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From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: How on earth did it happen...
Date: 10 Apr 1992 14:04:54 -0700
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In article <taube.124@oregon.uoregon.edu> taube@oregon.uoregon.edu (Christian Taube) writes:
>...that there has been a rec.arts.comics group around forever
>in which only random postings about strips appeared...
>
>...and now that we have a r.a.c.strips I get 170 articles in
>a little less than 20 hours?

  Because all us strip-lovers used to be intimidated on r.a.c with weirdos
yelling about homosexual super-heroes and whether or not Crisis was "a good
thing". I think this newsgroup's bandwidth vindicates its creation REAL
easily...

                                                --R.J.
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From: hozman@aludra.usc.edu (The Hoz!!!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Date: 7 Apr 1992 17:56:05 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Keywords: dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb

dove@elaine9.Stanford.EDU (Dav Somebody) writes:
>Hey, what do you think the stupidest strips out there are?  I have to
>admit, though hating Family Circus, it at least attempts to be funny.

FC, in my opinion, is one of those hit-or-miss strips.  Occasionally I
find it to be very funny or touching, but most of the time it doesn't
do anything for me.  I have gotten quite tired of some of the 
repititious gag-attempts used (most notably 'Not me').  I really enjoy
the twisted word/phrases used by the kids, though.

Far Side is another Hit-or-miss for me.  About once a week-once every
other weeka I have a gut-busting laugh, several chuckles, a few "yeah,
so?"-type reactions and one or two "that was STUPID" reactions.

>Fred Basset however has got to be the worst thing to appear in print.
>Does anyone find this strip funny in the least? How did this guy ever
>get published?

I find F B to be funny on the occassions I get to read it (1-2 weeks a
year, at best).  Not rip-roaringly funny, but good.

The strip I despise most nowadays is Suburban Cowgirls.  In the year (two?)
that the LA times has been running it, I think I have gotten a chuckle
maybe once.  A vast majority of the time, I think "OK, I understand what was
_supposed_ to be the funny part of this strip, but it wasn't!  And often
I think "Forget what I thought yesterday while reading Suburban Cowgirls,
_THIS_ is the worst one I have ever read!!!"


>As for interesting new(?) strips, anyone see Overboard or Robotman?
>Both of these strips are pretty good, and definitely give me a good
>chuckle from time to time.

R-man has been around for at _least_ 8-10 years.  I remember my friends and
I gathering in the High School library 20 min. before school started each
day and reading the comics.  R-man was one of our favs!

Another GREAT stip is Jump Street.  I think this one is only about 2 years
old, but the Artist (Robb Armstrong) is consistantly funny.

A strip that ussually is pretty good is Sally Forth.  One thing that
botherss me though.  About 6 months-1 year ago, the artwork got noticably
harsher and the strip started to be signed by "howard and mac" (although
the LA Times still lists only Greg Howard as the author).  Anyone know the
scoop on this?

>dav

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From: jimmy@pyra.co.uk (Jimmy Aitken)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: New Zealand Comic Strip
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:10:47 GMT
Reply-To: jimmy@pyramid.com (Jimmy Aitken)

In <1992Apr9.082012.3861@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons) writes:

>In <1992Apr08.193035.2749@onetouch.COM> csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith) writes:

>>Has anyone out there heard of a comic strip from New Zealand called
>>"something" Flats?  I forget what the first word is.

>Footrot Flats.

>>They seem to be less prudish in their strips down there as genitalia
>>(especially sheep genitalia) is often shown and jokes made about it.
>>It is bawdy in places, but not, I repeat, NOT obscene.

>Most of the jokes are farming jokes. Quite respectable really!

>>Anyone know of any books of it available?

>Loads, but whether they're published outside NZ I don't know. You can by
>them (imported) in London.

It looks like they may have a UK publisher as well.  When I was last
visiting "Comics Showcase" in Covent Garden London, they had the
standard NZ imports but they also had some UK reprints as well by
Titan books.  Titan are a UK publishing house that specialises in
comics material.  They may be best known for their B&W reprints of all
the Alan Moore "Swamp Thing" issues.  These may be available in the
US and they're well worth searching out.

