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Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013


Angular Cyrus is a Comic Strip Thread All-Star: not only do they find and post sharp and super-clean comics from decades ago, but they also are really good at nailing the style of just about any artist they care to cover, e.g. this all-time favorite of mine:

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Shellception
Oct 12, 2016

ALL THINGS THAT ARE ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION.

AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY.

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



This image seems to be dead.

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Should be fixed

Huxley
Oct 10, 2012



Grimey Drawer

How Wonderful! posted:

"On Our Backs" was the title of a lesbian magazine ...

I really appreciate the effort you put into giving these context.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Cesar looks exactly like my hs band director

root
Jun 17, 2000

Booska mask replica...

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä

Thank you for sharing these! That's one of the things I love about this thread... Getting to see comics I've never heard of.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Can you imagine if he tried to undo it though?

Think about it: Brooke McEldowney presents: "Loss"
I was ready to fire up Photoshop and make this happen.

But then I realized this meant I'd have to actually LOOK at McEldowney's art... So...

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Evil Mastermind posted:

Think about it: Brooke McEldowney presents: "Loss"

he would definitely not use a one-syllable word if a five-syllable was available

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Crabgrass


Support Tauhid's Patreon here.


Old School Peanuts (Aug 23, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (May 17-18, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Sept 4-7, 2015)



riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



worst one in a while

Heathcliff



Overboard



ok tho wtf is Nate gonna say here. "Please stop conducting scientific researc, i.e. your job, and go home" ???

Monty

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

How Wonderful! posted:

Dykes to Watch Out For (1987)

My favorite part of this comic is that is highlights that people have always been privately awkward and insecure. It's relatable.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




readingatwork posted:

Calvin and Hobbes (May 17-18, 1987)



I like how Watterson eventually realized that he was drawing dinosaurs wrong and made an effort to make sure it was correct.

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, it's interesting to see how the techniques for presenting a joke have changed over the years. There's no reason for the woman to ask a total stranger if she needs to put a muzzle on her dog.

I'm not sure if "cootie" is intended to be eye dialect for "cutie", or a reference to the then-new term "cooties" (meaning 'lice').

Only registered members can see post attachments!

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

riderchop posted:

Overboard



ok tho wtf is Nate gonna say here. "Please stop conducting scientific researc, i.e. your job, and go home" ???

"i'm a pirate so I'll punch you in the face if you don't leave this meadow alone" probably

not very logical but they don't live in a logical world

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side


Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jul 25, 2022

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




M

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK







Modesty Blaise



Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks

Parahexavoctal posted:

Did you do this? If not, who did?

It was me. For some reason this was the thing that finally got me to dig the tablet back out.


Mark Trail '46 11/28–30




Mark Trail '94 4/4–6


Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Transmodiar posted:

Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK



Oh my god :allears:

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Transmodiar posted:

Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK

This answers so many questions and yet raises a lot of new ones.

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä


... what are diagonal pants?

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007






Phew! We had a dangerous level of diversity in this strip for a while there, but at least that's over. Maybe now the DeGroots can rent the room to a nice straight girl. (Tiff maybe?) And if Gunther would finally get around to breaking up with Bets we'll be back to all straight white people!

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

Zereth posted:

... what are diagonal pants?

From the Terylene, I would guess ones made from some form of cheap, hard-wearing, polyester twill fabric. But maybe it is a Finland specific thing?

MyronMulch
Nov 12, 2006


Dustin Hates His Dad

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Have some mid-afternoon Dykes to Watch Out For since I finished student conferences early:


I don't care to explain the Iran-Contra Scandal in detail, but it involved senior officials in the Reagan administration evading an arms embargo with Iran to sell weapons to the Khomeini government and using the proceeds to fund the right-wing Contras in Nicaragua. Oliver North was a central figure in this and was kind of a patron saint of the American right-wing of the period, and Reagan himself was implicated fairly damningly despite coming out of the whole thing comparatively unscathed. Hence Mo's evocation of "plausible deniability"-- how much did the president "know" versus how much did the president know.
While "plausible deniability" had been formulated as a concept all the way back in 1948, and earned its name in the early 60s, the Iran-Contra scandal turned it into a household word. Here, have a bonus ngram about it:


The Congressional hearings Mo is talking about began in May of 1987.

