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Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

How Wonderful! posted:

Hillary Chute's Why Comics?

Sweet, my local library has a copy.

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Slammy
Mar 30, 2011

Great speech.
PPHPFT!!
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)

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
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!

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

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.

Mister Olympus
Oct 31, 2011

Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

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

skeleton warrior
Nov 12, 2016
you're only saying we should stop slaughtering tens of thousands of palestinian children to make me feel bad, admit it

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/

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban




Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

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

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1313881901938225155?s=20

https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1313535814278709251?s=20

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

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?

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


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.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Prince Valiant

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Dark Side of the Horse

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Pondus

spoilered for :stare: and :gonk:

Zelda

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


<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?

Is she just boiling a bunch of random vegetables in water?

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.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Foxtrot

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



Taco Defender

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.

What's the exact year/date of this one? I can do more from there.
Oct 6th, 1978.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

amigolupus posted:

<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.


This is also during a pandemic.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Medenmath posted:

Prince Valiant


"In word that even Val can understand"

Now that's how you make a jab at someone :laugh:



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 :getin:

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

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:

WAY back in August, James ran an entire week of strips where Mark complains about losers on the internet who criticize his articles.

James found me on Twitter making fun of him for it and proceeded to get into a slap fight with me over it. It went on for days, including him deciding I must be unemployed and making fun of me for that. I even (teasingly) asked if I could be a Mark Trail bad guy. A few other thread people got into it too.

I accused him of using clip art and that REALLY set him off. And we ended this fight with him saying something like "You'll see what happens to social media fools in this storyline, STAY TUNED"

Two weeks later, Dr Camel appears. And he looks... A little like me. Not a huge amount but enough to make me go "hah, that's funny". And then Dr Camel is a sad little loser and a jerk the whole time. And then stuff from our Twitter feud starts leaking into the strip. Including me getting mauled by a bear, which I think someone actually suggested to him.

And now I am friend-zoned and dead. RIP ME.

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 Vargo Camel, who is honestly a good dude. This seems to have been written in advance before Jams got mad at Vargo, so Mark and Camel kind of get along for now.
- 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:



Well I hope we all learned something from this adventure. Trying to gain internet fame by finding the yeti is deadly. RIP Dr Vargo.

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. :v:

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.


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



Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
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.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

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.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

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 :corsair: enough to remember president Koivisto's state visit to Ceaucescu's Romania, where a volley ball game was arranged with him playing in one of two teams composed of Nicky C's body guards. Koivisto's team won of course. Remarkably in middle of the game he took his blue and white shirt off and put on a Romania shirt. Sexy shirtless Koivisto had some proto-Putin energy.

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

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.

Kennel posted:


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.



I love that second-to-last panel so much. That sheer rapturous joy in the destruction just radiates from those eyes.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

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.

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bobbins

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty




No new Rae the Doe on weekends!


Rae the Doe's web archives


New Year's Eve


:smith:

Minimalism

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Selachian posted:

Edge of Backfire



Told ya.

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!

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

No thanks to Lizzo..

Kennel posted:


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.



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

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters


You can definitely tell these strips were written with an eye towards where Erin wound up during the SGR days.

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jFUB0Rp5Gk

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
no thank you

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
BCN









Phoebe











Wallace











Curtis







Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (February 23, 2009)



Arlo and Janis Classic (February 23, 1999)



Garfield Classic (February 23, 1989)

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Selachian posted:

Edge of Backfire



Told ya.

When electricity hits you, it like, strangles you, right

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 3/6/54


Mopsy 3/26/43

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

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.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Cathy Jan 7+8 1977


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SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

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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