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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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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. Awww, this is cute.
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Haifisch posted:Origins of the Sunday Comics Panel 3: All Aboard for jolly ship times! Panel 4: There were no other survivors.
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (December 8, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (December 8, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (December 8, 1988) ![]()
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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)
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Calvin and Hobbes: that tiger is perfectly capturing the joys of having a sibling
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e. that joke didn't work
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Docks![]() ![]() Retail ![]() ![]() Dick ![]() Duck ![]() ![]()
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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 ![]()
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Vintage Valiant (May 19, 1940)![]() ![]()
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Alhazred posted:ACE FrumpleOrz posted:Brewster Rockit Space Guy 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 |
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Garfield![]() Heathcliff ![]() Overboard ![]() Monty ![]() Rae the Doe ![]() Rae the Doe's webcomic archives Judgemental ![]() LP ![]()
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FrumpleOrz 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) ![]()
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riderchop posted:Rae the Doe's webcomic archives that's a reference to something specific, innit?
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B. Virtanen![]() And here we have the CEO of Oy Yhtiö Ab. Not sure about their name. ANSU ![]() ![]()
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Modesty Blaise![]() ![]() Destroy History ![]()
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Parahexavoctal posted:that's a reference to something specific, innit? figured it was just regular internet buttasses being buttasses about things they dont like
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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. ![]()
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Hempuli posted:B. Virtanen Request: stop timg-ing these, if I have to click on a comic I tend not to read it.
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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.
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B Kliban![]() More adventures of THICC Johann ![]()
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Fyadophobic posted:The name "Zasu Fuller" is presumably a reference to the actress ZaSu Pitts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts Thanks for this. I wasn't sure who was being referenced there. Looks like I have a lot more movies to watch!
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The Far Side Pickles ![]() Zits ![]() Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack The gang's all here! THAT'S NOT HOW AUTOCORRECT FUNCTIONS WORK ARGHASHDUAHSDIUYHASDOIAHDS ![]()
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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
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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.
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Conan the Barbarian Feb. 4th- 10th, 1980![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Fyadophobic posted:The name "Zasu Fuller" is presumably a reference to the actress ZaSu Pitts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts 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.
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2017 Spiderman![]() 1978 Comics ![]() ![]() ![]() Dick Tracy ![]() Locher Tracy ![]() Origins of the Sunday Comics ![]() Footrot Flats ![]()
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![]() So, again, WHY WAS SHE ALLOWED TO ENTER YOUR PLACE AT ALL?
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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 |
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Oof. That Dykes kinda hits the same way now as it did then. HIRE [claps] MORE [claps] GAY [claps] PRISON GUARDS!
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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.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #89 (1990) 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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PetraCore posted:Did they just murder a bunch of shapeshifters?
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