Jimmy
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From: jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Alexander Chokey)
Subject: Re: Chicago Tribune Comics Section
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 03:00:36 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.165507.4535@bmerh2.bnr.ca> coop1w13@bnr.ca writes:
>Okay, I'll give it a shot, too. (As if anyone really cares about my 
>opinions!! :-) :-)
> 
>|> >>>>>>The Far Side                      B- B+ A+ A+ A  A  A+ A+
>|> >>>>>>Peanuts                           B  B  B  B  B  A- B+ B
>|> >>>>>>Dick Tracy                        B- B- D  D  C  C  ?  ?
>|> >>>>>>Brenda Starr                      C  D  F  F  D  C- B  ?
>|> >>>>>>Walnut Cove                       B+ D  ?  ?  F  C- ?  ?
>|> >>>>>>Fox Trot                          A  A- A  ?  A  A+ A  A+

[remainder deleted]

	Unfortunately, this list should probably be considered valid no
longer.  Somebody seems to have changed the grades that previous people
assigned.
	--  Jim C. <jchokey@leland.stanford.edu>
From: plck@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (David Pollack)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: POGO
Summary: POGO died with Walt
Date: 12 Apr 92 16:10:31 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

Sorry, but after all this time I have come to the sad conclusion that Pogo
died when Walt did.  The imitators did a pretty good job of faking it for
a while, but they were just doing repeats of old bits.  Pogo was primal
innocence, Albert was every kid's best buddy, owl and turtle the funniest
sideshow in town, and Miz Beaver, Beauregard Hound, Bun Rab, J. Wiley
Catt, Preacher Mushrat and all the rest were just plain family.  There
will never be another day like the one when the three bats (Bewitched,
Bothered, and Bemildred) took up residence in Albert's stomach and lit up
one of the old seegars they found there.... Sorry about the elegiacal mood,
but true POGO fans will understand (and remember how little the rest
mourned when they figured Pogo was dead and decided to share his belongings
in his honor.....)
From: joshm@netlink.cts.com (Josh Mercer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Lets hear it for Fox Trot!
Keywords: Fox Trot!
Date: 11 Apr 92 06:52:41 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

vlcoleman@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (vicki coleman) writes:
> >started reading it a couple of years ago.  I do, though, wonder why it'not 
> >more popular than it is--I never see FT books on the bestseller shelves.
> > 
> There are at least 3 Fox Trot collections available.  The latest one
> just came out a week or two ago.
> --
  
I know that.  I said I never see it on the bestseller shelves, unlike any 
Calvin and Hobbes book which is on a bestseller list instantly.

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From: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 09:39:15 GMT

carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) writes:
>although
>I really liked Oliver's physics instructor ("Except, of course, that
>hamsters are allergic to oatmeal").

  Don't you mean raisins?

  Personally I love the early Bloom County stuff the best (when Milo was
the main character).  I don't care much for Outland either.
From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side : Scientist category
Date: 10 Apr 92 03:15:37 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston) writes:

>"So, Professor Jenkins!...My old nemesis!...We meet again, only 
>This was a duck talking to a man on a small island.  A ship was sinking
>in the background, implying the man was shipwrecked: 
>this time the advantage is mine! Ha! Ha! Ha!" 


My favourite Far Side with scientists is:


	"All day, a group of tough astrophysicists hogged the telescope".


(very approx).

Warwick
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From: stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Stephen C. Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts original cast
Date: 17 Apr 92 20:26:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: bronze.1992Apr17.152638.20420
Organization: Indiana University

In article <1992Apr16.181429.6443@cs.brown.edu> cs132102@cs.brown.edu (Simon Park) writes:
>
>The first cartoon that I can recall has Patty and Shermy sitting on a curb
>as Charlie Brown walks by. Shermy says, (I'm going by memory here so please
>forgive any mistakes) "There goes Charlie Brown..... Yeah, good ole Charlie
>Brown." The cartoon ends with Shermy wearing a grimace saying "How I hate 
>him!"
>
Hey - this is my favorite single strip of Peanuts!

I think this particular one shows a heck of a lot of insight.  However,
as I recall the last line is "NOW I hate him,"  much funnier.

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From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Subject: re:family circus
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 20:47:42 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

I stand corrected...I meant "Ida Know".  Anybody notice how she and Not ME
look like ghosts?
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From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:14:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.7_tj27k.kemnitz
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <wcsjc.702908831@cunews> wcsjc@alfred.carleton.ca (John Coughlin) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr8.133719.28018@en.ecn.purdue.edu> irvine@en.ecn.purdue.edu (B-rent) writes:
>>
>>	If you are culturally dominated by a *COMIC STRIP* it
>>	says a lot more about _your_ culture than that of your
>>	neighbors'!
>
>Well, Superman was created by a Canadian, so nyah! nyah!

