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NRVNQSR posted:"Coming out" refers to the process of being introduced to society. It was originally used in the context of introducing young women into society when they reached marriageable age, and was later adopted to refer to young people joining the gay community. Given that they call it a debutante ball, it seems clear it's just coming out to marriageable society. Which is extremely weird given that I think they're like, 11. Some Guy TT posted:I feel like I need this printed out anytime someone tries to say that Joe Biden's hair sniffing obsession was a totally normal and unremarkable thing among people of his generation and that we're reading too much into it. I went and looked it up and he was 4 when that strip ran.
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Old School Peanuts (Dec 8, 1951) Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 17-18, 1987)   Robbie and Bobby (Apr 15, 2016)  (Jul 8, 2020)   (Jul 9, 2020)  
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Angular Cyrus posted:Mopsy 1/30/43 Thirstiest looking fish I ever saw.
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EBB posted:Thirstiest looking fish I ever saw. Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (November 29, 2008)  Arlo and Janis Classic (November 29, 1998)  Garfield Classic (November 29, 1988) 
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Pastry of the Year posted:Garfield Classic (November 29, 1988) Jon's changed a lot! The Lockhorns  Brewster Rockit Space Guy  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Kevin & Kell  Mother Goose & Grimm  Hagar The Horrible  Sherman's Lagoon  Ella Cinders 
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack Oh come on! At least keep them both to single digits to use that joke.
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Wasn't expecting Herb and Jamal to go this route but I'm cautiously interested. And oh gosh, Mr. Boop sure is... ...well it certainly is whatever it is.
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That Herb and Jamal comic was not something I ever expected to see in a lot of ways. The Dinette Set has brand loyalty.  Working Daze is making it harder and harder to come up with my lead-in lines.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix puts the nose to the grindstone.  Cul De Sac isn't here to make friends. 
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2017 Spiderman 1978 Comics    I might drop Nancy since it keeps being extremely illegible for no apparent reason. As compensation have some 70s handwringing over test tube babies:  Dick Tracy    Locher Tracy     Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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Selachian posted:
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Mar. 24, 1940) THE CLAW
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what's up, i had a busy day yesterday Garfield   Heathcliff   who the f is Mort Overboard   Monty  Rae the Doe won't load so I'll post it later!!
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I got these in the mail today! There are only 5000 boxes and I have this numbered certificate of authenticity to prove that they're valuable!  Here's what the packs look like in the box  First pack opened!  The whole set! (Minus a "jumbo card" that only exists in 1:360 packs)  They're honestly pretty garbage cards. Lots of stretched images to fit the ratio of the cards and they just feel kind of cheap. It's pretty obvious that they were made to cash in on the trading card craze of the 1990s. I might pick up the Blondie set someday too.
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riderchop posted:
Bazooka Joe's friend, who always wears his shirt over his face Memorably lampooned in this Onion article Of all the stuff in Modern Heathcliff that elicits a "Huh?" I think the obsession with Gum is at the top
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack THAT IS NOT HOW BINARY NUMBERS WORK!!!  Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Mar. 24, 1940) lmao 
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FrumpleOrz posted:Jon's changed a lot! argh I fixed it! Thanks for the heads-up.
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #83 (1990) I think Batiuk is more often successful in his Sunday strips which at least have the space to accommodate more complex structures. I think you need a different system to do dramedy successfully in a daily format. An obvious one is some drama strips and some comedy strips, although the webcomic Dumbing of Age does that some and it's not entirely successful either - there's a kind of "whiplash effect" from going back and forth. It could be the writer, though, because I get that from his fight sequences as well. PS Love Clarice's look at the first panel of the last row. One face and you immediately infer Clarice and Toni have been talking about Mo and Harriet's relationship, even though we don't know what they said and never find out, helping the illusion of an ongoing world. curtadams fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 12/14/41 I love it when Modern Tracy sort-of intersects with Old Tracy in this thread.
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Alterian posted:Does anyone have any dates on those Everett True comics? My first one was November 16, 1918 (Santa Cruz Evening News) and the second one was November 21, 1918 (Daily Alaska Dispatch, but the Alaska mail system wasn't as fast as in the lower 48 states, so they had at least a month's lag on the "real" publishing date). Anyway, an unfortunate chunk of my comics are broken at the moment, so here's the ones that aren't. :p: Skippy (January 20, 1933)  Peanuts (July 17, 1973)  Les Moore vs. More Les Than He'll Ever Be  9 "Don't You Have Newborn Twins To Deal With?" Lane  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (February 12, 1937)  Out Our Way (October 18-20, 1934)   
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Adam  BCN   Phoebe   Wallace   Comics Kingdom is making GBS threads the bed so no Curtis for the moment.
