Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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fondue: Jul 14, 2002

# ¿ Jan 1, 2020 08:11

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# ¿ Jan 23, 2025 01:00

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Savidudeosoo posted:

Back in the '80s my friends apartment was like this; he didn't have to pay for the heater and it ran 24/7 all year long. Fantastic in the winter but during the summer it was unbearable to be inside! We'd play cards there until 2am and you'd think it was strip poker because we'd all be in our boxers or shorts.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 06:37

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

coronatae posted:

Some things haven't changed in 20 years

Well see, half the buildings were really old back in the late 80s and were heated with boilers. The temperature of a room would vary from comfortable to tropical. If you lived in an apartment or dorm near the campus you could endure a little cold so you could wear clothing appropriate for the rooms.

source - Went to college at the U of M in the late 80s.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 16:28

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

FrumpleOrz posted:

Kevin & Kell

Are we just going to ignore that HUGE loving SPIDER? It's like something out of Gilligans island!

# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 05:48

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EasyEW posted:

Rip Haywire

Do they have a third sister or a brother named Fibber?

# ¿ Feb 1, 2020 01:58

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack

Won't the gloves break?

# ¿ Feb 10, 2020 06:40

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Medenmath posted:

Prince Valiant

The art is so, so good in this series.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 07:40

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Selachian posted:

Retail

That was abrupt. I was hoping to find out what happens with Lunker.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 05:35

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

EBB posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrKE_eTMlns

Bobulus posted:

I like to imagine he's just there in the back room when the Dollar Admiral opens and they reluctantly hire him because it's easier than turning him away.

A giant empty room and one folding chair with Lunker sitting on it.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 07:52

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Professor Wayne posted:

Acts of God

That's just straight-up Kliban.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Jul 24, 2022

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 19:44

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Evil Mastermind posted:

Super-Fun-Pak Comix can also apply to the sequel trilogy.

Or it was just a poo poo movie. Can also apply to the sequel trilogy.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 05:21

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

EasyEW posted:

9 OW MY BALLS Lane

Really? A vasectomy is out patient, it's practically not surgery.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 05:19

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Professor Wayne posted:

The Far Side

Seeing The Far Side return really makes me miss Kliban.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jul 25, 2022

# ¿ Mar 18, 2020 01:56

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Sailor Cat posted:

Well, by all means, please

I would but he's not syndicated and most of his material is rated R because it was produced for Playboy magazine.

I do like that Gary Larson gives a shout out to Kliban as one of his major inspirations. There was a thread four years ago about Larson that in the middle a bunch of people poo poo on Kliban because for whatever.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2020 07:41

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Evil Mastermind posted:

Working Daze is a bad time-related joke.

*too soon, not "to soon"

# ¿ Mar 30, 2020 00:50

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

amigolupus posted:

What's really insulting is how Team Evans didn't even put in any effort to draw Pru getting proposed to. Reading between the lines, it seems like Pru's girlfriend didn't even bother meeting her in person and just sent her proposal in a loving letter. At least Holbrook actually draws his characters getting proposed to and looking pretty happy about it. This is just a really obvious ploy from Team Evans to get rid of their only LGBTQ+ character.

She's going to catch the rona and die in NYC off-screen.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2020 05:00

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Would anyone take offense if I started sharing Kliban? He's got a daily spot in GoComics apparently. Kliban's work was the inspiration for The Far Side.

Most people are familiar with his 80s cat comics

However he got his start in Playboy magazine. His art ranged from brilliant to offensive to just plain dumb, being that GoComics is hosting them I'm sure at worst it's going to be PG stuff.

I won't post any of the NWS stuff, but here's a sample. (Warning, Nudity)

Some of his NWS stuff is misogynistic and offensive but if you want to see it it's easily found all over the internet.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2020 08:12

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Johnny Walker posted:

This is one of my all-time favorite cartoons. It's just so silly. It reminds me of Kelly from the Onion.

Someone was posting Kliban a while back, and I'd be happy to have him here again. They may have just been posting the cat comics. Either way I'm good.

Thanks, I was looking for at least one voice of support to do it.

I discovered Kliban back in the 80s when my friend got "Whack your Porcupine and other drawings" as an Xmas gift and loaned it to me. I think I got half the jokes, I must have been twelve.

I'm just going to follow each day as they are on GoComics. I know there's some trick for getting a higher resolution image but this is what I've got for now.

B Kliban March 19, 2012 (from the collection, "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head")

# ¿ Apr 10, 2020 19:43

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban - I recently subbed to /r/FuckImOld and it's funny to see people nostalgic for things I hated as a youth. Someone recently was nostalgic for steel soda cans. I remember the pull tabs being everywhere including hidden in the lawn grass ready to slash your feet open. I also remember the kitchen have needle-nose pliers because every once in a while the pull tab ring would break before you got your soda open and you either got it out with the pliers or had to punch holes in it with a triangular can opener and drink out of a glass like a loser.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 11:32

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Transmodiar posted:

Scary Go Round: Parents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPDfF08Ubt4

# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 18:37

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Samovar posted:

gently caress!

I KNEW I heard that from somewhere!

I only rememembered it because it's such an odd saying it's been stuck in my head like a sliver ever since. So strange to see it on Scary-go-round. Makes me wonder if it's a more common saying or if Alllison was listening to DJ Shadow. The album it's from came out in 1996.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 18:51

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Daily Kliban

# ¿ Apr 12, 2020 11:30

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

FrumpleOrz posted:

Follow it live here!

B Kliban

Surprised this one made it to the page, must be nobody there actually vetting the content.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2020 19:13

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban

# ¿ Apr 14, 2020 20:18

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B Kliban

# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 08:00

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban

In 1976, about when this comic came out, De Laurentis put out a King Kong movie starring a mid-20s Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2020 20:24

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban

The 70s were chock full of disaster movies but it wasn't until 1980 they made a Titanic movie ... about raising it from the depths of the ocean. It was terrible.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2020 08:09

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Chef Bourgeoisie posted:

And John Davidson and Merv Griffin for reference (clickable for more info)

We saw John Davidson seven years ago, he was on stage playing the Wizard of Oz in the traveling "Wicked" broadway show. He was damned good, too.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2020 14:39

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

EasyEW posted:

The Breathtaking Splendor of Newspaper Cartoonists (otherwise known as "Funky WInkerbean")

B Kliban on cartoonists (NWS)

:nws:

Todays Kliban

# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 03:08

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban

In retrospective Kliban sure was fond of Dad jokes

# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 19:06

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

The Bloop posted:

I agree about overboard.

I think zippy is pretentious horseshit, though

Zippy is a comic like it's written by a highly educated stoner hippy in the 70s but it's no longer the 70s and he no longer gets stoned but he's still trying to capture that vibe.

B Kliban

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 19:13

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B Kliban

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 09:41

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B Kliban

# ¿ Apr 22, 2020 14:59

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B Kliban

These are some of my favorite bits he does, they're like the ultimate "dad jokes"

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 12:56

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B Kliban

# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 22:11

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B Kliban

# ¿ Apr 25, 2020 17:45

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

EasyEW posted:

9 "_aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Lane

Doesn't he have a kid? Did he participate in raising it? This isn't how any of this works unless you have a pregnancy fetish and don't actually know anything about pregnancy and birth other than kindergarten nursery rhymes.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 04:31