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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk)
Subject: Re: Death's Gender
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:03:23 GMT

In article <8T28oB3w165w@heroes.UUCP> dg@heroes.UUCP (Dark Ghost) writes:
>        Actually I believe from my Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 
>Volume #1 (a surprisingly ample source of information) that Death really 
>isn't anybody, but prefers the form of a woman.  Death's form is 
>determined by Death, not by anyone else.  It seems that all the entities 
>of the universe prefer the humanoid form and have a male female 
>preferance.  This is not the fault of the Universe, it's just that the 
>writers are all human males (and some females I guess, but I've never 
>seen any) who prefer genders.

Death is a ravenous bisexual female who lusts for everyone.  No matter how
hard you try, you will not be able to resiste her seductive powers.  You
will eventually fall under her sway, and she will have complete power over
you and will own your soul.  Then you will be one with her and her will shall
forevermore reign supreme.

You will fear the moment of conquest, and shudder as it draws near, but when
you finally fall completely under her control, you will experience the most
complete fulfillment you've ever known, as you finally meet your ultimate
destiny as her subordinate.
From: dddawson@lpl.arizona.edu (Doug Dawson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: WILDC.A.T.S.?!?
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:24:10 GMT
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.

In article <1992Aug17.154225.16246@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Killans - First And Last And Always) writes:
> There seem to be 
>a few references to X-Men too, such as a 'Dr. McCoy'

Hmm.  While that would make sense from the fact that this is done by
Lee,  I would tend to think that references to a 'Dr. McCoy' might be to
a slightly more famous one....
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From: djdaneh@pbhyc.PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Subject: SS Movie (was Re: Mike Jittlov)
Reply-To: djdaneh@PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:00:18 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.014358.8937@zip.eecs.umich.edu> tyg@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway) writes:

>Trust me though, Mike'd be perfect for Suicide Squid: The Motion Picture
>once the concept gets explained to him.

Yes, yes, *YES*.  Just the right sense of warped humor.  *And* everyone
knows the *best* SS tees were the Green ones. . .


		My baby is a Martian,
		What can I do?
		I'm in love with a giant insect,
		I got them Exoskeletal Blues
			-- Visual Purple

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, Net.Roach
My opinions do NOT represent Pacific Bell,
Professional Development, or anyone else.
But I'm willing to share.
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From: tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver)
Subject: Re: A Murder of Crows (and more ...)
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 11:47:09 GMT

 wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman) writes:
>
>    My own favorite (from Neil Gaiman, no less!): A wunch of bankers.

In which case, I strongly suspect it came from the "oddments" section at the
end of the Nouns of Assemblage I researched & sent off to Neil. I sent that
file and one on which I collaborated off to the guy who started this thread:
it's not really a comics topic! There's a set I haven't bothered typing yet 
in Paul Hellweg's _Weird and Wonderful Words_, but there are some errors in
that list.

Huh, from Neil Gaiman, no less, indeed. ;-)

Tanaqui, xenarthral sufferer of loganamnosis

"Inspire them with such a longing as will make his thought
 Alive like patterns a murmuration of starlings
 Rising in joy over wolds, unwittingly weave"              W.H.Auden _Perhaps_

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From: 11telliott@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Zarathustra)
Subject: Different Distributors?!?
Organization: Gallaudet University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:32:12 GMT

Strange- Yesterday, I saw these comics for sale in Alexandria, VA in King
Street- Brigade #1, Shadowhawk #1 and Spawn #3. It was puzzling at first,
because the Washington, D.C. stores didn't have them yet. They explained that
the Alexandria store uses a different distributor. (Other than Diamond
Distributors) Shadowhawk, unfortunately, looked too gimmicky, with a glossy
cover and high relief cover with a $2.50 price tag. I always thought that
these distributors are all the same, cranking out the same output. Apparently
not.
-- 

Todd Elliott
11TELLIOTT@GALLUJ (Bitnet)
11TELLIO@GALLUX.GALLAUDET.EDU (Internet)
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From: arsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alan Smith)
Subject: Re: Death's Gender
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 04:25:42 GMT


Who wants to have sex with Death, anyway?

Big Al.  Who has heard of some sick things in *my* time but...
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From: hutch@hutch (Stephen Hutchison)
Subject: Re: Death's Gender
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 17:35:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.141943.13768@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> arsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alan Smith) writes:
+In article <1992Aug16.184920.4648@news.Hawaii.Edu> rigler@galileo.ifa.haw
+ii.edu (Michael A. Rigler) writes:
+>arsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alan Smith) writes:
+>>
+>>No, a Necrophiliac wants to have sex with dead *people*,  I'm talking
+>>about sex with Death itself.  I don't think that has a name.
+>
+>Dying?
+>
+No, that ain't it.  Maybe I should turn it into a contest.  (Although, the
+last one didn't go off for %$#!)

