Cathy's wedding was a grotesque embarrassment of website product placement
http://a.imageshack.us/img828/8413/productplacement.gif
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Thursday, 12 August 2010 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Once Cathy gets married, there's nowhere to go.
They said the same when Blondie married Dagwood (circa 1925), and look what a pure fountain of inspiration has gushed from that marriage over the many, many decades. Blondie shopping for hats has probably provided a few thousand strips all by itself.
― Aimless, Thursday, 12 August 2010 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Blondie did not need a man! She was a crazy far gone flapper. But Cathy's sole fret was phallocentrism...and shoes. And her waistline. Blondie has learned to accept her beau's sandwich fetish and has marketed it into a circa 1990s catering service. Blondie is not progressive; "Cathy" ostensibly got picked up because its 1970s birth was a timely era for women doing it solo (and cats, Jim Davis?). I blame Blondie's metabolism and the "grandfathering" of comics.
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Thursday, 12 August 2010 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Also 90+% of the strips are about Mr Bumstead and his tragic narcolepsy and malingering.
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Thursday, 12 August 2010 06:29 (thirteen years ago) link
dagwood is a metaphor for the american dream
― seger ros (crüt), Thursday, 12 August 2010 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link
The other day I was wondering if Kathy Acker was called Kathy Acker because of Cathy and her terrible catchphrase 'ack!' but I forgot to look it up
turns out Acker was her first husband's name
what an anticlimax :(
― Melodic Man - I Need Geir (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 August 2010 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm sure someone posted this already, but MORE ON CATHYhttp://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05232003
― babygirlwc, Monday, 18 October 2010 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/fox-walden-media-win-the-family-circus/
EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has teamed with Walden Media to buy rights to Bil Keane's venerable syndicated comic strip The Family Circus, and they've hired Bob Hilgenberg & Rob Muir to script a live action feature. John Baldecchi and Stacy Maes are producing. Bil Keane started the strip in 1960 and continues to generate the single-panel script with his son Jeff. It is the most widely syndicated strip in the world, according to King Features. A number of studios competed for the rights for what is envisioned as a multiple quadrant family franchise.
― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Monday, 18 October 2010 06:30 (thirteen years ago) link
this is new, not old, but i want to know who is the person who can create this and think "yes, this is something i should be proud of, am willing to present to the general public in real newspapers, and actually receive money in exchange for"?
http://www.gocomics.com/replyall/2012/08/28
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
like this was in today's chicago tribune
Wowwwwwwwwwwwww. Yeah, that reads like a parody of terrible, terrible late-90s webcomics.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, for some reason we started getting the Sunday Trib delivered to us and I couldn't believe this was an actual strip made by someone with a brain when I saw this particular gem:
http://www.gocomics.com/replyall/2012/08/26
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.replyallcomic.com/911tributeart.html
― how's life, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like Donna Lewis needs to return to her music career. "I Love You Always Forever" was head and shoulders above this hot garbage.
― Old Lunch, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
Holy fucking crap, that is awful.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for this, n/a
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
RIP ms paint irony
― ayonanas (Matt P), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
this is still better than mallard fillmore.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Good grief.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, that's like a Lena Dunham version of Cathy.
― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
It's not great but it's far from awful. There are loads of daily comics far worse than that.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.replyallcomic.com/images/640_Smoke.jpg
Why . . . why are there Ghost Wookiees? Why?
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
My son, 6, loves Garfield. In case you were wondering who's into it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
she's a lawyer at dhs! I CAN'T STOP READING THIS
― maura, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Reply All highlights those moments in today's information-overloaded environment when you forget your adult-self and toss the megaphone to your fifth-grade inner child.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Why you Dis hagar!!
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=n9em2eZuP6U&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=n9em2eZuP6U&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=n9em2eZuP6U&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=n9em2eZuP6U&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=n9em2eZuP6U&NR=1
― maura, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING:
Lewis taught herself to draw in law school (where doodling was the only escape from reality) and to write punch lines in the courtroom (no disrespect to judges, attorneys, plaintiffs or defendants intended).
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Top comment at maura's link is a truth bomb.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/
improves it
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
I was going through some magazines from the fifties yesterday, and found in an issue of "Look" a "Match The Cartoonist To His Cartoon" photo quiz. Most of the strips used are pretty obscure these days ("Steve Canyon" anyone?), but then there was Al Capp, Sparky Schultz--and the "Gasoline Alley" guy!
