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Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (January 10, 2009)



Arlo and Janis Classic (January 10, 1999)



Garfield Classic (January 10, 1989)

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Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
BCN


Phoebe


Wallace

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Fighting Trousers posted:

Oh poo poo, I actually know what TomBat's ripping off here, and it's a pretty deep cut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Empire

August 6:

EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean



:geno:

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

Mr. Boop ENDGAME



amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Some Guy TT posted:

So has anyone else been feeling pretty severely uncomfortable that there's been considerably more screentime dedicated to talking these two up as a couple than there has been them actually interacting with each other?

That's because the two can't interact with each other yet before the cult has finished its conditioning.

(Seriously, look at it through the lens of a cult and the gopher going "That's not how you're supposed to respond" feels like it's one step away from a Stepford Wives situation.)

Professor Wayne posted:

If you're hosting an event and honestly expecting celebrities to attend, you should probably give your roommate a heads up. This isn't the worst example, but I'm always in awe of how lovely the good guys are in Luann.

I think Bets meant that they're expecting celebrities to be part of the viewers in their Twitch chat or whatever. Although if this stream was popular enough to have celebrities watching it, then it should be expecting way more than 2000 viewers.

Technowolf
Nov 4, 2009




Comic Strips 2020: Goku made Mickey cum 8 times

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

:hai:

That's a much more recognizable Walt than the "Gilbert Gottfried with a mustache" version that Working Daze gave us.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

Vargo posted:

Wallace


Computer games, takeaway food, cheese, NPR on in the background. Living the dream.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Dick

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


Alhazred posted:

The suffragettes launched a massive bombing campaign only interrupted by the first world war were they allowed the men some breathing space. They also made pamphlettes about how to fight the coppers.

I meant successfully blowing up the Queen, tho.

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise





Destroy History



quote:

That’s it for for this story. I’ve written “to be continued” at the end; given the five year gap between this Destroy History story and the previous one, I cannot tell you when it will be continued. Will we see the Beatles band again? Will we see Shelley again? I cannot say for sure. But this certainly feels like a two-parter. I imagine there will be more in 2021.

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

amigolupus posted:

I think Bets meant that they're expecting celebrities to be part of the viewers in their Twitch chat or whatever. Although if this stream was popular enough to have celebrities watching it, then it should be expecting way more than 2000 viewers.
That's what I meant by attending. I've done national virtual events for work, and it can be stressful to make sure everything goes smoothly. And, if we believe these idiots about celebrities joining, this will make or break their cosplay careers or whatever. You would think it would be a good idea to let your roommate know that this was happening in advance, if only to make him less of a wild card. And you know that they're going to frame Les as the rear end in a top hat in all this if he acts up at all. It's not his fault you didn't discuss expectations or even ask if you could do this in your shared living space.



Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jul 26, 2022

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Vargo posted:

Wallace


This is an impeccably good strip, but what really sells the last panel for me is "This is NPR."

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Oh boo hoo. He definitely ignored poor little you and quickly rushed the party together and invited over all those people the same day. That whole thing certainly does not take any planning or preparations set up weeks in advance or anything. Nope. All just spite you, oh martyr of the family. How inconsiderate of him to not call everyone and just cancel it the morning on the day.

coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

Vargo posted:

Wallace


The seagull is gaming with them :kimchi:

40th birthday being "over the hill" always weirded me out as a kid bc my mom was 40 when she had me. Though tbf that's how I feel about turning 30 next year.

Alterian
Jan 28, 2003

Poil posted:

Oh boo hoo. He definitely ignored poor little you and quickly rushed the party together and invited over all those people the same day. That whole thing certainly does not take any planning or preparations set up weeks in advance or anything. Nope. All just spite you, oh martyr of the family. How inconsiderate of him to not call everyone and just cancel it the morning on the day.

Considering the timing of current world events it makes her look even more like an rear end in a top hat. Boy must suck to be able to have a birthday party.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants (6/18/13)


As several people have pointed out already, yes, British suffragettes in the early 20th century were hardcore. Maybe not hardcore to the point of poisoning the king and putting dynamite under the queen's chair, but they did not gently caress around about their cause and were more than willing to smash windows, burn buildings, and organize strikes-- all tactics that did, significantly, largely work in publicizing and popularizing their message.

As Elizabeth Crawford writes of Lillian Lenton, a WSPU member who burnt down a tea pavilion at Kew Gardens:

quote:

Lilian Lenton has stated that her aim was to burn two buildings a week, in order to create such a condition in the country that it would prove impossible to govern without the consent of the governed.
WSPU members largely focused their arsonist attentions on unoccupied houses, letter boxes, and public spaces, but there was also an abandoned campaign to set fire to the homes of parliament members who opposed voting rights for women, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, did have a house he was having built hosed up.

