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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Compilations
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:44:57 GMT

In <ISBELL.92Apr8002058@pop-tarts.ai.mit.edu> isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell) writes:



>Anyone know if there are any Robotman compilations?  Or, even more
>importantly, any On The Fastrack compilations?  I loved that strip
>back in the day.  Is the strip still alive?

Ah, another fine strip not carried by the Trib.  It was still being carried
in the "Deseret News" a year ago when I moved out of Utah.  I haven't seen
any compilations, though.

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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Calvin & Hobbes, Cathy my favs
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:44:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.113350.20367@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Kreme, Just Kreme) writes:
>cma@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (christine.m.dakes) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to fan letters to your favorite comic
>>authors?  (in my case, for Cathy and Calvin & Hobbes).
>
>Write to:
>	Bill Waterson, Calvin & Hobbes
>	c/o Your Newspaper
>	123 Newspaper address
>	City, ST, zip
>
>Same for Cathy, just use her name instead of Bills.

        Cathy Waterson, Calvin & Hobbes
        c/o Your Newspaper
        123 Newspaper address
        City, ST, zip


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From: wiles@ultra.kodak.COM (Dale L. Wiles)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:43:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: ultra.WILES.92Apr9084320
	<1992Apr08.181039.1708@onetouch.COM>
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY

In article <1992Apr08.181039.1708@onetouch.COM> csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig
Smith) writes:

		[ For Better or for Worse stuff ]
   >Will Gordo
   >turn his dad in for abusing him? [ NO! HIS DAD FELT BAD TOO! ]

Oh boy.  Now we get to take "For Better or for Worse" too seriously.  (Sort of
like a soap opera.)

Gordo's dad probably has a history of abuse.  (Gordo DIDN'T want to home.  He
knew what was going to happen.)  Also, feeling bad after beating the bejesus
out of ones kids/spouse is pretty common.  Often the assailant is a model
person after the assault.  Lock his ass up for a while, and then get him some
therapy!  Maybe Lynne Johnson will have a crabby day and Gordo will off his
dad.


				Night of the living Gordo!
				  Dale

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From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:55:26 GMT
Organization: New York University

I vote for either "CAT FUD", or "Midvale School for the Gifted," where
the door clearly says 'pull' and the kid is pushing with all his might.


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From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 11 Apr 92 21:00:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.1992Apr11.210055.27805
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

In article <1992Apr8.015943.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.004312.1600@cs.sfu.ca>, jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>>      Well, there is one strip by a Canadian that I know about:
>> _For Better or Worse_, by Lynn Johnson.  But although I don't
>> think she refers to the USA, I have never seen any references to
>> Canada in that strip.
>
>I've seen one.  The mother gets into a minor car accident and has to go to
>court.  When I saw that bailiff going, "Oyez, oyez!" it really threw me off.
>I do have to admit, though, that was the first time I realized that it was a
>Canadian strip.
>

Whenever they take a plane trip, they're at the Vancouver or Ottowa airports
(depending on if they're coming or going)

Recently, Michael had sent a love letter to Martha that he wanted back, and
the mailbox he tried to get it out of was clearly a Canada Post mailbox (the
mailman also mentioned working for the Canadian Postal Service)

More subtle: John is never shown billing a dental patient!

I do admit that it took a while before I noticed that it was a Canadian strip,
but maybe that shows how similar the two cultures really are?

Peter
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Calvin and Hobbes
Keywords: Fox Trot!
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:26:41 GMT

In article <uslave.703314527@mcl> uslave@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (KJS @ucsb.mcl) writes:
>Maybe it's just that Fox Trot is newer.  It seems more fresh, while C & H just
>doesn't seem *quite* as funny as it used to be.

If C & H doesn't semm quite as funny as it used to be, it's because it's
funnier.  His style has taken on some remarkable new elements, you can
very much see a Krazy Kat influence that wasn't there before the
sabbatical.  The art in the Sunday strips is a joy to behold.
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From: manley@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (HELD HOSTAGE -- YEAR ONE)
Subject: Re: Chicago Tribune Comics Section
Organization: Down In The Depths On the 90th Floor, Ltd.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 03:34:39 GMT

OK, I'll jump on this bandwagon...