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Endless Mike posted:gently caress getting a report of several brutal killings in the comic strip thread today
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Vargo posted:BCN I somehow missed that Puck was now dressed in Tony Soprano gear
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Endless Mike posted:gently caress Also, that's country.
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curtadams posted:Here Bechdel is again doing what FW is usually trying to do (unsuccessfully) - soften a drama/soap strip with a joke at the end. As often for her, the focus of the strip is about 2/3 through the strip, bringing up Mo and Harriet's relationship issues. Bechdel uses the length well - after the point there's 2 panels of reaction, and then a joke at the end which comes out of the opening like a comedy version of Chekov's gun. You can see introduction-rising action-climax-falling action-conclusion, probably coming out of Bechdel's interest and training in literature. It's a good structure for a dramedy strip but I don't think you could do it in a 3-4 panel daily. There's just not enough space for the pacing (especially the Chekov's gun trick) without some brilliant combination nobody can do every day, or even every week. Bechdel just seems really good at writing conversations that seem like conversations actual people have. She does have more space but I also feel that she kind of "disguises" any obvious structural beats, you don't notice that something's a set-up or foreshadowing until it gets paid off. I also think that's why it handles the topical stuff better than Zelda (which isn't bad overall, but I think that's usually where it's weakest.) Every time an issue comes up it feels like "this is something a group of somewhat politically minded lesbians would probably talk about" and it's not always who's right or wrong (and when there is, it's not always the same characters who are right/wrong.)
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EasyEW posted:9 "Don't You Have Newborn Twins To Deal With?" Lane I would unironically enjoy if these two just keep loving, getting pregnant, having 1–3 kids over and over and over. And we NEVER see the kids. Six years from now they have like, 12 children and we never see any of them.
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It's really dumb that apparently the movie people are making every effort to make their Les and Lisa look authentic even though that doesn't matter one goddamn bit to anyone who's going to see the movie.
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 this one's interesting because it's dated to '48. In 1948 Condo would have been 76 years old, this is eight years before his death. According to the internet Condo quit Everett True in 1927 due to health concerns, I wonder what his game was in 1948 and was this just a one off for some reason or did he draw more in his later years.       Everett True murdered at least one cop and a collector, this is canon.
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If Batiuk was feeling real saucy he would just republish old Funky Winkerbean strips without telling anyone, and call it scenes from the film.
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Nenonen posted:
F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Oh please let Mary get her hair colored  The Phantom  Should I try to contact me again? Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G Christmas in July 
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The stragglers finally caught up! Sally Forth  Crankshaft 
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EasyEW posted:
Going back to the age-old question of which of these artists has the weirdest smut collection of his own characters: Look at the angles of the arms there and the length of the dude's arm. Note the straightened elbow. Now consider the position he needs to be in for that to be anatomically-possible whatsoever.  Alternative acceptable answer: She's lying on her side and is holding her own hand, reaching toward the camera. E: Nope, elbow is backward for that.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail You know, if this was The Phantom, I'd think this might be a reference to Donald Trump Jr. shooting an endangered mountain sheep in Mongolia last month, but I can't imagine Jam (if this is really still him) going in that direction.
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curtadams posted:I think Batiuk is more often successful in his Sunday strips which at least have the space to accommodate more complex structures. I think you need a different system to do dramedy successfully in a daily format. An obvious one is some drama strips and some comedy strips, although the webcomic Dumbing of Age does that some and it's not entirely successful either - there's a kind of "whiplash effect" from going back and forth. It could be the writer, though, because I get that from his fight sequences as well. This is a really good point and it makes me think again about what Howard Cruse has said about not wanting to do Wendel anymore if he had to squash it down to a gag strip and only resuming work on it when the Advocate offered him a full two-page spread again. I believe in everything I've read about it he cited comedic timing specifically but Wendel also had quite a bit of a soap element to it, and while I don't think Cruse's characters are quite as vividly realized as Bechdel's, I think he also had a sense that he'd lose out on that element of being able to reveal characterization over time if he was restricted to four panels or half a page.
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