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Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants (4/14/1913) The last two lines of this poem are borrowed liberally from several earlier "Little Willie" poems. From Dean Hole's 1895 A Little Tour of America: quote:Susan poisoned her grandmother’s tea; From Newton Mackintosh' 1896 A Chamber of Horrors With Profane Passages: quote:Willie poisoned his father’s tea; As you can see originality was not really the point of this genre. I wonder if Harding's decision to swap "agony" out for "peacefully" is a little revealing, a distaste for showing an authority figure in the throes of pain. King George V, Queen Victoria's grandson and the guy who renamed the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the less aggressively Germanic House of Windsor in the midst of WWI, was crowned in 1910 and ruled until his death in 1936. I'm not an expert on this but a brief look around didn't turn up any major plots to poison him but he did reign during a huge tumult of new social and political movements, many of which were happy to position the awkward and stern monarch as the face of reactionary and ossified "old ways" in contrast to the new possibilities presented by the 20th century.
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The Bloop posted:Kinda went all in on drawing PJ's rear end there, eh Jeff? Shouldn't that kid be wearing a diaper?
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The Bloop posted:Kinda went all in on drawing PJ's rear end there, eh Jeff? davidspackage posted:Shouldn't that kid be wearing a diaper? 
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davidspackage posted:Shouldn't that kid be wearing a diaper? I just looked at it again, and he's supposed to be naked but the colorist dipped him in paint This is actually far less weird than how it originally seemed given the context of the strip
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sweeperbravo posted:Apologies if this has come up before and someone else arleady pointed it out another day, but I appreciate the attention to detail that the older guy's webcam is not even close to centered on his face Did you notice where the guy on the right is sitting?
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Pickles  Zits 
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Mämmilä At this point Mämmilä moved to a new magazine, Kuukausiliite, and it was published as a two-pager. That means there will be a lot of these where one comic continues straight from the previous one. Later it returned to it's old format because the workload was too much; according to Koivisto, originally a single page took about 27 hours but later even a full week was barely enough. I'd rather continue posting them one at a time (because I'm lazy), but there will be a few doubles because they were clearly made as a single spread.
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2017 Spiderman 1978 comics     Dick Tracy  Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  By the way, Curtis is running a Michelle storyline I particularly don't feel like posting, so if anyone wants to take that up, feel free. I'll probably pick it back up again when this story ends.
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I get it. The joke is that we live in a hell of our own making. Haha
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God, Pondus is such ugly spiteful poo poo.
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Vargo posted:God, Pondus is such ugly spiteful poo poo. And yet it is the most popular comic strip by far in Norway. The artist actually managed to become a multimillionaire because of the strip.
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that famous Norse love for hastily scribbled dicks & buttholes
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Haifisch posted:Footrot Flats I had to look this up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crutching. Dog is laying in a big sack of piss and poo poo-stained wool.
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Alhazred posted:And yet it is the most popular comic strip by far in Norway. The artist actually managed to become a multimillionaire because of the strip. *points at Scott Adams*
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Presto posted:Did you notice where the guy on the right is sitting?  I hadn't. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  This poor girl is going to go back home to her friends completely brainwashed. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Alhazred posted:And yet it is the most popular comic strip by far in Norway. The artist actually managed to become a multimillionaire because of the strip. krone millionaire or with a real currency? e. Finland tax data is publicly available and the papers love to publish celebrity salaries. Based on those, our popular cartoonists seem to earn about 50-100 thousand euros/year (before taxes). Kennel fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Aug 25, 2020 |
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Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom 
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Vargo posted:By the way, Curtis is running a Michelle storyline I particularly don't feel like posting, so if anyone wants to take that up, feel free. I'll probably pick it back up again when this story ends. Curtis runs in my local paper. I don't hardly ever look at the paper comics, as most of them are posted here anyway. I happened to glance at today's Curtis. I wanted to ask questions, but Yikes, just gonna let it lie
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Is Curtis wearing some vacuum-formed plastic as a mask?
