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Welcome to the 22nd Something Awful Comic Strip Megathread! What once began as a haven for haters of one particular Canadian cartoon has become the internet’s premier landing spot for lovers of comic strips good and bad, old and new. If you’re nostalgic for the days of rifling through the morning paper looking for the comics section, you’re among friends! Criteria for inclusion in the thread have been somewhat loosened over the years to include more than just newspaper comics. Straight up webcomics which exist purely within the digital space are usually verboten, but some exceptions can be made for internet-based comics that are hosted on syndicate websites, whose artists have a history in print, or that have been grandfathered in due to reader enthusiasm. If you’re interested in posting something new and aren’t sure if it fits the thread, just ask! Past Megathreads:
I’m taking a cue from Some Guy TT’s very thorough and informative OP last year to include introductions to many thread standards and regulars. Thanks to Alhazred, EasyEW, Giant Ethicist, Kennel, Medenmath, Samovar, and Some Guy TT for contributing their knowledge! --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Chickweed Lane was once a thread regular, but since it has devolved into a sad old man subjecting the public to his oddly pretentious spank bank, it has been banned from this thread. Any use of the term “gams” is probably a reference to this comic and its artists most obvious fetish. And He Did  A 1910s-era panel of unintended consequences. Andertoons  A reliably funny panel that gets a surprising amount of mileage from “chart in a meeting” gags. The Antique Dealer’s Tale  Maruoka Kuzo writes Uramachi Sakaba and a series of related comics set in its shared universe. The setting is nominally cyberpunk / post-apocalyptic, but as often as not the stories are about working-class people in mid-to late-20th-century Japan as much as anything futuristic. Bars and bar food feature prominently - "Cyberpunk Cheers" seems to be how people have settled on describing Uramachi Sakaba - and Maruoka is a master of leaning into a trope and giving you a story that is somehow unsurprising yet charming at the same time. Arlo and Janis  A thread favorite, A&J is known for its wholesome depiction of a long-married couple still in love and is not above some PG-13 innuendo. Arnold  New to the thread this past year, SA’s own Mister Beeg is working on restoring old versions of the strip to be reprinted in the future. A Sketchy Life  Not its own comic per se, but a catchall title for various old magazine cartoons. Bad Machinery  Set in John Allison’s “Bobbinsverse”, Bad Machinery chronicles the adventures of six mystery-solving teens in the fictional British town of Tackleford. Its cast has appeared in several other Allison projects both before and since. Ballard Street  A slice of life comic from a neighborhood populated entirely by rambunctious seniors and their canine partners-in-crime. Big Nate  A long-running newspaper staple, Big Nate has drawn some ire in the past for its namesake being a lovely friend, but modern Nate seems to have outgrown this habit. Bizarro  A daily panel characterized by strained puns and an arbitrary quota of hidden objects. Makes perfect sense when you understand that this is the original creator. Blind Alley  A webcomic drawn by an illustrator who works with The Globe and Mail, so technically thread-appropriate! Blueberry  A long-running serial by Belgian author Jean-Michel Charlier and French artist Jean Henri Gaston Giraud telling the fictional history of the American Wild West primarily through the eyes of its titular character: a roguish but good-hearted soldier. Boondocks  The most early-2000s comic in this thread, both in its W-era politics and its outdated social mores. You may recognize it from its Adult Swim adaptation. Breaking Cat News  Very mushy, beautifully illustrated strip based on the artist’s own cats and family. Brenda Starr  A once-popular soap opera strip which ended its 70+ year run in 2011. Buni  A mostly wordless comic that updates three days a week. Calvin and Hobbes  The classic that inspired a generation of cartoonists! Currently being rerun so we can catch gags that went over our heads as children. Cthulhu and Girl  Bubblegum in comic strip form, and about 148% more pure-hearted than it has any right to be. Aspiring idol Inaba Futaba inadvertently adopts Literal Cthulhu as a pet, and he works behind the scenes to propel her to stardom. Compu-toon  A comic about technology drawn by a man who doesn’t understand technology. Features oddly-shaped heads, computers, and pretty much everything else. Crabgrass  Set in the 80’s, Crabgrass follows two best friends from