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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: CounterPoll
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 18:52:34 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

In article <1992Apr08.161400.244291@cs.cmu.edu> kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes:
>Okay, it was inevitable.  Send me your top 10 favorite comic strips, in
>order of preference, and I'll compile them for this bboard.

OK, that will be fun.  But for even *more* fun, send *me* your top 10
*most hated* comic strips, and I will post the results.

(I'm hoping Dondi, the "Robot Monster" of the comic pages, wins this one.)

--markrose@spss.com
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C&H:  Merchandising (was Re: HOBBES (of C&H) Bumper Sticker)
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:32:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr9.193715.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>, morrow@fnalf.fnal.gov (The Third Elmo) writes...
>In article <1992Apr9.224838.13447@oz.plymouth.edu>, pyr491@oz.plymouth.edu (Scott Bernier) writes:
>>[describing Hobbes bumper sticker]
> 
>        Bill Watterson does not allow Calvin & Hobbes to be merchandised in any
>way.  Any Calvin & Hobbes merchandise (I have seen Hobbes dolls, eg) is BOOTLEG
>and Watterson does not receive a penny.  Please do NOT support anyone you see
>hocking C&H material.

     Gotta love his ethics.  Nice one, Bill.  




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From: carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs)
Subject: Re: New Comics-only paper? (was Chicago Tribune Comics Section)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 11:46:33 GMT

Just to clarify things:  The newspaper called Strips that I mentioned
earlier carries a total of around 60 separate *titles*, not just the ones
I listed.  The 60 does not refer to the absolute number of daily strips
printed in each (weekly) issue; there are many more.

Again, the address for further info is Associated Features Inc., 
P.O. Box 7099, Fairfax Station, VA  22039.


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From: ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Keywords: groovy man
Organization: Turkey Hall
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:14:34 GMT

>> Calvin and Hobbes is by far the best comic strip around.  Just trying to
>> start some arguments... 8)
>> 
>> 					A big fan,
>> 					Scott Elwood   
>
>How about ONE of the best, right after ernie pook's comeek and the Far Side ;->


"The Far Side" is a close second.  Haven't read too much of the other.
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From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Subject: Bob 'n' Dave (was Re: Bad college strips (was Re: stupid strips)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 19:40:24 GMT

tjz20735@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tom Zych) writes:


>Not to mention "Bob 'n' Dave", though the quality on that seems to have 
>dropped lately.

>Blondie: 'Time for work, Dagwood'
>Dave: 'Fuck you, buddy!'



Yep, Bob 'n' Dave is OK.  It was much funnier a few years back though.
Let's see, did Electric Kool-Aid Acid Man and The Fantabulous Four strips
count as Bob 'n' Dave?  I think they both made it into one or another
of the BnD collections.  Neat stuff.

Tom
From: jj@alice.att.com (jj this, and jj that and jj go away)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Best Far Side
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:54:22 GMT
Reply-To: jj@alice.UUCP (jj this, and jj that and jj go away)
Organization: NJ State Home for Bewildered Terminals

Well, my favorite one is two bears, holding a car next to a cliff,
with terrified people inside.  The caption:

"1, 2, 3"
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From: jojo@sandman.wpd.sgi.com (Jonathan Wesener)
Subject: Re: Travels with Farley
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Distribution: rec.arts.comics.strips
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 19:37:48 GMT

In <1992Apr16.021540.26354@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> tjarks@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (timothy.w.tjarks) writes:

> From article <1992Apr15.212840.12437@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by ndj20710@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nathan D. Johnson):
> > Anyone else remember a strip called Travels with Farley? 
> 
> Yep, and I enjoyed it while it ran.   Your rememberance of the James
> Watt bit proves that it lasted at least into the early eighties.
> 
> As I remember it, it was pulled from national syndication by the
> creator because he wanted it to concentrate on more local issues,
> local in this case being San Francisco bay area, and it continued
> running in only one paper.  I don't know which paper that was, or
> how long it continued.

It's still in the SF Chronicle and it's pretty good, actually.

I've only been following for a few years, but I think it's pretty
funny.


