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From: gert@cs.utexas.edu (Gert Westermann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 7 Apr 1992 14:10:40 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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In article <1992Apr7.184259.6196@acsu.buffalo.edu> v121r529@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott A Elwood) writes:
>Calvin and Hobbes is by far the best comic strip around.  Just trying to
>start some arguments... 8)
>
>					A big fan,
>					Scott Elwood   


But who would want to argue with that?

                                       Another big fan,
                         
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From: irvine@en.ecn.purdue.edu (B-rent)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 13:37:19 GMT



	Um.  I have a problem with the premise on the article
	of the 40-odd year old notion of 'American Imperialism.'
	
	If Canada feels that the US is dominant, they should
	think again.  Canada _may_ feel intimidated (and
	wrongly so) by the large US population.  I think that
	there is a unique Canadian culture, but the USA is
	not *that* different in culture (except for Quebec, 
	which feels intimidated by *everyone* :) ) that anyone could 
	claim domination by anything so inane as a comic strip!

	Come on people! Pull your heads out of the bucket! :)

	If you are culturally dominated by a *COMIC STRIP* it
	says a lot more about _your_ culture than that of your
	neighbors'!


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From: a0v6282@rigel.tamu.edu (Art Velasquez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: INCOMING!! (Was: Re: American Cultural Imperialism over Canada)
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:44:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


     In reply to my silly remark, bdienes@s.psych.uiuc.edu
(Bruce Dienes) writes...
>a0v6282@rigel.tamu.edu (Art Velasquez) writes:
> 
>>     Uh-oh.
>>     Thirty hours in existence, and there's already an international
>>flamewar.  And I thought this only happened in rec.sport.soccer.
>>     Take cover, all...   ;-)
> 
>When the whole cultural framework of your nation is being assaulted,
>taking a stand for every part of it (including comic strips!) is essential,
>before it is eroded away from the edges.  It is NOT true that Canadians
>other than Quebecois are "just like USers".  Come up and live with us for
>a while and get a flavour of our unique music, arts, social life, values,
>sports, politics, (and Mutant Killer Snow Goons)
> 
     One of the problems I have with this isn't that you're right or
wrong--it's that I can't ever tell.  The only times we poor saps in the
US hear about Canada occur are when (a) US media moan because some
Canadians [like you] don't like NAFTA or some relative thereof [nothing
wrong with that, by the way; I happen to agree], (b) some nut shoots up
a college campus [:-(], or (c) the Stanley Cup starts [no risk of that
this year, is there? :-)]
     Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit about it.  But until we Americans do
know how our cultures differ, arguments on either side of this won't
make a whole lot of sense.

     In any event, I wasn't trying to be very serious in my initial
remarks, or even to take sides.  I'm sorry they were misread.

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From: sacass@unix1.tcd.ie (stephen andrew cass)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:07:50 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Can anyone tell me what the one with the prehistoric men hunting the
mammoth while one blokes spear misses and the caption is 'Air Spear! Air
Spear!' means???

Steve

Stephen Cass sacass@unix1.tcd.ie stcass@maths.tcd.ie TRINITY COLLEGE
DUBLIN, IRELAND. Oh yeah, like a 1st year undergrad really represents the
official views and opinions of TCD.*******THIS SPACE FOR RENT**********
"Million to one chances occur nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchet 
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From: tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh)
Subject: Favorite Mr. Boffo  
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Keywords: Mr. Boffo                  
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:14:01 GMT

One of my favorite Mr. Boffo strips:
"Not a good sign."  (Man on knees presenting woman with engagement ring
and saying "No, it's not a hypothetical question.")


