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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
A small dumb comic news story: In today's paper Kamala luonto (normally an animal strip with no human characters) had the cartoonist proposing his girlfriend/co-creator.



(They have a child and have been together for several years, so it doesn't appear to be one of those awful pressuring public proposals)

Kennel fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Jul 23, 2020

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Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
BCN





Phoebe




Wallace




Curtis



I hate it when Curtis makes these little attempts at doing a thing without actually doing the thing. loving Herb and Jamal came out with a full week of full-voiced BLM strips, Billingsley.



Kennel posted:

A small dumb comic news story: In today's paper Kamala luonto (normally an animal strip with no human characters) had the cartoonist proposing his girlfriend/co-creator.



(They have a child and have been together for several years, so it doesn't appear to be one of those awful pressuring public proposals)

Awww, this is cute.


Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Haifisch posted:

Origins of the Sunday Comics


Panel 3: All Aboard for jolly ship times!
Panel 4: There were no other survivors.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (December 8, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (December 8, 1998)



Garfield Classic (December 8, 1988)

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




ACE

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Old School Peanuts (Jul 18, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 29-Dec 4th, 1987)

I totally skipped a couple yesterday so here's the whole saga so far














Robbie and Bobby

(Apr 28, 2016)


(No new R&B yet)

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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

Calvin and Hobbes: that tiger is perfectly capturing the joys of having a sibling

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
e. that joke didn't work

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

Mr. Boop



Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Dick


Duck


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 The gang's all here!


Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm They're all wearing their masks wrong and it makes me so angry.


Hagar The Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon


Ella Cinders

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (May 19, 1940)

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Hitting me close to home here.

FrumpleOrz posted:

Brewster Rockit Space Guy

The station's mascot is a poo?

F Minus



Mark Trail



Mary Worth



"Drugs."

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



"Woman? You've been sitting here alone staring off into space for 20 minutes."

Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

Murdstone fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jul 23, 2020

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty



Rae the Doe



Rae the Doe's webcomic archives

Judgemental



LP

Owl at Home
Dec 25, 2014

Well hoot, I don't know if I can say no to that

FrumpleOrz posted:


Ella Cinders


The name "Zasu Fuller" is presumably a reference to the actress ZaSu Pitts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts



The "Fuller" part may be a reference to another actress, Dale Fuller. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Fuller_(actress)

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

riderchop posted:

Rae the Doe's webcomic archives

Judgemental


that's a reference to something specific, innit?

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

:allears:

It has a much warmer sound.

Hempuli
Nov 15, 2011



B. Virtanen

And here we have the CEO of Oy Yhtiö Ab. Not sure about their name.

ANSU

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise





Destroy History

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!

Parahexavoctal posted:

that's a reference to something specific, innit?

figured it was just regular internet buttasses being buttasses about things they dont like

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Two cute bits from the latest episode of Dungeon Meshi. Remember to read right-to-left.

1) The party makes a curry using various ingredients gathered or gifted to them at various steps on their journey. The party leader pauses to think back in gratitude, but his memory isn't as sharp as it could be:


2) Meanwhile, the big bad guy of the manga is sitting in his lair monitoring everything going on elsewhere in the dungeon.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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

Hempuli posted:

B. Virtanen

And here we have the CEO of Oy Yhtiö Ab. Not sure about their name.

ANSU



Request: stop timg-ing these, if I have to click on a comic I tend not to read it.

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
Sally Forth's Smithfaciest Summer Ever



Skippy (February 6, 1933)



Peanuts (July 26, 1973)



Les Moore's "The Art Of Making Things More Difficult Than Necessary"



Crankshaft



It was funnier when SCTV did it thirty-five ago.

9 "AAAAAAAAAAAAA KEEP AWAY" Lane



RIp Haywire



Thimble Theater (February 22, 1937)



Out Our Way (November 14-14, 1934)







Dok's GODDAMMIT, JERRY! Duck (March 4, 1913)



Inauguration Day, actually, but it's a century too late to split hairs.

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban




More adventures of THICC Johann

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.

Fyadophobic posted:

The name "Zasu Fuller" is presumably a reference to the actress ZaSu Pitts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts



The "Fuller" part may be a reference to another actress, Dale Fuller. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Fuller_(actress)



Thanks for this. I wasn't sure who was being referenced there. Looks like I have a lot more movies to watch!

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 22:40 on Jul 25, 2022

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack The gang's all here!


THAT'S NOT HOW AUTOCORRECT FUNCTIONS WORK ARGHASHDUAHSDIUYHASDOIAHDS :tizzy:

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (May 19, 1940)



Val would just be some nobody if not for Gawain and he's being a mega dick to him

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange



Get Fuzzy 7/23/00



BOMBda Starr 2/15/42





Smokey Hangover 9/20/36



Edge of Fishfood



Just to review: Sam is in Malaysia, and was chased by a tiger into a Buddhist temple decorated with hieroglyphics, that was on the verge of total collapse, and was built over an underground stream that's apparently stocked with piranha. We cannot too much admire this marvel.