In general 19th and early 20th century progressive movements were quite prepared to get their hands dirty.

How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Aug 28, 2020

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Apologies for missing a day yesterday, work has been hell. But as a result, today you get a double dose of Classic Kevin and Kell!

April 29 - May 3, 1996






1996 was a bad year for the British Royal Family's popularity -- Charles and Diana were separated and going through divorce, which would be finalised in late August; Diana herself was quite popular, "The People's Princess" as it were, so as a result her husband's popularity, and his family's as a result, tanked.

Lindesfarne going "I might be a British Royal? AH HELL NO" was probably a common sentiment at the time.



May 6-10, 1996





Mikl fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Aug 28, 2020

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Vargo posted:

Wallace

Dawww Wallace, you're such a good friend to Spud.

Poil posted:

Oh boo hoo. He definitely ignored poor little you and quickly rushed the party together and invited over all those people the same day. That whole thing certainly does not take any planning or preparations set up weeks in advance or anything. Nope. All just spite you, oh martyr of the family. How inconsiderate of him to not call everyone and just cancel it the morning on the day.
To be fair, I would hate it if someone threw me a surprise birthday party, period. The last thing I would enjoy is suddenly and unexpectedly being the center of attention. I would expect my partner to know that about me.

I don't know if Lynn has a similar personality or anything, but I can feel her a bit on this one. If I were in that position, I would at least pretend to enjoy myself for everyone else at the party though.

F Minus



This is the kind of ghost I'd be.

Mark Trail



Andy's having a helluva day.

Mary Worth



Teen girl goes to visit old man, is sad; befriends dog and old woman, makes banana bread, is happy. That's the story.

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



RIP Poncho.

Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

Murdstone fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Aug 28, 2020

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
god i cant believe its already friday

Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty



Rae the Doe



Rae the Doe's web archives

Ask Rae #2


E3


drat i missed E3 a lot this year

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Poil posted:

Oh boo hoo. He definitely ignored poor little you and quickly rushed the party together and invited over all those people the same day. That whole thing certainly does not take any planning or preparations set up weeks in advance or anything. Nope. All just spite you, oh martyr of the family. How inconsiderate of him to not call everyone and just cancel it the morning on the day.

100% if he had done as she asked and not planned anything special she'd be mad that she had a milestone birthday and he doesn't even care.





Everybody's favorite kind of nerd is the humorless no-nonsense one who takes his fandom very seriously and will tolerate no funny-business. Especially with cosplay. All the best cosplayers hate when people have fun with their craft.

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades

Powered Descent posted:

That's a much more recognizable Walt than the "Gilbert Gottfried with a mustache" version that Working Daze gave us.

You ever see Mickey Mouse cum while on acid? "Whoa, hey, I'm Mickey Mouse and I took a poo poo load of acid and I can't stop cumming all over the place now! WHOA!"

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The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Julet Esqu posted:

100% if he had done as she asked and not planned anything special she'd be mad that she had a milestone birthday and he doesn't even care.





Everybody's favorite kind of nerd is the humorless no-nonsense one who takes his fandom very seriously and will tolerate no funny-business. Especially with cosplay. All the best cosplayers hate when people have fun with their craft.

what the hell is their logo

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Julet Esqu posted:

100% if he had done as she asked and not planned anything special she'd be mad that she had a milestone birthday and he doesn't even care.





Everybody's favorite kind of nerd is the humorless no-nonsense one who takes his fandom very seriously and will tolerate no funny-business. Especially with cosplay. All the best cosplayers hate when people have fun with their craft.

Just wanna say that every time I hear "Gun" used as a nickname I shrivel up a little inside.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Gunt is too easily misheard.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

Keep calm and Harry on.
Tell us more about this asile, Charles.

Also,

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD



Totally unrealistic.

These days, a conman like Belluso would be made the White House chief of COVID19 response or something.

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe

Green Intern posted:

This is an impeccably good strip, but what really sells the last panel for me is "This is NPR."

It really does :3:

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä



Auctioning of children (huutolaisuus), was practiced in Finland from late 19th to early 20th century. An orphaned or otherwise abandoned child was given to the lowest bidder, the money being paid by the authorities as a compensation for taking care of them. All kind of abuse was rampant, particularly in rural areas where the children were often used as slave labor. The auctions were banned in 1923 but enforcement was practically non-existent and the last recorded auction was held in 1935.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)
^tell us more about the real old guy in the photo!!


Alterian posted:

Considering the timing of current world events it makes her look even more like an rear end in a top hat. Boy must suck to be able to have a birthday party.

me and all my closest friends turned/are turning 30 this year :smith:

lynn wouldn't be happy with anything

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban




nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.

