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From: yarnot@csusac.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Beetle Bailey
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:15:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: csusac.1992Apr10.001558.25970
Organization: Moi?

Geeze, I first read BB in the 50s, and it hasn't changed all that much.  Are
you aware that Beetle is Lois' (of Hi and... fame) brother?  I have to assume
Hi's ancestors include Hagar and Helga, as well.
 
I was real sorry when Dik Brown died.  Chris does pretty well, but Hagar got
just a little too cutesy-poo there for a while.  I especially used to love the
viking/adventuring strips and would cut them out and paste them in my D&D books.
The similarity was too striking, sometimes. 
 
Off-topic, I have a friend who swears he used to see Mr. Fogarty, LuAnn's 
teacher, in a high school paper in the LA area.  Anyone else remember this?

-- 
---Jan Yarnot, net.grandma.---    How many graduate students does it take to
                                     change a light bulb?

CSUS depends on my every word.          Only one, but it takes 9 years.
From: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:20:27 GMT
Reply-To: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center


In article <1992Apr08.224245.4794@onetouch.COM>, csmith@onetouch.COM
(Craig Smith) writes:
|> When I went to college, I adopted the nickname Charlie Brown because of
|> my deep love for the strip.
|> 
|> Unfortunately, Schulz seems to have lost it.  He hasn't done anything
|> good since the early 70's.  I've caught him repeating strips a lot
|> lately.  It's a shame.
|> 
|> The day is stops running I'll just shake my head and say "I saw it coming."
|> 
|> Sorry, people.  I loved the strip, but its empty now.

Actually, he's gotten a bit better at it lately. I thought he could have
done more with the recent strip where Charlie Brown left Snoopy with Linus
and Lucy, though.

One of my favorite strips from this is a semi-recent one:

	Sally goes up for show and tell. She plans to show leaves...

	  "This is a leaf from an oak tree. This is a leaf from a maple
	   tree. And THIS is a leaf from my kitchen table! HAHAHAHAHA!"

I cracked up with this one.
					Tony
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From: jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan)
Subject: Final Proof that Hobbes is REAL
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:33:03 CDT
Originator: jverdega@ws-39.cae.wisc.edu

Okay, here it is, proof positive that Hobbes is, in fact, really really real.

Who else could have *possibly* pushed the button on the duplicator or the
transmogrifier??  

=;-)



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Jeff Verdegan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer-Aided Engineering Center
jjv@caestaff.engr.wisc.edu
(608) 263-1875
From: jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Bad college strips (was Re: stupid strips)
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:54:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr9.095443.373
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

In article <1992Apr8.231529.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.005403.23410@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted Faber) writes:
>>>Oh I forgot to mention. The absolute worst strip anywhere on 
>>>Earth has got to be something called Victor Spitt - it appears
>>>in the local student paper, the Indiana Daily Student. Its sup-
>
>I doubt it.  The worst strip ever had to be once that appeared in the 
>_Washington Square News_, NYU's student paper.  I can't even remember the
>name of it, it was so bad; even the paper's staff couldn't stand it, but
>they ran it because they thought having at least one strip gave the paper
>some legitimacy.  The strip was about a guy, his talking pet frog, and his
>spaced-out sister.  Not one ever made me even smile, much less laugh.  A
>hint on the artwork looked: the frog was always drawn as an oval at the
>bottom of the panel (well, the top half of an oval), with two filled-in
>circles for eyes.  Somebody please tell me that this strip never made it

No, No, No.  The worst strip ever appears (appeared?) here at U.W. Madison. 
It's called "That Darned Mouse," er sumthin.  I don't remember whether it's in
the Daily Cardinal or the Badger Herald.  Anyway, I read 5 or 6 episodes, and
all it ever consisted of was a mouse on a table, dropping things on a cat 
sitting on the floor next to the table, (dynamite, flowerpots, whatever), and
then in the final panel, the cat, looking very vexed, would say "Ooh! Those 
darned mice!"  The art, however, was even worse than the "story."  I think it
was drawn using MacDraw.  I'm not using this as a sarcastic way of saying it
sucks, It actually looks that way, and I think that's what someone did.

