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Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
(by Esplanade)

It's 2020 and we're still here posting about an obscure art form formerly found in these things called 'newspapers'.


For the unaware, this thread is for sharing newspaper comics no matter how good or bad. You'll take your Holbrooks along with your Wallace the Greats, and you'll like it. Don't think too hard about the comic's quality, :justpost:. And don't worry if nobody's commenting on your comic - that likely means it's actually good, since 99% of the commentary is about terrible comics. That said, the thread rule is that any comic you post must have been published in a newspaper at some point, or else hosted by Comics Kingdom or GoComics since they're the closest things to actual newspapers we have anymore. There are a few exceptions, mostly stuff that you likely wouldn't find anywhere else, such as thread favorite Nekonaughey.




Highlights and lowlights of last year include the saga of drunken Wilbur in Mary Worth, almost every comic in the thread featuring a pregnancy arc at the same time somehow, the end of Newspaper Spiderman, Funky Winkerbean attempting to do a poigniant CTE/suicide arc but making it all about Les instead of the actual victims, James Allen getting in a twitter slapfight with one of our posters and writing him into his next Mark Trail storyline just to get back at him, NuNancy (sort of) getting its groove back, Sally Forth doing the time warp again, and Dilbert getting so inexcusably bad it actually got booted off the thread.

(by Luxrage)

Old Thread Listing
  1. For Better or for Worse, here we go again
  2. For Better or For Worse II, The Sun May Get in 56kers' Eyes
  3. For Better or For Worse III: Who need this?!?
  4. For Better or For Worse Megathread
  5. The Comic Strip Megathread: Luann's Funky For Better Minimum Security
  6. The Comic Strip Megathread V - Just Another Uneventful Lesbian Road Trip
  7. The Comic Strip Megathread V, Part 3 - Dick and Jane Go to the Goddamn Bank
  8. Comic Strip Megathread V, Part 4: Thalidomide Theater: Day of the Jackelrod
  9. Comic Strip Megathread Part Ten: Infections and Gams... FOR ME! BARB ELS!
  10. Comic Strip Megathread Part 11: drat that's a fine elephant.
  11. Comic Strip Megathread Part XII: Reply All is the best comic in this thread
  12. Comic Strip Megathread XIII: Still can't get over it!
  13. Comic Strip Megathread XIV: Happy After Death 2013!
  14. Comic Strip Megathread XV: So smile, Margo, and move on
  15. Comic Strip Megathread XVI: Winking Throwbacks to Retro Sexism
  16. Comic Strip Megathread XVII: I have a special recipe (cackle-cackle)
  17. Comic Strip Megathread XVIII: Please refrain from erotic speculation about our characters
  18. Comic Strip Thread: WHEN MAN'S CONSCIENCE IS GONE HIS SOUL IS DEAD

Places to get poo poo to post
Universal Uclick's GoComics - thanks Elysiume for this guide on how to get to their comics so you can upload them

Transmodiar posted:

Just a heads up - Elysiume's CSS no longer works - if you want to get GoComics images, add this to the style editor of your choice:

code:
.item-comic-link-disabled, .js-item-comic-link, .item-comic-image {
    pointer-events: auto !important;
    cursor: default !important;
}

King Features Syndicate's Comic's Kingdom
The Houston Chronicle
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Darkgate Comic Slurper

(by Hostile V)

Editing Tools
Paint .NET (Windows)
Seashore (OSX)
Pixelr (web)
GIMP

(by Ghostlight)

Fonts
Blambot comic fonts
FBofW by Everett False
Jane's World by Haikeeba!
Luannfont by Haikeeba!
Minimum Security by Haikeeba!
Pearls by Haikeeba!
Gamgasm by Haikeeba!

Alternative Google Drive downloads


(By Forktoss)

And now's the time to post your favorite edits of threads gone by, and to introduce your comics for unsuspecting new readers. :toot:

Drakyn posted:

I scavenged up some R ubbish edits.













