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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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42 | 17.07% |
| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Happy new year, thread! I feel like my comics were already pretty well described, but I'll add some more inf here and there. Also re: Boondocks, I'd like to reiterate my point that part of what makes this strip age poorly is that it claims to have revolution in mind, but at least 60% of the output is complaining about a celebrity doing an annoying thing. In this regard, it is the perfect leftist strip. Breaking Cat News   BCN is one of my favorited but it also overthinks its own premise a ton, and never really got over being a webcomic. By that I mean, the concept is funny on its own, but the strip insists on doing ~*worldbuilding*~ storylines and constantly adding new characters that the art style is too simple to handle. (There are two unrelated orange cats that look exactly alike, there's an in-universe soap opera with one character that looks just like Puck, etc.) Phoebe and Her Unicorn   On the other hand, Phoebe's world-building and new characters are almost always fun and interesting, and the daily gag strips are the ones that can get lazy. Wallace the Brave   Everyone loves Wallace the Brave and I think with the introduction of Rose "the smart one" rounding out the cast, it's really hit its stride. Visit Will Henry's wine and chesses shop if you're ever in Newport, RI. Curtis   Curtis is Curtis. Cartooning is usually good, writing is almost always terrible, frequently forgets to tell jokes and/or resolve stories. Regularly drops into reruns lately, causing some (me) to speculate about the artists' health. Right now the daily strips are in the middle of the annual Kwanzaa storyline, which is an original out-of-canon story that has nothing to do with the rest of Curtis (and probably should not be the example Curtis strip in the OP, but I don't think anyone really cares.)
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (March 13, 2010)  Arlo and Janis Classic (March 13, 2000)  Garfield Classic (March 13, 1990) 
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Jan 2, 2022 17:14
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Billingsley writes the Kwanzaa stories himself, iirc? I do have to say I appreciate how they feel like genuine folklore. There's a pattern to fairy tale type stories all over the world, a very particular sort of logic and storytelling, and it's not always easy to mimic that on purpose if you don't know what you're doing.
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Jan 2, 2022 17:37
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I’ve just realized how stylized Curtis’ hat has become. It’s in the same category as the Lockhorns’ feet now.
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Jan 2, 2022 17:52
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Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel, #143 (1992)  Since it's been awhile: Lois, Sparrow, and Ginger are three lesbians who I guess at this point are in their late 20s who live together, and are all nominally friends with the strip's main character, Mo (although by 1992 I feel like we're already in the midst of a pivot to more of an ensemble thing). Lois, the short-haired character with blonde hair, is kind of the punk of the group although that gets toned down as she kind of ages out of punk. Sparrow, the Asian woman with the pointy bob, begins as the New Age-y one but gradually Bechdel phases her out of that role too as "the New Age-y one" [temporarily] fades as a major lesbian signifier. Ginger, the black woman who meanders in halfway through the first page, is a grad student, and, in a stroke of bleak realism, remains a grad student for like a decade worth of strips. She's in a long distance relationship which had been somewhat recently established at this point. Toni and Clarice are a long-term couple (this strip was made well before the legalization of gay marriage) trying to have a kid, a long-running subplot which structures a lot of the early 90s strips. They're markedly more affluent than Mo, who works at a struggling bookstore, and the Lois/Sparrow/Ginger triad, and over the years Bechdel does a lot with the shifting economic signifiers of lesbians as the years go on (Clarice is a lawyer, Toni is an accountant, and in general they're shown to be more interested in respectability and assimilation than the rest of the cast-- something Bechdel tackles with a characteristic degree of nuance). Not too many historical notes on this one! Bechdel is just keeping the plot wheels spinning and letting her cartooning carry the punchlines.
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Jan 2, 2022 18:03
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maltesh posted:Why on Earth would any teacher want 100 notifications of a copy-pasted "I will not text in class" message to hit her phone? Its just the writer trying to come up with a modern some gizmo take on writing it repeatedly on the chalkboard as a punishment, a concept that is so dated that today's kids would need to ask people that only know about it because they asked their parents to explain the opening of The Simpsons. Aside: while checking to make sure that The Simpsons still does the chalkboard gag, I found a fan wiki that lists an episode of Tom and Jerry from 1955 as referencing the chalkboard gag.
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Jan 2, 2022 18:45
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  Looks like Comics Kingdom is down right now, I'll post the rest of my strips later!
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Jan 2, 2022 18:58
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave I've always thought that Wallace would make a great RPG, something like Earthbound where you get into wacky adventures with Spud.
