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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: Any good one-box comics?
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 20:39:44 GMT

tyg@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway) writes:

>One of two collections by John Callahan, that one with the title "Do Not
>Disturb Any Further". His other collection is titled "Digesting the Child
>Within", and I believe a third collection is due out next month but I 
>forget the title. He also wrote a prose autobiography entitled "Don't Worry,
>He Won't Get Far On Foot" which had a cover illustration featuring a
>toppled wheelchair.

The autobiography makes interesting reading.  Callahan will never win
awards for his prose, but the book is brutally frank and endlessly
interesting.  Recommended.  For those living near Ann Arbor, AfterWords
had a couple of hardback copies marked down to $5.00 or so.
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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Any good one-box comics?
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:44:11 GMT
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In article <1992Aug21.084409.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:
[recommendations for one-panels]
   Ha, you beat me to this. Actually there are two one box strips that I will 
   recommend and I'm wondering who knows the artist for each of them.

   Guindon

   The Neighborhood

Jerry Van Amerongen.  It's sorta like weird-people -oriented Far Side.

And then there's Dan Piraro's Bizarro, which may at times take a lot
of thinking.  My favorite is the fat guy in a car who has just driven
thru a iron-bar fence; the car is falling around him in slices, but
he is unhurt; says "It's amazing how thin you can be when you really
want it."

A friend once showed me a collection of wonderfully warped cartoons
mainly about people with medical problems (my friend explained that
the author is a paraplegic), the cover had a drawing of a door which
said "mental ward number three" and a small sign hanging from the
doorknob saying "do not disturb any further".  Does anyone recognize
this, I'd like to get my hands on it again ?
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From: TW.N82@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Is Charles Schultz senile?
Organization: Iowa State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:28:15 GMT

In article <78383@ut-emx.uucp>,
swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum) writes:
>
>        I saw someone refer to Peanuts the other day, and it reminded me of
>a conjecture my wife and I had last year:
>
>        Charles Schultz is totally senile.

(stuff deleted)

>        The man has totally lost it.  It's not as if he needed more money,
>for God's sake.  The man needs to retire (retroactively to about 1987).
>It just reminds me of Early Wynn trying to get his 300th victory and looking
>sad and pathetic in doing so.  Schultz will be forever beloved around the
>world, no matter what he does now, but for God's sake, TAKE AWAY THIS MAN'S
>PEN!
>
>        I apologize if this is on the r.a.c.s. FAQ list.
>--
>Steve Buffum           | "Good grief!  I'm not funny!" -- C. Brown, paraphrased
>swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |


Maybe Mr. Buffum thinks that _vicious_ is funny.  Lots of people
think that 'Peanuts' has lost a lot over the years, but this posting
is overstated to the point of slander.  I have rarely been so upset
by a posting.
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From: m14430@mwunix.mitre.org (Lawrence Larson)
Subject: Re: Is Charles Schultz senile?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:54:44 GMT

swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum) writes:

>	I saw someone refer to Peanuts the other day, and it reminded me of
>a conjecture my wife and I had last year:

>	Charles Schultz is totally senile.

>	Think about it.  When was the last time you can remember "Peanuts"
>being funny, let alone consistently amusing for a week in a row? 

Maybe I'm getting senile - but I know a lot of folks who still find Peanuts
amusing. The recent thread with Snoopy as airline pilot, defaulting on
Sally's flight, then as the attorney pressing her case - only to be 
distracted by cookies, caused some chuckles at my lunch table. So it's
not a kick in the pants so often as Calvin, the Fuscos, Ernie, etc. -
it doesn't have to be *that* good any more! Not personal, but your
complaint reminds me of the typical movie critic who expects every
flick to be the best ever made - or he condemns it as not worth seeing.
It's entertainment, pure and simple. If it's not your style, skip it - as I do
with most of the serial strips, like Prince Valiant, Mary Worth, etc.

$.02 plain -- Larry

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From: m14430@mwunix.mitre.org (Lawrence Larson)
Subject: Pogo comic book reprints
Summary: Found! 1991 publications
Keywords: Pogo, Kelly
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:02:27 GMT

For any Pogo fans out there, these are publications I haven't heard 
discussed before. Browsing in a Borders bookstore last night, I found:

- "All Natural Pogo", by Norman Hale ($9.95, Thinker's Books, 70-A
Greenwich Ave. Suite 433, NY NY 10011. 1991, paperback, first ed.) A 96-page,
5"x9" social, political, and historical analysis of Pogo, from its 
beginnings in comic books ( "Bumbazine" in 1942 ) to Kelly's death.
Illustrations from kelly.