Another one I feel dumb annotating: "Respect" was recorded by Otis Redding in 1965 and, more famously, by Aretha Franklin in 1967. Anecdotally, based off of talking to older colleagues after Franklin's death, she was hugely beloved by lgbtq+ people in the 80s, and "Respect" was adopted as readily by queer activists as it was by feminist and Civil Rights activists in the 60s.

How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Apr 6, 2020

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
June 22nd & 23rd, 1981

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Professor Wayne posted:

“Well, another sucker just bought twenty acres of swampland.”

I can't believe The Far Side predicted Groverhaus. :v:


Zebus' dad is literally brown-haired Prince Valiant. :allears:

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 25, 2022

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Zereth posted:

... what are diagonal pants?

It's a literal translation. Little googling indicates it was some kind of thing in 70s pant technology but I could not figure out what it actually means.

Edit: I think it might simply be the direction of the weave?

LazyQ fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Apr 6, 2020

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



F Minus



Mark Trail



The Yeti!

Mary Worth



They're both planning to break up with each other for the same reason.

The Phantom



Devil insists Phantom speaks the correct language for where they are.

Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Is Rex Morgan doing a loving Covid storyarc?

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

How Wonderful! posted:

I don't care to explain the Iran-Contra Scandal in detail, but it involved senior officials in the Reagan administration evading an arms embargo with Iran to sell weapons to the Khomeini government and using the proceeds to fund the right-wing Contras in Nicaragua. Oliver North was a central figure in this and was kind of a patron saint of the American right-wing of the period, and Reagan himself was implicated fairly damningly despite coming out of the whole thing comparatively unscathed. Hence Mo's evocation of "plausible deniability"-- how much did the president "know" versus how much did the president know.
While "plausible deniability" had been formulated as a concept all the way back in 1948, and earned its name in the early 60s, the Iran-Contra scandal turned it into a household word. Here, have a bonus ngram about it:


The Congressional hearings Mo is talking about began in May of 1987.


Don't forget the CIA helping the Contras smuggling cocaine into the US and laundering a quarter of a billion dollars.

As for whether Reagan knew what was going on or not, well...

"Honest Ollie" North posted:

"Ronald Reagan knew of and approved a great deal of what went on with both the Iranian initiative and private efforts on behalf of the contras and he received regular, detailed briefings on both...I have no doubt that he was told about the use of residuals for the Contras, and that he approved it. Enthusiastically."

Casper "The Ghost" Weinberg posted:

Handwritten notes by Defense Secretary Weinberger indicate that the President was aware of potential hostage transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to what he was told were "moderate elements" within Iran. Notes taken by Weinberger on 7 December 1985 record that Reagan said that "he could answer charges of illegality but he couldn't answer charge that 'big strong President Reagan passed up a chance to free hostages'".

Most of Reagan's National Security Counsel was indicted and convicted for perjury, obstruction of justice, and evidence tampering, but Bush 41 pardoned everyone involved.

And you thought the Russia Investigation was a mess!

BigDave fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Apr 6, 2020

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1247213334451142664?s=20

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003

:hai:

Vintage Valiant (Aug. 14, 1938)

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

Transmodiar posted:

Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK




Zebus Dad being some sort of refuge from the Hyborean Age is quite possibly my favorite unexplained little detail in the entire Tackleverse. But let's not sleep on poor little Tom Grendel's :ohdear: face. Poor little fella, he thought he had friends and now they're ditching him for the movies. :smith:

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Wow, what an appropriately emotional send-off for a deeply developed regular character who we've come to know and love!

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005

Sundae fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Apr 6, 2020

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

No thanks to Lizzo..

Kit's World
:golfclap:

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Medenmath posted:

:hai:

Vintage Valiant (Aug. 14, 1938)



getting a real solid snake/liquid snake vibe here

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



:golfclap:

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth



They're both planning to break up with each other for the same reason.

they're both loving jared?

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Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Haha, excellent.

Docks




Retail




Zip


Rip


Dick


Duck

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