Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Chef Bourgeoisie posted:

Bloom County
June 30th & July 1st, 1981

lol thanks for posting these, i havent read these since i would obsessively read my mom's copy of the omnibus as a 10 year old and i only understood like 30% of the jokes. these are great and bring back good memories.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 03:21

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# ¿ Jan 21, 2025 08:02

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Some Guy TT posted:

The other part of this storyline that really bugs me is that she's reading a book at all. Kids don't like reading books, and the Godfather specifically is a book that's not very easy to find. It's famous mainly for being a movie. Which any halfway clever kid could find on the Internet pretty easily just because it's old.

you can get it at any local library. i read it when i was in middle school bc i heard it was a good movie and wanted to be cultured.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2020 11:47

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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:

Bloom County
August 3rd & 4th, 1981
And now we're back on track with the physical books. Everyone meet Bobbi's parents!

lmfao one of my favs

e: wait...they edited it to be less funny!!! this sucks!!!

fun hater fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Apr 28, 2020

# ¿ Apr 28, 2020 04:57

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honest critique abt zelda: i greatly dislike it. i am unsure how contemporary it is (how old are the strips we're reading now?) bc if these strips are older and are ur-examples of these kind of concepts+ideas being put to paper i guess thats revolutionary but if not then these ideas have been said, done and explored better by literally a billion other better comics by a thousand other women.

e: lol cheer up boss dharma owns

# ¿ May 1, 2020 10:46

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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:

Bloom County
August 11th (edited and unedited) & 12th, 1981

thank you so much for posting these with the unedited book versions side by side now, which i know is an extra weird step but i am absolutely fascinated by the editing choices being made here.

# ¿ May 1, 2020 19:34

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StrixNebulosa posted:

I'm concerned that Arlo would let his son watch that junk. Most of what I know about it is that it promoted this attitude of "caring about things is uncool" and this pro-republican shittiness.

its not a real child

# ¿ May 3, 2020 20:35

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Darthemed posted:

Dick

obsessed with front facing dick tracy

# ¿ May 6, 2020 18:46

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How Wonderful! posted:

I want to post an addendum about something I was puzzled about :

A few months ago, when the issue of Bechdel's attitudes towards trans stuff came up, I posted a strip I'd found around online, dated to 1995, about Mo going into a bathroom with a trans woman and having a little learning moment. I have access to all the strips from 1995-1996 now and was surprised to find that this strip wasn't in it; the character of Jillian is mentioned a few times but doesn't show up. Bechdel of course was a pretty prolific cartoonist outside of DtWOF but from what I've seen most of her one-off stuff doesn't directly involve the DtWOF cast (I could be wrong, as we'll see in like, one sentence).

Well in the end it was an extremely easy mystery to solve. It turns out that Bechdel drew the strip in question specifically for Leslie Feinberg's 1996 Transgender Warriors, a pretty seminal book in trans studies, one which, I have to admit, I never cracked open until today. Feinberg's classic memoir Stone Butch Blues was first published by Firebrand in 1993, and in fact Bechdel blurbed it. I'm a little embarrassed that I never knew any of this, and kind of agog that a lot of the cross-talk about Bechdel's history wrt trans stuff skips over it too. Anyway here's a cleaner scan of the strip from Transgender Warriors:

holy cow, ive seen this strip 1000 times and never without the context that it was made for feinberg. that's incredible. yo, how wonderful, thank you for these posts, they're seriously some of the best in this thread. i love reading them and the context you add to them is something i've been deprived of. these strips and the posts are great resources.

# ¿ May 12, 2020 18:56

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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:

Bloom County
September 22nd & 23rd, 1981

my hand down fav still all these years later lol

# ¿ May 22, 2020 12:36

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curtadams posted:

What's with Rae's eyes, tho? Sometimes she closes them from the bottom and sometimes from the top. Is it some aspect of deer biology, or an anime emotion signaling convention, or what?

they are two different facial expressions

# ¿ Jun 12, 2020 02:57

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Kennel posted:

i LOVE this

its just ends with taft being my friend now. no punchline.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2020 20:12

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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:

Bloom County
November 7th & 8th, 1981

Tomorrow we get Cutter John!

lol to both

# ¿ Jun 17, 2020 02:54

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Some Guy TT posted:

These new Far Sides look odd, like they're painted. Are they being published anywhere? It feels weird to get three of them all at once that presumably no one's ever seen before.

larson talks about it in this blog post: he's moved on from pen and ink, which was beginning to frustrate him, to digital art.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2020 06:13

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MariusLecter posted:

Important question; would Everet True wear a mask? If so, would his wrath be unleashed on those who do not wear one and also people who wear a mask but have their noses uncovered?

# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 02:07

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Johnny Walker posted:

Finally, Six Chix, because WTF, Six Chix?

https://twitter.com/biancaxunise/status/1288951267319054336?s=19

im pretty disheartened that so many people inexplicably leapt to such a bizarrely negative reading of what appeared to be a pretty straightforward comic

# ¿ Jul 30, 2020 22:28

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Poil posted:

She's locked the bedroom door? I mean, I get it at that place but... that's not a healthy sign.

shes just turning the doorknob

# ¿ Aug 5, 2020 08:24

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Some Guy TT posted:

And as long as I'm being spicy this take is dumb for the exact opposite reason. Guys who are popular with women are not guaranteed this popularity because women always make sensible decisions when it comes to selecting partners with good feminist values, as countless E/N posters can attest.

man, shut up

# ¿ Aug 8, 2020 05:45

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Ghostlight posted:

キューライス

cute...

# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 08:16

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Vargo posted:

This is... this is weird. I don't know what Dick Tracy is supposed to represent here, given that he's shown rushing in with guns blazing, and is also known for murdering bad guys left and right. Are we supposed to take him as a "good cop" for not killing Lio?

this is a very bizarre read of what i thought was a straight forward comic. the reader assumption that dick tracy is on his way to face a dick tracy villain is subverted when the "villain" is a human rights protestor and not a faceless goon. its commentary on who and what is considered a "bad guy" today using tracy as the cop stand in because he's recognizable.

i would prefer not seeing him shoot the kid to demonstrate he is a bastard cop. the message is "ALL cops are bastards" because of how they misframe reality to suit their needs. not "dick tracy is a bastard"

# ¿ Aug 12, 2020 22:48

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Kennel posted:

gently caress yes kelly rules

# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 17:15

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riderchop posted:

is the Tinkersons dad ok

he's getting the chair

# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 06:45

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popeye is king

# ¿ Sep 6, 2020 02:41

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fresh flesh!

# ¿ Sep 11, 2020 17:25

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Angular Cyrus posted:

I figured this would happen sooner or later, so I recently went through the gocomics archive and saved everything. Here's a rar.

tysm

Slammy posted:

Also in today's paper - an article on A.D. Condo.

this is WILDLY funny

fun hater fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Sep 12, 2020

# ¿ Sep 12, 2020 03:05

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EasyEW posted:

Thimble Theater (April 12-14, 1937)

lol what a scamp

# ¿ Sep 13, 2020 02:21

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RoboRodent posted:

What does Everett True do for a living, anyway?

he hits people and they turn into coins or fully cooked turkeys

# ¿ Sep 13, 2020 02:31

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Slammy posted:

Outbursts of Everett True (October 30, 1917)

king poo poo

# ¿ Sep 14, 2020 03:01

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i would bring my own beer to an everett true party

# ¿ Sep 21, 2020 04:56

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Howard Beale posted:

Elizabeth is asking if she and Luccia can be picked up at the rink later on, and 8 is the time she gets out. Lynn does a lot of lovely parenting but this is not one of the times.

knowing full well what kind of disturbing history lynn johnston has self-confessed to in interviews, i think some of the heat she pulls from posters in here in can be really weird and off-putting. especially when its prying and picking at minutiae like this. i dont think a comic in which the mild observation is "being a mom is a full time job" compares to like...the real things she's done.

riderchop posted:

Rae the Doe's web archives

Fawn of the Dead

lol

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 01:50

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

its a fairly unpleasant comic, yes

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 04:45

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

yeah dont get me twisted im rushing to protect it. please, i'm normal. i know it sucks rear end.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 05:45

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Mikl posted:

"Yukari of Gensokyo, Japan"

lmao

lol

# ¿ Oct 4, 2020 19:59

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Johnny Aztec posted:

^ From what some other strips around that era has shown, people moved around a LOT then.

maybe he lives in new york

# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 04:45

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coronatae posted:

This man really thinks a training bra is a device that trains your breasts to grow.

he's for real writing about them like they're loving braces or something corrective and not like a tanktop with a sports bra in it. this dude is like unhinged

# ¿ Oct 31, 2020 04:35

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i wish what you just said was about a manga or something and not a holbrook cartoon

# ¿ Nov 20, 2020 03:05

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everett true RUDE moment

e: what is he even shaving!!

# ¿ Nov 22, 2020 05:22

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My Lovely Horse posted:

oh my god

he doesn't know youtube exists, you guys. like I knew he was out of touch, from it being staggeringly obvious, but I had no idea it was this bad.

if i were writing a joke for a wide newspaper comic reading audience about trading video footage for money, i would probably make it about a tv show as well because that is a more widely understood reference/cultural touchstone by the majority of readers despite being old fashioned

# ¿ Dec 13, 2020 17:25

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# ¿ Jan 21, 2025 08:02

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Slammy posted:

Here�s the proquest version!

Merry Christmas!

i love this so much. it sucks but it rules

# ¿ Dec 24, 2020 21:13

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