- "Walt Kelly's 'Pogo and Albert', The Complete Pogo Comics", vols. 1,2,3,4
($8.95 ea., Eclipse Books, P.O. Box 1099, Forestville, CA 95436, 1st ed.,
copyrights 1989.) Re-printing, in chronological sequence, of *all* of the
Pogo comic books which preceeded the newspaper strip. Series edited by Mark
Burstein, who mentions his upcoming work from Eclipse Books called
" Much Ado: The Pogofenokee Trivia Book ". (He also mentions Pogo's full
name - anyone out there know it?) Don't know if #4 is the last or if there
are more to come...

- Also: a large format paperback called "Calvin & Hobbes, Garfield, Bloom
County, Doonesbury, and All That Funny Stuff" by James Van Hise (1991,
Pioneer Books Inc., 5715 N. Balsam Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89130, $14.95). An
interesting volume on the development of the best strips of the 90s, including
Bloom County, Outland, C&H, Doonesbury, Far Side, Garfield, TMNJ (!),
Angriest Dog, Mother Goose & Grimm, The Quigmans, Tank McNamara, and
Zippy. Includes interviews with the authors, some strip reprints.
(I've never heard of The Angriest Dog or The Quigmans, so I'm looking
forward to reading it.)

-- Larry
From: dube@carson.u.washington.edu (Ric Dube)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Is Charles Schultz senile?
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:51:31 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

Pretty sad that the man can be so controversial in a positive and negative
way, as well as being recognized for his contribution to comics and comic
art, but PEOPLE STILL CAN'T SEEM TO SPELL HIS NAME CORRECTLY!!!!!
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From: glad@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Clayton Glad)
Subject: DFC goof
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:38:49 GMT


Did anyone else notice the goof in the new Dysfunctional Family Circus?

In the frame where Dolly is leaving the wading pool in disgust (captioned
"When will you learn to control your bladder, Billy?") it's actually
*Jeffy* who's in the pool.

-- Clay
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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Re: Is Charles Schultz senile?
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:21:05 GMT

In article <m14430.714776084@mwunix> m14430@mwunix.mitre.org (Lawrence Larson) writes:
>swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum) writes:
>
>>	I saw someone refer to Peanuts the other day, and it reminded me of
>>a conjecture my wife and I had last year:
>
>>	Charles Schultz is totally senile.
>
>>	Think about it.  When was the last time you can remember "Peanuts"
>>being funny, let alone consistently amusing for a week in a row? 
>
>Maybe I'm getting senile - but I know a lot of folks who still find Peanuts
>amusing. The recent thread with Snoopy as airline pilot, defaulting on
(Some stuff deleted)

  I'd hesitate to claim Schultz being senile.  But I agree with Mr. Buffum
  on the part that "Peanuts" just isn't amusing anymore.  Even the
  drawings seem to have been drawn with a shaking hand.  Does Mr. Schultz 
  do all the drawings by himself?  How old is he?

>it doesn't have to be *that* good any more! Not personal, but your
>complaint reminds me of the typical movie critic who expects every
>flick to be the best ever made - or he condemns it as not worth seeing.
>It's entertainment, pure and simple. If it's not your style, skip it - as I do
>with most of the serial strips, like Prince Valiant, Mary Worth, etc.

  I don't agree here.  I compare the older "Peanuts" strips to those
  of today, and the difference is so clear.  I still laugh and enjoy
  the older "Peanuts" like I always have, but the new ones totally
  lack the magic.  And "Peanuts" definately is my style (the old ones).

  I'm not expecting every "Peanuts" strip to be the best ever made, but 
  in my opinion "Peanuts" is today mostly boring.  So sad :(

>
>$.02 plain -- Larry
>
  Likewise,
		- Mika


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From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (ce)
Subject: Re: Angriest Dog in the World Info Wanted
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 06:41:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.112557.1@rchep.ph.unimelb.edu.au> bertram@rchep.ph.unimelb.edu.au writes:
>In article <m14430.715375434@mwunix>, m14430@mwunix.mitre.org (Lawrence Larson) writes:
>> Does anyone know of publications (probably weeklies) which carry David
>> Lynch's bizarre strip "The Angriest Dog in the World"? It used to be
>> carried in a Los Angeles weekly; I'm not even certain it's still being
>> "drawn", if that's the proper term! Any info is welcome - email please.
>> 
>> Thanks -- Larry
>> 
>This can be found in the Darkhorse comic called Cheval Noir.
>It comes out monthly and I don't know if they are new strips or reprints.
>
I believe it can also be found in the Utne Reader.

