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Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Green Intern posted:

I didn't realize that Rusty was adopted, but somehow I'm not surprised. A comic with such "wholesome roots" as Mark Trail would never allow anyone to have sex.

The early ones were actually pretty good. Cherry got to do stuff besides sit inside a cabin and worry about what adventures the men were having.


I like Classic Trail when it gets posted, though it seems to be on another hiatus at the moment.

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Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.


Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jul 25, 2022

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Aug. 07, 1938)

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Crabgrass


Support Tauhid's Patreon here.


Old School Peanuts (Aug 22, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (May 15-16, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Sept 2-3, 2015)



Lowen SoDium
Jun 5, 2003

Highen Fiber
Clapping Larry

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
Adam





BCN




Phoebe




Wallace




Curtis


Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan

Vargo posted:

Wallace



That's exactly the kind of melodramatic ridiculousness in which I would have engaged as a youth, and with just as much chutzpah and downright sincerity as Wallace.

This is wonderful. This is art.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Alhazred posted:

Intet Nytt Fra Hjemmefronten


Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

I am ready to tussle

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe

Vargo posted:

Wallace



And that, children, is the story of how Spud discovered he was a furry.

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

readingatwork posted:

Calvin and Hobbes (May 15-16, 1987)

This is a hard boiled masterpiece.

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

I really like Puck's Jesse Ventura look.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable


Curtis loudly telling his mom he needs to take a poo poo is not something I thought I'd see on the comics page.

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

...alright this made me laugh, this was good delivery.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Billingsley is super good at pacing and selling a joke with body language and expressions when he wants to and even when the writing is a little rote the faces are always pretty crisp and appealing. I still think of the movie theater guy and laugh sometimes.

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.
The Lockhorns


Brewster Rockit Space Guy


on The Fastrack


Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm


Hagar The Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

FrumpleOrz posted:

on The Fastrack

Bitch that's the Tubby Custard machine.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

gleebster posted:

I take it that's not terrific bass.

Anyway, in Juliet Jones, Don knows when he's onto a good thing. I think Karen might just keep him as long as he stays in his lane and doesn't try to think.


Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

Vargo posted:

Curtis being the most topical strip posted here is a thing I do not like.

amigolupus posted:

Even when it's being topical, Curtis still avoids saying that it's COVID-19 it's talking about. :lol:

Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD



Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

In this installment of Keeping Up with the Joneses, the word "Sassiety" is eye dialect for "society".

Apparently a major class signifier was whether you ate your soup noisily.

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Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

How Wonderful! posted:

Billingsley is super good at pacing and selling a joke with body language and expressions when he wants to and even when the writing is a little rote the faces are always pretty crisp and appealing. I still think of the movie theater guy and laugh sometimes.

He's an odd duck. Most of the time, Curtis is pretty meh in my opinion, but when he puts his mind to it, Billingsley is absolutely capable of good jokes, good character moments, and good stories.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

A rex morgan covid19 story?

I hope everyone is ready for 2-4 weeks of nonstop, action unpacked, thoroughly bridled "guy gets sick, sees doctor, has test taken, finds he isn't at risk of dying or any substantiual symptoms and makes a full recovery while getting a stern talking to about not doing public appearances" action

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



often when i read holbrook's work i think of the platonic cave. people, trapped inside the cave for their whole lives, for whom the shadows of the outside world are the entirety of the world; who mistake the comings and goings of the sun on a fixed object for that object's shadow having real, purposeful, movement as it crosses the cave wall, and tell stories of why it moves so without any understanding of the processes behind it. i think of this cave and the people within, allegory as they are for our own blindness to the world outside of the caves of our skulls, and i wonder what it is like to be inside another cave. what is like to see the shadow of another sun. what processes were at work during the conception and realisation to capture the essence of that shadow and give it life in such a sisyphean security guard's desk. the broad curve of the desk so familiar with from other works, here, a complete semi-circle with no exit. the bank of monitors, a literal wall of information, too close for the guard to ever view in its entirety; its geometry both within and spanning the desk, it exists outside of his reality. but, no matter, the guard, aware of its contradictions, refuses to face it. somewhere a handle turns.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens

Does she sometimes have legs or is she leaning out of the tank in the first panel? Are they all underwater in the third panel? Yes, I know that's trapeze guy.

Edit: What a weird series of sentences.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



she can have legs for up to twelve hours then she becomes a fish

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

Live, laugh, kupo!

Tho.as and Marlon are in front of the tank. Usually that's more apparent since it's people standing while she swims, but acrobats.

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
So their humanity outreach plan is to let people know they can totally gently caress mermaids?