In article <1992Apr9.025432.19823@nic.unh.edu> ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink) writes:
>>>>The Far Side                      B- B+ A+ A+ A
>>>>Peanuts                           B  B  B  B  B
>>>>Dick Tracy                        B- B- D  D  C
>>>>Brenda Starr                      C  D  F  F  D
>>>>Walnut Cove                       B+ D  ?  ?  F
>>>>Fox Trot                          A  A- A  ?  A
>>>>Broom Hilda                       B- C  C  C+ D
>>>>Barney Google and Snuffy Smith    F  D  F  D- F-
>>>>Sylvia                            C  B  D  ?  I (for incomplete)
>>>>Geech                             C+ B  C  ?  C+
>>>>Gasoline Alley                    D  D  F  F  D
>>>>Fred Basset                       C  B  C  D- F
>>>>Amazing SpiderMan                 B+ C  B  C- C
>>>>Mother Goose & Grimm              A  A  B  A- B
>>>>Mister Boffo                      B  A- B  ?  B+
>>>>Winnie Winkle                     C- D  ?  D  D
>>>>The Buckets                       A- F  ?  ?  C
>>>>Doonesbury                        B- A  A+ B  B+
>>>>Blondie                           D+ C  C  B- C
>>>>Shoe                              B- A  C  B+ C+
>>>>Calvin & Hobbes                   A+ A  A  A+ A+
>>>>Pogo                              B- B+ C  ?  C-
>>>>For Better Or Worse               B+ D- A  A- A
>>>>The Phantom                       C+ D  C  ?  C-
>>>>Beetle Bailey                     C- C  C  B- C
>>>>Hi and Lois                       C  D  C  D+ D
>>>>Cathy                             B- B  D  D  D
>>>>Hagar The Horrible                C  C+ B  B- C
>>>>The Lockhorns                     D+ F  D  ?  F
>>>>Gil Thorpe (in Sports section)    B- D  ?  ?  C-

The Trib's comic page would be much improved with Robotman, & The Fusco Bros.
IMHO.

Michael
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From: taube@oregon.uoregon.edu (Christian Taube)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: University of Oregon
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:38:45 GMT

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)

Except if Bloom County were still around [daily :)].

Christian-who-has-to-be-content-reading-the-Bloom-County-collections-:-).
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From: Ben Fulton <fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Hobbes (w/o Calvin) bumpersticker..where can I get one?
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:51:06 -0500

In <1992Apr10.194920.2650@julian.uwo.ca> magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald) writes:

>Go to a Dead concert.
>They have T's and other stuff with Calvin and Hobbes.

>A friend has a great T with Spaceman Spliff landing on a planet and
>getting high with Hobbes.

Just wondering - does anyone else find these bootlegs offensive?  I really
hate seeing pictures of a six-year-old kid getting stoned, drunk, going
after women, etc.  It's not just Calvin, but Bart Simpson and others.
I think these people are missing the point that you don't NEED drugs to 
be wild.  Not to be anti-drug, if that's what you're into, but Calvin
isn't.

ben
fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
right here, right now
there is no other place I'd rather be!
From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:33:45 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: n8742883@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson)

I have a book, somewhere in storage, I think entitled IS BEETLE
BAILEY SEXIST?  It's a must-see for Buxley fans.
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From: sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Favorite Dilbert
Reply-To: sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 18:12:09 GMT

My favorite Dilberts are those where he's on a date.  Usually he makes an
utter fool of himself, but one time he turned the tables.  He starts off
by saying he wants to tell her something, and she interrupts and says
something to the effect of "I know, you want to marry me, but I think
you're just a geek, nerd, etc., etc."  At the end of this long tirade (it
was a Sunday strip) he finally says, "I just wanted to tell you that the
back of your dress is tucked into your pantyhose."

When he gets home, Dogbert asks him how his date was, and Dilbert replies
that it was the high point of his life . . . 

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From: derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash)
Subject: Re: Baby Blues
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 05:17:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Apr7.193431.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> morrow@fnalf.fnal.gov (The Third Elmo) writes:
>	Do people seriously like Baby Blues?  Clicheed, uninterestingly drawn,
>uncharacterized, bland, unfunny, Boomer-courting old Baby Blues?
>	YUCK!

Well, I do, but it's obviously not worth arguing with a statement like the
above.  Besides, wouldn't you at least say it's better than Rose Is Rose?

Derek


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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: dilbert april 16
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:17:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.143352.11173@husc3.harvard.edu> fenick1@husc8.harvard.edu (Sharon Fenick) writes:
>yeah, well, i think a good "women on the rag" joke 
>every now and then is good form.

So _that's_ what he was saying.  I wasn't sure.


>keep those stereotypes alive.  

Have you ever heard of PMS Airlines?  I think you've got more to complain
about there than you do with Dilbert.  The Dilbert strip is -based- on
stereotypes, ala "engineers", "marketting", "women", etc..  Haven't you
seen Dilbert's interaction with women before?  They tend to crush him,
or try to.  The only example I know of where he managed to crush one
back is that "skirt in your pantyhose" one which was quoted earlier.  I keep
this one around, myself.
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From: ndj20710@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nathan D. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Travels with Farley
Keywords: Farley
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:28:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr15.212840.12437
Distribution: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

nyone else remember a strip called Tavels with Farley? The main character was
Farley, and the strip was about his travels and things he did. During the 
summers he would work at Asphalt State Park ( they had paved nature trails )
and consort with the bears there, especially Alphonse. He had an uncle who was
building a car through the Part-of-the-Month club, but kept getting the parts
recalled. near the end of the strip he got a pet Raven that was left in his
apartment by james watt. 
	the strip ended sometime in the late seventies/early eighties as i 
recall, but i always liked it. i have never met anyone else that ever 
remebered it though.
	nate
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From: jeff@media.mit.edu (Jeff Tang)
Subject: Fox Trot little details
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:00:20 GMT



In the first book, look very carefully at some of the backgrounds. You'll
find, among other things, a painting where a unicorn eats a little sprite
or fairy or something.