different sides of the tracks. A thread favorite that recently achieved a well-deserved syndication. Crankshaft  A comic based entirely on banal old-man malapropisms and general cantankerousness. Shares a universe with Funky Winkerbean - sometimes concurrently, sometimes ten years apart depending on which canon the writer remembered that day. The Creeps  An old thread favorite about two roommates where neither of them is the smart one. Curtis  Mostly known for its mundane “kids these days and their hippity-hop” style of humor, occasionally the artist swings for the fences, notably with his yearly Kwanzaa fables and Sunday strips featuring ostentatious church lady hats. Daddy Daze  A man and his amicable ex translate baby talk into… humor? I think? Dark Laughter  A staple of black newspapers through the mid-20th century, this lovingly illustrated panel satirizes Harlem society through its good-for-nothing main character Bootsie. Dark Side of the Horse  Simple and absurd, this Finnish creation has sight gags aplenty. The Demons of Baseball  Quoting user Kavak on this one: "In this world, is the destiny of a baseball team controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of the umpire hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own average. Man takes up the bat in order to shield the small wound in his heart sustained in a far-off time beyond remembrance. Man swings for the fences so that he may die smiling in some far-off time beyond perception." Dick Tracy  “Tiny Arms Tracy” from the 2000s Dick Locher era is a thread classic for just how good-bad it is. Dilbert is banned from this thread. We will reinstate it once Scott Adams has finished his affirmations to make it so. Dogbert  Set in the military, Dogbert was drawn by African-American comics page pioneer Morrie Turner. Dok's Dippy Duck  The story of a smartass Seattle-based duck hanging out on a street corner. Sometimes he picks fights, sometimes fights pick him. Dustin  Boomers vs. what boomers think millennials are. A well-drawn, award-winning hate read. Everyday Movies  A slice of life panel which ran from 1924 to 1954. F Minus  Simply-drawn panel that’s often good for a sensible chuckle. The Family Circus  Based on the family of original artist Bil Keane, this decades-old panel (circle?) has found innumerable variations of the theme “Kids, amirite?” The Far Side is banned for being just too good. That, and the DMCA takedown notice from past iterations of this thread. You’ll have to get your cow tools elsewhere. Fingerpori  If you love puns, but wish they were in a foreign language with inscrutable conjugation rules, Fingerpori is the comic for you! Viperless milk is the prototypical example. Footrot Flats  A New Zealand strip about a nameless dog’s adventures on the titular farm. For Better or For Worse  The comic that inspired it all! Now in reruns, “Foob” as it is “affectionately” known inspired the original thread and has been posted ever since. Artist Lynn Johnston’s attempt to portray a fictionalized version of her own family has become especially notorious for rewriting the actual lives of her children and portraying motherhood as martyrdom above all else.  Funky Winkerbean  Its 50-year run mercifully ended on December 31, 2022. Artist Tom Batiuk won much acclaim having a main character die of cancer in 2007, and he has been driving that good will into the ground ever since. “TomBat” has spent recent years extolling the virtues of small-town Ohio, golden age comics, and ignoring your current wife in favor of your dead cancer wife. Despite its original run finishing, I’m sure some masochist will continue posting in some fashion for years to come. Funny Online Animals  Webcomic artist KC Green got a newspaper comic. Garfield  Still loves lasagna, still hates Mondays. Aside from Jon finally getting together with vet Liz, not much has changed in 40+ years. Get Fuzzy  A strip from the early 2000s that rises above other “pet pest” comics through its skillful art. Gil Thorp  A sports comic where the sports are the worst part. Hagar the Horrible  As with the best horror media, the ruthless carnage of Hagar and his bloodthirsty Viking crew are largely left to the reader’s imagination. Heart of the City  A relatively long-running comic about kids doing kid things. Its new artist has a rare disability that prevents them from successfully forming punchlines. Heathcliff  The panel that used to merely be the other orange cat on the comics page has taken a hard turn into absurdist humor under its current artist. Intelligent Life  If the first season of The Big Bang Theory were a comic and even less funny. Into Ilves  A young bloke travels around the Finnish countryside helping those in need and distributing vigilante justice. Originally running 1949-54, we’re about