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Old 03-23-2019, 05:08 PM   #41
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Love XKCD - and many times don't get the references.
You might really like this site:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/ind...1206:_Einstein

(I often don't get the references as well. Sometimes I don't get the explanations, either!)
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Old 03-25-2019, 06:54 PM   #42
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Hands down... The Far Side was my favorite!
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Old 03-25-2019, 09:27 PM   #43
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This thread got me thinking of the comics I grew up with, starting with the old-timers in the Chicago Trib, like Moon Mullins -- great characters in that one. Smokey Stover, my first exposure to surrealism. And the Teenie Weenies, with the character you could cut out of every panel like a paper doll.

Then came adolescence, Spy vs. Spy. Don Martin's craziness, like Monty Python in a 4-panel strip. Which led to... Robert Crumb's Mr. Natural Annd... Whiteman!

What followed was kind of a letdown. Zippy the Pinhead, of course. Jay Lynch had some amusing stuff in Playboy. The Far Side, yeh, funny.

When it comes to the drawn panel, nobody elevated it to an art form like Robert Crumb.

I confess I've had a couple glasses of wine after a trying evening. But I'm going to the nearest non-Amazon retailer (turned out to be thriftbooks.com) and ordering Crumb's "Book of Genesis." See what you've made me do.
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Calvin and Hobbes is my all-time favorite.

I also liked The Far Side and Dilbert.

Until I found out where he actually did work, I was sure that Scott Adams worked somewhere at my megacorp.
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Old 04-01-2019, 09:23 AM   #45
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Was contemplating a Hägar the Horrible strip this morning.....Hägar relates the story of Sisyphus on a personal basis to Hamlet......Hamlet says he doesn't understand....Hägar replies "You will, you will".
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Old 04-01-2019, 10:43 AM   #46
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Joe Martin’s “Mr. Boffo” is my favorite... you can see them online...
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Old 04-01-2019, 11:37 AM   #47
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He's now 2 years older than me, and 6 years younger than Mickey Mouse.
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Zits, Pickles, Cathy, Get Fuzzy were all favorites. Don't see them much now as I don't subscribe to newspaper anymore.
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Old 04-01-2019, 12:08 PM   #49
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Zits, Pickles, Cathy, Get Fuzzy were all favorites. Don't see them much now as I don't subscribe to newspaper anymore.
Look at the OP which has a link to Go Comics. That has Pickles and perhaps some of your other favorites. So you can see this on a tablet or computer.
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I'm just not into comic strips! I don't seek them out, and also don't seek out or read comic books, dress up for Hallowe'en, and so on. These are childhood delights that I enjoyed in my youth, but did not carry into adult life. I know many did, and I admire your ability to retain the joy and innocence of childhood during ones adult years. But that's not me.

OK, OK.... confession time.... I *DO* play video games, especially Animal Crossing which I suppose is one that children might like, since basically you move into a town inhabited by adorable talking animals, and befriend them. So I haven't entirely cast off childhood pastimes. I just don't seek out comic strips, and these days I have no idea where I would even find them.
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Actually I've found more truths in comic strips than in newspaper editorials/items.
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Actually I've found more truths in comic strips than in newspaper editorials/items.
IMO that's a pretty low bar to clear, these days!
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I'm just not into comic strips! I don't seek them out, and also don't seek out or read comic books, dress up for Hallowe'en, and so on. These are childhood delights that I enjoyed in my youth, but did not carry into adult life. I know many did, and I admire your ability to retain the joy and innocence of childhood during ones adult years. But that's not me.
Some cartoons are for kids, and some are for adults.
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They change over time. It use to be “Brenda Starr”. Then I grew into “Doonesbury” . Always, always faithful to “Andy Capp”.
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IMO that's a pretty low bar to clear, these days!
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I'm just not into comic strips! I don't seek them out, and also don't seek out or read comic books, dress up for Hallowe'en, and so on. These are childhood delights that I enjoyed in my youth, but did not carry into adult life. I know many did, and I admire your ability to retain the joy and innocence of childhood during ones adult years. But that's not me.

OK, OK.... confession time.... I *DO* play video games, especially Animal Crossing which I suppose is one that children might like, since basically you move into a town inhabited by adorable talking animals, and befriend them. So I haven't entirely cast off childhood pastimes. I just don't seek out comic strips, and these days I have no idea where I would even find them.
I didn't pay attention to comics in my working years. But now I'm looking for all kinds of ways to view the world and one of those is the light side. It's free and IMO beats the ugly news stories we all tend to read.

You don't have to pay a dime for many comics nowadays. Snoopy, for instance, seems to appeal to adults. At least that is true in our town which was Shultz's town too. There are Snoopy sculpture characters all over town.
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