I didn't vote, but these excerpts of obscure comics are really fascinating
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
but not that one
Donald Duck by Al Talliaferro and Bob Karp – 1 vote On The Web
Charles Alfred Taliaferro, known simply as Al Taliaferro, was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate. Many of his strips were written by Bob Karp.He is best known for his work on the Donald Duck comic strip, but he started his career lettering the Mickey Mouse strips (March 1931 – July 1932), and drew the Bucky Bug comics in 1932 as well as Silly Symphonies pages from 1932 to 1939. Taliaferro co-created a number of characters, including Huey, Dewey and Louie, Bolivar, Grandma Duck, and arguably Daisy Duck. He drew Donald Duck comic strips from 1938 until his death in 1969 in Glendale, California.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
Dry Bones by Yaakov Kirschen – 1 vote On The Web
Dry Bones is an Israeli political cartoon strip published in the English-language newspaper The Jerusalem Post since 1973. The name of the comic strip refers to the vision of the "Valley of Bones" in the Book of Ezekiel (37:1-14). Dry Bones has been reprinted and quoted by the New York Times, Time Magazine, LA Times, CBS, AP and Forbes. It offers a pictorial commentary on current events in Israel and the Jewish world. Kirschen says his cartoons are designed to make people laugh, which makes them drop their guard and see things the way he does. In an interview, he defined his objective as a cartoonist as an attempt to "seduce rather than to offend.”
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
Carol Day looks goooorgeous, that justifies some of these horrible one-votees
god yes. had never heard of carol day or david wright, but that's an incredible strip. nice archive of original art and sketches at the carol-day.com site linked above.
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:23 (ten years ago) link
Edge City by Terry and Patty LaBan – 1 voteOn The Web
Meet the Ardins! They’re the stars of Edge City, a groundbreaking comic strip that follows a hip Jewish-American family juggling relationships, careers and tradition at the fast pace of modern life. Len owns a delivery service, and Abby is a psychologist. Fueled by caffeine and gasoline, they and their kids, Colin and Carly, power their way through self-employment, after-school activities, pursuing their dreams and lining up for carpool. Len and Abby take stress for granted—but not each other. Modern marriage isn’t easy, but the Ardins make it work, facing what life throws at them with intelligence, humor and an occasional hissy fit. It also helps to have friends and family, the latest self-help book, weekend rock-and-roll sessions and decent carryout. So, pack the kids off to school, grab a latte and try to beat rush hour on I-25—it’s life on the edge every day in Edge City!(via comics kingdom, one of the syndicates of the strip on the web)
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:23 (ten years ago) link
kudos to these troll ballots
― Dan I., Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:31 (ten years ago) link
definitely a lot of interesting variety here -- lots of these i've never heard of. i've read lots of the taliaferro donald duck strips, gladstone used to run them as filler in between barks and rosa stories. they're inoffensive and well drawn but i'd be interested to hear why someone thought they deserved to be ranked among the all-time best comic strips.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
TBF the taliaferro strips are somewhat better than say, diesel sweeties by a factor of roughly infinity
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:48 (ten years ago) link
Dude drew 31 years of duck strips!
why does everyone always have to hate on diesel sweeties
― doctrine the house (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:50 (ten years ago) link
because it is terrible. between that & death to the extremist, someone's got some splaining to do.
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
i'm afraid this is gonna have to run unweighted; I ran into the burning building once to get this thing going but I ain't up for twice.
send me the ballots, I'll re-run the numbers
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
tell you what sic, let me get all the nominees up and then I'll mail you all the ballots and you can collate and post a final definitive tally in any fashion that works for you. Fair enough?
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
ilxmail me your email again plz?
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:14 (ten years ago) link
This keeps getting better.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Does this mean we get to hear about the Conchy guy killing himself again? Because he's starting to get my sympathy.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:08 (ten years ago) link
this is definitely the funniest thing about this thread so far
― macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:14 (ten years ago) link
POW! ZAP! BANG! Comics: they're not just for laffs anymore
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:21 (ten years ago) link
this next one is specially for you whiney
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:25 (ten years ago) link
Ettamogah Pub by Ken Maynard – 1 voteOn The Web
The Ettamogah Pub is a cartoon pub that was featured in the now defunct Australasian Post magazine. The cartoonist Ken Maynard, loving empty spaces and having nothing around him, enjoyed an area just outside of Albury at Table Top, named Ettamogah, thus christening the name of his now famous pub the "Ettamogah Pub".
