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Bibliotechno Music posted:Thanks for doing all this archival work for Dark Laughter! I’ve really enjoyed it. When you started posting it I was surprised at how modern it felt...then I realized it looked modern largely because it’s so rare to see Black people in the vintage comics (who aren’t drawn like Ick, anyway). Just to clarify, I have a bunch more Dark Laugher - the quality is just a bit poo poo. And He Did! (October 15, 1917)  Outbursts of Everett True (June 13, 1918)  Banana Oil! (February 12, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (May 28, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (October 26, 1935)  Mopsy (December 25, 1936)  Dark Laughter (October 16, 1943)  Those Were the Days (September 25, 1952)  Wee Pals (July 17, 1965) 
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Twelve by Pies posted:Dying to make sure a corporation didn't lose a few hundredths of a cent in pocket change of profit. An American hero. To be fair it was RadioShack so there was never much profit involved.
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The Bloop posted:When I worked for RadioShack back in the day, a store manager chased a shoplifter outside over a $50 TV remote and got stabbed and died I worked at a supermarket in a strip mall and was there the day when an employee at the liquor store next door chased a thief out into the parking lot, was stabbed, and ran into our store for help. Our rear end in a top hat assistant manager yelled at us while we were taking care of the guy, calling 911, etc. ("THAT'S why you don't chase shoplifters, people!") and then I got to mop up the trail of blood from the entry through Produce into the back room. Lesson learned, dammit.
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readingatwork posted:To be fair it was RadioShack so there was never much profit involved. Not true at all. Very profitable until several key executive fuckups in their last year. Source: I know all about that poo poo
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Evil Mastermind posted:Cul De Sac believes it, and that's all that matters. I've been calling those things old lady radar hats for so long, I completely forgot I got that from Cul De Sac.  Blah blah and they get in and it's decorated fancy and not like pirates, WE KNOW. Anyway, it's normal in Luann to start a story and let it go for two weeks and then leave it hanging so that Team Evans can run off and do sections of a few other stories before eventually coming back. But they started this one and then spent one week on the Luann's Mom Got Flirted With non-story before coming straight back to this. Why bother? It served no purpose at all, except to let the air out of the balloon.  The gently caress is wrong with you?
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Gunther's planning on getting fukken twisted tonight you dumb bastard
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whats up we got new foster kittens so i was away all day Garfield  Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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Slammy posted:Just to clarify, I have a bunch more Dark Laugher - the quality is just a bit poo poo. Worse art but much clearer text. What a tradeoff.
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2017 Spiderman 1979 comics  Saoshyant posted:
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Aug 20, 1952)  Calvin and Hobbes (Apr 4-5, 1989)   Don't be a narc Suzie. Robbie and Bobby   ^^^I think this is my favorite one. Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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Julet Esqu posted:I've been calling those things old lady radar hats for so long, I completely forgot I got that from Cul De Sac. 300$ and...what was it, one day notice? It's gonna be dollar store decor
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So, my posts here are long enough already, but there's another strip I've become fascinated by -- mostly because of the unusual pedigree of its creators. Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, of the Yes-Those-Guggenheims, came from newspaper royalty -- her great-grandfather was managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and her father founded the New York Daily News. She would eventually go on to found Long Island's Newsday. Neysa McMein was already famous as a magazine and commercial illustrator and portrait painter. She was also a leading light in the New York social scene -- she hung out with the Algonquin Round Table crowd, her studio was a meeting place for celebrities, and she was a world-class party host. And in 1942 they got together and created Deathless Deer, which ran in the Daily News. Deathless Deer 11/9-11/42   
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I think I heard about it while looking for something to post. It looks interesting, I look forward to it!
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics On a side note, something very weird about the strip is that I read some Encyclopedia Brown stories when I was younger than he is in the stories but never read another. So all these years he's been filed in my brain as "older than me". Seeing him very young is disorienting, ridiculous as that is with a fictional character (and 40 year old strips). curtadams fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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Green Intern posted:Are we gearing up for another murder arc? Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Strontium posted:
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I started thinking " Goddamnit Tinkersons, if you are gonna do something, DO SOMETHING!" as the "Serial Killer" thing , while it had a few good gags, didnt really go anywhere, BUT then I had a thought. Like, a strip, or show where the main characters, aren't the main characters. They run into alot of weird poo poo and situations, but only the edges of it. Not even secondary characters, but third and fourth level. You wouldn't need, or get, to see the resolution, or the whole story , only where it happens to cross the paths of Joe Somebody. and that's kind of where I am seeing the Tinkersons right now.