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
Conan the Barbarian Feb. 4th- 10th, 1980







curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

Fyadophobic posted:

The name "Zasu Fuller" is presumably a reference to the actress ZaSu Pitts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts



The "Fuller" part may be a reference to another actress, Dale Fuller. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Fuller_(actress)


Good catch.

I'm thinking "Zasu Fuller" is a portmanteau indicating the scam artist has no idea of what he's talking about, and is misremembering actress' names.

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007






So, again, WHY WAS SHE ALLOWED TO ENTER YOUR PLACE AT ALL?

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Dykes to Watch Out For #89 (1990)
-Alison Bechdel


This is embarrassing but I'm not sure which co-founder of the conservative National Review is being referred to here. The conservative writer and fundraiser Marvin Liebman came out in 1990 at the age of 67, and spent most of the end of his life involved with gay activism. Andrew Sullivan, still in his 20s at the time, would later edit the journal and was already known as a conservative gadfly and a very very early advocate for gay marriage. William F. Buckley was not, to my knowledge, gay, and in fact referred to HIV as "the special curse of the homosexual" and openly advocated for marking people with the disease with tattoos. I don't think his financial backer, Willi Schlamm was gay either although I don't know for sure. I'm quite surprised that I can't find an answer to this little puzzle but I've had a migraine all day and I'm operating at like, 40%.

Anyway the National Review was founded in 1955 to provide an ostensibly more intellectually rigorous and learned outlet for American conservatism, in juxtaposition to an emerging left-wing avant-garde and the tepid center-right temperature of mainstream American periodicals. Under Buckley's aegis it published a lot of dumbshit nonsense and poison, as well as many of the most celebrated literary voices of the 20th century, including W.H. Auden (definitely gay), Ezra Pound, Renata Adler (of "the radical middle" fame as well as the admittedly great novel Speedboat), Guy Davenport (very definitely gay), John dos Passos, etc.... definitely authors of a certain starchy and rarefied stripe and class position for the most part. While as a publication is generally helped shape and underwrite the conservative demonization and stigmatization of mainstream queerness, it also, as you can see above, made room for a certain kind of upper-class "look the other way-ism" regarding the "right kind" of queer people in the name of nebulous class-solidarity, which paved the way for Sullivan and the magazine's letter importance to the Log Cabin Republican movement.

Mo is correct that in 1990 anti-gay hate crimes were on the rise and the 90s would see a wave of high-profile murder cases involving gay or trans panic. Sadly this trend is with us once again, with violent homophobic crime continuing to exceed it's relative low-point in the late 90s, and the SPLC citing a 43% uptick in organized anti-LGBTQ hate groups from 2018 to 2019. As I write this in fact I'm reflexively noaching the gap in my mouth where some dudes knocked a tooth out in 2019 because they didn't like watching out for this dyke on her way out of a Dutch restaurant to put change in the parking meter. It's a rough world out there and Mo's just living in it.

Mo is also describing a real news-story in 1990 as the NRC announced a loosening of regulations regarding how to dispose of "mildly" irradiated nuclear materials. It basically lowered the bar for what kinds of materials were considered high-risk versus relatively low-risk. Aside from the consumer goods thing Mo is talking about, this policy also allowed for nuclear waste to be disposed of in municipal land-fills. As you can imagine this provoked a lot of social, environmental, and legal pushback. You can read a paper about it here.

In lighter news the last panel is referencing the song "Ya Got Trouble" from the 1957 musical The Music Man. Here's Robert Preston singing it from the 1962 movie version if you need cheering up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI
As just a cute little character moment it works well, but it is also a song about a man finding things to work people up about, with the implication here, perhaps, being that Mo is redirecting her frustration and anger about her relationship into current events, and really breaks down when the real problem on her mind is suddenly brought to the fore. It could also be foreshadowing the upcoming plotline where Lois gets addicted to Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang.

I like a lot of the little details in this strip, which is otherwise one of several that are basically structured around "everybody is talking about their personal drama, Mo comes in and gets worked up about the world, until deflated by a return to the personal in the resolution." We have seen plenty of these and will see plenty more. I love that in the second panel she really does look like she's in a real bad fucken mood as she walks up the sidewalk, and I also love the small detail of Digger getting distracted by a fly in panel four. I also like the extent to which Sparrow seems just placidly over Mo's whole deal throughout.

How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jul 24, 2020

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

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

Oof. That Dykes kinda hits the same way now as it did then.

HIRE [claps] MORE [claps] GAY [claps] PRISON GUARDS!

