him intervening directly in very topical (read WWII-adjacent) situations, so Mr. O'Malley's fears are not necessarily outlandish.
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riderchop posted:great new av, btw Thank you for understanding that although I had to betray Lottie crew it was for a nobler cause-- Little My crew.
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Angular Cyrus posted:Mopsy 8/12/42  Archyduchess posted:Dykes to Watch Out For (still 1986)
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Moomin the baloomin (balloonmin?) Ps: drat that's a fine
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Tiggum posted:Where can I get a copy of that book? Doesn't have to be volume 4.  SubNat posted:Ps: drat that's a fine Thank you! The Splash put it together and I'm delighted by it.
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2017 Spiderman 1978 Comics    Dick Tracy  And a special feature: Staton & Curtis's Dick Tracy Fanfic! OK, it's actually a fan comic called Major Crime Squad. Hosted on Plainclothes, a Tracy fansite run by Staton/Curtis and a few others(which was also the source for the 50s Minit Mysteries from earlier), taken down around the time Staton/Curtis got involved with the real Dick Tracy strip but helpfully archived on the wayback machine. You'll get one a day until they run out. Why? Because it can't be any more tedious than their real Dick Tracy strips. site blurb posted:Artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis (with inks and letters from Shelley Pleger) put the members of Chester Gould's Major Crime Squad through an adventure featuring two presumed dead criminals and the answers to "What happened to the Space Coupe?"  Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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The only way I can make sense of this is that Fly-Face is suddenly in the room with them for some reason? 
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I know it’s the nature of the industry, but I have not stepped foot in these threads for at least a few years and it’s still mostly the same strips and they all look exactly the same. It’s uncanny and frightening.
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Oh dang I'm gonna have to get used to a new av. What's she postin? was good. But trans pride Little My is also good, and Praxis. What up new av sister. Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Truly unbearable how these college students are still written as if they're tittering dipshit middle schoolers. And yet, I too must hate them to live.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell Why do we have to know it's a Tesla? How else would Holbrook signal to the world that he is a hip and cool cat who is definitely with the times?
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riderchop posted:wow the boomers had boomers huh when have boomers ever not projected all their own failings onto the rest of the world
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EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater (August 13-14, 1936)
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Star Wars has that Spidey Sense  "Go for a ride in my supply tug" is a weird sex euphemism 
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (May 22, 1951)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 8-9, 1986)   Robbie and Bobby (Jan 14-15, 2015)      
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Haifisch posted:Origins of the Sunday Comics Haifisch posted:Origins of the Sunday Comics It's amusing to see these back to back, like seeing the artist discover in real time the gag works better without any of the dialog. Archyduchess posted:One thing that's almost kind of comforting about these is how acute Bechdel's rage and despair at the trajectory of American politics is throughout these. I mean, it's super depressing that we can trace where that trajectory leads us, but it's also somewhat nice to have a sense of continuity. She becomes a little more caustic and self-aware about it when she introduces Mo but we see a bit of it here with the recurrent theme of being terrified of Reagan's nuclear brinksmanship, which carries over to her attitude towards Bush I in the Middle East. This kind of makes me want to go scan a bunch of Nixon/Reagan era Life in Hell, but it would probably be a huge bummer.
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Endless Mike posted:Star Wars has that Spidey Sense Man, this poo poo's getting intense. Also, that lady is way to horny. I bet she's also a spy.
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dirksteadfast posted:I know it’s the nature of the industry, but I have not stepped foot in these threads for at least a few years and it’s still mostly the same strips and they all look exactly the same. It’s uncanny and frightening. You may want to check out Mark Trail. The current author seems to not have any clip art for the flashback he's telling today. Anyway, Juliet Jones, where today we see that Mayor of Devon, Heronner Juliet Jones, cooks for her father, who feels free to drag home anyone without saying there'll be another person at dinner. 
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readingatwork posted:Robbie and Bobby (Jan 14-15, 2015) gently caress you, licorice is the best!
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