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From: pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Washington Post comics editor
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:05:20 GMT
Reply-To: pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan)
Distribution: na
Organization: Oceans & Ice Branch, NASA/GSFC/STX


This is just a little info for people in the greater DC
area.  Here is the address for the comics editor of
the Post:

	The Comics Editor
	The Washington Post
	1150 15th Street, NW
	Washington, DC 20071-5215

	This was printed last Friday in the "Comics" section.
The editor again acknowledged the replacement of Herman
with Leescapes.  The editor asked for comments about the
new strip.
	Needless to say, I fueled up the flamethrower...

pat


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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Re: Is Charles Schultz senile?
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 07:43:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.143005.15026@amhux2.amherst.edu> khandley@amhux1.amherst.edu (Keith Handley) writes:
>Mika O. Latokartano (mol@jyu.fi) wrote:
>:   I'd hesitate to claim Schultz being senile.  But I agree with Mr. Buffum
>:   on the part that "Peanuts" just isn't amusing anymore.  Even the
>:   drawings seem to have been drawn with a shaking hand.  Does Mr. Schultz 
>:   do all the drawings by himself?  How old is he?
>
>He's pretty old (good answer, huh?).  And yes, he now does have a shaky
>hand, but he always took pride in his doing every strip himself, without
>assistants (at least in the sense that many comic strip artists have
>assistants who are really ghosts).

  An admirable commitment from Schultz.  I can appreciate that.

>
>And although this doesn't mean that it isn't time for Schulz to retire,
>I imagine that in most of your papers that there are >7 strips that you
>think are worse than Peanuts and would rather see go first.

  That is certainly true.  Some strips are so incredibly dull that I'd
  certainly rather see Peanuts as it is now instead of some of the
  other strips I see nowadays.

	- Mika


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From: cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Is Charles Schultz senile? I think so.
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:13:06 GMT
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, California

In article <mcirvin.714870181@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>
>The most depressing thing about the aging and passing of comic-
>strip legends is that there are generally no qualms about putting
>another artist to work immediately on the strip the great one
>created.  There have been dark mutterings here that, in the case of
>Peanuts, this has in fact already happened: that Charles Shultz is
>not the current author of Peanuts.  Whether or not this is true,
>I suspect that Peanuts will continue without a break when
>Charles Shultz passes on.

That leads me to a question:  is there anything an artist can do to prevent
his or her creation from being carried on after his or her death?  I realize
Shultz has sold the rights to the Peanuts characters a big way, perhaps
including a right to continue producing "official" Peanuts cartoons in his
absence or after his death, but failing that, surely that right doesn't
automatically devolve to the estate?   For example, it would certainly be
illegal for someone to claim they were producing "Picassos" (ie, paintings by
Pablo Picasso) after he died; it seems to me that the same would be true of
any other form of art.
From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:48:34 GMT
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In article <1992Aug21.143055.18711@engage.pko.dec.com> davis@gauss.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes:
	   No, they're NOT!  The t-shirts you may have seen around are
	   bootlegs.  In other words, they are copyright violations, and
	   are illegal.  Bill Watterson has not authorized these t-shirts,
	   and is not getting any compensation for them.  If you believe
	   the creator has any right to control how his characters are used,
	   then DON'T buy these t-shirts.

	   The only authorized "Calvin & Hobbes" spin-off products are
	   books and calendars.

However, I believe it's OK to make duplicates of works like book covers
etc. for your own use ?  So, just go to a shirt shop where they have one
of those Canon color copiers for making shirt images and have them transfer
your favorite calendar image to your very own personalized shirt.
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From: matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks)
Subject: Re: Calvin & Hobbes Bootlegs
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:48:28 GMT

The question of such things as C&H T-shirts has drawn a lot of debbate.
In my opinion, this is a case where the black market stuff isn't hurting
anyone. Someone else is making money that Watterson _chose_ not to make.
The t-shirts allow fans of the strip to display their affection for it,
just as any authorized version would. Reproducing the strip or the characters
faithfully does nothing to corrupt the original, whether it is legal or
not. If people started making Hobbes Pez dispensers or Calvin lawn jockeys
(a pretty funny idea, actually) this kind of item uses the characters
in a way that is not part of the C&H world and could be seen as harming
the strip's (or the character's) image. If Watterson chose to authorize
t-shirts and to accept money for them, then it would make sense for true
fans to purchase only the authorized version. I think perhaps that 
Watterson fears the pressures that would come to bear on him if he became
involved in a giant marketing campaign, and the adverse affect that that
could have on the strip. I also think that people begin to resent the
creators of strips that become inescapable due to market saturation and 
Watterson must be aware of this. Rather like hearing the same song every
time you turn on the radio: you may love it the first time, but you'll
probably hate it the hundredth time. Anyway, I've rambled long enough.
The bandwidth is all yours.