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Jan 2, 2022 19:05
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Huh, a foob that is good in part for resisting the temptation to spin it into MY KIDS ARE SO UNGRATEFUL like it usually does, but also just in general, who'd have thought.
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Jan 2, 2022 19:09
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Medenmath posted:Prince Valiant 
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Jan 2, 2022 19:11
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Comics Kingdom is having issues, so here's the Sunday one I get from GoComics: FoxTrot  FoxTrot is a sitcom strip about the Fox family, most frequently featuring nerdy young Jason. It's been around since the 1980s but went to Sundays-only in 2006.
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Jan 2, 2022 19:12
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Just want to add much appreciation for all the goons who post here! And also I am an avid fan of DTWOF, though I never read the early stuff, so this is interesting!
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Jan 2, 2022 20:42
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Do remote controls have battery indicators? Probably some touchscreen universal ones I bet but that's not what that looks like. Rex Morgan MD  How dare you bring up one of my past frauds as I accuse someone else of defrauding me! Flash Gordon  Andertoons still hasn't updated.
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Jan 2, 2022 20:48
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I'm just imagining someone bringing a borrowed dog and cat to a park, unleashed They would just sit on a bench side by side, smiling at you... right?
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Jan 2, 2022 20:52
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gleebster posted:I can't quite agree with some goons' ideas on this. Apart from a couple strips, these three seem to dog this kid's every waking step, acting like some self-bemoaning Greek chorus. Get yerselves a dog and snap out of it! Well, there was the time that he seemed to be running a grift on them, which resulted in them trying to grift him back. But again, the trio were our POV characters, so who the hell knows what was really going on in Goldie's head. Anyway, where'd I leave off last night? Oh yeah, Blondie (From Zero). Murat "Chic" Young had spent the past several years working on Dumb Dora, a hit flapper strip, and was making a comfortable living, but October 1929 put enough of a financial pinch on him that he asked for a raise and an ownership stake in Dora. Eventually, after a summer of brainstorming, the syndicate agreed to a new strip, one starring a "reformed gold-digger" named Blondie Boopadoop and her rich doofus boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead. According to Young, Blondie was intentionally designed as a break with the recent past. ""Dora was a typical flapper strip, and in 1930 when flappers were on the way out, I tried to picture the average girl of that age, the kind who led in the complete return to femininity--a reaction from sports clothes, boyish figures and flapperism in general." But as our esteemed OP has sussed out, the premise creaks like nobody's business when you lean on it for long enough, so the adventures of a party girl and a millionaire failson weren't catching on in the Hooverville era. More troubling from a business standpoint was that the strip wasn't exactly setting sales records for the syndicate either. In fact The New York American dropped the daily strip entirely in 1932. Some major surgery was required, but it wasn't immediately obvious where they should make the first incision. It was in the middle of this crisis that Joe Connolly, the King Features general manager who okayed the strip in the first place, asked Young a million dollar question: "Why don't you have them marry? You know more about married life than you do about flighty dames anyway." And the rest is history...just not the part of the history we've gotten to yet. (June 29-July 1, 1931)  Mutts  Sally Forth(coming Announcement)  Pearls Before Swine  Peanuts (January 5, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Up until very recently, I called this next Sunday gimmick "Life (With Skippy)". The reason is that Percy Crosby's "Skippy" began in the first version of Life Magazine, back when it was a humor magazine packed to the gills with cartoonists and, by the 1920s, a sizeable representation of the Algonquin Round Table limbering up for the New Yorker. The problem is 1925 was the year that Skippy migrated to the newspapers, meaning that there have been long stretches of the magazine where Mrs. Skinner's baby boy doesn't show up at all anymore. But there are still some really good cartoonists to pick and choose from, and oh, please save me from flipping through old magazines filled with things that I'm totally fascinated by... So until I come up with something better to call it, here's another installment of Life (While We Wait For Skippy To Come Home) (December 31, 1925) No Crosby this week, so instead we start with a thematically appropriate Ellison Hoover contribution.  John Held, Jr::  Ethel Plummer, an influential illustrator who was the first female cartoonist published in issue #1 of The New Yorker.  And Edwina Dumm, one of the earliest women in the field, whose greatest claim to fame was five decades of service on the Cap Stubbs and Tippie strip. Tippie also found its way to Life Magazine (and the London Tatler, where the dog was renamed Sindbad), which I'm pretty sure is what we're looking at here.  Life (With Tippie)? We'll see how it goes. e: because I forgot to mention my quiet pleasure that vintage comics are winning that weird poll. 