Past Thread Titles
Comic Strip Thread 2020: Weirdly, I just fled...FLED FROM THE BLOOD
Comic Strip Thread 2020: Causes Goat Keen Disappointment And He Cries Bitterly
Comic Strip Thread 2020: ART MUST CONTAIN TRUTH!! ART MUST CONTAIN TRUTH!!
Comic Strip Thread 2020: Behold My Ceiling Star Body
Comic Strip Thread 2020: we quietly mumble to ourselves "but there was sport now"
Comic Strip Thread 2020: Viva! WEN-TACK
Comic Strip Thread 2020: I'll Never Reveal Anything You Can Use to Hunt Nancy
Comic Strip Thread 2020: Curtis' Dad Has Got It Goin' On
Comic Strip Thread 2020: It's Not a LOL, But I'm Smiling
Comic Strip Thread 2020: Mo Was Pretty Prescient in Being Depressed
Funky Winkerbean Megathread 2020: Lisa Begins
Comic Strip Megathread 2020: It's My Right! To Poop Whenever!
'Funny' Comic Strip Megathread 2020: Les, Miserable
Comic Strip Megathread 2020: Your Dumb Antics Certainly Keep Me In Tears and Stitches
Comic Strip Megathread 2020: Val is Calmly Drowning Him
Comic Strip Megathread 2020: The Urge
Comic Strip Megathread 2020: Yawps and Gasps
Comic Strip Megathread 2020: God I Hope My 90 Year Old Wife Says Yes
Comic Strips 2020: I Wonder If Bugs Bunny Is Able to Get and Maintain an Erection
Comic Strips 2020: Betty Boop Is My IK
Comic Strips 2020: I'm Just a Little Green Onion
Comic Strips 2020: Well, I Got What I Wanted... Some Goon Exercise
Comic Strips 2020: It's Time, Sarge.
Comic Strips 2020: You've Been Playing Tag With a Tiger
Comic Strips 2020: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?
Comic Strips 2020: He Was Quick to Spank That Cheek-Meat
Comic Strips 2020: I Didn't Learn Anything From Any of This
Comic Strips 2020: 9 Cheekmeat Lane Containment Zone
Comic Strips 2020: Manga, You Philistines
Comic Strips 2020: Risible and Full of Jokes
Comic Strips 2020: piss off + get your own?
Comic Strips 2020: A Modernistic Guy
Comic Strips 2020: This is one problem you can't threesome your way out of
Comic Strips 2020: Consternation and Hubbub! Astonishment and Wonder!
Comic Strips 2020: What's the Big Jolly?
Comic Strips 2020: The Internet Has CRASHED To Pieces
Comic Strips 2020: yeah Karkat come on. please just suck me off
Comic Strips 2020:But doctor... I don't know how to read!!!
Comic Strips 2020:I love you, too, you gay disaster.
Comic Strips 2020:Unforgivable Worm Thread
Comic Strips 2020: I'm Gay. Let's Dance.
Comic Strips 2020: The Neatest Lil' Biddies in Existence
Comic Strips 2020: I Don't Actually Have Diarrhea, Cybil
Comic Strips 2020: We're Mark Trail's Dads Now
Comic Strips 2020: YAAAHH YAAAHH YAAAHHH
Comic Strips 2020: Red Meets Jack Because I Got No Snake
Comic Strips 2020: Always Go To Sleep Angry! Always!
Comic Strips 2020: Miss Yummy Dummy of 1947
Comic Strips 2020: Move it, Plaidbod.
Comic Strips 2020: A Sensuous Jack Dream
Comic Strips 2020: Dick Dumbunny Shocks the Corn!
Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

Haifisch fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Dec 16, 2020

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Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
Newspaper Spiderman:

The sad tale of the world's least competent super hero came to an end last year, with the final comic depicted above. I've slowly been posting old strips starting from 1999, and have currently caught up to 2017.


We are currently in the middle of the Rocket Raccoon arc, where Peter's space son is trying to stop Ronan from destroying poo poo.

1978 comics: I started posting 70s Spiderman because why the hell not. I've recently expanded to include 70s Mary Worth and 70s Rex Morgan since it's not any more effort and they can't be more disappointing than the modern versions, probably.
The current 70s MW involves the scandal of cohabiting before marriage. :monocle:
70s NSM involves Peter being involved with a terrorist's daughter, and also being extremely angry all the time.
I started in the middle of this arc and I'm honestly not sure what's happening in it yet.

Dick Tracy is a comic I mostly post because I keep hoping something, anything will happen. Instead we mostly get storylines that start off with a possibly interesting concept and end with a wet fart, and probably a cameo or two from some other comic because that's all Staton/Curtis know how to do.