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:27 (ten years ago) link
Ooh, when's Snake Tales going to show up?
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
prob my favorite wikipedia description yet coming up here
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:33 (ten years ago) link
Frank and Ernest by Bob Thaves – 1 vote On The Web
In a non-sequential story, the main characters are seen not just as humans but as animals, vegetables, minerals and more. A constant element has been word play, including the characters' names. Frank is both a name and a synonym for honest. The name Ernest is a homophone of the word earnest, which is a synonym for serious. Weekday strips are laid out in one long panel with one joke or pun; the Sunday strip is similarly in one large block, with a series of rapid-fire puns pertaining to the characters (usually in character as various characters including, but not limited to, the planets, "Robotics Department," or "Malaprop Man"). Example: U.S. Postal Dept. Stamp Design Office: "The department decided to have a religious message on our next stamp. How about: 'Lord, deliver us'?"Unlike most syndicated comic strip cartoonists, Bob Thaves did not write all of the gags for the strip (nor maintain a pretense that he did) and openly solicited for gags in publications such as Writer's Market. Thaves won the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1983, 1984, and 1986, as well as The Mencken Award for Free Speech and designation as a Champion of Creativity by the American Creativity Association in 2006.
here have another:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W4NUG6cq1vM/TRATYR_0AUI/AAAAAAAACdA/Pyu0dsEy1AE/s1600/347522_full.gif
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:35 (ten years ago) link
if you can't laugh at "Wiki Leeks" what can you laugh at
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
Funky Winkerbean by Tom Batiuk – 1 vote On The Web
Distributed by North America Syndicate, a division of King Features Syndicate, Funky Winkerbean appears in more than 400 newspapers worldwide. Since its inception on March 27, 1972, the strip has gone through several format changes. For the first 20 years of its run, the characters did not age, and the strip was nominally episodic as opposed to a serial, with humor derived from visual gags and the eccentricity of the characters. In 1992, Batiuk rebooted the strip, establishing that the characters had graduated from high-school in 1988, and the series began progressing in real time. In 2007, a second "time warp" occurred, this time taking the strip ten years into the future, ostensibly to 2017, although the events of the strip still reflect a contemporary setting. Since the 1992 reboot and especially since the 2007 time jump, the strip has been recast as a drama, featuring story arcs revolving around such topics as terminal cancer, adoption, prisoners of war, drug abuse, post traumatic stress, same sex couples attending the senior prom, and interracial marriage.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:54 (ten years ago) link
FUCK WEIGHTED RESULTS. JUST ROLL THIS SHIT OUT.
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 06:11 (ten years ago) link
um, perhaps you've noticed that's what's happening? or did funky winkerbean break yr brain?
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah no i no. it is just an opiniom.
plus lol @ "suit yourself, creepy."
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 06:18 (ten years ago) link
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/828/funkywinkerbean1mw5.gif
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 06:20 (ten years ago) link
This could be the ilx thread of 2014. I can't wait for xkcd to place.
(The two Aussie entries that have been listed so far were me btw.)
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 10:43 (ten years ago) link
I had no idea under this very morning that the Funky Winkerbean strip had gone that insane. Been reading it all morning.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 11:11 (ten years ago) link
the transformation of Funky Winkerbean is one of the most amazing things
also that second Death to the Extremist strip cracked me the fuck up, I may need help
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
Ginger Meggs / Us Fellers by Jimmy Bancks – 1 vote On The Web
James Charles Bancks was born in Enmore, New South Wales, Australia on 10 May 1889, the son of an Irish railway worker, John Spencer Bancks. Bancks left school at the age of 14 and found employment with a finance company. His first illustrations were accepted and published by The Comic Australian in 1913, followed by The Arrow in 1914. This encouraged Bancks to submit work to The Bulletin, where he was offered a permanent position, which he accepted and remained until 1922. Ginger Meggs follows the escapades of a red-haired prepubescent mischief-maker who lives in an inner suburban working-class household. Ginger first appeared in Us Fellers on 13 November 1921, drawn by Bancks. When Bancks died on 1 July 1952 from a heart attack, Ron Vivian took over the strip (1953-1973), followed by Lloyd Piper (1973-1982), James Kemsley (1983-2007) and since 2007, Jason Chatfield.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
LOL at the Winkerbean vote.
