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Johnny Walker posted:
I don't understand how Mark Trail is getting by the editors. If a writer wrote gibberish, or a photographer sent in a picture with the subject half out of frame, it wouldn't get past the editors. This is just so weird - it's not like a "weird" art style or ugly art style, it just makes no sense. I think those two very different looking people are both supposed to be Rusty? This isn't bad, or surreal - it's nonsensical. It's like a random arrangement of Colorforms toys.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Apr. 23, 1938) These old Prince Valiants are really something...really high quality in all aspects. What's the source for these? is there a good book of them to read?
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Medenmath posted:Fantagraphics puts out magnificent hardbound oversized collections that you can find on Amazon. I am providing, uh, totally legitimate samples from these books. well, as the person who posts the Corto Maltese pointed out (i bought 7-8 books of that after reading it here), you're probably doing the publishing industry a favor by advertising - i'll end up buying these, a customer they wouldn't have had otherwise...
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä as a native minnesotan, who can't escape his background no matter what, "His fate was set, to slip into the icy waves with his moped on an ice fishing trip" is pretty much what i fear will be my eulogy
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Johnny Walker posted:
That's pretty amazing, too bad it's only people like us who can appreciate the depth of the effort. The artist has every bit down, including the dialog style.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Nov. 06, 1938) maybe a bit of a stretch but there's an element of Alfred the Great and his hiding out on the swamp hillfort of Athelney (after being chased there by the viking Guthrum)...which i am guessing Hal Foster was aware of is and weaving into this all.
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Julet Esqu posted:So many women have made so much effort for so long to lift the stigma in Western culture about breastfeeding in public and here comes Brooke to be like, "breastfeeding is an inherently sexual act and it's so erotic when a woman asserts her sexuality by letting everybody watch her get them sexy-rear end tiddys sucked in public" 9 chickweed lane is one of the comics that i dislike so much i can't look at it. I had to see what you were referring to, though, so i looked, and all i can say is: unbelievable-what's wrong with him? how can he think this is appropriate?
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma that's a case of a joke taking on a better meaning but similar meaning with translation! Also, the common names of fish are one of the most difficult to translate, as they differ even in different regions of the same country, I've had many conversations with european fishermen where it took us a while of describing back and forth to figure out what fish we were referring to. of course, the internet ruined that - now you can just...GOOGLE IT
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Ghostlight posted:This is assault. this one is going completely over my head - like not a clue, man. Can someone Red and Rover it for me?
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Fighting Trousers posted:There will also be Vikings and a trip to North America eventually, so... Earlier on in P.V. Hengist and Horsa (or maybe only Hengist?) was the leader of the Viking or Anglo Saxon attack - and they were 400s, if they existed at all (which i think they did). I read a lot of history on england from the Romans to 1200s , and i love the way Foster just takes whatever's cool from 400-1400 and tosses it in. I REALLY enjoy the old Prince Valiants. I've always assumed it was supposed to be based on King Arthur olden tymes, late 400s (if they were at all). Though as someone pointed out basically all of the "stuff" from clothes to weapons to architecture is waaaaay later - this was after the fall of the Roman Empire, so everything was crappy to the extreme. Most of the infrastructure and manufacturing was pretty much gone, so all the things they had were most likely were just all old Roman stuff that was falling apart. It was not a great time.
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Caphi posted:SaaS (Software as a Service, basically poo poo you used to buy and install is now on the cloud and requires a subscription) is a giant buzzword. ahhhh got it - thanks - i'd actually heard of that but it wasn't foremost enough in my mind that i put the phrase and acronym together.
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SuperKlaus posted:Smokey Stover is the breakout new hit of the thread. I love its cartoon energy and stupid gags. I really enjoy it - in the words of Spinal Tap "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever"
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Bingo Bango posted:I personally didn't notice a difference but I also don't usually feel like Boss Dharma is overly stiff. I also really like your translations notes on these and am curious to see how this new approach pans out (if you keep doing it). I didn't really see a big difference, although i sort of see it after you pointed it out. I've said it before, but i really, really like the Boss Dharma and translations. Besides being a quality comic strip (i'd love to have a coworker like Boss Dharma!) it's really interesting to see when the humor translates and when it doesn't. Sometimes i can see what the joke is supposed to be, but it just doesn't fly in cultural transition. So it's funny when it works, interesting when it don't.
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very nice! i bet Q Rais (sp?) would like it too.
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Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey i love those remote control ac/heaters. when i was living in japan i would sleep cold all under the blankets, and then 20 mins before i wanted to get up i would turn up the temp. i know you can do that with regular thermostats, but it's just not the same. plus, my dorm-room size tokyo apt could cool down and heat up pretty quickly.
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EasyEW posted:Ted Forth's Brave New World
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curtadams posted:First, Mr. Boop is lampshading the heck out of itself. Yeah, i'm embarrassed to admit it now but i used to enjoy 9CL - but it did really used to be different. It wasn't non-stop creepiness, and wasn't so obviously author self-insert of "look what a good sexy sex-haver i am". And the Mr. Boop is clearly satire of poor self-insert fiction (there's an old literary term for it, can't remember what it is...), and was done as kind of a goof that to the author's surprise people thought was entertaining. Someone else mentioned this, but it reads really well if you go to the website and read it start to finish. there's even a game you can play!
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Vargo posted:Today's Google Doodle features Jackie Ormes, the first professional Black woman cartoonist in America. Wow love the history. Fascinating what you can deduce about a time by reading the contemporary comics. thanks for posting these.
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Kennel posted:
Oh no i've been doxxed by dustin i hope i'm no dustin's dad (ed kudlick?). we are a very progressive family, but in the fashion of the marxian "by each according to ability" my wife runs the kitchen. i'm sure this exact conversation has occurred. Recently when i was looking in the pantry it was "i hope you're not looking for chocolate chips i need those for what i'm baking" - i was 
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Was there another similar sauna episode in Mammila (they want to build over an old guys sauna), or am i remembering a storyline posted a while ago? I seem to remember that sauna being barrel shaped though. In any case i love the Mammila, thanks for taking the time to translate and post it.
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[quote="Darthemed" post="509684905"] Retail   Lunker needs to learn the mathematics of topology - like a closed box (cube), sphere, or other closed 3-D shape Lunker only has one side (surface) DC Money fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Nov 7, 2020 |
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DC Money posted:[quote="Darthemed" post="509684905"] Although, if you consider his mouth and sphincters (stomach and other) as openings, he has the same topology as a donut or a coffee cup (with a handle)
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