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How Wonderful! posted:Hillary Chute's Why Comics? Sweet, my local library has a copy.
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And He Did. (August 7, 1917)![]() Outbursts of Everett True (October 18, 1917) ![]() Hitz and Mrs. (June 28, 1923) ![]() Gay and Her Gang (October 23, 1928) ![]() Dark Laughter (February 6, 1937, click for big) ![]() “You big dumb buzzard! I said de band wuz red hot, not de radio!” They'll Do It Every Time (April 7, 1941) ![]() Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger (August 23, 1947) ![]() “Shucks - It was easy … I just tripped an’ sat down in it before the paint was dry!” Dinky Fellas (November 16, 1964) ![]()
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I'm somewhat shocked to see "cool" used that way in 1917! But it turns out that yeah, it originated at the very latest at around that time, with some more maybe arguable usages as far back as 1848 in sketchy compilations of black vernacular by white writers. Still-- very neat to see it just pop up in And He Did! of all places!
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How Wonderful! posted:Hillary Chute's Why Comics? I also thought it was really odd how she never explicitly says the name of the book but it's less weird in the context of a bunch of other more traditional academic reviews that mention the name several times.
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PetraCore posted:Ella's dad is a horrific coward who should get a divorce and bite the bullet on the 50% asset split. I understand he's an abuse victim but he also just ditched his kids with his abuser for years so my sympathy is startlingly low and it makes this drama painful. Doomykins posted:Yeah it's a really weird strip to read with modern sensibilities. "Oh no my wife who I hate is forcing herself into my life. Well, here's the divorce and the restraining order, if you bother my daughter you'll be in more hot water than the lobster who took a sauna tour." "modern sensibilities" I think is the keyword here. This is a time when peoples' personal lives are still just deadass printed in local newspaper gossip columns, if he as a public figure got a divorce his studio would probably go under from moral outrage Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Oct 11, 2020 |
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Doomykins posted:Yeah it's a really weird strip to read with modern sensibilities. "Oh no my wife who I hate is forcing herself into my life. Well, here's the divorce and the restraining order, if you bother my daughter you'll be in more hot water than the lobster who took a sauna tour." Yeah. “No-fault” divorce - where a party could simply say “I want a divorce” and the court would grant it without question wasn’t legal in this country until the 1960s. Prior to that, if you wanted a divorce and didn’t want to have to air all of your reasons in court for months (or years!) you’d go to Reno, Nevada, where they had very lax laws (that still required an official reason for divorce, though) and only six weeks of residency to be allowed to file in Nevada courts. https://thisisreno.com/2016/02/reno-a-history-of-divorce/
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Haifisch posted:Maybe someone either old enough to remember it or less lazy about researching can tell me what this Beetle Bailey means: Nader was particularly going after issues with drinking water systems for a while back in the day...or it might be a sidelong reference to seatbelts. A different ratio would change the alcohol content. What's the exact year/date of this one? I can do more from there. PetraCore posted:Ella's dad is a horrific coward who should get a divorce and bite the bullet on the 50% asset split. I understand he's an abuse victim but he also just ditched his kids with his abuser for years so my sympathy is startlingly low and it makes this drama painful. This is from an era where divorce was the horrifyingly sinful thing they do Out In California, which is likely why it's framed this way (and why Ella turned down a suitor earlier). Evil Mastermind posted:Super-Fun-Pak Comix marches on. Pud's actually made other appearances in the expanded comics universe. Also, the partial inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pud_Galvin
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https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1313881901938225155?s=20 https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1313535814278709251?s=20
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:Lol that bets had no problem making soup when Luann couldn't even get past pepper. Wasn't Bets just as mystified by these... veggie-tables as Les? And now she's happily making soup? Is she just boiling a bunch of random vegetables in water?
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Parahexavoctal posted:first word is "Quantum", second word is indeed "Conundrum" And it's a video game - although I'm not sure the Evanses know that.
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]()
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<Boss> *hurls a bunch of verbal abuse at Dethan* <Dethany> Teehee, I'm sure my boss doesn't mean it. She allowed me the use of her mansion for my dream wedding after all. davidspackage posted:Wasn't Bets just as mystified by these... veggie-tables as Les? And now she's happily making soup? Bets had the good sense to look up a recipe online, not to mention that she and Les cut the vegetables without harming themselves. They are way more competent at this than Luann.
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Family Circus![]() Rose is Rose ![]() One Big Happy ![]() Foob ![]() Compu-Toon ![]() Bizarro ![]() Foxtrot ![]()
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Discendo Vox posted:Nader was particularly going after issues with drinking water systems for a while back in the day...or it might be a sidelong reference to seatbelts. A different ratio would change the alcohol content.
