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From: wassermn@ariel.chem.yale.edu (Thierry A. W. Wasserman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: What about foreign strips ?
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:51:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr8.195111.27792
Organization: Yale University, New Haven


Hi, 
	just wanted to share my all time favourites:

	# Les Frustres, Agrippine (french); simply the most funny and 
		strips ever done in any language.

	# C&H, of course;

	# Mafalda (Argentina);

	# shirat habarvaz (Israel); ( a number of them were translated 
		in english by RAW (i think it was raw);

	
	Any comments ?
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From: byron@soda.berkeley.edu (Byron C. Go)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Fox Trot books
Date: 17 Apr 1992 16:32:40 GMT
Organization: Once Upon A Time, Inc.
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In article <1992Apr10.193641.2889@esd.dl.nec.com> west@esd.dl.nec.com
(Mike West) writes:

>There are four small Fox Trot books (in this order):
>Fox Trot
>Pass the Loot
>Black Bart Says Draw
>Eight Yards and Out

>There is also a compilation "big" box called "The Fox
>Trot Collection" (I think) that is a combination
>of the first two books.

It's not a box, it's a book.  Much like the two large Calvin and Hobbes
books.  ("Compleat" and "Authoritative", right?)  It's called _The Works_.
Great book.  My SO (who lived ~400 miles away at the time) had her eye on my
copies of _Fox Trot_ and _Pass the Loot_ so I gave them to her and the next
day I saw a copy of _The Works_ at the local Waldenbooks.  I bought it.
Love the larger size.  And you get the Sunday strips in color!

Anyone know when the next oversize is being put out?  I figure it should be
soon, as there have already been two of the "little" books since _The
Works_.  Am I right?

     byron  (:

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From: allan@cs.UAlberta.CA (Allan Sullivan)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:55:54 GMT

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?
>]
>]	CAT FUD.
>]	Oh please, oh please.
>]
>Personally, I like the one with the dog Fifi running toward the pet
>door that has been nailed shut.  

And who can forget the one with the two dogs playing that famous
game:

                TEATHERCAT!

(Strange thing though, people actually objected to that cartoon ;-)


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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: INCOMING!! (Was: Re: American Cultural Imperialism over Canada)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:47:18 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

In article <naran.702891155@sfu.ca> naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran) writes:
>The
>reason being that the last Gallup Poll taken in the U.S. last year (or more)
>showed that over 70% of Americans would like to annex Canada to the United
>States. So, if you don't mind, pretend you've never heard of us, ok? :-)

This is kind of hard to believe, if only because at least 35% of Americans
probably believe Canada is part of the US already.
From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Biff (N0, N0T ###THAT### WUN!!!) (Was:Re: The Best Far Side cartoon)
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:22:29 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

All  this stuff on  TFS, has made  me think... Have  the Biff cartoons
made it to the states? I've  not been *so* keen  on the last couple of
years,  when they've actually  told a  story,  but  some  of the early
one-framers were  great.  I still have  a postcard of "O Level Counter
Culture" (Question 6: Hermann Hess was a Pisces.  Discuss). And one or
two of the others - "Of course what I really want to do is direct"

There  were one or two of  the Biff imitators   who've raised a smile,
too. There was a  postcard of an old photo  of what I guess  must have
been Rasputin  - shaggy, staring eyes,  and a monk's  habit, holding a
bottle. The caption was "Dominic  really liked the Pogues". And  there
was the one with an old engraving from a 30's adventure book, with the
hero waking up tied  to one of  those red indian sky burial platforms,
with vultures circling overhead, and a  pack of wolves sniffing around
below. The caption was "Henry awoke with another terrible hangover". I
used to put that one up on my terminal when I was feeling delicate.



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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: Fusco Brothers!
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 04:19:00 GMT

In article <cnrjdta.tssmith@netcom.com> tssmith@netcom.com (Tim Smith) writes:
>Fusco Bros. is a verbal strip.  Kind of the George Carlin of comic
>strips.  If you like the constant wordplay, the puns, etc., you can
>get into it.  But the drawing is really bad.  

  Agreement here.  The drawing is a little primitive, but the genius
of the strip is the great wordplay and allusions.