Thanatophilia  (although the greek root is masculine)
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Any good one-box comics?
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:10:03 GMT

filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit) writes:
>Well, Leescapes stinks.  It's only purpose is to prove that
>_anyone_ can publish a comic strip, much the same way that

Well, Bill Lee isn't just anybody.  He was (is?) and editor at
Penthouse, which was probably also the only reason his cartoons
appeared in there - they were just as bad then.  He probably thought
this meant he had talent and used some leverage to get hooked up with
one of the syndicates.
-- 
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
From: angus@well.sf.ca.us (Angus P. MacDonald)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Guindon
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:01:24 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link


Guindon's back int the SF Chron. Where was he?

Angus MacDonald           angus@well.sf.ca.us
Box 561, Concord, California, USA, 94522-0561
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From: zgilbert@epas.utoronto.ca (Zvi Gilbert)
Subject: Re: worst comic strip
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:10:19 GMT

davel@homxc.ATT.COM (David Loewenstern) writes:
>
> [...] I can't imagine a worse comic strip
>(although _Ernie Pook's Comeek_ comes close)
> David Loewenstern

I beg to differ.

Ernie Pook is a work of sheer genius.  The evocation of the lives of
the two central characters is brilliantly done.  The artwork is not
the best, but we can say that about _Peanuts_.

It is a sensitive, intelligent, funny and real strip... sometimes too
real (it can give you the shivers).

Lynda Barry is great.

--Zvi Gilbert
zgilbert@epas.utoronto.ca	
zgilbert@epas.toronto.edu


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From: schmasey@leland.Stanford.EDU (Casey Carlton O'Hara)
Subject: Stuffed Hobbes?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 03:23:26 GMT

A friend of mine is looking for a stuffed Hobbes.  Neither of us have
seen one, and my basic question is.... does one exist?

If so, is it Hobbes as a little toy stuffed tiger that people other
than Calvin see, or Hobbes as Calvin knows he really is?  Either would
do, I'm just curious.  Also, how big is it?

Sorry if this is not the right group to post this to; I'm still rather
new to this whole newsgroup thing. 

Thanks in advance!

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   __________/  bonz R godz!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Casey O'Hara			  (_|____|___\__________
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From: beh10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Holsinger)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Curious Avenue (Was: Re: Leescapes)
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:51:29 GMT
Reply-To: beh10@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Holsinger)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Aug14.032854.7066@avernus.com> mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank) writes:
>In article <2585@oasys.dt.navy.mil> jeanthea@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Jeantheau) writes:
>>My answer is:  *nothing* is as bad as Marmaduke.  But I definitely haven't
>>seen anything worthwhile there yet...
>
>Ah, then you've obviously never seen Tom Toles's *Curious Avenue*.  The
>Buffalo *News* junked *Sibling Revelry* for this, largely because Toles
>works for the News.  It is tremendously unfunny and the artwork is
>unamusingly childish.  Marmaduke/Heathcliff/Family Circus are an
>engaging read compared to this.  Example:
>
>Panel : Child is crawling along log suspended horizontally over ravine.
>To indicate movement, we have the words "inch inch" drawn next to child.
>
>Panel 2: As above, but child is 5mm farther along the log.
>
>Panel : Child stands on opposite bank of ravine, next to log.  Says
>"Gardy!  I'm across!  I made it!"
>
>Panel 4: Other child (presumably Gardy) runs across log in opposite
>direction.  Says "Great, Smee!  Now let's go back!"
>
>A real laugh riot.
>
>I'll take aerial codes and T-bone toothpaste any day.
>
>*Sigh*  I miss *Sibling Revelry*.
>


The san jose mercury news recently picked up this strip.  Although the example
you give clearly paints this strip as boring, I actually rather like it.
The artwork is, IMHO, cute, reminiscent of earlie Peanuts (aah!! the flames
are burning me where  I lay).



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From: davel@homxc.ATT.COM (David Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: worst comic strip
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:10:14 GMT
	<DAVEL.92Aug20172755@homxc.ATT.COM>
	<1992Aug21.053222.21360@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>

To: 
... On 21 Aug 92 05:32:22 GMT, cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  8823239) said:

} I haven't seen the strip, but ig but if it is worse than the
} Flintstone's (continually unfunny and occasionally sexist) and Henry
} (Die, you miserably bald headed TWIT!!! Had to say that) then it must be
} pretty awful.

