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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis ALSO, Mercury is retrograde, and will continue to be for much of election day! Maybe we should find a bunker.
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This Tuesday I'm gonna do what I do every Tuesday, read comics and smile.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Nekonaughey   Bogor 
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In this installment of The Timid Soul, Caspar is mistaken for someone wearing a zoot suit, which were made illegal during the war, purportedly due to their excessive use of fabric. I'm pretty sure this is the first "someone gets very angry at Caspar based on a contrived misunderstanding" strip I've posted, but it won't be the last. Isn't that a lovely "Buy War Bonds" poster on the wall behind the sailor? 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth “ma’am can I just get my chips please”
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise Just the one?
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise Willie's only ever lost his cool when Modesty's in trouble so this is gonna be hilarious.
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Don't blame me, I voted to end legally sanctioned murder and the for-profit butchery of remains industry.
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Oh I don't know, I appreciate that Holbrook's thoughts in that strip seem to be "things might be very hosed, many of my readers might be terrified or unsafe on November 4th, but I have no way of knowing and feel weird writing and drawing strips for a future I feel uncertain about." It's a sentiment that I have spoken to many other educators about after the experience of teaching in Fall 2016, and one that I am not alone in having tried to work into what has already been a very strange and disconnected semester. It's not great great great comics but I understand and empathize with where he's coming from. I think it's perfectly human to acknowledge the conditions of precarity within which one is producing art, and somewhat moving even in the context of this dumbshit comic about murder rabbits or whatever.
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Parahexavoctal posted:Just the one?
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How Wonderful! posted:Oh I don't know, I appreciate that Holbrook's thoughts in that strip seem to be "things might be very hosed, many of my readers might be terrified or unsafe on November 4th, but I have no way of knowing and feel weird writing and drawing strips for a future I feel uncertain about." It's a sentiment that I have spoken to many other educators about after the experience of teaching in Fall 2016, and one that I am not alone in having tried to work into what has already been a very strange and disconnected semester. It's not great great great comics but I understand and empathize with where he's coming from. I think it's perfectly human to acknowledge the conditions of precarity within which one is producing art, and somewhat moving even in the context of this dumbshit comic about murder rabbits or whatever.
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His heart is in the right place with that strip, for once.
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For once. Now imagine how Working Daze will deal with it. Probably by the once-fat geek proclaiming the only vote that matters is who was the best captain on StarTrek.
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Holbrook gives zero (perhaps even negative) thoughts about what goes into his comics' worlds and events but ostensibly he seems like a genuinely nice person
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PetraCore posted:This is where I'm at. Don't get me wrong, Holbrook's work is absolutely loving bonkers, but I don't have the impression of him being a cruel person and I think he was genuinely concerned about how people will be feeling when he was writing that comic. My Shameful Secret is that I actually kind of like Kevin & Kell, it's nicely drawn and is just sheer madness in a totally unique way. Even if accidentally, I think it has a lot in comic with two much more polished and sophisticated strips that are personal favorites of mine, unsurprisingly: Dykes to Watch Out For and Moomin. All three strips are about characters inhabiting a world which is arbitrarily and capriciously cruel, governed by rules seemingly dictated by nonsense and whim. All three comics are about characters who are shown as fundamentally decent people occupying a small footprint of the setting, who love and care for each other under incomprehensible circumstances. And crucially, all three show that these characters are not totally at odds with their often hostile settings but are products of their respective worlds, who are informed equally by empathy and solidarity as by their sense of being of their settings. Obviously Moomin is at heart a strip for kids, and its terrors and ambiguities-- the Groke primarily-- are reflective of a child's incomprehension of a big and scary world. DtWoF is about activists and lovers ostracized by narrow-mindedness and greed. And Kevin & Kell is just kind of dumb and none of the metaphors make sense and everything is completely insane and weird. But I think it has heart and I think I innately am drawn to stories about people trying to be good in a bad world. On the Fast Track is really bad and I don't even bother reading Safe Havens but I think Kevin & Kell's absolute weirdness is one of a kind and in its own way pretty compelling. This has been especially true since Mikl started posting the early strips because I think they're legitimately beautifully drawn! When so many daily strips are obviously phoned in or sloppy I love seeing such delicate and often clever linework.
