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curtadams posted:It is interesting that Bechdel was trying - and often succeeding at - a number of innovative techniques, including emotional expression though physical means without dialogue or narration, non-terminal punchlines, the dramedy combination, and more nuanced personalities, even pretty early in her career. She was very ambitious artistically. I'm not sure why, but maybe it's because she had a lot of training in literature and literary criticism (judging by Fun Home). She often disparages her college learning in autobiographical work, but she actually seems to have learned a lot in college. Yeah judging by the literary references she uses throughout DtWOF-- especially some of the pretty small-press journals and stuff-- she was pretty tuned into queer literary culture and, especially germane to this, a fair bit of nontraditional if not totally experimental fiction and memoir. For all that she kind of gently minimizes DtWOF as something she began when her literary career was D.O.A. I do believe she treated it from pretty early on as a serious literary and intellectual endeavor, and I do also think that the segue from DtWOF to Fun Home was in part her realizing that the one-page strip was becoming more of a hindrance than a help for some of her ambitious formal ideas. There's an interview somewhere where she talks about the decision to move from one-off gag strips to the serialized Mo saga in response to encountering Howard Cruse's Wendel, which as I remember it is really good and well-drawn and funny but not really as sophisticated as DtWOF per se (although I'd put Stuck Rubber Baby easily on par with Fun Home). Still, I think that in part she saw Wendel as a challenge to do more with the page and these first few years of the strip are her kind of flexing her muscles at the form in a way.
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King Aroo 12/27/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 12/25/46 ![]() Mopsy 1/4/43 ![]()
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Strontium posted:Dark Side of the Horse https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ymzrq
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Nekonaughey![]() (you're supposed to add the water, cook the noodles, then drain the water before adding sauce - Nekonaughey is now just going to end up watering down the flavour then pouring most of it out) Kennel posted:The most famous Marvel heroine: a nurse... with a cape. ![]()
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Bird Gang Bird Gang Bird Gang Bird Gang Just look at them.
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The Lockhorns![]() Brewster Rockit Space Guy Okay, I kinda like this one. ![]() On The Fastrack ![]() No Safe Havens on Sunday! Stone Soup ![]() Kevin & Kell ![]() Mother Goose & Grimm ![]() Hagar The Horrible ![]() Sherman's Lagoon ![]() Ella Cinders ![]() Thought it was kind of neat to see how we're getting into the storyline the film version of Ella Cinders used as its basis. In the film, Ella wants to enter the contest mentioned here and snags a book from the sister about how to get into motion pictures. She practices the looks in the book and it's a pretty funny scene. I think Colleen Moore does a pretty good job as Ella. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUCVeM0_hsY
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Green Intern posted:Bird Gang Bird Gang Bird Gang Bird Gang ![]()
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Green Intern posted:Bird Gang Bird Gang Bird Gang Bird Gang That’s, uh, eleven gang members, of which, maybe four are described with jobs useful for being in a criminal gang? Two of them are just outright named as snitches whose only job is to report on the gang to the cops? This seems... poorly thought out. (on an unrelated note, I really like Millholland’s Popeye strips and I hope he’s actually getting to take it over. He deserves success.)
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In today's Corto Maltese: Lt. Sakai doesn't think much of the soldiers of Russia, much to his forthcoming dismay, or Honestly, these new-age Wiccans don't have any traditions like the old days, such as mercilessly gunning down a Japanese officer in the streets, or The first meeting of two 'greats'![]() ![]() ![]()
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I love the Bird Gang and would like to look at the wonderful faces of each and every one of them in this thread forever, so from now until I forget about this or every member of that blessed crew is spoken for, any Bird Gang avatar will be a freebie, no dupes on birds.
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Selachian posted:Rhymes with Orange
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Nancy![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Man in Black ![]() The spout is on the wrong side? Is that the joke? ![]() ![]()
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How Wonderful! posted:I love the Bird Gang and would like to look at the wonderful faces of each and every one of them in this thread forever, so from now until I forget about this or every member of that blessed crew is spoken for, any Bird Gang avatar will be a freebie, no dupes on birds. Buzzard's refined skepticism yet practical approach to life appeals to me greatly ![]()
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wow Dustin is sending mail can't believe a millennial even knows what the flag is for
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catlord posted:Conan the Barbarian Mar. 19th- Mar. 25th, 1979 I thought this was funny when it seemed like the Queen was just deliberately trying to set off Conan's masculine vanity to make him forfeit the deal so I was disappointed at the final panel which makes it look like she was actually expecting him to go along with it.
