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From: Ben Fulton <fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:14:26 -0500

In <1992Apr12.022309.6925@acsu.buffalo.edu> v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) writes:

>     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

I decided that Bloom County was dying when the sequence on Steve Dallas
quitting smoking ran.  The insanity of that sequence was ludicrous compared
to the gentle humor of Binkley's father quitting smoking several years
before.

ben
fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
right here, right now
there is no other place I'd rather be!
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:22:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: bronze.1992Apr8.072237.7558
Organization: Indiana University

Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:

>Does anyone else follow this strip? Its been my favorite for awhile. 
Mine too. 

>It can be poignant and at times uproariously funny. 
It is more often good than funny, IMO.

>I've been following the progress of the family for years now.
I started reading it in the paper when Dad bought his sportscar, and
caught up on the back strips by reading the books last summer.
-- 
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 circumstances make women more affectionate and men more amiable."
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From: sergio@Ingres.COM (Sergio L Aponte)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:30:15 GMT
Reply-To: sergio@Ingres.COM (Sergio L Aponte)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501


	I'll tell you what I find amazing...

	When I first started reading C&H, and I have all the books published,
	I thought the humor was so great my kids wouldn't understand it. But,
	NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! They got a hold of one (kids 11, 9 and 8)
	and they won't let go of it! They love it!

	It is amazing how C&H can reach adults, kids and the "kid" in all of us.

						Sergio
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From: irving@eskimo.celestial.com (Larry Gilbert)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 11 Apr 92 03:06:27 GMT
Organization: Eskimo North, Seattle, WA

axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:

>BTW, is it just me, or is The Far Side not nearly as funny since 
>Larson's sabbatical?

I don't think so.  One of my favorites is "Carmen Miranda's family reunion,"
and that was just a few days after his vacation.

But as for my FAVORITE panel...  Well, Mr. Larson himself apparently thought it
was so tasteless that he never went further than a rough sketch in his sketch
book.  However, it does appear on page 106 in _The PreHistory of the Far Side_.
The description has been rot13'd to protect sensitive minds.

Gjb qbtf, fgnaqvat ba gjb yrtf.  Gur qbt ba gur evtug vf rknzvavat n wne juvpu
ubyqf n cnve bs inthr-ybbxvat bowrpgf.  Gur qbt ba gur yrsg rkcynvaf, "Gur irg
yrg zr xrrc gurz... gurl'er zl grfgvpyrf."

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"She really took you apart, didn't she, Charlie Brown?"
"Uh huh... step by step, verse by verse, and line by line..."
"You sound like a victim of higher criticism!"
From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu (Aaron Dickey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: How long has this group been around???
Date: 13 Apr 92 07:24:29 GMT
Organization: New York University

In article <1992Apr12.173659.20522@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, Sean Alan Squier <ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
> Just like the title..How long has this group been around?  It was
> offered here on April 7, but when I started reading on April 12, wow,
> 738 articles!!!!!!!  Has traffic really been over 100 posts/day?

Yup.  It wasn't offered to you before April 7 because it didn't exist
before then.  It's amazing, isn't it, a new newsgroup actually worth
reading?  Patooie on rec.arts.music.phish, I say.
-- 
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New York University             Internet: axd7104@ACFcluster.nyu.edu

Al Roker Is God.
Xref: sparky rec.arts.comics.strips:352 soc.culture.canada:3253 soc.culture.usa:2844
From: jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:55:21 GMT
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

_Herman_ is also a Canadian strip (although it's a single frame, rather than
a strip as such).

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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:14:17 GMT

In <1992Apr7.201721.20351@eff.org> hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs) writes:
[snip]

>You want to talk about -bad-?  Look at Garfield!  It was good once
>upon a time, but they ran out of stuff to say with it -years- ago!  I
>wish they'd put it out of its misery, like Berke Breathed did with
>Bloom County three years ago.