halfway through as of this OP. Jucika  Not currently posted but a thread legend, this Hungarian strip from the 60’s somehow manages to be risqué and wholesome at the same time. Junk Drawer  A chuckle-worthy panel with an erratic update schedule. Kevin and Kell  One of three strips drawn by Bill Holbrook (along with On The Fastrack and Safe Havens), K&K has been running since 1995. The world features sentient anthropomorphic animals living together with traditional predator/prey relationships and all the horrible implications that entails. Try not to think about it too much - Holbrook doesn’t! K&K is notorious for its “species has characteristic” style of humor, and it probably has the highest body count of any thread regular. Legend of Bill  The only strip worse than Intelligent Life is this side project by the same artist. I deliberately did not post an example featuring the “sexy” female characters because some of you may be eating while reading this. Little Lefty  A Depression-era kid-gang strip which was literal US Communist counter-programming to the hyper-capitalist Orphan Annie. The Lockhorns  Just get divorced already! Luann  A comic about high schoolers aged up to college students who merely talk, live, and date like high schoolers. Infamous for its nothing main character and puritanical views on relationships. Macanudo  Ephemeral twee nonsense. Did you know books are magic?! Mandrake  A comic about a magician with wildly inconsistent powers of hypnosis. Showcases the dangers of legacy strips as its canon requires regular use of names like “Narda” and “Cockaigne”. Mara Llave: Keeper of Time  With only a handful of strips published as of the end of 2022, this newcomer is already winning praise for its gorgeous retro-styled art. Mark Trail  Mark Trail’s run under artist James Allen aka “Jamesallen” was notorious for its clipart approach and Allen’s own thin skin. Its current artist Jules Rivera has kept the tradition of half-assed art, but at least hers is original. Mary Worth  An older woman dispenses pearls of boomer-approved “wisdom”. Hapless friend character Wilbur is a thread-favorite punching bag. Modesty Blaise  A regularly rerun Bond-esque adventure which began in 1963. Most storylines feature henchmen who have no idea who they’re messing with until it’s too late. Monty  A man and his hairless cat do things. Mopsy  A panel from the 40’s and 50’s about a feisty young woman and her many suitors, jobs, and car accidents. Drawn by a former fashion illustrator and it shows. Mutt and Jeff  The granddaddy of all daily strips. Also the granddaddy of the zombie strips, as its current shuffle-play status at GoComics suggests. Mutts  A nicely-drawn comic your grandmother would love. Nancy   A legacy strip that became hugely popular and influential under creator Ernie Bushmiller, Nancy has recently been reinvented under new artist Olivia Jaimes. She replaced the ousted Guy Gilchrist, who mangled the strip into a vehicle for his own country-boy fandoms and turned Nancy’s Aunt Fritzi into a melon-breasted pinup. Gilchrist was eventually revealed as a sex pest and given the boot. Nekonaughey  Cat eats, is cute. Nothing more is needed. On The Fastrack  Another Bill Holbrook joint which appears to have been started to settle a bet for how many visual metaphors he could come up with. This riff on the modern office features Dethany (from On The Fastrack) who really, truly needs to get a new job already. Our Boarding House  To steal liberally from Doomykins, the adventures of a parlorful of 1920s hotheads sharpening their tongues on each other. Out Our Way  Cowboys. Machine shop workers. Early 20th century nostalgia. Moms. BOYZENDORGZ Overboard  Ostensibly about a crew of fun-loving pirates, Overboard mostly serves as an impressive museum of the wide variety of things the artist simply cannot draw. Peanuts   Love it or hate it, Peanuts left an unmistakable mark on popular culture over the course of its 50-year run. It’s currently being posted both from the first few years of its run, when Charlie Brown had self-confidence and Snoopy was still just a puppy, and from the 70’s after the characters and their personalities had solidified. The Phantom  This comic used to be about the titular Phantom, the latest in a long line of fearless guardians protecting the African jungle, but now it is about Savarna (we can only hope). Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Originally created under the far superior name Heavenly Nostrils, Phoebe and Her Unicorn is about the titular Phoebe who plays straight girl to a narcissistic, sparkly unicorn. Was this close to getting its own animated Nickelodeon show. Pickles  Depicts the lives of retirees who lovingly bicker with each other and mess with their grandchild. A true inspiration. Pondus  The most popular strip in Norway, Pondus is drawn by a literal millionaire. It revolves around the titular Pondus and his family, and it’s notable for being very progressive on topics like the LGBTQIA community. The art may not be for everyone. Pooch Cafe  Garfield with a dog. Popeye  This modernization of the all-time classic rotates through several artists. Prince Valiant   A beautiful serial from the days when comics were printed large enough to show off intricately detailed and expressive artwork. Drawn for decades by the brilliant Hal Foster, it follows the adventures of the titular prince of Thule and knight of the Round Table in a semi-historical, low-to-no magic Dark Ages setting. Posted both in its classic form (scanned from the excellent Fantagraphics collections) and modern iteration. Rae the Doe  A newer comic by a trans artist usually based around pain-inducing puns.  Retail  Posted in reruns after its conclusion in 2020, since retail hell is never-ending. Rex Morgan MD   A serial about the extremely slow-moving “adventures” of the titular doctor, and sometimes his daughter who wrote a kid’s book so gosh darn impressive it inspired a copycat. Posted in classic and modern forms. Rhymes With Orange  Another long-running gag-a-day strip. Rip Haywire  A throwback to old adventure serials, Rip has its own style going. Silly and heavy on the onomatopoeia. Safe Havens  Another Bill Holbrook creation. Just as Kevin & Kell ignores the implications of predators and prey living in a modernized society, Safe Havens ignores the ethical considerations of constant genetic testing and species-switching of sentient individuals. Operates under the shaky premise that “science” is interchangeable with “magic”. Sally Forth  The strip may be named for Sally, but Ted Forth may be the closest thing to a goon on the comics page. Scary Gary  A collection of not-so-scary ghouls and ghosts in a suburban neighborhood. Skippy  Similar to Peanuts, but instead of passive-aggressive, the kids are aggressive-aggressive with each other. Smokey Stover  A wacky old-school strip that packs as many jokes as possible into every comic. So It Seems  This extremely formulaic panel was a mere blip in comics history back in the 50’s. Solverl  Solver ages up Lottie from Bad Machinery into a young adult who can’t escape her old mystery-solving ways. Spiderman   Newspaper Spiderman has taken one too many bricks to the head, and the result is a comic that reads like a foreign knockoff despite being 100% legit. Gets posted from both its 1970s and 2010s run. Stephen Collins  A current British comic with an extremely British sense of humor, Stephen Collins is known for his simple but expressive style. Storefri (Lunchbreak)  A strip about a somewhat dysfunctional school whose teachers have wildly disparate levels of competency. Has a running theme of teachers enjoying their work more if there were no students. Take It From The Tinkersons  One of the more divisive strips in the rotation, readers will either love it for its gags or hate it for its artwork. Tegnehanne (DrawingHanne)  An autobiographical strip about Hanne who draws comics. Because the comic is based on the artist’s own life, it sometimes dives into heavy subjects like her son's chronic illness. Thimble Theater  The continuing story of a mutant sailor with an addiction to greens and his many hangers-on. Toonerville Folks  Rickety trolleys, town characters, and a proto-feminist icon who could snap a fool like a twig if she wasn't so good-natured. Wallace the Brave  A modern thread favorite for its energetic, detailed artwork and irrepressibly positive protagonist surrounded by a supportive family. Wee Pals  Notable for having a surprisingly diverse cast for a 1960s comic, Wee Pals was another Morrie Turner creation along with Dogbert. Willie and Joe  The titular characters originated in cartooning legend Bill Maudlin’s WWII frontline comic Up Front, and this continuation follows them after the war, reflecting the challenges veterans faced returning home. Zelda  Having recently returned to the thread after a hiatus, the titular Zelda (named for Zelda Fitzgerald, not Legend of Zelda) strives to be a good feminist but doesn't always live up to her ideals. The characters have aged in real time over the past ten years. Zits  A teenager and his parents try and fail to understand each other. Unlike Dustin, Zits usually doesn’t treat its youthful protagonist as an object of derision.
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Hi! I'm LvK! I make lazy edits!                  make more edits in 2023! I believe in us! Hi, I'm JvC!
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Is foob over, or is Lynn still pumping out new strips set in the timeless nowhere you’d see if it was in reruns?