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From: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Adam Levin)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Reply-To: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 18:15:49 GMT

"Take this handkerchief back to the lab, Stevens. I want some answers
on which monster did this--Godzilla! Gargantua! Who?"

Anything having to do with history, specifically for me, Custer's
Last View and Custer's Last Photograph

Adam Levin		st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
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From: v070n53b@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (MARK PRZYBYSZEWSKI)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Miles to Go
Date: 16 Apr 92 23:37:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <46342@dime.cs.umass.edu>, michael@dime.cs.umass.edu (Michael Kieras) writes...
>Anybody remember a strip called "Miles to Go" from the early 80's?
>Miles was a dog with a black circle around one eye, and he could
>switch which eye it was around.  It was a continuing strip, and a
>lot of it was Miles trying to evade a persistent dog catcher named
>Norbert Nimrod.  In the end, when the writer stopped the strip, all
>of the regular characters flew off together in a hot air balloon.
> 
>I remember getting a few chuckles out of it.  The chances of finding
>it collected somewhere are probably about nil.
> 
I remember it, also.  Miles was a Tyrolean beach hound, if memory serves
me right.  One of my favorite things about it was that he'd visit his sister
living in Buffalo from time to time (see .sig for reason).  I don't know
of any compilations; probably didn't run long enough to get more than one
or two books out, if any.  Found it cute, if not hilarious.
> 
>Michael Kieras
>michael@cs.umass.edu
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From: saevans@cie1.icaen.uiowa.edu (Scott A Evans,,,)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:34:15 GMT
Reply-To: saevans@icaen.uiowa.edu

Personally, I'm really fond of the one where the snake is sitting
there with something rather large in its stomach, and right next
to it is Garfield's food dish.  The snake has a broad grin on its
mouth.  

Another favorite of mine is the one where the human mother is
walking back to the farmhouse carying a basket of eggs, and the 
chicken is walking from the farmhouse back to the barn (or henhouse
or whatever) carying the human baby.  Cracks me up every time I 
see it!

Scott

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From: bobsoron@world.std.com (Bob Soron)
Subject: Mr. Boffo Rules! (Was: Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 02:09:02 GMT

In article <53817@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4646a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Beauchamp)
writes:
>
> Scott A Elwood writes:  
>>Calvin and Hobbes is by far the best comic strip around.  Just trying to
>>start some arguments... 8)
>
>Calvin and Hobbes WAS the best comic strip around... until Mr. Boffo 
>came along. C&H is now a distant, but very respectable, second.
>
>The Mr. Boffo Serenity Prayer:
>
>     "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change...
>      the courage to change the things I can...
>      and a red Ferrari."
>-- 
>Rob Beauchamp                           \  It's better to be rich and healthy
>Georgia Institute of Technology           \    than poor and sick.    
>Disclaimer: Back off, man. I'm a scientist. \    -- Dave Barry's mother  

*Now* we're getting somewhere! My all-time favorite comic strip shows
Mr. Boffo and his woman friend walking their dogs in the park.

Mr. Boffo: "When I was a kid, I spent every summer on my grandfather's
            farm. It was right off the main highway... I remember how I'd
            lie awake listening at my window to the animals and the sounds
            they made in the night. I got to where I could do a perfect
            impression of each and every one."

Woman:     "Do a raccoon for me."

Mr. Boffo: "Thump-thump"

Unfortunately, this was the *last* Sunday Mr. Boffo the Boston Globe
ran. Anyone know where I can keep up with it? (It still carries the
weekday strip.)

This particular strip also had my favorite Mr. Boffo T-shirt:
"With Velcro, gravity is obsolete."

Bob Soron
bobsoron@world.std.com


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From: cs132102@cs.brown.edu (Simon Park)
Subject: Peanuts original cast
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:14:29 GMT

Just a note of interest to die-hard Peanuts fans. The original cast of the 
cartoon consisted of Charlie Brown, Patty (not Peppermint), and Shermy. I
think Snoopy was a minor character initially. 

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!"

Schultz has come a long way since then.

