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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse  Angry Birds 
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Aug 24, 2020 06:53
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Family Circus Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Aug 24, 2020 07:30
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World Famous W posted:Doesn't help that from a general non-educated person's view, most of history seemed to be mostly the same (tech, culture, whatever wise). Its obviously not true, but with how it appears how quickly things can change in the last 100 to 200 years it makes history seem shorter? Maybe? People just bad at viewing large scales see: all the people ok with billionaires existing because they genuinely can't fathom how much a billion is
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Aug 24, 2020 07:33
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EasyEW posted:The boiled-down version I was told from what they've come up with in the comments section is that the Tribune Content Agency (so the paper, not the syndicate) told the current creative team that the papers don't want anything "controversial", but that the vintage Tracy rogues gallery tends to do better than new villains, so they've been forcing a metric ton of rewrites over the past several months. Alternatively, there's no conspiracy and Curtis and Stanton just suck at writing.  I think it was somebody on SonofStuckFunky that mentioned this, but Mindy had all the time to warn her dad about the fire. She had hours to watch the news or look to the horizon and see the fire spreading, not to mention that Mason would've taken at least a couple hours to get from the marina to the hotel Mindy and Pete were staying at. Good on John Allison for changing what used to be a homophobic joke here. The way Lynn interprets someone looking mad is so unsettling. She doesn't draw them looking annoyed or pissed, she makes them look like they loving hate the other person. It makes the end of this strip more ominous than it seems, as if Lynn would start screaming or even slap Elizabeth offscreen.
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Aug 24, 2020 08:17
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Surgeon's Tales  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Aug 24, 2020 09:08
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Aug 24, 2020 09:38
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Anchovi Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 8/23/00  Brenda Starr 9/27/42  No paper dolls with this one. The dolls start appearing more intermittently now. Wartime paper restrictions cutting down on space? Editors wanting to sell more ads? Smokey Stover 5/2/37  This is one of those that would have been better scanned in the original color. At least Holman considerately explains the gag for those of us reading in black and white 83 years later. From Here to Edgeternity  You know, I've noticed that it's a common fantasy among Men of a Certain Age to have a potential romance with a younger woman but nobly spurn her (I'm thinking, for instance, of the Left Behind novels, where slutty stewardess Hattie unsuccessfully pursues heroic pilot Rayford). It combines the pleasure of having a pretty young thing panting after you -- thus proving that you may be Of a Certain Age but you still got it -- with the pleasure of being morally superior. Selachian fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Aug 24, 2020 |
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Aug 24, 2020 11:08
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Classic Kevin and Kell (April 8-12, 1996) Ready to see something really dated?      If nothing else, Kevin and Kell is an interesting look into what the Internet (maybe, perhaps) looked like a quarter century ago. Also Rudy keeps retrieving a (digital) stick, almost as if on impulse. I guess it's nothing.
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Aug 24, 2020 11:45
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Mikl posted:Classic Kevin and Kell (April 8-12, 1996) 
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Aug 24, 2020 11:58
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (January 6, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (January 6, 1999)  Garfield Classic (January 6, 1989) 
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Aug 24, 2020 12:51
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (January 6, 1999) Wholesome, sex-positive A&J
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Aug 24, 2020 14:08
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Docks  Retail   Dick 
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Aug 24, 2020 15:09
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Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants (4/6/1913)
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Aug 24, 2020 15:12
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Aug 24, 2020 15:19
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How Wonderful! posted:Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants (4/6/1913) 
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Aug 24, 2020 15:20
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I'm giving a coworker a Phoebe and her Unicorn book as a going away present, and leafing through it reminded me that it's a delightful strip full of positive messages that manages to be neither saccharine nor overbearing and is firmly rooted in our modern society. And I just thought everyone could use a reminder of that. I need to get some books of my own.
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Aug 24, 2020 15:40
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How Wonderful! posted:Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants (4/6/1913) Once again, the right-wing threatens us with a good time.
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Aug 24, 2020 15:55
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The Dinette Set    Working Daze did not go where any of us expected.    
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Aug 24, 2020 16:04
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Vargo posted:Thanks so much for taking care of this for me! I'll be back tomorrow to resume posting duties.  Vintage Valiant (Nov. 24, 1940)  
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Aug 24, 2020 16:05
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 This, but for the creators of Working Daze.