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From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Subject: Re: Chicago Tribune Comics Section
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 18:19:52 GMT

And now it's my turn :-)

>>>>>>The Far Side                      B- B+ A+ A+ A  A  A+
>>>>>>Peanuts                           B  B  B  B  B  A- 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
>>>>>>Broom Hilda                       B- C  C  C+ D  D  C
>>>>>>Barney Google and Snuffy Smith    F  D  F  D- F- F  F-
>>>>>>Sylvia                            C  B  D  ?  I  D+ F
>>>>>>Geech                             C+ B  C  ?  C+ D- B-
>>>>>>Gasoline Alley                    D  D  F  F  D  D  C
>>>>>>Fred Basset                       C  B  C  D- F  C- C-
>>>>>>Amazing SpiderMan                 B+ C  B  C- C  A- ?
>>>>>>Mother Goose & Grimm              A  A  B  A- B  B+ A-
>>>>>>Mister Boffo                      B  A- B  ?  B+ B- B
>>>>>>Winnie Winkle                     C- D  ?  D  D  D- ?
>>>>>>The Buckets                       A- F  ?  ?  C  D  ?
>>>>>>Doonesbury                        B- A  A+ B  B+ C+ B
>>>>>>Blondie                           D+ C  C  B- C  C  C+
>>>>>>Shoe                              B- A  C  B+ C+ B  B+
>>>>>>Calvin & Hobbes                   A+ A  A  A+ A+ A  A+
>>>>>>Pogo                              B- B+ C  ?  C- D+ A
>>>>>>For Better Or Worse               B+ D- A  A- A  B  A
>>>>>>The Phantom                       C+ D  C  ?  C- B- ?
>>>>>>Beetle Bailey                     C- C  C  B- C  B  C+
>>>>>>Hi and Lois                       C  D  C  D+ D  C  D
>>>>>>Cathy                             B- B  D  D  D  B- B
>>>>>>Hagar The Horrible                C  C+ B  B- C  B- C+
>>>>>>The Lockhorns                     D+ F  D  ?  F  D  C-
>>>>>>Gil Thorpe (in Sports section)    B- D  ?  ?  C- D  F

Others
>
>B.C.		A-
>Wizard of Id	B+
>Tumbleweeds	B
Zippy		F
Ziggy		D
Duffy		F
Garfield	B+
Rose Is Rose	F-
Family Circus	F
Marmaduke	F
Robotman	A
Dilbert		A
Outland		B+
Dennis the Mnc.	F+



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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: <None>
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:08:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.210824.16216@ncar.ucar.edu> amanning@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Andrew Manning) writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.094813.39130@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> dcohn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>I always wanted to be the first to post somewhere! :)
>>dan
>>
>Sorry, but you missed first by 165 on my system!

And by 183 here...  Don't let it get you down though.


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From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Calvin-Hobbes/Bloom County/Outland
Reply-To: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 17:27:43 GMT


On the subject of C&H versus Bloom County, I agree that C&H is by far
the best strip currently being published, but it would be really hard
to choose if Bloom County were still around.

IMO, Watterson captures the very essence of the child within us .. I
can relate to a lot of what Calvin does (though I was never quite as
rotten or my flights of fancy quite as detailed, nor my imaginary/real
companions quite as sagacious as Hobbes:-), but C&H is just that --
very funny, and makes me laugh.  Oh sure, once in a while Watterson
does make me think (re, ``why do we play war and not peace?'' and some
others), but this is the notable exception.

Bloom County in addition to being incredibly funny was also poignant
and touching.  Now, I'm not saying I want comic strips to make we want
to laugh and weep at the same time, but BC had that ineffable
something that C&H doesn't.  Perhaps it due to the fact that C&H
essentially has a cast of two (amazing, how he brilliantly holds our
interest without being repetitive and stale) while BC with its main
cast running to a dozen was able to show a more varied slice of life.

This above isn't meant as a putdown of C&H -- I own all the C&Hs and
only a couple of the BC collections -- just a reminiscing about my two
favorite strips and a lament that BC has vanished away --- I really,
realyy felt sad when I realized BC was history.

Both of them are/were incredibly good and lets leave it at that.

 ...and I *still* mantain that Outland is no patch on Bloom County;
for whatever reason(s).  It neither makes me laugh or touches me --
just makes me miss BC even more...

Bharat

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From: mwinches@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark D Winchester)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Comic Strip Theatricals
Summary: Adaptations of comic strips to live events.
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:01:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: magnus.1992Apr12.150128.8307
Followup-To: mwinches@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University


Besides all the comic strips adapted to the stage that everyone knows about 
(such as Annie, Charlie Brown, Doonesbury, Li'l Abner, Snoopy, Andy Capp and a 
few others) does anyone out there have a familiarity with the more obscure 
comic strips that have been adapted to the stage?