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I agree. I've long thought this was a cool idea that just wouldn't be feasible in most media that's focused on big plots rather than small interactions. But right now the Tinkersons totally read like a background characters in the setting of some kind of police procedural. I hope they never meet the main character of that police procedural, since their unwitting reactions to ongoing events is a big part of the charm.
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I am so excited for this turn of events in Tinkersons. And big to Rae the Doe.
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Haifisch posted:Footrot Flats I don't say this enough, but I absolutely love Footrot Flats. Also Rae.Classic Kevin & Kell (September 18-24, 2000)        If this feels familiar, it's because K&K already did a week of strips riffing on the Olympics in 1996. (Because yes, it's already been four years since then.)
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Seems out of character almost for a member of the main K&K family to actually be bothered by carnivore culture being entirely about murder.
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (August 3, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (August 3, 1999)  Garfield Classic (August 3, 1989)  Aside: I know this isn't the thread for it, but as another former retail worker, the stories you all were telling a page or so really interested me, so if there's a place you have or would expand on them, I'd love to read more.
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 4/12/01  Brenda Starr 4/7/46  For quick comparison, here's the pre-makeover look:  Smokey Stover 7/7/40  Richard's Poor Almanac 
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“Princess Deer, there is a Mr. Bootsie who would like to speak to you!”
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Jucika "19 - Jucika at the Beach" "Napola=Sunblock, ilyen barna lesz=Your tan will be this brown" "Jucika's Moving Complaint"  "Panasziroda = Complaints department"
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TampaTango posted:“Princess Deer, there is a Mr. Bootsie who would like to speak to you!” Mr Bootsie, I appreciate you offering to come up to my palace to help conquer the Nile River delta, I just bought my cousin Rocko along with me to help.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Aside: I know this isn't the thread for it, but as another former retail worker, the stories you all were telling a page or so really interested me, so if there's a place you have or would expand on them, I'd love to read more. Surprisingly, Ask/Tell doesn't have a thread for retail workers. As is seen in this thread, there's certainly demand for such stories. So I went and made one. And I'm assuming we have permission from Darthemed not to have to quote them every time we want to steal an imgur link because that would be very annoying.
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 4/7/46 They appear to have replaced the sink and bathtub with a vanity and dining table. And the stove is now a clothes dresser. So uh, good job there.
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Green Intern posted:They appear to have replaced the sink and bathtub with a vanity and dining table. And the stove is now a clothes dresser. So uh, good job there. It seems like they also removed the only source of light (beside the small ground level window) and very cleanly removed the electric outlet from the ceiling.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Tina's Groove Classic (August 3, 2009)
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 4/7/46 Is there anything stopping the landlord from immediately increasing the rent and/or kicking her out and getting someone who'll pay more in there now that she's done the place up?
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Green Intern posted:They appear to have replaced the sink and bathtub with a vanity and dining table. And the stove is now a clothes dresser. So uh, good job there. Well, Brenda's old apartment had nothing but a hot plate to cook on ... although at least she had a fridge, too. Having read ahead a bit, I can tell you the "dining table" is just a board laid over the tub. A bit inconvenient, but then this is the forties, when baths were weekly instead of every day. I'm not sure what's up with the sink/vanity, though.
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Green Intern posted:They appear to have replaced the sink and bathtub with a vanity and dining table. And the stove is now a clothes dresser. So uh, good job there. You think that's bad, now she has to poo poo in a breakfast nook
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Selachian posted:
3000 years deer beautiful, dangerous, throne of ago, Princess Imperious occupied the Egypt's kings.
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Some Guy TT posted:Surprisingly, Ask/Tell doesn't have a thread for retail workers. As is seen in this thread, there's certainly demand for such stories. So I went and made one. And I'm assuming we have permission from Darthemed not to have to quote them every time we want to steal an imgur link because that would be very annoying. There is however a 700+ thread in Business about why working retail sucks.
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