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Girl Mountain by Simon Hanselmann – 1 voteOn The Web
Hanselmann’s Tumblr, Girl Mountain, is a textbook example of that platform’s reach, provided you’ve got something other people want to look at. Turns out tons of people in the alternative-comics world worldwide want to look at a strange stoner dramedy drawn by a Ben Jones-influenced Australian. Hanselmann’s comics-as-criticism series Truth Zone, which appears on Frank Santoro’s Comics Workbook Tumblr, stars Megg, Mogg, Owl, and Werewolf Jones as well, and positions them (and by extension Hanselmann) as the no-bullshit friends with the same interests in obscure alt/art/ underground comics as you – quite a feat, given his location a world away from most of the figures covered in the comics. But it’s the range of these characters’ emotional register, and the beauty of Hanselmann’s renderings of same, that make his work sting and stick. These characters struggle, and fail, to come to grips with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of work, lack of ambition, and their complex and often negative feelings about each other. Watching these themes emerge from a funny-animal gag strip with weed jokes is a bit like seeing the Locas saga spring forth from the brow of Jaime Hernandez’s old sci-fi stuff. (via Comics Journal interview)
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Gunshow by KC Green – 1 voteOn The Web
Gunshow and its predecessor, Horribleville aren’t for everyone. They’re vulgar and crass; the fart jokes of webcomics. Still, anyone can make a poop joke. What make’s KC Green’s webcomics so special is his unique brand of rubbery and hyperkinetic artwork. KC’s drawings — in some ways reminiscent of Looney Tunes and Spumco — is goddamned hilarious. It’s great to know that in a webcomic world where everything seems to rely on sterile Flash drawings, there’s someone out there who can make you laugh the old-fashioned way: by drawing someone with a smile that’s goofy as hell. (Via “Webcomic Overlook”)
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/fu6j3d.gif
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
Feel like we could also be adding some of these to What's the worst online comic strip? .
omg @ Gunshow
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I love a lot of the Gunshow one-off strips, but I swear, every time the dude tries to do a longer story the results are just unbearable.
― JRN, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
Hi and Lois by Mort Walker and Dik Browne – 1 voteOn The Web
Hi and Lois is a comic strip about a suburban family. Created by Mort Walker and illustrated by Dik Browne, it debuted on October 18, 1954, distributed by King Features Syndicate. The Flagstons first appeared in Walker's Beetle Bailey. They spun off into their own strip, written by Walker and drawn by Browne. Lois Flagston (née Bailey) is Beetle Bailey's sister, and the two strips make occasional crossovers. One of these occurred on the strip's 40th anniversary in 1994, when Beetle visited his sister Lois and her family. Chip resembles his Uncle Beetle in attitude and appearance, especially the eyes. The strip made efforts to keep up with the times, such as housewife Lois Flagston taking a career in real estate in 1980. In previous decades the strip was acclaimed; in 1962 it earned Browne a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society. The strip faced some controversy given the changes in content restrictions since its debut in the 1950s. Once, editors insisted that belly buttons could not appear; in protest, Browne included a box of dimpled navel oranges. Now produced by the sons of the original creative team, the strip is written by Brian and Greg Walker and drawn by Robert "Chance" Brown
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
Hi and Lois had some great years!
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I was the one that voted for Gunshow! Really guys? All the horrible shit that's shown up in this thread so far and that's the one that strikes you as especially bad?
― Dan I., Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
my favorite hi and lois fact is that they're related to beetle bailey
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
I fucking loved those three Gunshow strips
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
I'm surprised to see Hi and Lois get only one vote.
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, Hi & Lois is all right.
http://comicskingdom.com/system/characters/avatars/4469/website-Chip.jpg?1307485653
Guess we know from where Chip gets it.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
All the horrible shit that's shown up in this thread so far and that's the one that strikes you as especially bad?
I'll be honest, I wrote my post after the Girl Mountain post, but it took awhile to find just. the. right. gif.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link