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Johnny Walker posted:Andertoons Tofurky's fine, good even! It's not turkey, sure, but it's got a good flavour, good texture, and at least some of them give you little fake-jerky wishbones. Anyways, riderchop posted:Rae the Doe's web archives, Rae's Vacation drat that's a fine axolotl. Edit: gently caress me, what a page snipe. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone who celebrates it.
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Call-a-Spade posted:Thanks for the list! Archive.com has digital copies of the first three volumes, so I'm covered there. It'd be nice to have something more comprehensive, not just because I think every strip should be accounted for, but also because those back-of-the-book novellas are Bechdel's first forays into long-form storytelling, and it seems like a massive gap in her creative history to let them rot in the ether. But for now, diving through these newspapers also gives me a fun excuse to explore more thoroughly the history of the queer community (the one in Vermont, anyway.) If folks are interested I'll try and drop more interesting articles, though it might be off-theme. This is fascinating to me because my wife and are buying a house in VT right now, and she grew up reading DtWOF in the alternative Burlington weekly Seven Days, which started in 1995. I'm curious if it ran DtWoF right from the start-- I've always kind of experienced Vermont as a little bit of a queer oasis and I'd be super interested in seeing what else your research turns up. Edit: Oh, yeah, and #137 does exist. I'll scan it in a second.  
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How Wonderful! posted:This is fascinating to me because my wife and are buying a house in VT right now, and she grew up reading DtWOF in the alternative Burlington weekly Seven Days, which started in 1995. I'm curious if it ran DtWoF right from the start-- I've always kind of experienced Vermont as a little bit of a queer oasis and I'd be super interested in seeing what else your research turns up. Granted, this is also how folks experienced soap operas for ages--the expectation that we should have all this stuff at our fingertips has likely changed the conversation. Harriet mentions buying a VCR to keep up with Days of Our Lives, which implies she was occasionally missing episodes before that. I can only assume DTWOF got picked up because the in-house attempts at cartoons left a little something to be desired... 
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In this installment of The Timid Soul, I have no idea how this situation could have happened. Who is this man and what is he doing on Caspar's phone (aside from 'an rear end in a top hat' and 'getting Caspar in poo poo')? It's interesting that he's blaming wrong numbers on the operator - something impossible nowadays. 
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How Wonderful! posted:1. Dykes to Watch Out For I was struck by how much these titles reminded me of old Garfield collections. DtWoF: Bigger than Life DtWoF Eat Their Hearts Out DtWoF Lose Their Feet DtWoF Swallow Their Pride DtWoF Chew the Fat
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Huxley posted:I was struck by how much these titles reminded me of old Garfield collections. As you might've gleaned, Bechdel loves to insert little background gags and riffs into her comics, and to this end the graphic forward to The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For basically eats itself--Bechdel, addressing the audience, is surrounded by heaps of volumes with titles like NASCAR Dykes to Watch Out For, Perimenopausal Dykes to Watch Out For, and Dykes to Watch Out For at the Rotary Club. It's delightful.
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Call-a-Spade posted:As you might've gleaned, Bechdel loves to insert little background gags I liked the crate marked "caution books"
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Call-a-Spade posted:Here's a personal favorite from #133: I've always liked little gags like that. It's probably part of the reason I was so pissed at Fort Knox, its attempt at the same thing was appallingly bad and I'm pretty sure it made people roll their eyes when Bechdel did it (I seem to remember a couple people saying that in this thread, at least). Parahexavoctal posted:In this installment of The Timid Soul, I have no idea how this situation could have happened. Who is this man and what is he doing on Caspar's phone (aside from 'an rear end in a top hat' and 'getting Caspar in poo poo')? When was this? Because I get the impression that it wasn't super unusual for the one person on the block with a telephone to let other people use it if they dropped by and asked. I remember hearing (and I'm not actually sure if it's anything more than a story) that the payphone was invented by a guy who had to call a doctor late at night, but nobody around who had a phone would let him use theirs, which suggests to me that people running over to use a neighbour's phone was still not uncommon even by that point. In this case, some jerk asked to use his phone, being Caspar Milquetoast he said sure, and the jerk proceeds to crank call everyone he can, is how I read it.
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Kid Fenris posted:Reading the first strip now, it seems a little odd that the woman Calvin mistook for his mom didn't notify the zoo staff about a lost kid. She might have tried, but I doubt Calvin would have stayed with her instead of running off.