I have been working with American adaptations to date, but I would love to hear
from anyone internationally who is familiar with adaptations of international 
comics where-ever they have been done.

Thanks,

see you in the funny papers

                    Mark D. Winchester
                    Department of Theatre
                    The Ohio State University
                    mwinches@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Outland vs. Bloom County (WAS Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 05:59:56 GMT

In <gthomas.702690852@chilko.ucs.ubc.ca> gthomas@unixg.ubc.ca (Guy R Thomas) writes:

>In <1992Apr7.222128.30505@m.cs.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao) writes:

>>None from this quarter -- especially after Opus and Bill hung it up
>>(``Outland'' is no patch on ``Bloom County''), everything else is a
>>far second.

>Not a big fan of 'personal is the political'?

>Outland is *much* more evolved than Bloom County.

I would use the word *devolved* myself.  Even though the characters from
Bloom County have emigrated slowly to Outland, the heart seems to have
gone out of the strip.  When I go through the old "Bloom County" books
they're still good for chuckles and smirks -- I don't think "Outland" has
done that for me in a long, long time.

If Portnoy, Hodgepodge and Oliver Wendall Jones would join the cast it
might help...
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From: n8742883@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Summary: Let's start a thread!
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:26:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: gonzo.n8742883.702685601
Organization: Western Washington University


	Is anyone else out there slightly bothered by the sexism and
racism that the Beetle Bailey strip has?  Year after year General
Halftrack is always leering at his secretary or saying something
sexist to/about her, which really doesn't have that much humor value
(at least to me....)  The addition of the love-starved female officer
(?) who is always chasing after Sarge is also a very sexist protrayal
of females:  If a woman isn't a sex object, she is always desperatley
looking for romance/sex/etc.  Only the small-breasted plain looking
secretary in Halftrack's office is the only _normal_ reoccuring female
character in the comic strip, but her only characterization in the
strip is to frown at Halftrack's advances on Buxley.

	Not only is Beetle Bailey sexist, but the addition of the
japanese soldier Yo (I forget his rank) protrays the american
stereotype of a japanese person: Hardworking to a fault, comically
loyal to superior officers, zero imagination, and following rules to a
literal extreme-- just like all good little japanese workers act,
right?

	I know that some people will not share my attitudes, and I
know that it's "just a comic strip".  I just want to post my opinion
that a comic strip that has the recurring themes of sexism and racism
isn't really funny at all.

	Please post comments, flames, etc. to rec.arts.comics.strips
to get a thread going....
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From: pciszek@isis.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek)
Subject: Gordo Collection?
Keywords: Gordo
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 02:24:48 GMT

One of the more intelligent strips of the 70's was Gordo.  If you haven't
heard of it, I think it may have run mostly in the western U.S.  Anyway,
it closed down in the late 70's or early 80's, and I have been wondering
if a collection was ever published.  If anyone knows where I could get
one, please E-mail.

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From: phantom@hardy.u.washington.edu (PHANTOM)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:58:41 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

I agree totally.
sheesh, I hate the strip.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
From: wcsjc@alfred.carleton.ca (John Coughlin)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:27:11 GMT

>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!
From: an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Comments on Many Strips
Date: 14 Apr 1992 21:45:12 GMT

wasg@sicilia.cs.rice.edu (Eric Salituro) writes:
>jsw21124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph S. Walker) writes:
>>
>>PEANUTS: I maintain that a comics section without Peanuts is a comics section
>>without a soul.  I know it's fashionable these days to complain that the
>
>What about the LA Times, where it is on something like 3A during the week?

The Times moved Peanuts to the comics page a while back.  No more
hunting through Section A to find it.  What were they trying to do,
make us read the news? :-)

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From: trev@hubcap.clemson.edu (Trevor Bauknight)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:56:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: hubcap.1992Apr8.035646.16268
Organization: Jes Grew Carriers -- Metaphysical Bunko Squad

warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:

>What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?