This may be true, but no one here is going to feel imperialized over
it, whereas you obviously feel the childish need to gloat over the
creation of a stupid comic strip.  Are all Canadians so insecure?
For the Humor Impaired, I am being sarcastic.  The point is, if people
like something, they will buy it, no matter where it is from.   
Unfortunately, what people like is too often crap, and it is invariably
the crap of American culture that gets exported (Mcdonald's, Steven King,
E.T.) rather than the good stuff (well, no good food, but Philip K. Dick
and Tom Disch, Flatliners, whatever.)  My $0.02 worth.



	Jon Rhein
	posting from a friend's account
	jon@postgres.berkeley.edu
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From: amanning@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Andrew Manning)
Subject: Re: Needed: COMPLETE bibliography for C&H
Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:04:47 GMT

>>Don't forget:
>>
>>	-Scientific Progress goes Boink
>>
>>	and the new one,
>>
>>	-Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons.  Or somesuch.

Well I had this one, except I mistakenly wrote Snowmen

>
>I also forgot to add 
>
>	-Something under the bed is drooling.
>-- 

Thanks for the other two for completing the list

Andrew M.



Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
From: rtang@sunee.waterloo.edu (He who must not be Named.)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:52:28 GMT

In article <SMITH.92Apr9133359@gramian.harvard.edu> smith@gramian.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) writes:
>The FCC enforces community standards just like its Canadian
>counterpart.  Canada's regulations on speech, from Canadian content to
>hate speech to Quebec's language laws are well known.  Nothing like
>this exists in the United States.
 If I may interject. The key issue is that the TV censors in
Canada is a lot more liberal then in the U.S. 
ie) more sex on TV (broadcasted not just cable)
Don't you all just love the 2 versions of films they show on City-TV.
One the Americans see on their TV network, and the other un-cut version
the rest of the free world sees.  

>
>Steven Smith

RAY
From: vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vernon H Harmon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 11 Apr 92 18:13:26 GMT
	<1992Apr10.021133.470@skitzo.dseg.ti.com>
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

One of my favorites is the one with this really grubby looking guy
sitting at a table under a light in a darkened room. He is holding a
long piece of paper that appears to be a list and at the top it says
"Small animals I have eaten." There is a moth flying around the light
and the man is looking up at it. The caption reads: "Coincidentally,
Carl had just reached the M's...."

--Vernon.
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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: Calvin-Hobbes/Bloom County/Outland
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:07:16 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.172743.17162@m.cs.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>....  Perhaps it due to the fact that C&H
>essentially has a cast of two ...

  I've always found it interesting how few characters there are in
C&H.  While of course other strips also have a small, central core of
characters, they will also periodically introduce new characters as a
plot device.  (If the Peanuts universe were ever completely mapped, it
would be full of such characters--Lily, Eudora, Roy, Floyd, Lydia,
Molly Volley, etc.  Boy, brings back memories!)  I can't recall any
such new characters in C&H.

  Anyway, the C&H cast that I can remember are:

Calvin
Hobbes
Mom
Dad
Susie Derkins
Mr. Bun
Miss Wormwood
principal (Mr. Spittle?)
Moe
Rosalyn
pediatrician
anyone else???


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From: taube@oregon.uoregon.edu (Christian Taube)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Keywords: Names
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: su
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:51:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.023051.20282@EE.Stanford.EDU> sahul@loading-zone.Stanford.EDU (Zakir H. Sahul) writes:
>1) What is Calvin's last name?
>       - I have not read a single strip where his last name is 
>         mentioned.  (But I haven't read them all.)

Even if you do: it never gets mentioned.

>2) What are Calvin's parents' first names?
>       - They always call one another by Dear etc.

Dito.

Christian.
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Zippy isn't funny anymore
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:09:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.zbrjk8h
Organization: Living in a satellite fantasy, waiting for the night to end.

hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship) writes:

>> Remember back when Zippy the Pinhead was a funny character?  He was my
>> favorite.  But now, I think the name of the strip should be changed to
>> "The Adventures of Griffy Complaining and Zippy Responding Rather
>> Plainly." 
>
> I grudgingly agree.  Griffy has not been the same since, I believe,
> before the Gulf war.  He needs a vacation in a serious way. 