We now return to the original thread, already in progress.:-)
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From: singley@helix.nih.gov (Erick D. Singley)
Subject: Re: Calvin & Hobbes Bootlegs
Organization: (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD)
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:03:03 GMT

> Calvin and Hobbes appearing on t-shirts, etc., and that
>should be respected.  If you're going to go ahead and violate the copyright
>anyway, don't try to justify it by saying that Watterson won't be hurt by it.
>Watterson, and all creators, ARE hurt by it.  They lose control over their
>creations.

Oh no! Not copyright threads again. I've been back on nets a month, and there
must be a least two CR threads going on for months at a time. Arrg!  ;-)

Erick
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: DILBERT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:46:32 GMT

<U37426@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

>    The Chicago Tribune added a comic strip named Dilbert earlier this
>summer to replace the temporarily vacationing Trudeau's Doonesbury.
>Dilbert has got to be one of the strangest comics I have ever seen.  The
>art work is weird and the dialogue is very cynical.  However, I do enjoy
>reading it and hope that the Trib keeps it when Doonesbury returns.
>I would be most interested to here what others think about Dilbert.
>Any Dogbert fans out there?  How about Ratbert?  These are some of the
>nuttiest names for characters!

     I like Mike the dinosaur.

     If you haven't done so already, go out and grab "How To Build A Better
Life by Stealing Office Supplies," a collection of original Dilbert
cartoons based on life in the office.


                                         Steve "'Stevebert' just doesn't
                                         have the right ring to it" Stelter
                                         sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: DILBERT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:49:24 GMT

rgm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Menke) writes:

>Normally, Dilbert is ho-hum.  But one of the funniest "serials" I have
>seen on the comics page was Dilbert and his supercomputer.

>For those of you who don't follow the strip:  Dilbert gets a large
>amount of money (lottery?), and buys a Cray with it.  Then he uses the
>Cray to generate a script for Dogbert's life:

>	DOGBERT: "According to this, in two years I'll be
>                  captured by evil squirrels and forced to work
>                  in their nut mines."
>	DILBERT: "They get me too."

        DILBERT: "It's probably too late to do anything about it."

Classic stuff!


                               --Steve "Maybe I only think you're talking,
                                 but really I'm happy" Stelter
                                 sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: DILBERT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:36:30 GMT

Favorite Dilbert:

Panel 1 -- Dilbert at work, behind keyboard.  Co-worker pokes head
	into cubical and asks:  "Working hard?"

Panel 2 -- Dilbert responds:  "Hardly working!"

Panel 3 -- Dilbert enjoys himself:  "Ha ha hee hee -- SNORT!"

Panel 4 -- Dilbert at home, commiserating with his dog:  "A perfectly
	good joke, ruined by a snort."


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From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tom Johnston)
Subject: Re: DFC goof
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:04:47 GMT

glad@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Clayton Glad) writes:


>Did anyone else notice the goof in the new Dysfunctional Family Circus?

>In the frame where Dolly is leaving the wading pool in disgust (captioned
>"When will you learn to control your bladder, Billy?") it's actually
>*Jeffy* who's in the pool.

BTW, where does DFC appear?

Tom
From: jmk9313@hertz.njit.edu (Jason Kaminski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: DFC goof
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:01:19 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Sep1.223849.19251@Csli.Stanford.EDU> glad@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Clayton Glad) writes:
>
>Did anyone else notice the goof in the new Dysfunctional Family Circus?
>
>In the frame where Dolly is leaving the wading pool in disgust (captioned
>"When will you learn to control your bladder, Billy?") it's actually
>*Jeffy* who's in the pool.
>
>-- Clay

   When I and a few of the guys here at NJIT heard about the Dysfunctional
Family Circus, we thought it was a joke and now we're wondering whether there
really is a comic being printed.  If there is, we'd like to know how we can
see it, because we all pretty much dispise the Family Circus and enjoy mocking
it and ridiculing it any chance we get (which is usually every day after we
read the expected abomination and thrust the paper violently aside in total
disgust.)  Our favorite activity is taking lousy strips like the Family Circus
and Dennis the Menace and changing one or two words to change the meaning
totally and actually get a laugh from otherwise pathetic wastes of paper.

Slasher
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