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curtadams posted:I can't really put my finger on why, because I'm not an artists, but Prince Valiant kind of smells of Art Nouveau. Which was perfect because Art Nouveau coincided with an interest in medieval art, and at the time the strip came out had become kind of an old-timey style, which fits a historical strip (even if the times are very far apart). This one is cute too with the personal interactions. Most strips would just ignore that wife extra stranded out in the woods but the writer didn't. There's a definite Maxfield Parrish vibe to Foster's style. His artwork and compostions were mind-blowing and lush. Second only to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland. Keeping in mind that the format of Sunday papers up in to the early 70s was enormous. The comics pages in them were ridiculous: 4-6 pages.
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Discendo Vox posted:For the record it is really, really hard to qualify for a home office deduction. If you just started using a home office for work for the pandemic, it's almost certainly impossible. It's even harder now, since Trump eliminated the home-office deduction in 2017. I'd taken it for the past twenty years.
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Technowolf posted:Is the intimation here that Jimmy here is gay? ...and possibly a pedophile. What do you expect from your characters when you draw them like Jimmy Cagney.
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Parahexavoctal posted:drat my timing - if only I'd been a little more assiduous about posting Keeping Up With the Joneses, I'd be ready to post the horrible caricature of a black person. Next time, I suppose. The full story is fascinating. Radiolab did a great podcast on her. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 16:09 on May 10, 2020 |
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fondue posted:B Kliban If memory serves, this guy was set with two others for another cartoon compilation: "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head"
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riderchop posted:ah poo poo he's a nerd now And they're releasing a pile of Asterix!
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catlord posted:That's not fair. It's only like, 3/4 of them! I've been reading the Sunday comics since the mid-60s. The color drift issue seemed to have started in the early to mid 70s, depending on the paper. I have also wondered what the problem was, because the color print run is fine everywhere else in the paper except the Sunday funnies. It started showing up in US comic books (outside of Marvel or DC) here & there in the late 70s. I am also surprised that some publisher hasn't put together cleaned-up reprints. I picked up such a publication of Windsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, printed in native format, which set the book dimensions so large I have to prop it up against a wall in its shipping box (I'm planning to build a rostrum for it).
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Hwurmp posted:He's wanted to torch his inn for years now. At least roll out the kegs & pipes & tuns 'n' poo poo, before the Zippo party. What good is a righeous bonfire without everyone (especially the innkeeper) tying one on. Keep posting Foster. Can't have too much Valiant. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 02:54 on May 23, 2020 |
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Julet Esqu posted:Isn't their job to go out and kill people? So they're not doing their job, right? Because of the quarantine? How do you work from home and social distance when your job is to go out and kill people using your claws and/or face? Drones and guns are considered bad form, right? And that's why the Evil Murder Company uses them? (Oh no are we going to be subjected to strips where the Good Murder Company employees go out and kill people while wearing face masks?) Nah, they order delivery from the International House Of Preyİ
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My mother-in-law was living in Ocala in 2000, and voted for Nader. That vote haunted her until the day she died.
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Green Intern posted:I know this is from a few pages back, but is that last panel supposed to be wordplay on milk (it's white), or am I about to have a real unfortunate turn of opinion on Ella Cinders? I believe it's a pun on doing the right thing. The milkman is well aware that the milk he may leave will probably never make it inside the house.
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How Wonderful! posted:I am positive I've seen some kind of raunchy Lockhorn art by Bill Hoest from the 60s or 70 but I am not having any luck turning it up at the moment. Try Playboy
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Selachian posted:
This might be a good time to note that there were several designs for shock absorbers in cars, one of them being "knee-action."
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Setting up to shoot some Nemo...soon as the help clears out.![]()
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Little Nemo In Slumberland - Winsor McKay October 15, 1905. These are full-format reprints of comics that ran in the Sunday New York Herald. Will try to set-up a rostrum with a Nikon if they're popular. They're thumbnailed due to the size - it's hard to make them smaller as there is a ton of detail and the artwork is incredible. ![]()
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Litte Nemo In Slumberland - 10/22/1905 Shrooms! ![]()
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Zereth posted:Val is awful at this After a fews turns in Dungeonville, I think the Duke is (at least temporarily) a few shovelfuls short of a full load.