Simon Park
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From: pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick M. Ryan)
Subject: Big Nate
Reply-To: pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick M. Ryan)
Organization: Oceans & Ice Branch, NASA/GSFC/STX
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:01:17 GMT


Back when we were in C&H rerun city, the strip that kept me going
was "Big Nate".  I don't know how widely its distributed.  I read
it in the Washington Post (which, by the way just cancelled "The
Phanton".  grrr).  Nate's loose-leaf paper drawings are great!


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 Nurse!  Bring me my belt sander!"
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From: w3wes@edison.gsfc.nasa.gov (William E. Smith)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: General Sciences Corporation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:49:44 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.082041.5986@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, smbaker@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Svlad Cjelli) writes:
> 
> In article <7467@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
> ]What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?
> ]


The real reason dinosaurs became extinct.
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From: irving@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Myers)
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:34:03 GMT

In <1992Apr7.215418.28231@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

>Anybody read this? Any opinions? Should she have had the third child?
>Will Michael & Martha stay together forever? Will Gordo turn his dad
>in for abusing him?

I don't know much about the author of this puppy, but I think she (it is her
isn't it?) writes reality.  So there probebly wasn't a choice about the baby,
if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

I'd like to see M&M together, it plays well, esp. since it isn't pounded over
our heads too much.  Gordo turns in his dad - please!  What an excellent forum
to stop this kind of thing.  What do kids read?  The comics!


Funny + Real = Real Funny.
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From: pinelr@aix.rpi.edu (Rob Pinelli)
Subject: Re: Calvin-Hobbes/Bloom County/Outland
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:07:39 GMT

In article <emj.703190964@atop> emj@atop.ugcs.caltech.edu (ed johnson) writes:
>flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) writes:
>
>>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 ...
>
>>  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???
>
>Flopsy mopsy (??) one of Susie's dolls that Calvin ransoms in
>	the Snow Goons book

  The ransomed doll's name was Binky Betsy

Another supporting character is Ronald, the schoolmate that Calvin uses 
the invisible cretinizer on in the Snow Goons book.

   Two questions: 

   1.) Has there ever been ANY references to either of Calvin's parents'
       first names, or the family last name?  We know Susie's last name is
       Derkins...

   2.) Do you notice that Hobbes rarely calls Calvin by name, but Calvin 
       addresses Hobbes by his first name frequently?


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From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: Needed: COMPLETE bibliography for C&H
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Reply-To: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:37:57 GMT

In article <12061@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> saevans@icaen.uiowa.edu writes:
:Oops, I forgot one.  Let's try this again!
:
:Treasuries:
:	The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
:	The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book
:	The Authoritive Calvin and Hobbes
:
:Regular Books:
:	Calvin and Hobbes
:	Something Under the Bed is Drooling
:	Yukon Ho!
:	Weirdos From Another Planet!
:	The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
:	Scientific Progress goes "Boink"
:	Attack of the Deranged, Killer Mutant Snow Goons

Well, actually this is a good START on what I was looking for.  Now,
which of the treasuries contain how much of the regular books?  I believe
that there is some cross over between treasuries as well.

Finally, are there any really FANATIC C&H fans out there - I mean,
folks who collect the daily strips?  If so, can you give us a ball park
figure on how many UNIQUE daily strips have been made to date?  I am
curious as to how much of this fellow's work is available in the reprinted
form.
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From: mudcr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David C Roller)
Subject:  The Best Far Side cartoon 3 I have not seen here.
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:51:40 GMT

Here are 3 far sides and no one mentioned as faves.

First : Jeopardy type gameshow and the announcer says to a raidiant grey
haired man:  Yes God the correct answer is Wisconsin you have 12,000 and
norman our current champion is yet to score.

Second: Hells Library: Story problems more story problems still more
story problems (You get the idea)

Third: In a small swimming pond that has a shark fin in the water and a
half eaten tire swinging froma rope.  On the shore one boy says to
another boy okay you get another tire and I'll tell Timmy's mom.

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mudcr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu                  For The Next Generation

To boldly go  and make disciples of al nations.
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit  and teaching them to obey everything Christ has commanded.
Surely He is with us always to the very end of the age and the galaxy
itself.
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From: fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:28:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Apr8.002809.10829
Organization: Harvard Math Department


I hate to say it, but I think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is
the dumbest strip, at least in the Boston Globe anyway. It
takes FOREVER to get anywhere, and the artists must think the
people reading it have no memory because they spend a lot of
time repeating previous action to bring you up to speed. "Last
week, the Turtles went through the sewer.  Here's anther
drawing of it!"  