Johnny Walker posted:

Pooch Cafe



RIP Poncho.

about drat time, now do bucky

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.
Half of my usual ones aren't loading right now. 9CL isn't one of them. Lucky you.

How To Read 9 Chickweed Lane



15. Gams.

“The gams! The gams! Your face ain't news!”
--Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain, 1941

According to The Word Detective, there are three kinds of gams which have occurred in the English language: large teeth or tusks, a school of whales, and the only one still in common usage, the legs of a human female, specifically when appraised for aesthetic values.

Between 9CL and Pibgorn, Brooke McEldowney has developed a reputation around his critics for being a leg man. Brooke McGamsgams, he was know as in those days.

When he was developing a cult reputation as a comic strip artiste, Brooke included several full-figure tableaux of Edda in tights during dance rehearsals, detailing every hill and dale of her legs, with her calves frequently getting a panel all to themselves. The types of poses he drew had some foundation in the fine arts, giving the process a plausible veneer of healthiness. But the cat was out of the bag once Pibgorn ended up taking a distinctly DeviantArty path, and suddenly everything else was viewed with rising suspicion.

Even before this started feeling like an airing of the fetishes, there was always a problem with this particular leg fixation: on an average day, dude can't draw a proper rear end to save his life. Sure, legs can go on for miles, but they gotta end somewhere, buddy.

B. Text.

First of all, the overview: Our payoff for today is a bad pose drawn from a bad angle with yet another facial expression to haunt your nightmares.



There are many ways for a cartoonist to draw helpless laughter. A lovingly detailed tongue and uvula in the back of a fully unhinged, bizarrely misshapen jaw, presumably to compliment the dislocated shoulder, all rendered in lurid shades of purple that suggest Juliette might want to see a throat specialist, is not the choice I would've made, especially for a mouth that belongs on a human head. Maybe that's why I'm not on any syndicate's payroll.

There's only one real-world face this reminds me of, and it's not exactly someone who, in the strip's universe, could rock a cocktail dress.





"Well, nobody's perfect."

If that's all there was, it would still be pretty bad, but as we've noted, past performance below the waist has put us on high alert, which leaves us with the sinking feeling that the only reason we're getting that pose from that angle is because someone wanted to draw Juliette's inner thigh today.

And remember, this is all in the service of a week of gags about panties!

....

.......

A little more space to get enough distance to post Pearls Before Swine...



Skippy (March 8, 1933)



Peanuts (August 30, 1973)



Rip Haywire

EasyEW fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Aug 28, 2020

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

EasyEW posted:

When he was developing a cult reputation as a comic strip artiste, Brooke included several full-figure tableaux of Edda in tights during dance rehearsals, detailing every hill and dale of her legs, with her calves frequently getting a panel all to themselves. The types of poses he drew had some foundation in the fine arts, giving the process a plausible veneer of healthiness. But the cat was out of the bag once Pibgorn ended up taking a distinctly DeviantArty path, and suddenly everything else was viewed with rising suspicion.
It's worth pointing out that whenever he drew a woman in tights, the tights would be the only thing that got shaded. Everything else was flat colors like he always does.

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
Conan the Barbarian Oct. 13th- 19th, 1980







Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

In this installment of The Timid Soul, we're reminded of how different the world was in 1934. The notion that participants in a police lineup would be able to see the witness... it feels really, really wrong, to the extent that I don't see how this is even supposed to be funny. The whole point of TTS is that Caspar is afraid of things no reasonable person would fear.

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Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



Taco Defender

Slammy posted:

Hitz and Mrs. (May 4, 1923)

I'm oddly enchanted by the idea of moving barrels instead of moving boxes.

How Wonderful! posted:

Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants (4/24/1914)

How Wonderful! posted:

Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants (6/18/13)

This continues to own.

coronatae posted:

The seagull is gaming with them :kimchi:

40th birthday being "over the hill" always weirded me out as a kid bc my mom was 40 when she had me.
Same(ish, my mom had me when she was 39). It's still kind of a trip seeing people whose parents had them when they were, like, 25, and whose parents become grandparents at the fairly young(to me) age of 50 or something.

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.
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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.
And now, the rest...

Sally Forth



Funky Winkerbean



Someone hasn't watched this serial in a long time. Murania is the ultimate gated community, and the queen was trying to sabotage Radio Ranch because she viewed above-grounders were vermin to be kept out at all costs.

Crankshaft



Thimble Theater (March 30, 1937)



Out Our Way (February 11-13, 1935)







Just can't get away from undergarments this week, can we.

Dok's False-Dawn Duck (April 10, 1913)

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