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ah, that new-thread smell...I AM GRANDO posted:Is foob over, or is Lynn still pumping out new strips set in the timeless nowhere you’d see if it was in reruns? it's over, but for some reason they've been editing some of the dates and pop-culture references in the repeats to be more modern. i have no idea who they are doing this for, or why
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Kennel posted:Comics killed my family. Gotta admit it was kinda funny, though.
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Looking forward to another year of perusing good comics, and ignoring the ones I don't care about!
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Happy New Year, comic strip goons!
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another year another bookmarked thread i will end up tens of thousands of posts behind.
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someone awful. posted:ah, that new-thread smell... Pardon me, it must've been that bean burrito. Anyway,  WELCOME BACK! Here is your sweet, delicious content. (Esplanade) Last year my cartoon posting payload became loaded enough that I split it down the middle for convenience. This is the night deposit, and...umm...I didn't expect this one to go first. But there you are, and here we are. Our Boarding House was created for the Newspaper Enterprise Association by Gene Ahern. It debuted in the fall of 1921, about a half a year before thread favorite Out Our Way, and if you go through as many old comics pages as I do (including the one I grew up with, because OBH managed to run all the way until 1984), you'll often find Out Our Way and Our Boarding House sitting side by side like conjoined twins. At the outset, Ahern was drawing from his experiences as a boarder, but it didn't take long for the strip to catch on in such a big way that King Features poached him from NEA in 1936 at double his old salary to draw an OBH knockoff. The reason was that in the process of finessing his initial premise, Ahern managed to create one of the most indelible characters of the between-the-wars comics page. As we pick up our history, Major Amos Hoople is still part of an ensemble cast, but he's rapidly developing into the breakout character. (April 16-18, 1923)    Toonerville Folks (Fontaine Fox): Our world-famous, postage-stamp-ready trolley has made it to mid-1920, and that means in addition to Katrinka, Tomboy Taylor and the lot, the Prohibition jokes will continue for the foreseeable future. (June 21-23, 1920)    Dok's Dippy Duck (John Ross "Dok" Hager) is up to 1914, with a Seattle mayoral election and American intervention in Mexico, and that last one in particular went about as well as interactions with non-Anglo Americans usually go in 1914 cartoons (and just as a reminder, those types of content issues are usually hidden behind a spoiler curtain. The vintage strips are usually posted "warts and all" for historical purposes, but you deserve a fighting chance.). But it still comes back to that duck and that corner...eventually. Every game of tag has to have a home base, y'know. (July 6, 1914)  Little Lefty (Maurice del Bourgo (d/b/a "del")) would make a good centerpiece in a hypothetical People's History of the United States Cartooning Industry anthology. It was published in The Daily Worker, the literal mouthpiece of the United States Communist Party back when Trotsky and Stalin were still alive to antagonize each other. The Worker's circulation never got higher than 35,000 a copy, but that Lefty even exists at all shows a Yankee Red interest in counterprogramming the mega-capitalist bootstrap narratives of Harold Gray's Orphan Annie and the industry standard of racial depictions. Or to spin a Phil Ochs quote, to turn Elvis Presley into Che Guevara. Lefty obviously didn't do that. But from the accumulated evidence, it wasn't from lack of creative effort. (October 18-20, 1937)   
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As always reposting my favorite edit: And as of taking on this horrible duty to make all of you miserable because Mikl is still unable to post, I believe in the path of posting as punishment, and this is the first page: I Forgot K&K Has A Lion Rabbi        
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Ground floor with my comics av back I got terminally behind last year but I'm here from the start this year - perhaps I shall repost The Bus and The Creeps
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A new year to us all, how wonderful! And what better way to break in a new thread than with a new adventure of Blueberry! I am translating this story not from the original French, but from Swedish (I am living there now, and want to get my knowledge up) and, while I try to keep my translation as close to the original as possible, there are times where I change it, either for the sake of certain things being... inappropriate, the occasional joke, or for other reasons, but I typically draw attention to them when it comes up. Now, as you may all remember, when we last saw our hero he was... repeatedly gunned down in an alleyway and left for dead. ... Well! I'm sure that won't put a hamper on anything, so let's see how the newest adventure, A Shadow over Tombstone starts! Let's see... Stop the press!, or Professional discourtesy coming in from all directions for the Tombstone law officials, or Truly we see the worst crimes of the Cowboys gang - cultural appropriation    And, as I am sure I have pointed out earlier, but it bears repeating in the new thread, some of these scans are a little crude... to which I say, good! If you are at all intrigued by this, I suggest you look into purchasing this from the publishers; you'll get high-quality pictures instead of my crude reproductions and in colour, too! Samovar fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Jan 1, 2023 |
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Happy New Year!  Here's to another year of the very best thread on the forums.Prince Valiant is a legacy adventure strip that began in 1937. Drawn for decades by the brilliant Hal Foster, it follows the many adventures of the titular prince of Thule and knight of the Round Table in a semi-historical, usually low-to-no magic Dark Ages setting. The strip is Sundays only, so this thread features the modern strip (by Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates) on Sundays and classic strips otherwise. In the modern storyline, Nathan (Val's younger son), Yewubar (daughter of an ambassador to Camelot), and a woman named Afton are being burned as witches because Afton knows some medieval chemistry. The witch hunter has just claimed that he has some kind of political deal with Camelot, but Val's a rather ask-questions-later kind of person. Meanwhile Val's wife Aleta and a few other women are performing a spell at a different stone circle miles away, while shooting stars streak overhead... 
