Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 8, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 8, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 8, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 1, 2020 18:14

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# ¿ Jan 18, 2025 00:29

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 9, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 9, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 9, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 2, 2020 10:48

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 10, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 10, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 10, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 3, 2020 11:02

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

All we need now is the Powerful Katrinka to lift up Dr. Kream so she can vacuum or whatever and in come the cops --- by Fontaine Fox.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2020 01:39

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 11, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 11, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 11, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 4, 2020 16:28

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 12, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 12, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 12, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 13:46

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 13, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 13, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 13, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 10:57

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Archyduchess posted:

Dilbert is made by a bigot who makes his money preying on gullible and scared people [...] Scott Adams is a bad and harmful person who makes a comic that is bad and boring when it isn't bad and harmful, and there's no place for him here

also imagine the indignity of having "likes Dilbert in A.D. 2020" on your rap sheet

I would not do that to my worst posting enemies

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 21:36

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

BigDave posted:

Have we forgotten Oh Baby! already?

please post Oh Baby!, we need something for Working Daze to look down upon

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 23:12

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

TampaTango posted:

I am not okay with a ban on anything. The answer to terrible things is more things. I am with Transmodiar.

I don�t think it is a good enough reason, �because the author is a shithead.� This thread was originally to mock and enjoy comics. If this how you want to moderate it, you have the hat and I dont. I understand and I am going to comply. I get the idea you want to hear other POV before the rule.

I get it is awful for trans folks, and I get that things are presented that offend sensibilities, play on prejudice, and are terrible subjects. Saying that, a character who is offensively paradoying a drag queen should get booted just like racist 1920s depictions of a black person, we don't need that here. I am saying the bar should be high because this is a criticism of the comic world. We are looking at a car crash and cant turn our eyes away.

The comic world, except for a few cracks of bright light, are a morass of dying newspapers and zombie strips where the original write died and a corporation took over the characters hollowing them out to be a shill in a desperate attempt for readership. New work is going away and only a few writers have much new. Ces being one, who does some great work that NEVER sees a newspaper. I think social media will soon be the only outlet for real original work, and its a little sad.

Dilbert WAY back in the day was a comic in a electronics trade mag written by a professional in the field, it got popular and went mainstream. It then went batshit crazy. Soon the men with money will notice the money drying up, and it will go poof.

The Residents espoused a theory of obscurity, bands did their best work before they became famous and starting playing for a paycheck. I think it applies for comics too.

I like your post, generally, and I resonate with it. I'm a big Residents fan.

That said, banning Dilbert from this thread doesn't prevent anyone who wants to read it from reading it. What it does is this:

(1) the people that Scott Adams hates don't have to be reminded of it every time they refresh this thread, which is and has been one of the best on SA

(2) it draws a line between general shittiness and specific shittiness. Scott Adams is a cruel, petty man, and the only reason Dilbert runs today is because it ran 10 years ago and that's because it ran 20 years ago, etc. One of the wonderful things about this thread is that a lot of us are seriously interested in comic strip history and yeah, Dilbert isn't what it used to be, nor is its author.

There's no reason to go to bat for Dilbert, here. It's neither obscure nor good nor doing anything ground-breaking. It's inertia at its worst.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 23:27

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

If anyone takes Dok's Duck away from me I will beat them to death with an eBay-sourced copy of the Essential Howard the Duck phone book

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 00:10

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Synthbuttrange posted:

Okay, question about the last thread's title: What's 'WHEN MAN'S CONSCIENCE IS GONE HIS SOUL IS DEAD' refer to?

The system won't let me quote posts from a closed thread, but it was an installment of Buster Brown on the third-to-last page:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 11:03

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 14, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 14, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 14, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 11:40

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Powered Descent posted:

Oh god.

Believe me, that was hard to see for me, too

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 20:58

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 15, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 15, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 15, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 8, 2020 10:48

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Nenonen posted:

I got a sudden urge to set a screensaver

As always, archive.org has you covered.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2020 13:26

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Green Intern posted:

Say what you will about how she's drawn, but I would absolutely watch wrasslin with Aunt Tildy.

She's Carol Channing and no one can convince me otherwise.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2020 20:34

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 16, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 16, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 16, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 10:52

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 17, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 17, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 17, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 12:10

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 18, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 18, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 18, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 11, 2020 15:34

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 19, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 19, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 19, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 12, 2020 13:25

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 20, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 20, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 20, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 11:35

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 21, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 21, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 21, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 11:01

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

I missed yesterday.

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 22, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 22, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 22, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 10:54

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

I missed yesterday.

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 23, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 23, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 23, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 18, 2020 13:26

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Manuel Calavera posted:

Compu-Toon

if this isn't my new favorite Compu-Toon, it's got to be in the top 5; it's so perfectly Boyce

I cannot re-find the one with

and it's a real shame

# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 00:14

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Archyduchess posted:

I think we can probably rule it out.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 06:19

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 24, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 24, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 24, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 13:27

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 25, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 25, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 25, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 20, 2020 10:43

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

re: "trust but verify" - I always thought it was intended to be a cynical proverb that boiled down to its inherent contradiction. You trust people to their faces and then quietly, privately verify their statement.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2020 11:06

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Mopsy the character is horny, but Mopsy the comic strip is maybe one-point-five Beetle Baileys horny unless you're doing a close reading into how Gladys Parker was incapable of not painstakingly depicting Mopsy's body even through, like, a hazmat suit.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2020 23:02

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 26, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 26, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 26, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 10:50

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (June 27, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 27, 1998)

Garfield Classic (June 27, 1988)

# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 10:51

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

This seems like an ideal time to remind the thread that there is a Luann stage musical with book, music, and lyrics by that nutty ol' renaissance man, Greg Evans: