Webcomics: S/D

and the name joe shlabotnik

seriously though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSrABUI84wE

ahh i can see why a baseball-themed peanuts anthol never made it to the uk - but the exoticism of things like baseball and summer camps was def part of the appeal to this partic brit reader, and i'm sure many others. when i was young i had no idea whether the great pumpkin was a real holiday/event or not

it is iirc

the sack toon, btw, is a really faithful rendering of a long stretch from Sandlot

"you're fun to be with mister sack"

and the punchline of that shaggy dog story is amazing
the gag is that charlie brown has baseball on his mind so much that he develops a rash on the back of his head in the shape of the stitches on a baseball
then he sees the sun rising as a baseball
so he goes to summer camp to get baseball off his mind
and after many weeks he decides he's cured so he wakes up early to watch the sun rise, unsure if it will be a baseball or the sun and when he finally looks he sees -
really, watch the video.

haha i had that video when i was a kid -- it also includes the truly insane story where charlie brown bites the kite-eating tree, is threatened with a lawsuit by the environmental protection agency (!!!), runs away, gets lost, and winds up living in a cardboard box (!!!!) and coaching a team of toddlers.

in retrospect, it's amazing how faithful (and popular) those cartoons were considering how ubiquitous they became.
i remember a musical saturday morning peanuts show that i used to watch as a kid.

and a quick google search suggests that was the cartoon adaptation of "you're a good man charlie brown"
i can't hear home on the range without "give me my pencil"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgQyRoP6fgU

we talked about mr. sack upthread but i had not seen the adaptation

SO HERE I AM GOING TO CAMP. FOR SOMEONE WHO HATES GOING TO CAMP I SURE SPEND A LOT OF TIME THERE. MAYBE I WENT TO THE WRONG DOCTOR. HIS SOLUTION FOR EVERYTHING IS TO GO TO CAMP. I KNOW WHAT'LL HAPPEN TO ME. JUST WHEN I GET OLD ENOUGH SO THAT I DON'T HAVE TO GO ANYMORE, I'LL GET DRAFTED INTO THE INFANTRY.

i bet you straightened them out, didn't you, sack?

'the infantry' really makes that

in one of the books my dad had, charlie brown loses in the spelling bee because he misspells 'maze' as [willie] 'mays'. which is less sad than the time he misspells 'beagle'

'the infantry' really makes that

schulz definitely loved his "funny words"

Ever since I read that Michaelis book I periodically doodle objects in little groups of 3s, it's a good exercise. It inspired this thread: Things that are satisying to draw a simple cartoon of

the thing that rly irked me in the michaelis book is that he seems to think schulz deliberately made up all the bad childhood memories he would mention in interview years later -- being picked on by bullies, etc. -- because he (michaelis) couldn't find any witnesses to verify it! i mean, i had a shitty time in first grade too, but i doubt any of my classmates would remember that 80 years later.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, July 13, 2012 3:01 PM (6 hours ago)

haha you would totally not guess that is the case from that epic TCJ article w/Monty Schulz where he questions the veracity of seemingly every minor anecdote in that book

http://danceraday.tumblr.com/

have we ever brought up Three Word Phrase?
http://threewordphrase.com/todo.htm

why did you do that.

say what you will about rage comics, but I've laughed at fucking dolans 10x funnier than whatever that was supposed to be.

ooookay dude *backs slowly away*

ha, maybe I'm coming on too strong.

LOOOOL pplains otfm

i'm only a little upset that the re-introduction of actual webcomics kind of broke the spell of peanuts as the best webcomic ever.

Three Word Comics is a collection of "I thought a vaguely funny sentence / twist and then inexplicably my muse said I must draw it with all necessary explanation"

Rage Comics is a flaming ball of shit.

I was not aware of either of them until just now.

You have both brought shame to this thread.

And this is the webcomics thread, so well done there.

I would seriously take a rage comic over p much any "web comic" besides pbw and maybe half of hark a vagrant

it is nobody's fault but my own, but I just read the whole Three Word Phrase archive bcz it looked like a webcomic I saw one wryly poignant strip from once and I was going to defend it (wryly poignant is p. much all I want out of comics at this point in life), and that strip is totally not in the archive so it probably wasn't TWP at all, and I suck for even looking

to be fair, it's ok (maybe even good!) for a webcomic. pretty sure any random sampling of webcomics will pull up worse webcomics.

http://threewordphrase.com/anxiety.gif

or

http://anongallery.org/img/8/0/donald-duck-in-apple-store.jpg

dead to you if you like the first one.

ok, i'm dead to you

http://threewordphrase.com/funday.gif

or

http://i.destinyislands.com/public/dolan-comics/02-dolan-dinner.png

there's seriously no question here.

i just googled webcomics and saw something called vgcats. brrrrr....

best to avoid the earlier crappier ones
http://i.imgur.com/wtpG5.gif
http://i.imgur.com/sjUj1.gif
http://i.imgur.com/W0tXV.gif
also, are you seriously comparing his stuff to the C+P rage comix? i mean, come on, man. i guess we're just not on the same wavelength here

yeah, vgcats is one of those that doesn't even pretend to be for public consumption

I like this one
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5273/blackholek.gif

And this one
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/2517/tattoon.gif

I laughed at this one too
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/5815/tarot.gif

The later ones are definitely more likely to be funny.

peanuts is still the best webcomic, though.

The drawing's not great but it's not embarrassing. twp, I mean.

This is like a joke in a Brendan Fraser movie but I like it better
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3889/hockey.gif

I definitely laughed at this one. Drawings of penises are often funny by default, though.
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/5485/dicep.gif

I would seriously take a rage comic over p much any "web comic" besides pbw and maybe half of hark a vagrant

Pup? When I Am King?

"A Arm"

This is a cheap laugh but I laughed and that's worth something.
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/6641/amazingn.gif

"a al ship"

son

fuck w/