>I always read Blondie.  It evolves slowly, it's not funny, but I really
>like the drawing.  Maybe it's just a tradition?

  No agreement here.  You like the drawing?  I'm sorry to bring up
this slightly vulgar point, but why are all the women in the strip
(including the teenager daughter and her friends) drawn with *huge*
chests?  This strip is worse than a lot of comic books with their
women with amazonian endowments.  (And that's saying a lot!)

  The strip is charming--maybe--but the fetishistic drawings are
really one of the worst parts of the strip, IMHO.

>Peanuts, to put it mildly, sucks.  I read an interview with Bill
>Watterson back when C&H was just starting, and he was full of praise
>for Peanuts.  Almost made me stop reading C&H. :-).

  *No* agreement here, whatsoever!  Peanuts has undoubtedly
deteriorated in quality, but there is still much that is wonderful
about the strip.  And as a point of praise for Schulz, he, unlike so
many other authors, old and young, has never used a staff of writers,
artists, or letterers (to my knowledge).  He is very serious about
retaining the integrety of the strip and characters.  This is part of
why Watterson has respect for Schulz.  Schulz has great respect for
the medium and his creations.

  Anyway, thanks for sharing your opinions; just thought I'd toss in
mine too!


--Raymond Flournoy        
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From: plu@math.psu.edu (Todd Andrew Simpson)
Subject: Rerun and The Worst Strip (was Re: Peanuts)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
	<apple.702913191@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:11:19 GMT

In article <apple.702913191@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> apple@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jessica White) writes:

   I was just wondering...  does anyone else remember a little boy who 
   rode on the back of his mother's bike?  I believe that he was the little 
   brother of Linus and Lucy, but I'm not sure.  Please someone let me 
   know that I'm not crazy!  :)  No one I have ever mentioned it to
   remembers him!  

   If you know who I'm talking about, do you remember his name?
   Also, I was wondering why no more was written about him.

There was such a character, called Rerun, and he was Linus and Lucy's
little brother.  Come to think of it, I don't know what happened to him.
Also, why would anyone name a kid Rerun?  I don't know, but there was
another kid in Peanuts who I haven't seen for years who wore a shirt
that said 5 on it.  Turned out his name was 5....

By the way, I'm surprised not to have seen anyone mention as one of the
worst comics....THE LOCKHORNS.  When the cartoonist who drew this strip
died about five years ago, I actually said to myself `All right!  No
more Lockhorns!'  Alas, it kept coming out, with no one else's name on
it, and I could only assume that it was such a mindless, unimaginative,
formulaic, hackneyed strip that the guy didn't need to be alive to draw it.

				   Thanks for the help!

						   Jessica
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From: ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: Turkey Hall
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:10:00 GMT

>>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,

Not me!

					Yet another,

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From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 04:07:39 GMT

tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston) writes:

>"So, Professor Jenkins!...My old nemesis!...We meet again, only
This was a duck talking to a man on a small island.  A ship was
sinking in the background, implying the man was shipwrecked:
>this time the advantage is mine! Ha! Ha! Ha!"

>This really cracked me up.  It reminded me of a good friend of
>mine who is always "playing the villain", stating things in
>grandiose ways, etc.


Or, in the same vein and even funnier, a hunter with a shotgun is
in the middle of a circle of mirrors.  A duck can be seen in each
mirror (? I think.)  Caption:  "Ah yes, Farmer Jones, I thought
you would come.  But tell me if you can, which is the real me  
and which are merely illusions?"  <Sorry if I misquoted.>
>Tom
From: kyrie@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thomas S. Marlowe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Chicago Tribune Comics Section
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:59:59 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton) writes:

>And now it's my turn :-)
>>>>>>>The Far Side                      B- B+ A+ A+ A  A  A+ A+
>>>>>>>Peanuts                           B  B  B  B  B  A- B+ D!
>>>>>>>Dick Tracy                        B- B- D  D  C  C  ?  D-
>>>>>>>Brenda Starr                      C  D  F  F  D  C- B  F
>>>>>>>Walnut Cove                       B+ D  ?  ?  F  C- ?  ?
>>>>>>>Fox Trot                          A  A- A  ?  A  A+ A  B+
>>>>>>>Broom Hilda                       B- C  C  C+ D  D  C  C
>>>>>>>Barney Google and Snuffy Smith    F  D  F  D- F- F  F- Z
>>>>>>>Sylvia                            C  B  D  ?  I  D+ F  ?
>>>>>>>Geech                             C+ B  C  ?  C+ D- B- B+
>>>>>>>Gasoline Alley                    D  D  F  F  D  D  C  F-
>>>>>>>Fred Basset                       C  B  C  D- F  C- C- F-
>>>>>>>Amazing SpiderMan                 B+ C  B  C- C  A- ?  D
>>>>>>>Mother Goose & Grimm              A  A  B  A- B  B+ A- A+
>>>>>>>Mister Boffo                      B  A- B  ?  B+ B- B  A+
>>>>>>>Winnie Winkle                     C- D  ?  D  D  D- ?  ?
>>>>>>>The Buckets                       A- F  ?  ?  C  D  ?  ?
>>>>>>>Doonesbury                        B- A  A+ B  B+ C+ B  C
>>>>>>>Blondie                           D+ C  C  B- C  C  C+ C
>>>>>>>Shoe                              B- A  C  B+ C+ B  B+ B+
>>>>>>>Calvin & Hobbes                   A+ 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  B+
>>>>>>>The Phantom                       C+ D  C  ?  C- B- ?  D
>>>>>>>Beetle Bailey                     C- C  C  B- C  B  C+ F
>>>>>>>Hi and Lois                       C  D  C  D+ D  C  D  C+
>>>>>>>Cathy                             B- B  D  D  D  B- B  D-
>>>>>>>Hagar The Horrible                C  C+ B  B- C  B- C+ A!
>>>>>>>The Lockhorns                     D+ F  D  ?  F  D  C- F
>>>>>>>Gil Thorpe (in Sports section)    B- D  ?  ?  C- D  F  ?
>

I must admit, though, that the funnies thing I have heard about Chicago since
I have been up here in New Hampshire is that people forgot all about the
wart on the frog on the bump on the log on the hole on the bottom of the river!
Ooopss.  Gee, I always thought that thing about a hole at the bottom fo the
sea was a fable.  I guess all my childhood visions of a body of watering
draining into the earth (well, basements :) came true!

Thomas S. Marlowe
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From: Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Keywords: dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:18:05 -0500

In article <dove.702690054@elaine9.Stanford.EDU> dove@elaine9.Stanford.EDU (Dav Somebody) writes:


>Hey, what do you think the stupidest strips out there are?  I have to
>admit, though hating Family Circus, it at least attempts to be funny.
>Fred Basset however has got to be the worst thing to appear in print.
>Does anyone find this strip funny in the least? How did this guy ever
>get published?

No.. my vote goes to a comic strip called Geech. The Indiapolis Star
carries it. 

I think Nancy is pretty lame most of the time. Wee Pals can't be too
far behind. Or how about Henry?





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From: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au (Ralf Muhlberger)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:37:24 GMT
Reply-To: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au

In <1992Apr08.001951.8192@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:

>In article <1992Apr7.201000.8088@nic.unh.edu> ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink) 
>writes (quoting some other folks):
>>"Hi!  My name is Hobbes.  I'm the result of a six year old's demented
>>imagination.  Would YOU like to be my friend?"

>But *here's* something to argue about.  Don't you know that Hobbes is real,
>but just turns into a stuffed animal when other people are around? 

No, I didn't. :-)

>Best proof I can recall offhand: the strip where Calvin is imagining he's
>a pirate, and says "Walk the plank!"  "But our ship IS a plank," Hobbes
>interrupts, bringing Calvin back to reality-- a reality which includes
>Hobbes.

You mean you've never dreamed that you were dreaming, and woken up only to
find you were still dreaming. Gee, you haven't lived :-) (or slept enough) 

>(There's a historical parallel with Barnaby.  But Mr. O'Malley was visible
>to anyone who looked.)

Who...? Never mind :-)

Ralf

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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: I hate Gasoline Alley
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:43:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.180113.23431@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston) writes:
>
>In my opinion, Gasoline Alley is the worst strip ever.  It has
>a continuing storyline, but the storylines are never interesting.
>It often tries to be funny, but always fails.