Or there things like this in the other books?
From: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:23:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: spool.1992Apr8.172324.15700
Reply-To: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

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?

One thing I love about For Better Or For Worse is that, unlike almost every
other humorous comic strip around, the characters actually age.  Not quite
in real time (more like slightly more than half that; Michael has aged a
bit more than ten years during the course of the strip, as has Lizzie;
Lizzie doesn't have much of her "baby talk" left), but close enough.  The
strip's "universe" changes (people move away, new people move in) and so
forth.  I think it's really great that Johnston has created this dynamic,
changing, and very realistic world.

Plus she's a hilarious cartoonist and wonderful artist!  I think For Better
Or For Worse is one of the most consistently entertaining strips around.

(I also find it interesting that she's had a few strips that made it quite
clear that her cartoon family really does live in Canada.)

Unfortunately, I haven't seen an installment in several months...

-- 
Michael Rawdon
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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: New Zealand Comic Strip
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 19:30:35 GMT

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

The main character is a black and white dog commonly used down there
for herding sheep.

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.

I like the strip a lot, but I have not seen it in some time.

Anyone know of any books of it available?
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From: ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: Turkey Hall
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:27:07 GMT

>>>If anyone understands the "Some of the Non-Vital Organs" strip, please
>>>let me know. 
>>
>>I'll take a stab at it... Larson's reasoning is that the phrase 
>>"vital organs" is silly. In fact, it's downright redundant. So he
>>started wondering what a non-vital organ would be like. Voila.  
>
>That's clear.  It was his choice of the objects to portray as
>"non-vital organs" that I think really confused us ... a sandwich, a
>hat, a trombone, and so on.  I, at least, was looking for some pattern
>among the objects as the _real_ joke, whereas the concept of the
>"non-vital organ" was simply a convenient vehicle.  As usual, I'm
>thinking straight past the joke ...  <grin>

Sounds like the "Cow Tools" story.  It's in the Pre-History of the Far
Side Book.  Kind of long, and I don't remember the details, but it goes
along the same lines....
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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:52:02 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'!

That's a very witty line, and I give full credit to it, yet I must still
disagree with it.  Being an outsider to the american culture myself, I
can attest to the small but insistant americanisms one incounters
everywhere in the States and in things from the States.  I could see
how being force-fed these little details on a daily basis, from all
over, could eventually make one reach the breaking point.  It isn't
*only* the comic strips, I would guess, but comics are an obvious
target.  There are many that would simply collapse if you took away
all these small little Americanisms; Foxtrot, for exapmple, would
simply not be.  Others would be mortally wounded.

Now, I must say however, that I am not very up on the Canadian
culture, and it's differences from what I have been calling the
"American" culture (for which many Canadians would no doubt fry me
alive in oil next to their back bacon ;-).  I only conjecture that
such differences might exist, and that "Americans" from the States
would be blind to them, and that Canadians might get fed up with 
them.  This beeing said, I have to say it was with great surprise
that I learned that "For Better or For Worse" was actually a
Canadian strip.  I never noticed!  (I know that that was a negative
point with one of the previous posters, that Johnston doesn't
make explicit Canada references.)  If the strip can go on that long
masquerading (for me) as an "american" strip simply by not explicitly
refering to Canada, then how different can the two really be? (Quebec
excluded, of course... or maybe not)  If, when you strip away all
obvious references (4th of July, etc.), you are left with something
that could be from either, then maybe the differences aren't that
huge.

But then, being neither Canadian nor "American" myself, what do I know?

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From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Needed: COMPLETE bibliography for C&H
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:22:48 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <1992Apr8.145629.25882@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:

>>-The Essential C&H (the combination of two other smaller books)
>>I'm not sure which small book is in which big book, but the four smaller
>>books are:
>>	-Calvin and Hobbes
>>	-Weirdos from Another Planet
>>	-Yukon Ho


>Don't forget:

>	-Scientific Progress goes Boink

>	and the new one,

>	-Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons.  Or somesuch.


Aaargh! Prepare to be flamed!!!!
You forgot one !!!!!!!!
Revenge of the babysat.

And the lazy sunday book.

May killer tigers rend you limb from limb!!!!! :-)

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From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Date: 12 Apr 92 03:22:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr12.014100.9843@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) writes...
>Yes, but let's face it - Bloom County was losing it by the end anyway.
>The last few months weren't any funnier than Outland is now, even
>though the previous stuff is prime quality humor. I always missed the
>school teacher, though - she seems to have just disappeared, although
>I really liked Oliver's physics instructor ("Except, of course, that
>hamsters are allergic to oatmeal").

     The "Oliver's Science Class" strips were brilliant, I agree, but
     I don't agree that Bloom County was dying out at the end.  One
     of my favorite BC strips of all time is the one where Binkley and
     Milo are sitting under a tree:

     M: You know, I am feeling a new sense of security.  As if I have
        finally found my niche, where I belong.  Here, in Bloom County.
     B: Dabbling in a bit of ironic foreshadowing, are we?
     M: No.  Why?

     The strip ran, of course, just after Berke made his announcement
     that he was closing shop.




          ^Hot Damn, That Pie Was Good!^
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