Locher Tracy is a throwback to a simpler time. A time when the stories made no loving sense, but in a way that was funny and had actual beginnings and ends to each plotline. It also features tiny arms.


Origins of the Sunday Comics is a Gocomics feature where some brave soul has been curating random old Sunday comics for our enjoyment. Sometimes they post an assortment of comics, sometimes they post one comic for several strips. They're currently doing Dreams of the Rarebit fiend.


Footrot Flats is a charming New Zealand comic about the realities of farm life. It doesn't sugarcoat things, so don't be surprised if you see freshly butchered headless chickens running around or the dog talking about eating a dead sheep.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

someone awful. posted:

please can we not post the work of a guy who probably sexually abused his assistant or whatever, it's not really that funny
:emptyquote:

EasyEW posted:

Toonerville Folks (although it's not called that yet in the era I'm posting) is a cartoon panel that I've had a soft spot for over the years, so last year I just went for it. Small town characters, powerful nursemaids, and a world-famous form of public transport. (Fontaine Fox, June 2-3, 1916)




Fun fact: I was real close to having Katrinka referenced in the thread title before THE BLOOD stole the crown in the last moment.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
Oh, so that's why MFAC hasn't come back. :smith: I'd love to see it come back but understand if it's too much of a hassle.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

Manuel Calavera posted:

Foob

Yes late 70s to somewhere in the 80s Lynn, trans men exist.
:hai:

SubNat posted:

Yeah, I guess I'll timg it in future posts.
As for papa and mamma, this is Moomin's dark origin story, before he met them.

The family is such a central part of everything that it feels weird not to have them around yet though.
I wouldn't timg it, imo. It's really annoying to have to click multiple images in a row to see them(to the point where a lot of people won't bother), and the forums automatically resize images to fit the tables anyway. :justpost: normally.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




With one time bonus Wizard of Id, because :confused:


Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics

With bonus baffling comment:


Footrot Flats


e:

Some Guy TT posted:

Should I do that? Normally I'd agree with you but the images I post are extremely vertical and much more difficult to ignore if I don't tag them.
I'm not the Thread King even though I'm OP this time, so don't feel like you have to listen to me. :v: But it is slightly annoying, although I can't speak for the people who don't read your comics. In conclusion, :shrug:.

Haifisch fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Jan 3, 2020

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


Bonus edit from techknight:


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

EasyEW posted:

But last week a few too many intolerance brushfires popped up in our own backyard to ignore (you might know what I'm talking about, but you're blessed if you don't)
And hoo boy what a brushfire it is. :smith:


2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Jan 6, 2020

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
Piping in as your local transman thread OP to say that seriously, please do not post transphobic comics by transphobic people. There's nothing even interesting about how bad it is, it's just a hateful slug spewing the same poo poo we have to deal with everywhere else. It's extra bad timing considering the, well, (gestures to the forums shitstorm happening over the past month and a half).

I hate Pros and Cons for similar reasons, even though it's managed to edge away from saying the quiet part loud yet. Dustin also sucks but it provides enough edit fodder that I'm okay with it.


2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

SubNat posted:

Moomin and the brigands

Moomin said trans rights.


2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy

I've decided that unless this arc is actually interesting somehow or unless there's a surprise contingent of people really into modern Tracy, I'm going to stop posting it after this arc. This isn't even bad in a fun to hate way, it's just boring. There's only so many times I can make fun of the stories getting constantly sidetracked by Flintheart bullshit before it gets old.

Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

Archyduchess posted:

I want to give back a bit to a thread that I've gotten a lot of education and enjoyment out of. I'm thinking about posting Cathy and Crockett Johnson's initial 1942-1946 run on Barnaby-- the former because I think it's a fascinating barometer for what a comic predicated on being "relateable" to a mainstream demographic of (white) women looked at through the 70s-aughts, and the latter because it's an exquisite comic.

If either of these have already been posted in a previous iteration of this thread and people are burnt out on them or whatever that's fine, but otherwise I'll try to write up a little intro for both over the weekend?
:justpost:


2017 Spiderman


Bonus edit by Snackmar


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

Julet Esqu posted:



Naw, if they did Gunther would have to dump her for not being a virgin
I can't not read this as Bernice making fun of Luann for being a college student terrified of saying 'sex'. And for once her assholery is justified.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
This was posted just in time for it to go from ridiculous(because our winter has had jack poo poo for snow) to prescient-ish(because we're due to get a winter storm soon). :allears:

Also going by the signs, they're in Indiana somewhere. This is your pointless geography detail of the day.