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amigolupus posted:<Boss> *hurls a bunch of verbal abuse at Dethan* This is also during a pandemic. ![]()
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Medenmath posted:Prince Valiant "In word that even Val can understand" Now that's how you make a jab at someone ![]() Classic Kevin and Kell (March 10-14, 1997) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus begins Holbrook's first attempt at a multi-week story arc in this strip. And y'all are gonna hate it ![]()
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LvK posted:soo, I haven't kept up with this thread at all since sometime around last winter. Any new strips, new developments in long-running strips, cool old stuff being posted, etc., that I should know about? Oh boy, were you here for the Great Mark Trail incident? Here's some background info on how it all started. Then here's Vargo explaining his side of the story: Vargo posted:Slightly longer version: As for a recap of the story: - Mark Trail gets an all-expenses paid trip to Nepal (I think?) where he's supposed to team up with a famous nature explorer who's trying to find the yeti. - Mark meets the explorer's assistant, Genie, and they have a kind-of-racist conversation about the country they're in and how it used to be so backwards but now it's catching up with technology. - Mark meets with Dr. Harvey - The three meet their guides to the mountains, who are both drawn with racist Asian stereotype eyes. - Jams' grudge against Vargo becomes more obvious around this point. Dr. Camel lets on that he posts his pictures and nature videos online, and Mark starts acting like a massive rear end in a top hat toward him for the rest of the journey, always questioning Camel's motivation and implying he's only here for the e-fame. - As if trying to prove to Vargo that he's not using clipart at all, Jams starts drawing Mark Trail himself and the art takes a massive loving dive at this point. A ten-year old's scribbles would look more professional and fitting in a newspaper comic section than Jams' poo poo. - Mark and the others reach a cabin near a mountain, and it's there that Dr. Camel mentions that the reason he believes the yeti exists is because he was attacked by one as a kid and lost his leg to it. There is some incredibly ableist garbage from Jams Allen by this point, with Mark as his mouthpiece. - The crew climbs up the snowy mountain and makes camp. Dr. Camel hears a strange sound and runs off to investigate, except it's actually an avalanche that buries him alive. - Mark and Genie just stand there without even trying to see if Dr. Camel is still alive. It's here where Genie reveals the truth: Dr. Camel didn't lose his leg to a yeti as a kid, he lost it to juvenile diabetes. She apparently met him after losing his leg, befriended him for years, and enabled his delusion that the yeti exists. Note that this conversation lasted two weeks's worth of strips and Mark never lifts a finger to try and see if the guy is still alive. - What should've been an uplifting story about a guy who lost his leg to diabetes and moved past it to become a world-famous nature vlogger is instead treated as something bad, because according to Jams Eallen, this is the lesson you're supposed to take from this: Johnny Walker posted:
And then a few months ago, Jams was on Twitter (and calling his account OfficialMarkTrail) and defended a rapist there. Good ol' Vargo reported this to people who could do something about this and Jams went suspiciously radio silent. Some time later, and he says he's moving on from Mark Trail (read: got fired), and wrote one last story that went absolutely nowhere. After a very brief period of reruns, it got announced that Mark Trail would get a reboot and be written and drawn by Jules Rivera. Ironically enough, her take on Mark Trail is pretty close to what Dr. Vargo is, which I'm sure has Jams gnashing his teeth. ![]()
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Evil Mastermind posted:Cul De Sac looks deep inside itself. Parfait In today's Corto Maltese: Yeah, Corto, you're in a position to criticize other people's drug habits, or 'The Monk will run, but won't die...' - Old Mayan, have you been hanging around a certain person?, or I don't know about you guys, but now I'm very confused about history ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() Nancy ![]() Dustin ![]() Hwurmp posted:what's the Finnish word for Foob It's Pieniä julmia tarinoita (Little cruel stories), and now I will start posting it every Sunday for the next 11 months (there would be two more years, but I don't have an easy access to those). There's no recurring characters or actual jokes. Just short tales about people ruining each others' lives. The first one is kind of amusing and even charming, but later there will be proper misery porn. ![]()
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Samovar posted:I don't know about you guys, but now I'm very confused about history It all makes sense when you remember that the Atlanteans came from Bolivia.
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Kennel posted:If I'm not mistaken, before the final panel it's implied that Mämmilä guys would meet President Mauno Koivisto (who famously loved volleyball) rather than cartoonist Tarmo Koivisto. You are 100% correct. I am ![]() https://areena.yle.fi/1-50095042 Of course our current president enjoys playing ice hockey with Putin so nothing's changed. ![]() P.S. President Koivisto is relevant to BSS because he's featured in action comics ![]()
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Kennel posted:
I love that second-to-last panel so much. That sheer rapturous joy in the destruction just radiates from those eyes.
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Rhymes with Orange![]() Get Fuzzy 10/12/00 ![]() Brenda Starr 8/29/43 ![]() Boy, that last panel. Messick's managing to break the fourth wall not once but twice. In any case, this strip marks Brenda's return to the Sunday comics page. Guess Saturday didn't work out. Oh, and my dad was born two days after this strip ran. Smokey Stover 4/3/38 ![]() Edge of Backfire ![]() Told ya.
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Garfield![]() Heathcliff ![]() Overboard ![]() Monty ![]() No new Rae the Doe on weekends! Rae the Doe's web archives New Year's Eve ![]() ![]() Minimalism ![]()
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Selachian posted:Edge of Backfire I'm not really sure the machine is malfunctioning since its sole purpose is to shoot electric arcs. Rather, it's operating at more than 100% efficiency!
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Kennel posted:
drat, the kid's expressions are amazing. I'm really interested in seeing more! Also, Erin is awesome in this strip ![]() Pigsfeet on Rye fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Oct 11, 2020 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bobbins You can definitely tell these strips were written with an eye towards where Erin wound up during the SGR days.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jFUB0Rp5Gk
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (February 23, 2009) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (February 23, 1999) ![]() Garfield Classic (February 23, 1989) ![]()
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Selachian posted:Edge of Backfire When electricity hits you, it like, strangles you, right
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King Aroo 3/6/54![]() Mopsy 3/26/43 ![]()
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The Dinette Set is the best memory trigger.![]() Working Daze is doing this again. ![]() Super-Fun-Pak Comix is the TVTropes version. ![]() Cul De Sac respects the legacy. ![]()
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Green Intern posted:I'm not really sure the machine is malfunctioning since its sole purpose is to shoot electric arcs. Rather, it's operating at more than 100% efficiency! It 'malfunctioned' in the same way a computer 'swallowed my email'. Moomin's Winter follies ![]() You're an rear end~ Join us next time for Story 6: The Origin of my avatar.
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