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



Bruceski posted:

Tho.as and Marlon are in front of the tank. Usually that's more apparent since it's people standing while she swims, but acrobats.
If one of the bars on it was occluding part of her it'd be more obvious but holbrook is not a particularly great artist

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

when it comes to holbrook it's best to just keep scrolling and not ask questions

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Professor Wayne posted:

So their humanity outreach plan is to let people know they can totally gently caress mermaids?

If nothing else works, that might.



lol just kidding. Racists hate race mixing.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Prince Valiant

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


Alhazred posted:

Intet Nytt Fra Hjemmefronten


Alright, now I'm afraid I'mma gonna hafta declare war on Norway for this slander of saying Vinegar flavoured chips are bad.

But before I raise hell, here's today's Corto Maltese! Where: Rasputin gets very happy with Chevket, or Rasputin waxes nostalgic, or Should've chosen paper, Ras.



amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

If this were a just world, the news about the trapeze guy and his mermaid wife having a kid would make people realize that DNA Wizard and her crew knew about the merfolks' existence but just never bothered telling anyone, and that their crew would come under heavy criticism for that and what they did to Mars.


Arn in the second-to-last panel is loving this poo poo. :black101:


I like how Adam turned the tables and is just messing with his daughter in a pretty wholesome way; it's a nice contrast to other strips. If this were Curtis, then his dad would've gotten mad and told him to get out of the room. If this were Dustin, then Ed would have made a scathing remark about how he's the one paying for everything.


Oh boy. I sure am looking forward to two months of Rex Morgan making COVID-19 the most boring, inconsequential story ever, even more so than usual with Buck hanging around.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
I found this image of a slightly older Zelda in black and white and I have to say I love this style. I think the Zelda currently being posted has a cute and appealing line and I like the acting but it lacks the nervous energy this older strip has. Granted I have no idea what anyone is saying, but, you know.


I like how she's willing to really exaggerate and stylize her women characters' body language, and give them that kind of loose, rough dynamism-- a willingness to swing for expressive "ugliness"-- that a lot of male cartoonists save for male characters.
It makes me feel bad about falling off of posting Dykes to Watch Out For. So, let's do this:

Dykes to Watch Out For


How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Apr 5, 2020

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

As weird as it feels to write this to the thread mod, you don't really need to timg anything. We can't break tables anymore and even long comics are pretty easy to scroll past. Far Side was only a thing because the single panels were so big not everyone could see them in a single glance.

Maybe NSFW images need them but just ugly ones are fine. Oh, and I do agree with you, expressive ugliness is cool as all hell and female characters don't get that treatment anywhere near often enough.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Some Guy TT posted:

As weird as it feels to write this to the thread mod, you don't really need to timg anything. We can't break tables anymore and even long comics are pretty easy to scroll past. Far Side was only a thing because the single panels were so big not everyone could see them in a single glance.

Maybe NSFW images need them but just ugly ones are fine. Oh, and I do agree with you, expressive ugliness is cool as all hell and female characters don't get that treatment anywhere near often enough.

Force of habit, sorry! I've edited the most recent post.

Hel
Oct 9, 2012

Jokatgulm is tedium.
Jokatgulm is pain.
Jokatgulm is suffering.

How Wonderful! posted:

I found this image of a slightly older Zelda in black and white and I have to say I love this style. I think the Zelda currently being posted has a cute and appealing line and I like the acting but it lacks the nervous energy this older strip has. Granted I have no idea what anyone is saying, but, you know.


I like how she's willing to really exaggerate and stylize her women characters' body language, and give them that kind of loose, rough dynamism-- a willingness to swing for expressive "ugliness"-- that a lot of male cartoonists save for male characters.
It makes me feel bad about falling off of posting Dykes to Watch Out For. So, let's do this:

Dykes to Watch Out For


Rough translation:

Panel 1:
- Are you crying, what has happened?
- It's so indescribably horrible! The penguin can't find his flock!
He's looking and crying all alone in Antarctica! uhuhuhuh...

Panel 2:
- Is the drat film crew incapable of helping hem?
Unfeeling Frenchmen only smoking hashish in their Canadian Goose jackets! No empathy at all, I'm getting so drat mad!!!


Panel 3:
- You're not having your period soon are you?
- Oh? So whenever a woman is upset it's because of biological hysteria?
sexist!

Panel 4:
Look!, Now the albatross is taking the penguin chick! And the Frenchmen are making snow angels! I'm getting so drat mad!!!


Related to Zelda, I find that it's very prominent with a thing I associate with Swedish comics strips, the stylized ugliness. Maybe it's also common elsewhere but it's something I've associated a lot with Swedish newspaper-style comics strips.

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Evrart Claire
Jan 11, 2008

FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens


I really shouldn't let myself think about Holbrook comics at all, but didn't this whole "humans are bad racists for hating merfolk" arc literally begin with the martian merfolk trying to kill all humans on Earth?

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