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catlord posted:I've always liked little gags like that. It's probably part of the reason I was so pissed at Fort Knox, its attempt at the same thing was appallingly bad and I'm pretty sure it made people roll their eyes when Bechdel did it (I seem to remember a couple people saying that in this thread, at least). gently caress you for reminding me about Fort Knox
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CommonShore posted:gently caress you for reminding me about Fort Knox That's fair.
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catlord posted:When was this? Because I get the impression that it wasn't super unusual for the one person on the block with a telephone to let other people use it if they dropped by and asked. I remember hearing (and I'm not actually sure if it's anything more than a story) that the payphone was invented by a guy who had to call a doctor late at night, but nobody around who had a phone would let him use theirs, which suggests to me that people running over to use a neighbour's phone was still not uncommon even by that point. this strip was from December 17, 1934. quote:In this case, some jerk asked to use his phone, being Caspar Milquetoast he said sure, and the jerk proceeds to crank call everyone he can, is how I read it. The notion that you could knock on a stranger's door and ask to use their phone, and reasonably anticipate that they'd say "sure, come on in", is one that feels really weird to me.
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CommonShore posted:gently caress you for reminding me about Fort Knox (eyelids raise, 3 pairs of parenthesis shoot out of head)
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Not sure what I enjoy more: how gracefully Uffe handles this, or the great use of "Show, Don't Tell" in explaining how Uffe is not the threat Heimo thinks he is.
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Sally Forth's CDC-Approved Thanksgiving Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (May 22, 1933)  Peanuts (November 29, 1973)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  9 Chickweed Lane  In a few years, they'll have invented a creepy twin language that only they speak. Eventually, one will try to murder the other, shouting post-collegiate epithets all the way. Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (June 28, 1937)  Out Our Way (June 26-28, 1935)    Dok's "Enough With Being Irritated By Lost Children, Back To Getting Pissed Off By Dear Friends" Duck (May 14, 1913) 
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Parahexavoctal posted:The notion that you could knock on a stranger's door and ask to use their phone, and reasonably anticipate that they'd say "sure, come on in", is one that feels really weird to me. Last time I did that was 1990-ish. My dad and I had wandered along a hiking trail to see where it led, wound up on the opposite side of town with my kiddie legs completely worn out so he knocked on a door to call home for a pick-up.
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And He Did! (October 9, 1917) Outbursts of Everett True (December 13, 1917)  Hitz and Mrs. (August 1923)  Gay and Her Gang (December 17, 1928)  Dark Laughter (April 2, 1938 click for big)  “Now, I dare you to call me a fish again - in fact, you don’t have to say fish, jest say Friday or jest wiggle!” http://www.billiardsforum.com/billiard-terms-definition/fish They'll Do It Every Time (May 29, 1941)  Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger (April 2, 1949)  “Hmmm! It’ll be interestin’ to see just what type of man THIS attracts…!” Dinky Fellas (February 8, 1965) 
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Slammy posted:They'll Do It Every Time (May 29, 1941) Poor J. L Hallawel of Mission Beach, California. So bad at cheating on his wife he had to write to the paper about it.
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Johnny Walker posted:Andertoons It would, but the turkey will be dead at the point of inspection. Slammy posted:Outbursts of War Bread (December 12, 1917) For reference: https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/bread-a-slice-of-first-world-war-history/ This was more of an informal practice, but a more formal recipe known as "National Loaf" was developed in Britain during WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Loaf Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jun. 14, 1942) That main is wearing nothing under his chainmail.
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Slammy posted:And He Did! (October 9, 1917) And He Did! owns a lot.
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Julet Esqu posted:Poor J. L Hallawel of Mission Beach, California. So bad at cheating on his wife he had to write to the paper about it. What if J.L. Hallawel was the woman with whom the cheating was being done?
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Parahexavoctal posted:What if J.L. Hallawel was the woman with whom the cheating was being done? Or they could be the wife at home. Or even one of the friends who happen to be in town. But the man and his frustration seem to be the focus of this strip, so if it was sent by somebody else, that's on Hatlo.
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Got another one missing--Out in the Mountains skips Dykes to Watch Out For 233. They're also now using the tiny two-row arrangement, having cut down from 20 pages to 12 as of 1996. Gotta make room for this, apparently.  UPDATE: 329 is also MIA. Call-a-Spade fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Nov 27, 2020 |
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Vargo posted:Phoebe It's so refreshing to see a strip like this where the joke isn't SOME GIZMO. Phoebe is a good comic 
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Ghostlight posted:it's called a garage hojo Well la-dee-da, Mr. Frenchman.
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