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Crossposting today's comics from the old thread, with bonus blurbs: 2018 Spiderman is currently on the last arc before the strip got cancelled(this was fairly soon after Stan Lee died, and speculation in the dedicated Newspaper Spiderman thread is that the strip only survived so long because Stan liked it)  1980 comics  80s NSM is currently on another round of Carole(this was before Peter married MJ) being menaced by a cult she used to be a part of. 80s RM is...honestly this arc has dragged on so long that I've mostly stopped paying attention to it. When it's actually doing stuff it's notably better than modern RM, but it's still a victim of soap opera pacing. 80s MW is currently in the intro arc for Toby(who makes a lot of bad life choices) and Ian(who is just extremely the worst at all times forever). 80s Nancy is Nancy(Bushmiller flavor). Beetle Bailey is Beetle Bailey, but not fully zombie strip yet. Notable for a lot of Men Be Horny, the occassional extremely 70s joke about race, and actually being kinda funny when the unfortunate stuff isn't getting in the way. The Girls be shopping, or sometimes having social club meetings, or talking about dieting, or talking about vacations, or making whimsical jokes about volcanic eruptions that had happened only a month prior.Dick Tracy is the Locher era of the comic, as stated. I used to post the modern comic as well, but it just got really boring and up its own rear end about references and not even in a fun to make fun of way.  Footrot Flats will probably result in you seeing a dead sheep eventually.  The Lockhorns is way better than its boomer-rear end premise makes it sound. Notably for actually being funny and for the artist being able to draw people using smartphones/modern tvs/etc without it looking weird(which may sound like a low bar to clear, but a shocking number of comics can't).  Computoon: Origins is me posting Computoon starting from the earliest I could find on Gocomics. Someone else posts the modern ones. It's always made exactly this much sense. 
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The death of Funky Winkerbean was such a self-congratulatory nothing, but it's a shame one of the most consistently infuriating strips has been removed from the rotation. As always, Dustin Burn in Hell.
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JethroMcB posted:The death of Funky Winkerbean was such a self-congratulatory nothing, but it's a shame one of the most consistently infuriating strips has been removed from the rotation.
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Pancho Jueves did a great job with the OP and describing the comics I post, but I'll just say that Classic Arlo and Janis is in my batch just from it being part of the batch I took over posting a year or two ago, and it's still around bc we love A+J , this is (January 28, 2001)'s comic  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  No Safe Havens on Sundays!
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Mmmm, breathe in that new megathread smell. Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Happy new year, comics people! The Antique Dealer’s Tale  Cthulhu and Girl 
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Hello, 2023! Now, I know you're new here, and I don't want to bust your balls on your first day, but your predecessors have been... shall we say, lacking. I'll be keeping my eye on you! Some edits of yesteryear:          
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Happy new year thread! Did we ever determine whether or not we wanted to add Doonesbury From Zero to the lineup or not? If so I will figure out how to start scraping and uploading it from gocomics a week at a time and start posting it.