Nobody around here carries the strip so I follow it in the tradebacks, but
as far as I can tell, ZIPPY has *always* been functionally equivalent to
"The Adventures Of Griffy Complaining"!  Griffith's social-commentary
angle has been the driving force behind the strip since it started.

I've never really thought that Zippy was a "ha ha funny" strip -- more
just a platform for Griffith to let of steam.  But he does that better
than just about anyone working in comics.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Eyebeam and Dilbert
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:03:33 GMT

hkelly@edsr.eds.com (Kelly Shuldberg) writes:


>And does anyone besides us folks in NM see Dilbert?  Does anyone who sees
>it, like it?  It's just off-the-wall enough that I think it's excellent.

Before I give my opinion on Dilbert, I'd like to do my impression of what
you sounded like just now: Fuh fuh fuh fuh fuh, fuh fuh fuh.  :)

Yes, we in Illinois get Dilbert too.  I didn't like it at first, but it
started to grow on me, and before I could scrape it off, it engulfed me
completely and made me a fan.  The book "Build a Better Life By Stealing
Office Supplies" (or whatever) is classic.


                                       --Steve Stelter
                                         sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: cma@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (christine.m.dakes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Summary: pilots
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:58:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T


Or how about the one with 2 pilots in a cockpit flying a big plane,
the one sees a red light on and is screaming something like oh my god
what's that red light, we're going to die! and the other pilot says
"relax, it's just the intercom light".  I loved it!

   Christine   attme!alcmd
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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:35:37 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.145716.3456@amhux2.amherst.edu> twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>Has anyone else seen a strip called "Jim's Journal?"  We get it at
>Amherst, but it seems not to be distributed very widely.  This is kind
>of an existentialist/minimalist strip with a small but pretty
>dedicated following here and at UMass.  I was wondering if New England
>has the only pocket of "Jim's Journal" fans in the country.

Ugh, I hope so... 

"Jim's Journal" fans should be locked up in little cages and have rotting
meat pushed in between the bars once a week.

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Subject: Favourite Bloom County strips (Was Re: Best Long Time Strip/Gahan)
From: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up)
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:50:31 +1200
Reply-To: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Distribution: world
Organization: Computer Science,University of Canterbury,New Zealand

From article <1992Apr9.231850.9645@esd.dl.nec.com>, by west@esd.dl.nec.com (Mike West):
> My all-time favorite Bloom County has to be the one where
> [Anti-nuke rally]
> 
> Also up there are the ones where Opus is watching Mister Rogers.
> [Two more stories deleted]

One of my favourite Bloom County strips was when Opus was reviewing a film
for the Picayune:

 "George Phblat's new film ``Benji saves the universe'', has brought the
 word ``bad'' to new levels of badness."

 "Bad acting.  Bad effects. Bad everything. This film just oozed rottenness
 from every bad scene ... simply bad beyond all infinite dimensions of
 possible badness."

 [Opus pauses]

 "Well maybe not that bad, but lord it wasn't good"



ObFarside: Creationism explained.
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From: mjtuovin@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Markku Tuovinen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C&H translated where? (Was: Re: Needed: COMPLETE)
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:05:54 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <SHEM.92Apr10010610@phoenix.oulu.fi> shem@phoenix.oulu.fi writes:
>>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Taube <taube@oregon.uoregon.edu> writes:
>
>	Christian> Any other countries or languages?
>
>In Finnish, yes, under the name "Lassi & Leevi" (inane sounding names
>to a Finn). The translations are lame, I think. It's going as a strip
>in the newspaper Turun Sanomat, too. According to my observations, the
>translated pieces aren't very popular here. The original albums, on
>the other hand, have enthusiastic (if few) readers. Good to hear that
>Watterson is still writing. 
>
>-Janne
The Finnish name "Lassi & Leevi" can be seen as a logical choice since
Calvin & Hobbes were philosophers and economists, brainy guys anyway and
Lars Leevi Laestadius happened to have a rather signicant role in
Finnish religious circles... In my opinion the other version used in
"Iltasanomat" (a yellow paper), "Paavo & Elvis" is more irrelevant and
random than "Lasse & Leevi".