― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 September 2002 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
They are great because they are lame! They make the other ones seem funny.
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Am I missing something?
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
(+ I thought old C&Hs were being reprinted in newspapers, but maybe I'm wrong.)
― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
I sincerely doubt it...newspaper publishers don't like the comic strips in the first place because they take up valuable space that could be used on ad pages. This is why the size of the comics has been shrunken down so much over the past 15 years or so. If the current comic strips were done away with they would not be replaced. Esp. since the readership for newspapers in general has aged so much.
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 11:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― B:Rad (Brad), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Gil Thorp has REALLY gone in the shitter. It's barely literate! (And no points for the Orel Hershiser guest appearance!)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
Zippy is godawful. Sorry.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
The same goes for Funky Winkerbean's transmogrification into a Melrose-Place-for-geeks cesspool. And regardless of FBOFW's past, turning into a hybrid of Mary Worth and Hi & Lois didn't do a damn thing for me. There's the "funny" page, and there's the "serious" page - STAY ON THE FUNNY PAGE DAMN IT.
Example of newer Peanuts (as seen on my bathroom wall): Lucy & Charlie on the pitchers mound. Lucy sez, "Here's the roster for the other team: Francis, Horatio, Ludwig, Chandler, Francisco, etc etc etc" - all these "unique" male names. Fourth panel - close-up of Charlie, wistful expression (akin to the "rapturous contemplation" look found in every damn FBOFW strip, but, y'know, Peanuts style), and he says, "No one's named Bill anymore." Um. Five cents, please?
Add to my list: Zits, Monty (PKA Robotman), Liberty Meadows, Soup to Nutz, and Rex Morgan MD (as long as Graham Nolan is the artiste).
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
Aw yeah, Mutts is nice.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 00:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Let me specify -- when humor was attempted, it was of the cheese variety. When soppiness was attempted, it made me want to pound walls down. When prompted to appreciate how wossname knows his comic artists of the past, I reflect on how The Boondocks looks like the first honestly modern strip in years. Etc.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
One panel. Linus, Charlie, and Snoopy are lounging in A Forest. Linus & Charlie lean against a tree, Snoopy against a rock.
Linus: "I hear you've decided no to go to summer camp after all..."
Charlie: "When you have a dog, you should stay home, and make your dog happy ... that's what you should do ... you should stay home..."
Snoopy: "Except for those obviously necessary short trips in to buy dog food..."
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 02:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.citypaper.com/archives/funny.html
As for y'all's Zippy bashing: Interweb mentalists! Interweb mentalists! Interweb mentalists!
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 07:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.deeptrancenow.com/images/marmaduke.jpg
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Martin S - I'd say that the first ten years or so of Johnny Hart's BC are v. underrated; Mort Walker sustained a pretty gd standard on 'Beetle Bailey' for many years; and I love the drawing style of Dik Browne on 'Hagar' and 'Hi and Lois' - crosshatching to rival Crumb's. These are just off the top of my head, but my point is that 'Peanuts' is obv. a work of genius, but it wasn't THAT much better than many of its peers in the post-war gag strip stakes, at least for the first ten or so years of its run...
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy is indeed a rare and beautiful thing. As is 'Barnaby' by Crockett Johnson, Bill Watterson's main source for 'Calvin and Hobbes'.
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://home.att.net/~k-doyle/Cats/mutts.jpg
besides anything, I mean. but it's so cute!
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
There. Now even Marmaduke seems hilarious.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Felicity, your cartoon is awesome.
― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is that a Bushmiller Nancy? He died in '82, but he was only "supervising" the strip from about '78 or '79. Willie Johnson did the dailies and ex-Superman artist Al Plastino did the Sundays. I really like EB's late Nancy strips, when it was so stunningly codified that there were rumours he used rubber stamps to produce the strip.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
good question, Martin. I thought so, although I can't read the date there. It's from here.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
and the Dinette Set is the poor man's Non Sequitur
I do like Boondocks.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
I am having a spectacularly bad hair day here, if Jazmine could see me now then it'd definitely change her preconceptions of European hair.
― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, of those I've seen, when gifting strips it was standard for Schulz to sign them like that.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:59 (seven months ago) link
so my sister and I have decided to sell these, they are prob gonna go for like $30K each. wild. my mom is in shock lol. we are using Heritage, thanks dinnerboat for that tip!
my mom with the winning quote: "do you even want something that valuable in your house?"
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:22 (six months ago) link
Ha! Mommest thing I've heard in a while....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:23 (six months ago) link
wow those are amazing!!
― c u (crüt), Sunday, 17 March 2024 04:04 (six months ago) link
That’s amazing
All for selling the expensives btw, let upkeep be somebody else’s problem
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 17 March 2024 04:23 (six months ago) link
Awesome stuff, hope the fetch you that pretty penny!
― H.P, Sunday, 17 March 2024 06:32 (six months ago) link
yer ma has a point! hope you guys make $$$$s
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Sunday, 17 March 2024 11:45 (six months ago) link
Good luck! And thanks for sharing — your story’s like a prime Antiques Roadshow episode.
― dinnerboat, Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:34 (six months ago) link