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The Dinette Set can't stay up to see if it works. Working Daze knows how much kids love Dune.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix thinks that Evil Mastermind guy is pretty cool, too.  Cul De Sac gets into the spirit of the season. 
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Evil Mastermind posted:
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean gently caress off, Batiuk. You don't get to do this poo poo, you pandering hack. EasyEW posted:Crankshaft So wait, is Trump calling up Crankshaft to terrorize people to scare them from voting or something?  How Wonderful! posted:Oh I don't know, I appreciate that Holbrook's thoughts in that strip seem to be "things might be very hosed, many of my readers might be terrified or unsafe on November 4th, but I have no way of knowing and feel weird writing and drawing strips for a future I feel uncertain about." It's a sentiment that I have spoken to many other educators about after the experience of teaching in Fall 2016, and one that I am not alone in having tried to work into what has already been a very strange and disconnected semester. It's not great great great comics but I understand and empathize with where he's coming from. I think it's perfectly human to acknowledge the conditions of precarity within which one is producing art, and somewhat moving even in the context of this dumbshit comic about murder rabbits or whatever. The thing that's weird to me is that Holbrook put some thought into this comic about the uncertainties in the future so we know he treats voting seriously, but he didn't give any thought about covid producing a lot of uncertainty in others and used it for jokes in his comics.
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amigolupus posted:So wait, is Trump calling up Crankshaft to terrorize people to scare them from voting or something? It’s a joke about suppressing the mail-in vote
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How Wonderful! posted:My Shameful Secret is that I actually kind of like Kevin & Kell Same. Griping about where the strip is ignorant and oblivious isn't wrong though. Especially when it comes to the trans-species stuff. The hellworld they live in for sure is not so different from our own and being an animal person would make things more interesting for sure.
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MariusLecter posted:Same. It's been discussed several times,but that's the problem. He mixes up metaphors all willy-nilly. He uses whatever pops into his head first and runs with it. That's what infuriates me so much about Kevin+Kell. The massive amounts of in-universe inconsistencies.
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csammis posted:It’s a joke about suppressing the mail-in vote Specifically about how the Republican-led Post Office was caught removing letter collection boxes (the blue ones) throughout the Western U.S. back in August.
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Some backgrounds and foregrounds of the ocean would have been nice for a thrilling plane chase but could Allen have pulled that off if he tried?
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Selachian posted:Rhymes with Orange I'm really tempted to post this in the politoon thread. Also I'm glad there are quite a few people who are enjoying me posting Classic K&K  Speaking of which: Classic Kevin and Kell (August 11-15, 1997)      A MUCK is a variant on a MUD (Multi User Dungeon); an online, multiplayer roleplay game. They are basically a text-based chat, not unlike IRC, but with a bit of server overhead to keep track of various things, like stats, locations, dice rolls, etc.; in practice, they were the very first MMORPGs. They were very popular in the '80s and '90s, and there are still quite a few active today. MUCKs are generally more focused on roleplaying, while MUDs on the game side of things. Mikl fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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Kennel posted:
You know Lothar took the camera and made some tasteful dickpics
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re: liking K&K honestly same but for his whole body of work It's just so........fascinating, to me. My dude has been doing 3 comics nearly every day for 20-40 years depending on when each comic started up. And they are all absolutely bananas in their own ways. He has this certain style all to his own, and I agree with How Wonderful that its honestly not a bad looking strip either, and each day I read his comics wondering what dumb loving bullshit he's going to do today. What metaphor are you going to torture and contradict next? What insane plot twist are you going to pull out? What will be the horrible work experience that happens? What piece of hell world will we look at today? I've also been enjoying classic K&K just from seeing all the ways the comic stayed the same, evolved, while also being an interesting time capsule of the times. Basically I look at one of his dumb comics and go oh you where as I read something like Funky, which also has the long running fascination and decent artwork going for it, and go gently caress you
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Mikl posted:I'm really tempted to post this in the politoon thread.   rannum posted:re: liking K&K honestly same but for his whole body of work
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