Does anyone else get Eggers in their Sunday comics?  That's
probably the stupidest, but it's not really a comic strip.

David Fry                               fry@math.harvard.EDU
Department of Mathematics               fry@huma1.bitnet
Harvard University                      ...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138
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Subject: Dark Shadows #1
From: bjuland@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:08:18 CST
Organization: University of Missouri-Kansas City

Dark Shadows #1 was released today.  It has a painted interior (I guess
Innovation is doing this with most of their comics).  It is not a retelling of
the tv series, nor is it a continuation.  It's a sort of extra episode.  It
takes place after the third hour when Barnabas is getting ready to undergo
treatment by Julia.  
I really enjoyed this one.  I think it was one of the best things to come out
this week.  The painted panels are wonderful (some better than others of
course.)  
At the back they included a making of the tv series with several pictures of
the 1991 cast.  They also included an interview with the illustrator.
I'd recommend this one to Dark Shadows fans.  
While it helps to have seen the series, I think new Shadows fans will enjoy it
also....

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From: ri10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Isenberg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Movies? who came 1st: Aliens or Brood?
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:13:00 GMT
	<1992Apr7.163249.2817@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
Organization: Masters student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>In article <92093.090140EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu>, EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu
(Ernie Opor
>to) writes:
>> In article <1992Mar31.114348.88465@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>> ugoni@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au says:
>>>
>>>And Sauron is taken straight out of Tolkein's "The Lord of The Rings"
>>>
>>>Antony
>> 
>> Um....Sauron is no new character.  At least if you dont enjoy him, you
>> cant blame Liefeld....  Now that we're comparing X-Men villains with movies,
>> can you say Brood=Aliens(I, II and 3)?  Anyone know if the Brood came before
>> the Alien did, or not?  I suspect the movie came first.
>> 
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>the Brood came first.
> 
>"Hey Elf, Don't forget the beer!" - Wolverine, X-men #172
>

While were at it, Who came first: Wolverine or Freddy Kruger?
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From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Subject: Re: DC: Forgotten Heroes
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:34:05 GMT

ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host) writes:

>Vixen has not become a forgotten hero; she has been spotted in Suicide
>Squad, The Flash & Animal Man.

Give her time, give her time.  Most of the characters on my list have
been used; I just think they have a lot of potential which is
being ignored by DC.  More potential, anyway, than Team Titans <derisive
snort>.

>[ Whatever happened to the Helix mini-series anyways? ]

Inquiring minds want to know.  :(

Tom
From: scott@cis.ohio-state.edu (Scott E. Rice)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Detective 644
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:14:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: cis.1992Apr10.191424.12584
Distribution: na
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and
Originator: scott@beech.cis.ohio-state.edu


Detective 644 was great.  The story and art are fantastic.  I love the new
Robin.  The character is shaping a lot better than I had hoped. The plot was 
one of the better Bats I have read in a while.  Tim is becoming the worlds 
second best detective, after Batman of course.  I also like the idea of two 
electricustioners.  I was on the edge of my seat and can`t wait for the next
issue.  I only thing is that Robin needs a way of getting aroung.  Give him a 
Honda Elite scooter, he legally old enough for one and I sure it wouldn`t hurt
Bruce's wallet either.  Alfred doesn't need to be taking him everywhere, when
 is he going to clean the mansion.  Pretty soon Alfred will get in the middle 
of something and he'll be kidnapped.  Finally if Gordon can't figure out you 
Tim is with his hair, I think that it is time for a new Police chief.

Scott


Give Robin his own series and long lives Bats
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Subject: Re: Darkhorse Distribution
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:37:13 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <35905@ogicse.ogi.edu> by shobaki@chico.cse.ogi.edu (Khaldoun Shobaki):

> -most 100% sure) and at local shops there is no dearth of DH books.  Almost

    Same here.

> -kal
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