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03-23-2019, 05:08 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by deserat
Love XKCD - and many times don't get the references.
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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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03-25-2019, 06:54 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Hands down... The Far Side was my favorite!
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03-25-2019, 09:27 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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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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03-25-2019, 09:38 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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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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04-01-2019, 09:23 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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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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04-01-2019, 10:43 AM
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gone traveling
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Joe Martin’s “Mr. Boffo” is my favorite... you can see them online...
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04-01-2019, 11:37 AM
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Gone but not forgotten
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He's now 2 years older than me, and 6 years younger than Mickey Mouse.
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04-01-2019, 11:45 AM
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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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04-01-2019, 12:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pacergal
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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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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04-01-2019, 12:27 PM
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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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04-01-2019, 12:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
These are childhood delights
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Actually I've found more truths in comic strips than in newspaper editorials/items.
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04-01-2019, 12:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
Actually I've found more truths in comic strips than in newspaper editorials/items.
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Like this one...
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04-01-2019, 01:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
Actually I've found more truths in comic strips than in newspaper editorials/items.
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IMO that's a pretty low bar to clear, these days!
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04-01-2019, 01:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
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.
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Some cartoons are for kids, and some are for adults.
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04-01-2019, 02:00 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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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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I find this early retirement topic sooo very overwhelming.
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04-01-2019, 02:02 PM
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Sho' Nuff.
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04-01-2019, 03:12 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
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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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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