Jeff


----------

Jeff Verdegan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer-Aided Engineering Center
jjv@caestaff.engr.wisc.edu
(608) 263-1875
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: Peanuts: Can Snoopy Talk?
Keywords: peanuts
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:17:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.175226.14131@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>In article <ftxj46q.derek@netcom.com> derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash) writes:
>>A tip of the trivia toque to anyone who can remember the one time Snoopy
>>*did* speak, and what he said.  (I actually only know the latter...)
>>
>Bark?  

  This seems really familiar, so I will add my guess.  There was a
long series of strips in which Pepperment Patty had Snoopy over for
some reason (?), and was still convinced that he was just a kid with a
big nose.  When someone finally tells her that Snoopy is in fact a
beagle, she turns to him for confirmation.  He gives a sheepish,
"Bark."  (Or "Woof" or something)

  Does this sound familiar to anyone?  And does this not count as
speaking, even if it did appear in a balloon and not as onomatopoeia?


--Raymond Flournoy        
======================================================================
flournoy@cs.stanford.edu         "For reasons I cannot explain
Computer Science Dept.            There's some part of me wants to see 
Stanford University, CA           Graceland"               -- P. Simon




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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: I Go Pogo
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:00:05 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.005207.25737@nic.umass.edu> a0s5109@titan.ucc.umass.edu (John K. Norcott) writes:
>inherited.  <Besides, they ended up dropping Geech !!!  Why couldn't they
>have dropped Kudzu???  That hasn't been funny/witty/clever in years !!!>

It took me _weeks_ to notice that Geech was gone.  I didn't miss it.
I'd live w/o Robotman too.  I wonder what some of these other strips
are, such as Baby Blues.  Never heard of it before.  As long as they
keep Dilbert, Foxtrot and For Better or For Worse, everything's fine
IMHO.
-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Merchandising: What's unethical about it
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:37:04 GMT

In article <kuc1efINN526@aludra.usc.edu> rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) writes:
>"A thousand stuffed Hobbes doll turns the character into a knick-knack."
>                                --Bill Watterson, paraphrased
>
Damn!  Now I will never know the answer to that Great Question, namely:
Would the merchandised Hobbes dolls be the real Hobbes or the stuffed Hobbes?

-- 
                    ' ",      *
Karl Wagenfuehr         ,         "Weisst du, wieviel Sternlein stehen an dem
wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
From: monetc@milton.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: New Comics-only paper? (was Chicago Tribune Comics Section)
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:38:07 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

I subscribe to a monthly called "The Funny Times." It contains
many obscure comics, a multitude of political cartoons, Dave Barry,
The Harpers Index, Sylvia, etc. There are also several essays in
each issue (humor/satire) and a sectio of 'real news' - these are
clippings of newspapers from around the country containing, as 
they call it  "news of the weird". (they claim that they are all
factual). If anyone wants this address for subscriptions, email me.
monetc@u.washington.edu
From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts (Rerun)
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:17:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: remarque.JYM.92Apr15091752
	<1992Apr9.152027.24561@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
	<apple.702913191@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu>
	<1992Apr10.172509.26498@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: v106lr4h@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu's message of 10 Apr 92 18:24:00 GMT

>> 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.
> I believe his name is Rerun, but that sounds too much like a
> rappers name to me, and I never actually saw him in the strip.

=o= His name is indeed Rerun, and I have seen him in the strip.
He was dubbed Rerun by Lucy, who wanted a sister, but instead
got a "rerun" of Linus.

=o= Schulz never did much with Rerun besides the back-of-the-
bike strips.
    <_Jym_>			"If you don't get a good night
				kiss, you get Kafka dreams."
				    -- Hobbes

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From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Subject: Re: American Imperlialism - NOT!!!!
Organization: New York University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 00:11:18 GMT

In article <naran.702842181@sfu.ca>, naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran) writes:
> Anyways, there is more than "For Better or For Worse".
> 
> - "Herman"
> - "Chauncey & {something}" [Vancouver based with plenty of references to
> vancouver, Stanley Park and mounties in a non-negative manner] :-)
> - "Betty". Based out of Edmonton, basically like "Roseanne" but a lot funnier.