And I then thought to myself, "Jesus Christ, "Gasoline Alley" has been around forever!"
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
0 likes, 67 dislikes
nice.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=101&q=10
haw
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Lewis taught herself to draw in law school
Did she really, though?
― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I posted one at work and I dont think anyone realized it was not a real family circus
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
gasoline alley is on like its fourth straight artist!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
I just bought this http://www.amazon.com/The-Smithsonian-Collection-Newspaper-Comics/dp/0874741726
every home should have it
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
Searches related to "reply all" comicreply all comic reviewreply all comic horrible
reply all comic review
reply all comic horrible
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
xp >$5 used including shipping = sold!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
in the tribune, "reply all" is actually part of this thing where they have two new comic strips competing against each other and i guess people are supposed to vote on which one they want to be a permanent addition to the comics page? it's competing against some comic strip about dogs which is not very good but at least looks like someone attempted to draw something on paper and write jokes
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Even if the writing was good the sheer lack of skill and *effort* in the drawings would still make this strip bad.
― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
"dogs of c-kennel" is the other strip, which previously beat out "big nate," which is weird because the latter is pretty established and has a cool distinctive drawing style and is occasionally amusinghttp://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-14/news/chi-dogs-of-ckennel-wins-comics-carousel-20120814_1_comics-carousel-geoff-brown-c-kennel
this is dogs of c-kennel: http://www.creators.com/comics/dogs-of-c-kennel.htmlthis is big nate: http://www.gocomics.com/bignate
people are weird
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
every time i look at the comics i find like three or four that just like don't make any sense and don't have a joke or punchline or anything. it's disheartening.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
mordy I just bought one myself
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
the smithsonian collection book of newspaper comics is seriously great shit, just page after page of heart-stoppingly beautiful art. as a plus it contains the entire 'plunder island' sequence from popeye which is pretty much the hardest i've ever loled at any comics ever.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta have mad respect for the dude who does Marmaduke, nearly 60 years of the same badly-drawn dog jokes and he keeps on pluggin'
Speaking of which, how has Pluggers avoided this thread??
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
why don't you guys start a comic? the normal excuses (i can't draw, i can't write) don't seem to apply anymore.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
ILE is a comic already
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
So weird, I first encountered (and boggled at) Reply All just two days ago in the Washington Post.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
they've been ragging on reply all on the something awful comic strip megathread for a while now.. i think i've just gotten used to it..
― the dilettante escape plan (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
I loathed "Nancy" back in the day, but it's actually pretty funny now.
Clever but not funny for me. Still a daily read, sometimes a hate-read. Bold move by Jaimes to make Nancy a self-absorbed asshole.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
modern Nancy has had some really good strips but a lot of it seems too clever for its own good. I really liked the dadaist vibe of the Bushmiller strips.
one I used to like a lot was Get Fuzzy, it's wordy but generally funny
is that Comics Curmudgeon guy still going? I enjoyed that, not only because the guy really is keeping up with all these endless soap opera comic strips but also because it's kind of a remnant of the way the internet used to be
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
literally clowning Funky Winkerbean in a post today!
http://www.joshreads.com
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
Comics Curmudgeon is still going, yeah. I wouldn't have heard of most of these if not for him! Got to say that Funky Winkerbean is one of the least appealing strips he covers regularly. I'd be sad if Mary Worth folded, I love following his commentary on it.
xp
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
His commentary is the only reason to have any interest at all in the "Mary Worth," "Judge Parker" and "Gil Thorp" universes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
Bold move by Jaimes to make Nancy a self-absorbed asshole.
She was like this in a lot of Bushmiller's best too!
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 November 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
Absolutely
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
self-absorbed but not an asshole imo, a big difference in degree then to now
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
I see her a little bit like Mattie Ross - convinced of her own certitude despite being constantly bamboozled
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
I wonder if Pete Bagge is a Tumbleweeds fan....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
One of Funky Winkerbean's lasting legacies:
https://frinkiac.com/video/S12E05/t8jUHH0rgJ9IUSDsaSC5vhcP1hM=.gif
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 November 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller pic.twitter.com/pqNw4IVJfz— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) November 25, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 25 November 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link