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Powered Descent posted:Devil ate some of the roofied lion-heart too, right? I wonder what vision his bad trip is bringing. (Perhaps he's seeing himself as one of the dogs in Pooch Cafe.) He's balanced on the roof of a red dog house, trying to translate a bird that speaks only in multiples of the letter, "I." How Wonderful! posted:I have bad news for you about how homosexuality was generally portrayed in popular culture for basically forever. Agreed, the inferences to physique are designed to inform the reader that Piscaro is the deepest form of evil: deviant. Aside from this shading of Picaro's personality, nothing more need be done. By the mid-1930s, the comics page was chiefly aimed at children (although the best narratives are artfully dual - something for kids as well as adults, a skill Looney Tunes and the Fleischer brothers perfected); this was an object lesson.
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Alhazred posted:Zelda sweeperbravo posted:i love this so much I do, too. Is that a breast cancer survivor in the first panel? PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Little Nemo in Slumberland Trying a full page...comments welcome. (a little taste of Gertie in panel #5) ![]()
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Little Nemo in Slumberland November 26, 1905. A Theme! ![]()
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Little Nemo In Slumberland - September 23, 1906![]()
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Nemo - September 16, 1906![]()
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I love how we can read through the censoring anyway. Language is about as I remember it at that age. Kids talk the same, all over the world.
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MariusLecter posted:Dustin could also have diabetes, isn't a symptom being fatigued constantly? Obstructive sleep apnea
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Nemo A detail shot of that magnificent elephant while I set up some more pages... ![]()
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Darthemed posted:
Brings back memories. No biorhythm chart, though...
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Mar. 03, 1940) Good lord, the detail. Fabulous!
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Selachian posted:
According to Wiki, it was his take on a chin strap. Also, Holman is responsible for the WWII term for UFOs, "foo fighters." Huh.
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Lodin posted:It strikes me as unrealistic that a children's school cafeteria would leave salt shakers on the tables. I guess Susie keeps one in her lunch box? Back in my day (60s-80s), we had them. The cafeteria folks actually made the food from scratch, too. ![]()
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Haifisch posted:
I wanna solve it, Pat. She asks the cute boy his name, he says, "Frank." She writes, "I love Frank" Sluggo arrives, scowling, so she adds to the bottom, resulting in, "I love franks and sauerkraut" PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:
You mean, as opposed to in a giant chicken barn, up to their drumsticks in chicken poo poo 24/7? Well, at least you know.
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Darthemed posted:Given how frazzled Calvin's mom is, it's more likely that the kids were doing stuff like running all through the aisles and throwing popcorn at each other. As an ancient child of the sixties, I can tell you that: Matinees were the poo poo. Usually two or more movies with cartoons in between, for a quarter to fifty cents (depending on the theater & films). We had a theater close enough to walk to (the Hiway in Jenkintown, outside of Phila). Usually the oldest sibling led the others, had all of the money, and was the cop/crowd control. No parents. We'd hit Walker's candy store on the way up and buy a metric assload of loose candy for a quarter. Since almost every kid did this... then yes, it could devolve into a popcorn & jujubee-flavored riot as all that sugar hit. The main purpose was to keep the kids occupied & out of their parent's hair for a few hours on the weekend. *** I remember winning the bet to take my son to see the Barney movie (or some such horror) around 1997. When my wife got home, she had the thousand-yard stare and swore to never do it again.
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Parahexavoctal posted:IDGI. Ces is a gay ram, or...? Ces is old & thus has lost his interest in rutting. Just wants to be left alone...but is aware that he becomes pet food if he's too obvious about it.
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Mikl posted:That would make a pretty good "Disaster Lesbian" avatar. Hmmm... a companion... ![]()
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Selachian posted:Edge of Diagnosis I'm going to say that it'll be amnesia from a head injury.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Sanrio says she's just a British school kid. Explain Batz Maru then
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Move av material. Hopefully, it'll be stale within six months.![]()
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riderchop posted:Overboard We were discussing Lio earlier. I bought this print and had it framed for my Mom, when it came out in 2009: ![]()
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Gravity coaster. Yes, they had a brakeman, and no, there were no bars or belts. It was a different time. Based on the publication date, that time was about to come to an abrupt end as the US entered WWI.
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