Donner Party Memorial - SICK! (but great)
 
Trevor Bauknight         trev@hubcap.clemson.edu    ...gatech!hubcap!trev
 
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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:37:38 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.002809.10829@husc3.harvard.edu> fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes:
>
>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!"  

The comic strip appears to be aimed at small children.  <shrug>  It
was amusing when it came out in comic-book form 7 or 8 years ago, but
the strips are just silly, IMHO.
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From: buccb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Withdrawel (RE: HOBBES (of C&H) bumpersticker....)
Date: 16 Apr 92 04:40:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carlos` Wonderful Wacky World of Tunafish

In a previous episode on rec.arts.comics.strips,
pyr491@oz.plymouth.edu (Scott Bernier) drops complete science:

>
>  I did not realize before posting that all C&H merchandise other than the
>books was bootlegged.  
>  Now that I know, I will stop my search for the bumper sticker I 
>described in an earlier post....

	Why?

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From: murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:30:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

> [talk about how BB is sexist (general's secretary,
> [female sarge, other secretary) and racist (corp. yo)
>
> n8742883@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson)

well, gosh.  if you're going to complain about these stereotypes
(which are, of course, completely obvious) then you might as well
complain about every single character in the strip:

	beetle : lazy american goof-off
	killer : macho girl-crazy stud
	lt. fuzz : form-over-content bootlicker
	gen. halftrack : weak-willed authority figure who gets no respect
	mrs. halftrack : dominating shrew
	
they are ALL stereotyped!  how many redeeming qualities can *you* find
in beetle bailey?  i think mort walker is pretty democratic since all of
his characters are treated equally.

ok
dpm
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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Philosophers (was Re: C&H translated where? (Was: Re: Needed: COMPLETE)
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:27:31 GMT

In article <204733@unix.cis.pitt.edu> dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:
>Thomas Hobbes was best
>known for his book _Leviathan_, in which he argues that *any* government, no
>matter how cruelly despotic, is better than anarchy, because the lives of men
>when left to themselves tend to be "[long list of nasty adjectives], cruel,
>brutish, and short."
>
>So here we have the worlds most amoral, self-centered, evil genius of a child
>who is named for a famous self-abasing moralist, and his easygoing, life-is-
>a-bowl-of-fresh-meat irrepressible optimist of a tiger, named for one of the
>most pessimistic philosophers in Western history.
>
At the risk of firmly shoving my foot in my mouth here...  Didn't Hobbes
maintain that people only did things out of self interest, and that all
actions, including altruism, could be explained as being somehow self
serving (there is that famous, possibly apocriphal story about someone
seeing Hobbes giving money to a wretched begger man, and asking Hobbes
about why he did that in light of his philosophy, and Hobbes, rather
chagrined, replied that he would have felt worse had he not given the
money, so he was acting only out of his own self interest).

Anyway, couldn't that actually describe Hobbes the tiger?  He does things
only out of self interest it could be argued.  He doesn't really care
about others, he just does what he wants to do.  If he wants to sleep
all day, he does; if he wants to eat more tuna, he has no qualms about
doing so.  If he wants to work out his tigerish agression on Calvin,
he does so.

Or am I misinterpreting one of either of the Hobbes?

For my next trick, I discuss Calvin spouting off some very Calvinistic
views (I am not responible for my actions; I can't change who I am
so I might as well just accept it (loosely paraphrased from memory))...

...Maybe later.
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From: hozman@girtab.usc.edu (The Hoz!!!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts baseball team
Date: 12 Apr 1992 13:21:35 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu
Keywords: peanuts, baseball

zweldron@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Matthew Charlap) writes:

>greg@cs.washington.edu (Greg Barnes) writes:
>...
>>LF Patty

>Um, Patty is the SStarting Pitcher on another team, if I remember correctly.
>She's also mentioned many times the b'zillion times her team beat chuck's
>--Matthew

No, you're thinking of Peppermint Patti, Matthew.  There is also a 
character named Patti on the team.


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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 14 Apr 1992 22:39:07 -0400
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