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goatface posted:Is Curtis wearing some vacuum-formed plastic as a mask? At first I thought it was a colorist mistake, but probably not:  Looks stupid anyway.
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Its definitely a thing
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Kennel posted:This is what we're missing She got revealed as huge a couple days before that, it seems that she's been pigging out without exercising during the covid plague.
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Kennel posted:krone millionaire or with a real currency? He has a fortune of 65 million kroner, which roughly means a fortune of 6,5 million euros.
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B. Virtanen The first strip uses the term "tittelinkipeä"; it means something like "hungry for a title" but the literal translation is "title-sick", to which the gagging in the last panel refers. I decided to just leave this wordplay out entirely because I couldn't figure out how to translate it. Also, I've never heard of the term "careerist" but my dictionary claims it refers to someone furthering their career while disregarding other things. ANSU   (Warning: suicide) 
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Vargo posted:Someone please take this idea and do it better: To the rescue for avatar size.   Can try to make a bigger one (wallpaper size?) if requested.
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B Kliban  Shoulder candles look kind of cool, honestly.
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I spent too long reading about the Killer Tomatoes films yesterday and forgot to post. The Lockhorns   Brewster Rockit Space Guy   On The Fastrack   Safe Havens   Kevin & Kell   Mother Goose & Grimm   Hagar The Horrible   Sherman's Lagoon   Ella Cinders   Zorro  
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How To Read 9 Chickweed Lane 13. Edda. (preliminary notes) A. Subtext. Some characters are hard to sum up because their outlines are left intentionally vague. Edda Burber Van Hoesen is tricky because the details are a little too extra. Edda, the second character who gets a line in the first 9CL, is a ballerina, classical pianist, very briefly a fashion model, and (checks notes)...well this can't be right. It says here she's a mother of two. Hmm, I'll have to take their word for it. She was the disruptive one in school, the enlivening influence, but also kind of an overachiever. As if pianist/ballerina/fashion model wasn't a big enough hint, her comic book fantasy alter ego was drawn on a proper drafting table.  We've been led to believe that she's dazzlingly excellent at all of these, but you'd think at least one of these disciplines would suffer from an overcrowded practice schedule. If there was a week where she collapsed from exhaustion after years of overextending herself, I haven't run across it yet. In spite of all that, she's also the one who at times gets dangerously close to sounding like an actual human being (see: yesterday's offering of the traditional comic strip "knuckle sandwich" to her future husband). It's a tendency that waxes and wanes, and she seems to have grown out of it. But there are hints as to how she might be a good entry point...if you came into the continuity at the right time. Then Brooke had to screw it up by shoehorning in that flashback sequence where seven year-old Edda is a shrunken, overly-wordy adult giving her mother sex advice. Forget your memories, the strip tells us. She was always insufferable, as were they all. B. Text. Meanwhile, back in the present day: oh great, a whole week about teenage Edda's underwear. So yes, yesterday wasn't a false alarm, we have a wardrobe emergency and her lifelong companion is on the case. You'd think her expression would register as a little more squicked out by Amos's reverential attention to her drawers than just the pop-eyed suspicion we get here, but I dunno, maybe we're supposed to believe that's what she's into. Moral: In character as in dialogue, sometimes too much is more damaging than not enough. Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (March 4, 1933)  Peanuts (August 27, 1973)  Jeff Murdoch's Zany Near Death Experience  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (March 26, 1937)  Out Our Way (February 4-6, 1935)    Dok's "Petty Larceny" Duck (April 6, 1913) 
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Kennel posted:This is what we're missing I'm sure Billingsley is aware of OnlyFans insofar as it's "some gizmo", and not it's association with porn, but this is still gunna be a yikes from me.
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THESE BIRDS HAVE BETTER SAVE THIS GODDAMN WHATLE Presto posted:Did you notice where the guy on the right is sitting? Nope, wow!!! That's pretty bold, goatee guy
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Johnny Aztec posted:How old are Curtis and Michelle supposed to be? I always assumed vaguely middle school but i guess he still might be elementary since I think he only ever has the one teacher Unless it was only my middle school that had the multiple classes thing
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