I've never seen _Flintstones_.  Yes, It's worse than _Henry_.
_...Dog_ is worse than _Garfield_!  It's worse than _Marmaduke_!  It
makes _There Oughta Be a Law_ look fresh and insightful!  So bad that
when I first saw it I thought it was a deliberately bad spoof of
post-Doonesbury comic strip conventions.  It was only after seeing
practically the same strip month after month that I became convinced
that David Lynch simply was turning ten minutes a week into
spare cash.

} BTW, would anyone like to help me convince them to get rid of this
} garbage for something funny, like Foxtrot? They only recently picked up
} Calvin & Hobbes. Shows how dense they are.

Who are "they"?

You may want to subscribe to _Comic Relief_, now that they've gotten
rid of _...Dog_.

These opinions are shareware.  If you like the product,
please send your $0.02 to
               David Loewenstern
   davel@homxc.att.com or simply D.Loewenstern@att.com


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From: matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks)
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:55:03 GMT

>While I agree with Watterson's philosophy about not merchandising C&H,
>I've never been sure if he's equally opposed to an animated version.

>I personally don't view animation as cheapening the strip.

>Any responses?

I've never liked animated versions of daily strips. They never seem to be
produced very well, but my main complaint is that the character voices
never come close to matching the voices assigned to them by my brain.
Disorientation may be too strong a word for the resulting condition, but
this lack of synchronicity definitely reduces my potential enjoyment of the
animated version. 

I think it might be hard to make a half-hour of Calvin's personality
tolerable. The danger is that he would go from cute and thought provoking
to being a Dennis-the-Menace type of obnoxious brat. Maybe a snow-goons
episode would work. The other problem is that the animated versions 
always have to have a plot (beginning/middle/end) that most C&H storylines
lack. I think it would be a problem to impress that type of structure
on Calvin's world.

Make my vote on an animated C&H "Nay!"


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From: ENVIRON@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Any good one-box comics?
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:47:15 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <2348@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit) says:
>Can someone recommend a good, maybe even great, one-box strip
>to replace Herman?  We get Dennis, Family Circus, Farside.  Personally,
>I'd like them to trash DtM or FC, and add two four-panel strips, but
>I need suggestions.

     Get Bizarro (by Pirarro or something)... It's one of the few strips that
has me laugh out loud instead of just smiling in amusement...

brett
From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Leescapes
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:12:09 GMT
Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

Is this the biggest waste of newspaper space ever?

The Wash Post replaced Herman with this senseless box.

Get well soon, Jim Unger!

--f2
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no .sig
From: ENVIRON@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:45:21 GMT
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In article <ceYaaOq00WDKQ8xJBq@andrew.cmu.edu>, vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vernon H
Harmon) says:
>
>this was the point I made earlier. BUT I just had an idea. How do you
>think it would go over having Hobbes talk in thought/speech balloons? I
>mean Calvin and his folks would be heard, but you have to read Hobbes'
>speech..........
>
     Not a bad idea, but I think Hobbes' growls and otherwise patently
tiger sounds would be lost in the translation...

Brett
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Subject: Re: Curious Avenue (Was: Re: Leescapes)
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:32:49 GMT
 <1992Aug14.032854.7066@avernus.com> <56Jy02gy1eUq01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>

beh10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Holsinger) writes:

>The san jose mercury news recently picked up this strip.  Although the example
>you give clearly paints this strip as boring, I actually rather like it.
>The artwork is, IMHO, cute, reminiscent of earlie Peanuts (aah!! the flames
>are burning me where  I lay).

I haven't seen the strip, but I've always liked Toles's political
cartoons, part of the charm of which is the... shall we say...
unique artwork.  By the end of Reagan's second term, lots of cartoon
Reagans had become somewhat exaggerated, but Toles's Reagan was a
prizewinner in that regard, with hair projections resembling antlers.
His George Bush is far outside the normal parameter space of human 
head shapes.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:32:42 -0400 
From: Vernon H Harmon <vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
	<1992Aug18.144229.23534@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Distribution: na

>
   I got to meet him a few years ago.  At that time, he said he was still
considering proposals for an animated version, but it was clear he wasn't
ready to rush into it.  One of his concerns was how Hobbes' voice would be
done in an animated version.
>

this was the point I made earlier. BUT I just had an idea. How do you
think it would go over having Hobbes talk in thought/speech balloons? I
mean Calvin and his folks would be heard, but you have to read Hobbes'
speech..........