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003

EBB posted:

Val would just be some nobody if not for Gawain and he's being a mega dick to him

On the one hand, yes, that's at least partially true. On the other hand, Val has already saved Gawain's bacon multiple times at this point, and also Gawain stayed up all night losing all his stuff to these scammers and now he's drunkenly stumbling around the yard like a doofus, so he's kind of brought this on himself.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens

Did they just murder a bunch of shapeshifters?

curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

How Wonderful! posted:

Dykes to Watch Out For #89 (1990)
-Alison Bechdel


This is embarrassing but I'm not sure which co-founder of the conservative National Review is being referred to here. The conservative righter and fundraiser Marvin Liebman came out in 1990 at the age of 67, and spent most of the end of his life involved with gay activism. Andrew Sullivan, still in his 20s at the time, would later edit the journal and was already known as a conservative gadfly and a very very early advocate for gay marriage. William F. Buckley was not, to my knowledge, gay, and in fact referred to HIV as "the special curse of the homosexual" and openly advocated for marking people with the disease with tattoos. I don't think his financial backer, Willi Schlamm was gay either although I don't know for sure. I'm quite surprised that I can't find an answer to this little puzzle but I've had a migraine all day and I'm operating at like, 40%.

Mo is correct that in 1990 anti-gay hate crimes were on the rise and the 90s would see a wave of high-profile murder cases involving gay or trans panic. Sadly this trend is with us once again, with violent homophobic crime continuing to exceed it's relative low-point in the late 90s, and the SPLC citing a 43% uptick in organized anti-LGBTQ hate groups from 2018 to 2019. As I write this in fact I'm reflexively noaching the gap in my mouth where some dudes knocked a tooth out in 2019 because they didn't like watching out for this dyke on her way out of a Dutch restaurant to put change in the parking meter. It's a rough world out there and Mo's just living in it.

Mo is also describing a real news-story in 1990 as the NRC announced a loosening of regulations regarding how to dispose of "mildly" irradiated nuclear materials. It basically lowered the bar for what kinds of materials were considered high-risk versus relatively low-risk. Aside from the consumer goods thing Mo is talking about, this policy also allowed for nuclear waste to be disposed of in municipal land-fills. As you can imagine this provoked a lot of social, environmental, and legal pushback. You can read a paper about it here.

In lighter news the last panel is referencing the song "Ya Got Trouble" from the 1957 musical The Music Man. Here's Robert Preston singing it from the 1962 movie version if you need cheering up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI
As just a cute little character moment it works well, but it is also a song about a man finding things to work people up about, with the implication here, perhaps, being that Mo is redirecting her frustration and anger about her relationship into current events, and really breaks down when the real problem on her mind is suddenly brought to the fore. It could also be foreshadowing the upcoming plotline where Lois gets addicted to Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang.

I like a lot of the little details in this strip, which is otherwise one of several that are basically structured around "everybody is talking about their personal drama, Mo comes in and gets worked up about the world, until deflated by a return to the personal in the resolution." We have seen plenty of these and will see plenty more. I love that in the second panel she really does look like she's in a real bad fucken mood as she walks up the sidewalk, and I also love the small detail of Digger getting distracted by a fly in panel four. I also like the extent to which Sparrow seems just placidly over Mo's whole deal throughout.
Your background research is just amazing. I'm pretty sure it's Marvin Liebman Mo is referring to. I don't remember the details and never read the relevant articles, but I do remember a big splash in 1990 about some conservative coming out and he's the only one who qualifies. Either Mo or Bechdel probably got the exact relationship to the National Review wrong.

That's just awful about your tooth. These struggles are ongoing and so real.

*All* this work the power industry has done to dump the burdens of nuclear power on the population as a whole and they *still* have to spend tens of millions in bribes to Republican politicians to saddle the public with multibillion dollar expenses to continue making their profits. Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose.

While "Right Here in River City" came from The Music Man, it was a (fading) catchphrase at the time. I used it with absolutely no clue where it came from and never knew until I read your exegesis here.

Mo's personal issues and ongoing political issues reflecting each other is an ongoing theme in the strip, and I wonder if Bechdel is trying to make a point with it. They do, in reality, interact - external stress and oppression can mess up your life both directly and indirection, and personal problems interfere with your ability to improve the world. The current protests have made the general public a little more aware of how chronic stress and discrimination injure people physically and mentally, making it even harder to cope with the oppression. Bechdel might have been trying to bring those kinds of issues up with Mo, who seems to suffer from those two levels of problems interacting. Or maybe she was just using it for literary parallelism and making jokes.

(Or maybe she was making a really deep statement on how multiple levels of meaning in literature reflect multiple levels of interaction in real life? OK, that's a stretch.)

As usual, Mo is doing an excellent job of making her secondary characters actually characters with personality and an internal life - even the dog!

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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



PetraCore posted:

Did they just murder a bunch of shapeshifters?
not that you can prove they knew of

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