The _New York Post_ picked up "Betty" a few months ago.  I guess they 
thought it was biting, which made it a perfect NY tabloid strip.  I think
they're wrong.  It's certainly, um, laid back, but I find it totally
mediocre.  And I agree, there's certainly nothing particularly Canadian
about it.  I had no idea it was from Edmonton until just now.
-- 
Aaron Dickey                      Bitnet: axd7104@nyuacf
New York University             Internet: axd7104@ACFcluster.nyu.edu

Al Roker Is God.
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From: tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh)
Subject: Re: Calvin & Hobbes COMPLETE
Keywords: calvin hobbes bibliography complete
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 20:04:30 GMT

Thanks for the complete list, Chris.  I read some years ago that "The
Essential Calvin and Hobbes" had included all the strips for the time-
frame it covers but then I never head anything about the later collections.

In his article, Chris writes:
>This set of books, then, collects ALL of Calvin and Hobbes for the period
>11/18/85, the date of the first strip, through 4/10/91.  Watterson took
>a sabbatical from 5/5/91 to 1/31/92.

While this is true for the most part, there is _one_ strip that has 
never been included in any collections.  It was the tenth strip of the
series and fell on Thanksgiving Day 1985.  If you look in "Calvin and
Hobbes" and "Essential C&H" there appears a strip relating to hunger.
That Thanksgiving there had been some kind of plan among strip writers to
collectively deal with hunger (called the Thanksgiving Hunger Project).  
The strip that actually ran in newspapers on November 28, 1985 started 
with the mother holding Hobbes and saying, "Ol' Hobbes is getting a little
dirty, don't you think?  In fact, you BOTH could use a bath.  C'mon Calvin."
Calvin then starts taking off his shoes sayin "OH BOY!" only to be told
by his mother "You're taking YOUR bath upstairs, Calvin."  The final panel
has Calvin standing next to the open washing machine and Hobbes is sticking
his head out.  Calvin says "Lucky Rat," to which Hobbes responds "Yeah?  Try
the 'cold rinse' cycle."  Hobbes does not look amused.

I believe the first time the replacement strip ran was in the paperback
"Comic Relief" which reprints the Thanksgiving Hunger Project strips.  It
was this strip which was then included in later C&H reprint collections.
Apparently the reason that C&H didn't deal with hunger the first time
around was that Watterson's sample strips were still being run.

(I got my information from a letter printed in the Comics Buyer's Guide
in November 1988.  The letter included a copy of the strip which was
originally run.)

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From: macdevil@netlink.cts.com (Leonard Cayetano)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 10 Apr 92 05:37:07 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

Okay, how about the one where a pilot states to the passengers
that they should buckle their seat belt because the plane should
be experiencing some air turbulence.  However, the pilot is the
one causing the shake-ups.  

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From: rob@ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele)
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side
Reply-To: rob@ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 19:39:43 GMT

"Hey, these things just snap right off!"

One circus bear to another, regarding muzzles.  Trainer cracking whip in  
background.

-------------------------------------------------------
Rob Steele                               rob@ll.mit.edu
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood St., C-153              What is man that thou
Lexington, MA  02173                art mindful of him?
617/981-2575
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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 22:45:11 GMT

You want someone to mention Kathy?

Okay!

KATHY!!!!

I like the strip.  

But I think she may be running out of ideas. Expect to see her marry
Irving soon to start new material.
-- 
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: Craig Smith                                         csmith@onetouch.COM ::
:: Columbus, OH                                  ...!uunet!onetouch!csmith ::
::::::::::::::: "Life is a fulltime occupation."--Gene Kalman :::::::::::::::
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From: dove@elaine9.Stanford.EDU (Dav Somebody)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date:  8 Apr 92 17:05:59 GMT

My fave --- Three big dinosaurs two of them pointing and laughing
hysterically at a little fuzzy mammal, the third one looking toward
the sky with his hand out noticing that it has just begun to snow.


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From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:29:08 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.172324.15700@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
> 
> 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;

For as long as I have been following this strip (around 10 years), the 
author has been aging the characters real time (as far as I can tell).