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Bird Gang? More like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJCN_enTIg Family Circus ![]() Rose is Rose ![]() One Big Happy ![]() Foob ![]() Compu-Toon ![]() Bizarro ![]()
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Was Holbrook going for a nose to the grinding stone gag? Like the rhino wore down his horn or?
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Some Guy TT posted:I thought this was funny when it seemed like the Queen was just deliberately trying to set off Conan's masculine vanity to make him forfeit the deal so I was disappointed at the final panel which makes it look like she was actually expecting him to go along with it. That's how it started, but around the time she started thinking about how much she hates the Annual Date Merchants' Festival she realised she'd accidentally argued herself into being in favour of the whole thing. We've all done it, that's how everyone ends up with a Velvet Elvis that's too big to actually display. ... Right? I'm not alone there?
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus ![]()
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Angular Cyrus posted:Mopsy 1/4/43 Is this Mike Pence's father?
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Bad Machinery![]() Behold! A Mad Terry Cameo!
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How Wonderful! posted:I love the Bird Gang and would like to look at the wonderful faces of each and every one of them in this thread forever, so from now until I forget about this or every member of that blessed crew is spoken for, any Bird Gang avatar will be a freebie, no dupes on birds. I am a bird gang defender and will gladly rep one of them as soon as I get a chance to edit an avatar. I’m claiming Loon, I think. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (October 26, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (October 26, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (October 26, 1988) ![]()
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I'm no expert on raising kids, but dumping your baby, who is only a few months old, under the care of your teenage son, who doesn't even have anyone to help him or experience with babies, is some seriously messed up parenting.
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amigolupus posted:I'm no expert on raising kids, but dumping your baby, who is only a few months old, under the care of your teenage son, who doesn't even have anyone to help him or experience with babies, is some seriously messed up parenting. Is Michael a teenager in this one? I thought he was like 8 or something
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Shugojin posted:Is Michael a teenager in this one? I thought he was like 8 or something Elizabeth is older than 8 in this one
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amigolupus posted:I'm no expert on raising kids, but dumping your baby, who is only a few months old, under the care of your teenage son, who doesn't even have anyone to help him or experience with babies, is some seriously messed up parenting. I was thinking the same thing. I have an eight month old and wouldn't want to leave them with their grandparents yet, never mind a teenager. Wouldn't be able to enjoy a restaurant even if I did cause I would be worrying about them too much.
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The Bloop posted:What the hell I barely pay attention to foob so I am extremely fuzzy on the timescale ![]()
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The Far Side Pickles ![]() Zits ![]() Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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How Wonderful! posted:I love the Bird Gang and would like to look at the wonderful faces of each and every one of them in this thread forever, so from now until I forget about this or every member of that blessed crew is spoken for, any Bird Gang avatar will be a freebie, no dupes on birds. Green Intern posted:I am a bird gang defender and will gladly rep one of them as soon as I get a chance to edit an avatar. Here's the boy. Should be the right dimensions. Very happy to get a new av along with the new tags this year. Thank you!
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Green Intern posted:Here's the boy. Should be the right dimensions. Very happy to get a new av along with the new tags this year. Thank you! You can go up to 180x180 now.
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God damnit I was going to make this exact edit! ![]() Crabgrass ![]() Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Oct 27, 1951) ![]() Calvin and Hobbes (Sept 6-7, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Feb 24, 2016) ![]() (May 21, 2020) ![]() ![]()
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Shugojin posted:Is Michael a teenager in this one? I thought he was like 8 or something Yeah, he's a teenager. There was a strip last year where he got a part-time job, as well as a strip where Michael kissed his girlfriend in front of his dad like he was trying to prove he's grown up in a weird way. Ebola Dog posted:I was thinking the same thing. I have an eight month old and wouldn't want to leave them with their grandparents yet, never mind a teenager. Wouldn't be able to enjoy a restaurant even if I did cause I would be worrying about them too much. It's really gets to me how Lynn draws herself completely miserable in all the strips of her taking care of the baby and the only time she looks really happy is when she's going out and leaving her baby. Bugs wants to get with Betty Boop? But I thought he was busy being gay with Daffy. ![]()
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Angular Cyrus posted:Mopsy 1/4/43 Darthemed posted:Captions got mixed up here, I think.
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Mämmilä![]() Kystä kyllä is an old phrase that I had to Google, it means "plenty of food". I don't know if the agreement is a reference to something specific.
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