>Now _there_ is a class-act.  Bloom County was SUPERB for a number of
>years, but it went down hill and the stripper (to use his term)
>recognized the fact and let it go.  

Unfortunately, he had to do "Outland".  Granted that Bloom County was 
sinking towards the end, but Brethed took a quantum leap downwards.

I can really respect that, as
>opposed to Garfield and <retch> Peanuts.

Peanuts is in a whole different class than Garfield.  Peanuts isn't nearly
the funniest strip out there, but en masse it has a lot of value.  If I
read through 100 peanuts paperbacks I'll have no belly laughs, quite a few
chuckles, and a fair amount of poignancy.  If I read through 100 Garfield
paperbacks I'll develop an allergy to cats.


--
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  "It is considered good to look wise, especially when not 
   overburdened with information" -- J. Golden Kimball
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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: C & H number one!?
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 22:49:56 GMT

kilcup@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Greg Kilcup) writes:

>Having been overwhelmed with 50 message this first day of
>the rec.arts.comics.strips, I can't believe that nobody
>even mentioned the obvious number one strip:

>            ==================
>            ==  Doonesbury  ==
>            ==================

>I mean, C+H, Foxtrot and Far Side are certainly all up there,
>but one must admit that Doonesbury out-classes them all.

>Shall I assume that since it is published on the editorial
>pages of many papers, many of you forgot about it?

I have not forgotten Doonesbury.

I am totally ambivilant to it.
He comes up with original, funny stuff, but I do not like the political
left slant to it. His blatant attempt to fluff up the Dan Quail Drug
non-Story is a case in point.

AND DOONESBURY (the character) SHOULD GET A *REAL* JOB!!!

AND SO SHOULD ZONKER (stupid elf!) !!!!!
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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: 9 Apr 92 14:29:10 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <1992Apr8.164330.23525@cis.ohio-state.edu> iven@strawberry.cis.ohio-state.edu (Daniel R. Iven) writes:


>As I remember the order of the books is (please correct me if I'm wrong)

>Calvin and Hobbes
>Something Under the Bed is Drooling
>The Essential Calvin & Hobbes (a combination of the first two)

>Yukon Ho!
>Weirdos From Another Planet
>The Athoriative Calvin & Hobbes (a combination of the previous two)

>The Lazy Sunday Comic Book (Collection of Sunday comics, some from all of the
>			    previous books some not in any other book)

>Scientific Progress goes Boink
>Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons


>I could be wrong on these.  I do have all of them though, so I'll check 
>when I get home.

>Personally I want to be Calvin when I grow up.  Such imagination - SpaceMan
>Spiff and all the rest.


What is this?  Does *no-one* have Revenge of the Baby Sat???????
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From: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Best Long Time Strip/Gahan Wilson/Cutter John
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:03:26 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Apr16.041052.15397@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> buccb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes:

>	I think I must be sick, because almost all my favorite Bloom
>County's involve those damn cockroaches. They were some funny little
>six-legged critters.

"What's this?  Dijon mustard?  I *hate* Dijon mustard!"

>	All the others I really like revolve around Oliver. I will
>never ever forget the one where he is hacking and upon breaking into
>someone else's computer, dons a head scarf and wields a sword, 
>yelling, "Abast, ye maties! We's a comin' aboard and we wants all
>the booty!" My friends and I still use that damn line when we are
>conquering something :).

Actually, wasn't it

	"Avast, ye corporate swabbies!  Prepare to be boarded!"

or something more like that?  I definitely remember the word "swabbies"...



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 medallions to the thumb.-MacLeish | 	Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice", A.V
From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Missing Callahan punchline
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:16:32 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

On page 18 of DIGESTING THE CHILD WITHIN is a classic gag setup: a
psychiatrist is taking notes and saying something to his patient.  The
patient, however is not lying on the couch, but on the floor next to
the couch.

There's supposed to be a punchline here.  What is it?