Lizzie is about 6 months older than my niece.  Melissa is 11 so Lizzie
should be 11 going on 12.  Michael is like 4 years older than Lizzie
so he should be 15 or 16 by now.  If you pay attention to the strip,
every year they have a birthday around the same time and every year,
their ages increment by one.  The adults all age the same too.  M & L's
parents are late 30s going on 40something.

We don't read the paper that runs For Better or For Worse here anymore
because we dropped it over a protest of an idiot reporter that wrote
a defamatory article about the Internet so I'm a little out of touch
with this strip.  I do buy the antholgies whenever I find one (Aprils'
birth was so touching -- sigh).  I'd appreciate it if someone would
fill me in on what was going on with it now.

-- 
Stephanie da Silva                        Taronga Park * Houston, Texas
arielle@taronga.com                           568-0480   568-1032
From: baruz@aludra.usc.edu (Noan Atoll)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 10 Apr 1992 04:24:10 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu
Keywords: far side gary larson

 warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes: 
 >What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?

You can hear the desperation in this one:

``Now, Grog!  Throw!...Throoooooow!...
Throw throw throw throw throw throw!...''

Context:  Huge piranha-type fish eyeing speaker, who is acting as
neanderthal bait for Grog, a spear-fisher.

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From: emj@atop.ugcs.caltech.edu (ed johnson)
Subject: Re: Calvin-Hobbes/Bloom County/Outland
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:49:24 GMT

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

Ed

>--Raymond Flournoy        
>======================================================================
>flournoy@cs.stanford.edu         "For reasons I cannot explain
>Computer Science Dept.            There's some part of me wants to see 
>Stanford University, CA           Graceland"               -- P. Simon



Xref: sparky rec.arts.comics.strips:831 soc.culture.canada:3390 soc.culture.usa:2938
From: krazykid@csa.bu.edu (Ernest Kim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 14 Apr 92 05:42:59 GMT
	<1992Apr10.092846.7789@clarinet.com>
	<1992Apr11.144042.11974@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
In-reply-to: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us's message of 11 Apr 92 14:40:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.144042.11974@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
   brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:

   >You must not read For Better or For Worse very regularly.   It makes
   >quite regular references to Canadian life.  It is not excessive, but
   >neither are the strips from the USA.

   Those US residents who don't live near the Canadian border may not
   be familiar enough with Canadian culture to recognise them as Canadian.
   The US has enough regional differences that the casual reader only
   notices them as "not my region".

Well I know that _For Better or For Worse_ has specifically
mentioned that the family is based in Canada several times
in the past.  I really didn't associate them to any region
before I read that they were in Canada.  

Ernie
krazykid@csa.bu.edu
From: jb118@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeffrey N. Burch)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:07:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: hydra.53970
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute -- EOL

In article <1992Apr8.145629.25882@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>Don't forget:
>
>	-Scientific Progress goes Boink
>
>	and the new one,
>
>	-Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons.  Or somesuch.
> Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780

These last two are outstanding.

I'm really not too big on many of the sledding/winter themes in C&H, 
maybe because I haven't lived in an area of the country that get's lots 
of snow for a while.  But Calvin's snowmen are just tremendous!

Has anyone here ever tried to create a Calvin-style snowman?  I'm 
thinking particularly of the ones which were built around cars to
look like they've been run over, the two or three headed type, the
ones which are impaled by trees, or are holding their own heads in
their hands?

If I only had some snow...

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^  Georgia Tech Research Institute                                    ^ 
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From: afarrell@maths.tcd.ie (Andrew Farrell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:06:33 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

In <1992Apr13.103249.6472@dde.dk> ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes:

>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)

>I read a newspaper article about a year ago (I think) that claimed that
>the artist who makes C&H (I forget his name) was in hospital with a
>serious mental illness. The article further stated that the doctors
>had advised the artist to stop making the comic strips since they
>were apparently part of the reason for his illness.

>Does anybody know more about this?

I'd say It's likely to have been exactly 1 year and 12 days. ago....
No, Bill Watterson is fine, he just took a sabbatical for a year or so.
He's back making C&H now, and he claims the really bad headaches are when he
does his best work :-)

Andrew.