The sunday ones are particularly nauseating... those don't even have a plot,
they just try to be cute/sentimental/nostalgic.  Repulsive.


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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 19:06:32 GMT

n8742883@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson) writes:


>	Is anyone else out there slightly bothered by the sexism and
>racism that the Beetle Bailey strip has?

[part of letter deleted]

>	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?

Yes, General Halftrack is a sterotype of the dirty-old-man, the
hen-pecked-husband, and the idiotic leader.

Miss Buxley is a stereotype of a blonde.

The other (I forget her name)is the stereotype of a feminist.

CORPORAL Yo is a stereotype of Japanese.

Killer is a stereotype of a sex-crazed male.

Plato is a stereotype of a nerd.

Zero is a stereotype of a country bumpkin.

Beetle Bailey is a stereotype of a lazy goof-off.

Sarge is a stereotype of a bully and a glutton.

The stereotype cross all races, all sexes.

Are some stereotypes allowed and others not allowed?
(Sounds like PC to me)
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From: mudcr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David C Roller)
Subject: Re: family circus
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:29:16 GMT

In article <1992Apr07.215811.42091@cs.cmu.edu> kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes:
>Here's a sample of "The Family Circus":
>Can someone come up with a good example of "Nancy"?  I haven't read it
>in years, so it's not fresh in my mind.

In Dec 31 1991 Nancy was making her new years resoloution.
She writes this year I resolve to be prefect.  and in each subsequent
panel changes the spelling each time making an error.  In the last panel
she says with a sigh this is going to be more difficult than I thought.

Now when I was in High School a bunch of us used to go to the Humanities
Center and take their copy of the Chicago Sun-Times and see what was
stupider Nancy or Love Is.  Besides getting thfreats from over
sentimental adolescent girls we could never decide which was stupider.

In the past few years I think the quality of Nancy has risen (or perhaps
my standards have lowered)  I used to read Nancy in H.S. in the early
eighties has there been a switch in who does the comic since then?

Just Doing My Job as A self-appointed keeper of the sacred Comics Page.
Dave

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From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Question
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 19:39:40 GMT


OK, then I have this ultimately cool Calvin tee shirt that my wife,
the batik/tie-die artist, made for me. Does that rip off Watterson?

-Mike
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From: "Stephen C. Miller" <stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Favorite Mr. Boffo  
Keywords: Mr. Boffo                  
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 19:03:22 -0500

In article <1992Apr12.231401.4677@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh) writes:
>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.")

My favorite takes a minute to set up:

Man and wife on honeymoon.  Morning, couple seated at breakfast table.
Man says, Honey, I have a confession.  I am not a person.  I am actually
a talking dog.  He takes off his head, which turns out to be a mask,
exposing a dog's head.  Woman says, I too have a confession.  I too am a
talking dog.  She takes off her mask, exposing a dog's head.  Couple
looks deeply into each others eyes, in love.

BTW - isn't Wiederman actually a penis?
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From: ronnie@cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon)
Subject: 500 hundred comic strip postings....
Organization: cisco Systems, Incorporated
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 03:19:04 GMT

And not even _ONE_ mention of Windor McCay's strip, Little Nemo?  The
greatest strip ever drawn, forgotton already.

				Ronnie

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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: How on earth did it happen...
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:36:23 GMT

In <taube.124@oregon.uoregon.edu> taube@oregon.uoregon.edu (Christian Taube) writes:

>...that there has been a rec.arts.comics group around forever
>in which only random postings about strips appeared...

>...and now that we have a r.a.c.strips I get 170 articles in
>a little less than 20 hours?

When I discovered USENET I subscribed to rec.arts.comics -- but soon
unsubscribed because they never talked about strips.  This group
is a godsend for me.

>Weird ways of Usenet or what...
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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Tumbleweeds?
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 22:58:03 GMT

timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein) writes:


>Is "Tumbleweeds" still going?
>Were there ever any anthologies?  Are they still in print?

Hildegarde! Put me down! I do NOT want to marry you!

I admit to missing this strip also.

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