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riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!

:kimchi:

Cul De Sac is great

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curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

How Wonderful! posted:

-Believe it or not the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which cracked down on workplace discrimination based on disability and "required" public places to work towards accessibility, wasn't passed until 1990.

I do want to point out that this strip about a disabilities rights panel stars two able-bodied characters. Much like the trans stuff, I feel like Bechdel starts here from a place of more or less benign tunnel-vision. A disabled character will turn up in a bit who's pretty well-written, although, as you might imagine, Mo is immediately an rear end in a top hat to her.
I got a very different take on this when it came out. I remember that at the time the lesbian and gay community made a point of trying to include people with disabilities, even if there weren't any in particular expected to show up. The attitude of general society was more that somebody with disabilities was supposed to ask for accommodations, and a group of able-bodied organizers preparing like this before even getting requests would be considered eccentric. So my take on this is it's establishing the group as part of the LGB (then) sub-culture.

(oblique spoiler)Of course it's more a setup for later events in the strip.

Reading these reposts I'm reminded how many of the ideas here have really stuck with me over the years. "Reading something by somebody's who's not pale, white, and male is not going to kill you!" really stuck with me and altered my attitude toward the whole "great literary canon".

curtadams fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Apr 21, 2020

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

curtadams posted:

I got a very different take on this when it came out. I remember that at the time the lesbian and gay community made a point of trying to include people with disabilities, even if there weren't any in particular expected to show up. The attitude of general society was more that somebody with disabilities was supposed to ask for accommodations, and a group of able-bodied organizers preparing like this before even getting requests would be considered eccentric. So my take on this is it's establishing the group as part of the LGB (then) sub-culture.

(oblique spoiler)Of course it's more a setup for later events in the strip.

That's fair, I'm for sure reading it with the benefit of hindsight and perhaps unfairly expecting an action group in 1988 to resemble an action group in 2020. I do wonder how far Bechdel had plot stuff broadly planned out in advance. Obviously she does follow up on yesterday's pregnancy stuff pretty promptly but Thea doesn't show up until 1991.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set gets away from it all.


Working Daze ugh.


Super-Fun-Pak Comix may be a little tough to do for your friends.


Cul De Sac might be misremembering.

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 It's always pregnancy


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm


Hagar The Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon

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



Bogor 1976





the recipe presented is real, although its attribution to the roma is a product of othering. hedgehog as a food source in britain is attested to thousands of years bce, let alone thousands of years before the arrival of the roma. its use in dishes goes quite far back but diminishes as britain becomes increasingly urban and therefore more familiar with farm products rather than forest animals - beef wellington, for example, is supposedly just a traditional hedgehog recipe with beef substitute. as the landscape is increasingly filled with farms producing food for the cities, so those country farms lose their own traditions of 'country cuisine' in favour of the plenty they themselves produce and the idea of eating this meat is pushed even farther into the outskirts of society to those who have neither income nor land as a badge of how 'crude and unrecognisable' that other is. nettles, too, are another example of a very old traditional british food source that has been relegated to a novelty by industrialisation.

as a local historical note, hedgehogs were one of the many items british settlers brought over simply so that they could have britain but with better weather. they are now rampant pests who actively endanger basically all native fauna from skinks, frogs, birds, insects, and even our wonderful giant carnivorous snail.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack


Well now that's just a straight up contradiction

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.


Ghostlight posted:

and even our wonderful giant carnivorous snail.

I've not encountered one of those, but I did once get bitten by a slug. Well, scraped by a slug. It took me a moment to realise what the slug was trying to do, and when I did, I so admired it's gumption that I set it free with a salute.

So from spineless creatures to comic collections (with spines!) in today's Corto Maltese: The Argentinean mafia has a high turnover rate, or Fosforito is confused, and rightfully so, or Corto finds out he's not just looking for Louise



davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Johnny Joestar posted:

i'm sorry, dawn, but the women are better in france as well...

hon hon hon

(After sex, Hugo rolls off Dawn) Zat was good, but not as good as Sandrine!

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, Aloysius destroys a valuable antique.

Only registered members can see post attachments!

DC Money
Feb 24, 2007
I'm a fancy lad.

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Nov. 06, 1938)



maybe a bit of a stretch but there's an element of Alfred the Great and his hiding out on the swamp hillfort of Athelney (after being chased there by the viking Guthrum)...which i am guessing Hal Foster was aware of is and weaving into this all.

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks

Evil Mastermind posted:

Super-Fun-Pak Comix may be a little tough to do for your friends.


Yeah, hands are pretty difficult to draw.


King Aroo 11/30/53


They'll Do It Every Time 11/23/46


Mopsy 12/3/42

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Dark Side of the Horse


Fort Knox

thesonofmothman
Feb 12, 2016

Pelican, a Bag Man
Classic Luan







You can tell Delta's a hip cat because of the shades.

Jucika [NSFW]








This whole batch is very horny and I figured better play it safe than be yelled at later.

Turpitude II
Nov 10, 2014

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

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

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black (Mustapukuinen mies) is another classic Finnish strip. It has simple visual gags and was probably an inspiration for Dark Side of the Horse. I posted it for a short while several years ago, but was doing it with my phone camera and the cleaning process became too tiresome after a week.


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



dustin is so heavily conditioned that his dad drops the best joke in the entire history of the comic and he's still in pain.

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban



BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

Ghostlight posted:

dustin is so heavily conditioned that his dad drops the best joke in the entire history of the comic and he's still in pain.

Not his dad, but yes, that’s a good joke.

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.



Here, I fixed it.

Winklebottom
Dec 19, 2007

Tiggum posted:

Here, I fixed it.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (September 13, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (September 13, 1998)



Garfield Classic (September 13, 1988)

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Ghostlight posted:

dustin is so heavily conditioned that his dad drops the best joke in the entire history of the comic and he's still in pain.

That’s his friend, not his dad. But yeah, he looks like he has a kidney stone.

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug

catlord posted:

I don't dislike Buck as much as some people, but it occurs to me that he really is the Vitamin Flintheart of Rex Morgan, isn't he?

"Rex, my dear boy, this is Truck, who has a nasty cough. Probably his prostate."

And in Juliet Jones, J Jonah Jackson doesn't know who to abduct.

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



it's his dad's tyler durden with drawn on goatee and beatles wig trying to connect with his son and that's my canon.

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä



Bill cutting (setelinleikkaus) was a forced loan to the state done in 1946. It meant that all 500, 1000 and 5000 markka bills were literally cut in half, the left half staying with the owner at half value and the right half loaned to the state. In addition to the loan itself the goals of this operation were to curb inflation and reveal dirty money. Apart from the injection to the state coffers, it was largely unsuccessful and most noticeably simply cut your purchasing power in half. The loan was paid back in 1949 with two percent interest.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Crabgrass


Support Tauhid's Patreon here.


Old School Peanuts (Sept 6, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 10-11, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Oct 8-9, 2015)



Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Savidudeosoo posted:

Classic Luan


I don't think I've ever seen the quote "only boring people get bored" illustrated so clearly.

Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jul 25, 2022

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Zip


Rip


Dick


Duck

Gatto Grigio
Feb 9, 2020


*for the Rope that Walks!

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters


He's talking about Bill Bradley right?

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

manero
Jan 30, 2006


There's a crossover/edit waiting here with that one Garfield strip..... You know the one.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Yay, Mustapukuinen mies! A classic from childhood :neckbeard:

you broke my grill
Jul 11, 2019





i dont get it

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manero
Jan 30, 2006


Arlo ran out of TP on the can and he texted Janis

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