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Aug 24, 2020 16:41
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Medenmath posted:
Chekhov's volcano
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Aug 24, 2020 16:47
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jump the volcano Val jump it
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Aug 24, 2020 16:49
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2017 Spiderman  1978 Comics     Dick Tracy   Locher Tracy   Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  
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Aug 24, 2020 16:49
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Scary Gary  
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Aug 24, 2020 16:55
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Kennel posted:Mandrake F Minus  Mark Trail  Andy died. The end. Mary Worth  "Banana bread is only just OK." The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Web design is my passion. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Aug 24, 2020 17:59
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Got into FFXIV and just like, lost an entire day yesterday, sorry Garfield   Heathcliff   Overboard   Monty   Rae the Doe  Rae the Doe's web archives Savings  Accountant  Brutalism  Art Critic 
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Aug 24, 2020 17:59
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Darthemed posted:Retail Nice meta gag.
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Aug 24, 2020 17:59
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Johnny Walker posted:
The ghost who zooms.
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Aug 24, 2020 18:03
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I wonder if this Minit Mystery will be as batshit insane as the last few ones. It seems to start of modestly enough.
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Aug 24, 2020 18:07
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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  Someone please take this idea and do it better: 
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Aug 24, 2020 18:33
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Mämmilä By the way, should I be posting this in Discord too?
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Aug 24, 2020 18:41
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hello, my name is what [/quote] Working Daze did not go where any of us expected. [/quote] Ok granted I don't have a particularly large library of other referneces but this is the worst walt zizney i've ever seen
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Aug 24, 2020 18:58
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Modesty Blaise  Destroy History 
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Aug 24, 2020 19:02
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Pretty surprised that Working Daze isn't doing a gigantic Disney fanboy parade.
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Aug 24, 2020 19:16
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B. Virtanen Someone better at grammar than me: can "appeal" be used like that? ANSU Here begins possibly my favourite section of this collection. There are quite a few cartoons on every page, so I'll be cutting them to more manageable sections.  
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Aug 24, 2020 20:07
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Don't doxx me please.
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Aug 24, 2020 20:38
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amigolupus posted:Alternatively, there's no conspiracy and Curtis and Stanton just suck at writing. If people are gonna cook up a QAnon for comic strips, they're just gonna go there. How To Read 9 Chickweed Lane 12. DIALOGUE  A: Context. In the postwar era, there was less and less room for spare gab in a daily newspaper strip. The dimensions of the comics page were eaten away by a number of circumstances during the cold war era, leading to a memorable Bloom County installment where the entire comics section was reduced to an inky black hole. That criticism came from the 1980s, and as far as enforced minimalism was concerned, the features editors were just getting warmed up. Many of the classic Nancy strips could be "read" when reduced to the size of a postage stamp, as in the famous example from the American Heritage Dictionary. Bushmiller was a craftsman and a newspaper lifer who learned through decades of experience how to do more with less. Peak Nancy is a model of economy in every meaningful way, but especially in terms of words. When he issued his edict to "dumb it down", he meant to put your focus on the visual element. Brooke McEldowney, among other things, is a playwright, and a little too often he pushes his art to the opposite extreme. When certain combinations of humans are on stage, the art is the vehicle for the words, and not the other way around. You all know my position by now. I am perfectly cool with a wordy strip if the words serve the day's strip without burying it. Not every piece of entertainment has to be a haiku. But sometimes you've got to draw a line in the sand. B: Text. The dialogue balloons of today's Pearls Before Swine contain 37 words. Brooke McEldowney's contribution to the culture contains 83, a third of which are jammed into the final panel. That's 31, an entire PBS strip's worth, in one word balloon. Amos infuriatingly circling what he's trying to say is the set-up for the gag, to be fair, but in what should be the payoff, he doesn't spit it out, he sets off an avalanche. Amos's version of "getting to the point" is using three times as many words to communicate half of the intended meaning. Because what do those words say? Is he talking about a hypothetical situation, complete with a superfluously detailed description of a favorite pair of her underpants? Or is this a case of "If you see something, say something", and Edda should be checking her Catholic schoolgirl caboose right now? It's a good question, and I wish we'd been given a good answer, because there's nothing in the art that throws us a bone. Forget about clarifying meaning, the physical weight of what teenage Amos is saying crowds out him and Edda to the point where they're literally hunched over in an attempt to stay in the frame. At the same time, I can't help but notice this excess character count is in the service of yet another joke about panties. (*sigh*) Moving on... Moral: A thesaurus is a tool, not a blunt instrument. Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (March 3, 1933)  Peanuts (August 26, 1973)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (March 25, 1937)  Out Our Way (January 31-February 2, 1935)   
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Aug 24, 2020 21:38
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drat that's a fine Goya
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