Elysiume posted:

Why is he acting like Michelle doesn't generally hates Curtis?
Curtis had to get his obliviousness from somewhere.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

Strontium posted:

Daddy Daze

It's not an edit. :catstare:


2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




HEY GUYS JUST MAKING SURE YOU GOT THE REFERENCE


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

catlord posted:

He's like Blackjack, but without the charm.

Edit: I checked just to make sure I wasn't mixing his name up with someone else, and I found the Dick Tracy wiki. It has this little gem in it:


Which unfortunately doesn't have a source (in fact, it appears there are no sources at all on this wiki), but drat does that explain a whole lot.
It never occurred to me until now that of course there's Dick Tracy fanfic.

Pray to whatever dieties you believe in that I can't find Curtis' fanfics. :devil:

riderchop posted:

i don't know how you see this Dick arc and NOT go "holy poo poo i need to see how bad this gets until the end of time"
Really if Staton/Curtis could stop making it the Creepy Old Theater Guy And His Way Younger Wife show in the middle of every drat arc, I'd be a lot more invested in hatereading it.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy is...ah...hmm. Yeah I can't really defend this one.

(I looked ahead, this is the worst it gets about this.)

Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
While hunting for Staton/Curtis' Tracy fanfic(did you think I was joking?), I stumbled on these Minit Mysteries from the 50s. Enjoy:







Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


And a special feature: Staton & Curtis's Dick Tracy Fanfic!

OK, it's actually a fan comic called Major Crime Squad. Hosted on Plainclothes, a Tracy fansite run by Staton/Curtis and a few others(which was also the source for the 50s Minit Mysteries from earlier), taken down around the time Staton/Curtis got involved with the real Dick Tracy strip but helpfully archived on the wayback machine. You'll get one a day until they run out. Why? Because it can't be any more tedious than their real Dick Tracy strips.

site blurb posted:

Artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis (with inks and letters from Shelley Pleger) put the members of Chester Gould's Major Crime Squad through an adventure featuring two presumed dead criminals and the answers to "What happened to the Space Coupe?"


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jan 15, 2020

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
OK boomer.


2017 Spiderman



1978 Comics







Dick Tracy



Major Crime Squad



Locher Tracy



Origins of the Sunday Comics



Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


ACAB Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Police Brutality Theater


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

FrumpleOrz posted:

Frazz gently caress off, Frazz.

So is Frazz's new goal to be as actively terrible as possible this week instead of just its usual low-key terrible?

EasyEW posted:

Dok's "Deeply Disturbing Punchline" Duck (January 21, 1913)


Guest-written by 1913 Holbrook.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

Some Guy TT posted:

I'm not sure how useful that is but it seems like a much better site than imgur, what with its constant crashes and front page loading slowing everything down.
I haven't seen the imgur front page in ages. You can go directly to imgur.com/upload and it works fine. :shrug:

Although imgur does keep getting shittier as it tries to convince itself it's a social media site and not an image host, so alternatives are always welcome.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
I'll be gone for a few days so have today's comics early:

2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
Catchup time, part 1: The dicks tracy and 70s comics.

1978 Comics




Dick Tracy






Major Crime Squad






Locher Tracy




Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
I was going to catchup more but then I realized everything else I post is old comics so :effort:.

2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


70s Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy

I can't believe they don't realize it was Carmen Sandiego yet.

Origins of the Sunday Comics, spoilered because racist caricature


Footrot Flats

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender

riderchop posted:

glanced over at modern Dick and i have zero idea what's going on
For once the storyline is comprehensible enough that I do know what's happening:
Mr Roboto is a Styx reference/racist caricature that robs banks. Mysta the moon girl was playing Futura in a production of Metropolis the Flinthearts were putting on. Roboto fell for Mysta-as-Futura and has kidnapped her, and is now feeding her a giant snail. Dick Tracy himself is probably somewhere, doing something.

This storyline has been going on for about a month and a half but that's all that's really happened.

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Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

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



Taco Defender
tl;dr: Crime man really into his robotsona, thinks moon lady should be too.

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