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Jan 2, 2022 21:04
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Look at how happy Wallace is realizing that they're about to be swarmed by gulls. One of the funniest and most consistent joke structures in this entire strip is how there's always an odd person out in a group reaction panel.
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Jan 2, 2022 21:31
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro is a gag-a-day strip, almost always single-panel, which relies heavily on puns and visual humor. Every strip has hidden symbols scattered somewhere around the drawing -- the number beside the artists' signatures tells you how many there are. What's with that ghostly jawline--oh, it's an arm.
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Jan 2, 2022 21:32
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Bobbins John Allison posted:Ryan, Tim and Elliot’s band are called “Tin Star Troubadours” and they’re every bit as good as that name suggests.
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Jan 2, 2022 21:51
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Junk Drawer is a pretty good single panel strip by Ellis Rosen. It is published every whenever Ellis feels like it, usually once a week these days.
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Jan 2, 2022 21:55
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Vargo posted:BCN is one of my favorited but it also overthinks its own premise a ton, and never really got over being a webcomic. By that I mean, the concept is funny on its own, but the strip insists on doing ~*worldbuilding*~ storylines and constantly adding new characters that the art style is too simple to handle. (There are two unrelated orange cats that look exactly alike, there's an in-universe soap opera with one character that looks just like Puck, etc.) I really like BCN but I'd say I agree with this, when the strip is just the cats reporting on the family doing things, it's great. But then you have stuff like the cats watching some old videotapes with a mouse in them that's incredibly old and the backstory of some fight with raccoons, or the stuff with the two mice escaping from a science lab, and that's where it loses me. Murdstone posted:Mark Trail I don't like modern Mark Trail for the most part but one thing I do really like about it is that it's not afraid to say that climate change is real and very dangerous, as opposed to Jam Esallen being a climate change denier. Also good on Jules for calling out NFTs and blockchain tech as enormous wastes of energy, bet there's a bunch of lovely techbros whining about it on Twitter.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I've always thought that Wallace would make a great RPG, something like Earthbound where you get into wacky adventures with Spud. I would be open to an animated series of it but the art style should be a package deal.
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Jan 2, 2022 23:43
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Uramachi Sakaba  ChaCha Chako  
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Love can bloom
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Shneak posted:I would be open to an animated series of it but the art style should be a package deal. That would be cool! Didn't someone ITT say that Phoebe was getting an animated adaptation?
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Jan 3, 2022 01:08
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Seeing Chako like this really changes my understanding of the punchline for those strips where she's calling her sister in the middle of battle. She knows exactly what she's doing.
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Jan 3, 2022 01:09
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Classic Zits Love in Hell  Sylvia   Marlys! 
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The Far Side   Pickles  Zits 
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:That would be cool! Didn't someone ITT say that Phoebe was getting an animated adaptation? afaik it got optioned, which could turn out as nothing but does mean that it's on the table for getting a cartoon. Personally, if it happens, I kind of hope it goes back to the "Heavenly Nostrils" name because that was some pretty distinctive stuff.
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Jan 3, 2022 04:17
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LvK posted:afaik it got optioned, which could turn out as nothing but does mean that it's on the table for getting a cartoon. Nickelodeon bought the rights and as far as I know, debut is set for fall of this year
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Jan 3, 2022 04:23
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On The Fastrack Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  Looks like we're in for Guest Comic Week!! https://twitter.com/raethedoe/status/1477632802858352646 No Safe Havens on Sundays!
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Jan 3, 2022 04:30
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Oh hey, Comics Kingdom unborked itself. Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Jan 3, 2022 04:38
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Jucika "480 - Jucika And The Rear-View Mirror" "481 - Jucika And The Paratrooper Instruction" 
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Vargo posted:Nickelodeon bought the rights and as far as I know, debut is set for fall of this year oh, hella nice, I stand corrected.
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Doomykins posted:Jucika "480 - Jucika And The Rear-View Mirror" Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth(coming Announcement) Sally Forth has a lot of words, but I like those words, so I like Sally Forth.
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  lol Compu-toon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Funny Online Animals, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Sally Forth has a lot of words, but I like those words, so I like Sally Forth. It's interesting, usually I'm skeptical of winking self-aware stuff but Sally Forth sells it well when their characters are embracing the weirdness but also recognizing how weird it is.
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If I see one more Holbrook comic where the punchline is "lol Zoom" so help me...
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba 
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