Has anyone written in for information regarding Callahan T-shirts, mugs
and other products, as mentioned on page 4?
-- 
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 who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." --Jim Hightower

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From: buccb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Keywords: dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
Organization: Carlos` Wonderful Wacky World of Tunafish 
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:36:00 GMT

In a previous episode on rec.arts.comics.strips,
dove@elaine9.Stanford.EDU (Dav Somebody) drops complete science:

>
>As for interesting new(?) strips, anyone see Overboard or Robotman?
>Both of these strips are pretty good, and definitely give me a good
>chuckle from time to time.

	Overboard is hilarious. I get a good laugh outta them about
80% of the time. I think thats pretty good.


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From: jeffyg@cardinal.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeffrey Wayne Geist)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Lets hear it for Fox Trot!
Date: 8 Apr 1992 16:12:35 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: cardinal.ksu.ksu.edu
Summary: the second best comic around
Keywords: Fox Trot!



Ok everybody.... this is it.  Everyone knows Calvin is the greatest, but lets hearr
it for another of the soon to be classic strips.  Bill Amend is a genious!!!
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:41:20 GMT

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 don't know if I'd use the word "evolved" to describe Outland...IMHO,
"boring" hits a lot closer to the mark.

                                              --Steve Stelter
                                              sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 18:10:39 GMT

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

>Anybody read this? [ YES ] Any opinions? [ I LIKE IT ] Should she have
>had the third child? [ YES! SHE WANTED IT, SHE SHOULD HAVE IT! ]
>Will Michael & Martha stay together forever? [ I DOUBT IT ] Will Gordo
>turn his dad in for abusing him? [ NO! HIS DAD FELT BAD TOO! ]

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From: njblock@athena.mit.edu (Ned Block)
Subject: Re: ``Reality'' of Hobbes (was: "Reality" of C&H)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 11:14:16 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.205627.3142@beaver.cs.washington.edu> greg@cs.washington.edu (Greg Barnes) writes:
>In article <1992Apr08.185837.28473@bmerh2.bnr.ca> coop1w13@bnr.ca writes:
>>So we are led to
>>believe that Hobbes is only real in Calvin's imagination.
>> 
>>But at least two strips come to mind that somewhat disprove this theory.
>> 
>>1) Calvin believed that he was a great magician, and had Hobbes tie him
>>   up so that he could escape like Houdini. 
>> 
>>2) In a single strip, Hobbes was boosting Calvin up into a tree. 
>> 
>>Is there other evidence, one way or the other, that I'm overlooking?
>
>3)  Hobbes boosts Calvin up to get the mail from the mailbox Calvin can't
>reach (from the "I just check the `bill me later' box on the cards" strip).
>
>4)  Hobbes mounts a tire swing on the tree on a branch Calvin can't reach
>(The tire is from Calvin's Dad's car).
>
>5)  Hobbes eats Susie Derkin's cookies (the last strip in the original
>'Calvin loses Hobbes' series, where Susie finds Hobbes and has a tea party).
>
>Hobbes is a real tiger.  The evidence is overwhelming.
>
>				Greg Barnes
>				greg@cs.washington.edu
From: v121r529@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott A Elwood)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:42:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Calvin and Hobbes is by far the best comic strip around.  Just trying to
start some arguments... 8)

					A big fan,
					Scott Elwood
From: an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Question
Date: 15 Apr 1992 18:27:57 GMT

lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
>me@dude.pcs.com (Michael Elbel) writes:
>>Someone whose identity has been lost to the ages writes:
>>>
>>> Another great thing about [Bill Watterson] is that he has vowed never
>>> to exploit C&H: no Calvin mugs, no Hobbs t-shirts. 
>>
>> Not true. I have this Calvin and Hobbes T-shirt at home and are very
>> proud of it. 
> 
> Maybe so, but it's a bootleg.  There are no authorized C&H T-shirts.