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Kazinsal posted:Happy new year thread! Did we ever determine whether or not we wanted to add Doonesbury From Zero to the lineup or not? If so I will figure out how to start scraping and uploading it from gocomics a week at a time and start posting it. I'm not a fan of Doonesbury, but in my opinion if you are willing to go to the effort of posting it then you should go ahead and start. The more content in this thread of all sorts, the better. (Valiant was always this boring thing to me, probably because when I was a kid it was posted a few panels at a time in tiny unreadable format. Thanks to this thread I have the first six volumes of the Fantagraphics and it wouldn't surprise me if I get the next 3 on my birthday.) If it turns out to be objectionable in some way then we'll find out soon enough!
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No, no that is very loving much not common. What the gently caress Nancy?
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You’ve never shotgunned toothpaste? Amateurs.
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I'm posting Nancy in one of its several forms. The past two threads, I've posted Nancy dailies from 1946 and 1947. For the new thread, I will be switching over to Nancy 1943 It might not come through in the scans, but the art in Nancy 1943 is a little bit more detailed with seemingly thinner lines as well, compared to Bushmiller's later work. In addition, WW2 was in full swing, so we will see some interesting cultural stuff and some stuff I'll probably need to occasionally spoiler due to widespread sentiment during the war. Since we're in the middle of a "plot" in Nancy Nancy  Nancy 1943  E: Oh yeah, it's a new year manero fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jan 1, 2023 |
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The Demons of Baseball is a South Korean comic published in the eighties- forty years ago this year, although no one seems to be sure when its exact publication date was, just early 1983. Despite not really being a newspaper comic, Demons of Baseball is really important in South Korean comic history specifically and pop culture history in general for being really...well...intense. The comic changes genres a lot, and really abruptly. What started out as a typical shonen sports manga story has taken sharp turns into romantic melodrama, baseball politics, and sheer psychotic lunacy. A contemporary example of South Korean popular culture in this tradition is the movie Parasite from 2019, although it was much more common twenty years ago during the first Korean Wave. In terms of comic influence, Demons of Baseball reminds me of the soap opera strips I've seen in some South Korean newspapers there that I just could never be bothered to figure out what was going on because there were too many characters that I didn't know who were talking about an ongoing plot I couldn't follow. Oh, but don't let that put you off starting the comic in this thread for the first time. I've curated a perfect starting point. After several hundred pages of build up where no one had any idea where this story was going, this update features an explicit description of the final goal. And if you think this guy is nuts, as it happens, everybody else thinks he's nuts too, because it's been years since anyone's seen him or anyone else in his squad of free agents.      
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So I just want to be sure in Demons, main dude Planck told his gf he'd be back after a year of training, and it's been like 4 years now, and she moved on and got married and had a kid but we're supposed to hate her for that, right? Instead of finding her annoying because all she's done is cry and scream his name.
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I think we're supposed to pity her more than hate her. Planck has brought about his own downfall, he failed to write every day due to being in hell camp. As far as she knows, he's dead.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse Your daughter is dressed up like Clarissa Darling. So what? 
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Happy new thread! Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 12/31/02  Brenda Starr 2/13-15/50 is beginning a new story. Brenda has rescued a little girl who'd stowed away on a ship to come to America. The girl turns out to be the queen of some fictional European country, and Brenda has just introduced the queen to her boss.    Smokey Stover 2/3/52  Everyday Movies 12/13/35 features Mopey Dick and the Duke, a pair of tramps who often appear in the strip.  "I'm sorry now I started this serial -- it takes up too much of my time." And now, new for this thread, welcome Invisible Scarlet O'Neil! Created in 1940 by Russell Stamm, who broke into the business as one of Chester Gould's assistants on Dick Tracy, Scarlet has the distinction of being the first super-powered woman in comics. Stamm had grown tired of Dick Tracy's frequently dark and violent plots, and intended Invisible Scarlet O'Neil to be a more low-key, positive adventure strip. Did it work? We're going to find out. Here are Scarlet's first strips, taken from the Tampa Tribune: Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 6/3-5/40  Well, that's a very Golden Age origin. Stamm said he'd come up with the idea of Scarlet pressing her wrist to activate her power because he was used to drawing Dick Tracy in a similar pose fiddling with his 2-Way Wrist Radio, so it was easy for him to draw.   Bonus News Story! Now wait a -- oh, you said "jooks." That's all right. 
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