--Vernon.
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From: 11srust@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Scott A. Rust)
Subject: Re: Non Sequiter
Keywords: Non Sequitur (correct sp?)
Reply-To: nobody
Organization: Gallaudet University English Dept
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:37:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.123336.20365@newshost.unh.edu>, sjk@kepler.unh.edu (Stephen J Kenny) writes:
> Does anyone out there read this?
> We get it in the Boston Globe and between the humour and
> the artwork, it's got to be the best strip going.....
> 
> BAR NONE!!!!!
> 
> sjk@kepler.unh.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 

	Yeah, this guy is good. He seems to be about as warped as
Larson (definitly a plus in this medium) but in a fresher sense. I personally
liked the one about "The Creative Process at Work" from about 2 months ago.

 
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From: acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:32:11 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Aug18.023607.27930@panix.com> jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) writes:
>In article <matt.714092103@unidata.ucar.edu> matt@unidata.ucar.edu
>	(Matt Hicks) writes:
>>>While I agree with Watterson's philosophy about not merchandising C&H,
>>>I've never been sure if he's equally opposed to an animated version.
>
>Have you seen Bobby's World?
>It's based on Howie Mandel's character Bobby.
>It's the adventures from the hyperactive imagination of a little boy
>that turns anything into an adventure.
>Each episode is self contained.
>Bobby interacts with family members who respect his imagination,
>and many that don't.

Yes!

I don't know why I didn't remember Bobby's World.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Bobby's World is as close
to an animated C&H as we're likely to see.
-- 
The world is not analog. The world is digital,
with an incredible number of bits.
Arthur C. Adams (not the comic-book artist)                        <fnord>
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From: timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein)
Subject: Farcus in Postscript (was Re: Non Sequiter)
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:42:50 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <1992Aug13.140102.3070@cc.umontreal.ca>, duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
|> Farcus (Anyone else read this?  If you're in the business world -
|> and even if you're not - this is a REALLY funny strip)


I've never seen "Farcus", but I did see an article in MacWeek (Jan. 29, 1991)
about it.  Here's an excerpt:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ottawa --  Farcus Cartoons Inc., publisher of syndicated cartoons for
newspapers and corporate newsletters, is offering a selection of its humorous
images in electronic form. Titled Farcus, Business as Usual, the $299 package
includes 100 images that have been scanned from hand-drawn originals into
Encapsulated PostScript.

The seven-disk set, available for IBM PCs as well as the Mac, comes with
camera-ready versions "for editors who are still computer shy," according to the
company.

Farcus Cartoons  is at P.O. Box 3006, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y
4J3.  Phone (613) 235-5944; fax (613) 230-3873.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: lsmith@atto.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
Organization: The Little Squids of the Poor
Distribution: na 
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:20:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.032326.23086@leland.Stanford.EDU> schmasey@leland.Stanford.EDU (Casey Carlton O'Hara) writes:
>A friend of mine is looking for a stuffed Hobbes.  Neither of us have
>seen one, and my basic question is.... does one exist?

No, at least not an "official" Hobbes. I believe Watterson has said that
if one were to be marketed it would somehow answer the question of whether
Hobbes was "real" or not. (The only C&H paraphernalia are the books and
the calendars from a few years back. Personally, I like it this way.)

That shouldn't stop you from finding a Hobbes. Just find a stuffed tiger.
Or better yet, make one yourself. 

I've seen the tiger from the upcoming Alladin movie marketed as a Hobbes
substitute. (The same people were marketing the Malcom X T-shirts as of
potential interest to X-Book fans. Ugh.)
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From: timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein)
Subject: Ernie Pook's Comeek (was Re: worst comic strip)
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:08:22 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <1992Aug21.031019.23410@epas.toronto.edu>, zgilbert@epas.utoronto.ca (Zvi Gilbert) writes:
|> davel@homxc.ATT.COM (David Loewenstern) writes:
|> >
|> > [...] I can't imagine a worse comic strip
|> >(although _Ernie Pook's Comeek_ comes close)
|> 
|> I beg to differ.
|> 
|> Ernie Pook is a work of sheer genius.  The evocation of the lives of
|> the two central characters is brilliantly done.

Yes, Ernie Pook's Comeek is quite good, once you get into it.  It's 
an acquired taste though.



|> The artwork is not
|> the best, but we can say that about _Peanuts_.

The artwork is *supposed* to be childish, since the strip is written from
the viewpoint of a child.  I think it would be weakened if the art were
"improved".

So where did Ernie Pook's Comeek get its name?


And by the way, I agree that the artwork in Peanuts isn't all that great --
except for the facial expressions, which are fabulous!


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