I've heard Nth-hand that Watterson has had a slight change of heart
and allowed the printing of T-shirts adorned with C&H art (a single
panel adapted from some C&H strip in the past) in specific
circumstances, with the profits going to charity.  The places I've
seen C&H shirts for sale are stores I don't normally associate with
bootleg material.

Mine is the one about "intelligent life in the universe not trying to
contact us."  I've also seen "why we play war and not peace -- too few
rols models."  (I'm paraphrasing, not directly quoting the shirts).
What other ones are available?  Note: If it's a C&H shirt advertising
a frat party, it's probably a bootleg :-).

Hearing from someone with a definitive answer to the bootleg question
may be too much to hope for.
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From: eepee@polaris.utu.fi (Esa-Pekka P{lvim{ki)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:01:51 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

In article <1992Apr8.010925.16808@u.washington.edu> phantom@hardy.u.washington.edu (PHANTOM) writes:
>
>
>bloom county is now "Outland", and has been for about 2 years now.

Yeah? Why the change ??

/ep
From: keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: For Better or Worse (Was: Comic Strips -- American ...)
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:43:11 GMT
Organization: Dowty Communications, Inc.

In his article, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

> [Regarding "For Better or Worse"]
> YOW!  So far we've seen claims that the strip is set in North Bay, Ottawa,
> Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Winnipeg.  I tend to favor the two westernmost
> of these, but I'm not sure myself.  Does anyone have a *definite* reference?
> Note that the exact location may well be deliberately obscure, and that
> the author has lived in a number of places in Canada.

Just to add fuel to the fire, earlier this week, in the Baltimore (MD, USA,
Planet Earth, Sol Planet 3, etc...) Sun, one of the characters was reading
the "Toronto Star".  (I believe the strip was on Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992).

John W. Keating, III

(Michael: YAWP!)

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   73737.733@compuserve.com     |Opinions expressed above are mine, not DCI's.
From: dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:31:04 GMT

In article <steph.702714993@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
#For Better and For Worse has at least one explicit reference to Canada --
#recent she visited her parents in Vancouver.

I'm not sure, but I think they live in Thunder Bay.

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From: derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash)
Subject: Re: Letters to Artists (was Re: Calvin & Hobbes, Cathy my favs)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 05:46:04 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Apr9.195801.8320@hal.com> dougm@hal.com (Doug Moran) writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.164824.13453@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>, cma@cbnewsm (christine.m.dakes) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to fan letters to your favorite comic
>>authors?  (in my case, for Cathy and Calvin & Hobbes).
>
>Sending mail c/o the publishers of the collection books has worked for
>me.  I received a wonderful reply from Alison Bechdel of DYKES TO WATCH
>OUT FOR, for example.

Alternately, sending it to the author c/o the newspaper should work -- just
don't figure on fast turn-around!

Derek

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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:15:22 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.114944.29566@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> w3wes@edison.gsfc.nasa.gov (William E. Smith) writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.082041.5986@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, 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?
>
>The real reason dinosaurs became extinct.

Tethercat.

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From: buccb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:20:52 GMT
Organization: Carlos` Wonderful Wacky World of Tunafish

In a previous episode on rec.arts.comics.strips,
hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs) drops complete science:

>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.

	336 here. :)

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From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Eyebeam and Dilbert
Summary: UT Austin responds...
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:37:49 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

hkelly@edsr.eds.com (Kelly Shuldberg) writes:
>Hey UT Austin:

Hey Kelly:

>Does Eyebeam still appear in the Statesman and The Daily Texan?  I've often
>wondered why this strip didn't get as popular as Academia Waltz a.k.a.
>Bloom County a.k.a. Outland.  I personally liked it better.

Eyebeam no longer appears anywhere.  Sam Hurt is doing a new strip focusing
(in theory) on Peaches, called "Queen of the Universe".  It was pretty
funny for a while, but has started slipping.  I don't know if the Real-
Estatesman (whoops, sorry :) ) carries it, but the Texan does.

-- 
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