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From: Eddie.Saxe@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C & H number one!?
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:51:59 GMT
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Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Apr10.234029.289@wheaton.wheaton.edu> dledelen@wheaton.edu (Daniel Lane Edelen) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>I agree. The problem with Doonesbury is that the humor got angry. Trudeau used
>to be great at slamming something/someone in a very subtle way. Nowadays it
>seems to be in-your-face and bitter. The subtlety of the humor was what made
>Doonesbury the classic it is, simply because not everyone understood it. 

I disagree.  To me, Doonesbury today still retains much of the spark of the
Seventies Doonesbury.  Take today's Doonesbury, f'rinstance:

	BD> You can really perform a wedding ceremony, Sid?

	Sid> No problemo!  I'm a man of the cloth!

	     Back in the '60s, you could get a draft deferment if you
	     were in the clergy.  So I sent in $3 to this mail-order
	     ministry...

	     Four days later, I got back a certificate saying I was a
	     fully ordained minister in the Christian Order of
	     Immaculate Pacifism.

	BD> What'd your rabbi say?

	Sid> Dad?  Bummed.

This strip had me smiling through my entire probability class.  No, it's not
precisely at the level it was before the hiatus, but it's pretty close, IMVHO.

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From: kallen@cs.utk.edu (Karl Allen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C&H:  Merchandising (was Re: HOBBES (of C&H) Bumper Sticker)
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:22:34 GMT
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In article <1992Apr10.071810.11703@athena.mit.edu> anjyii@athena.mit.edu (anjyii) writes:
>>>>       Bill Watterson does not allow Calvin & Hobbes to be merchandised in any
>>>>way. Any Calvin & Hobbes merchandise (I have seen Hobbes dolls, eg) is BOOTLEG
>>>>and Watterson does not receive a penny.  Please do NOT support anyone you see
>>>>hocking C&H material.
>>>
>>>     Gotta love his ethics.  Nice one, Bill.  
>>>
>>YES.  As much as I'd *love* to have a Hobbes doll (to go next to Opus on my
>>desk :-), and as much as I'd be happy to make him a rich man, I'm glad someone
>>as famous as he is has taken a stand like this.  Guess I'll just have to buy
>>*all* the books...
>>
>>Derek

I dunno, personally, I think Waterson's kind of foolish for not cashing in. 
While I do respect the fact that he thinks it would be ethically wrong to do
so, and standing by that belief, I question the idea that having Calvin
and Hobbes dolls, or whatever, would somehow taint his work. (And a lot of
people wouldn't mind making those mega $$$ even if it *did* taint their 
work!) Years from now, when C&H isn't so hot, I wonder if he'll regret not
pulling down those extra millions. Could be money is not important for him, 
so he won't. That's his decision to make. 

I know that sounds sort of, well, materialistic, but it doesn't have to be. 
If he wanted, he could make all profits from dolls or whatever go to 
some worthy cause, like keeping tigers alive in the wild. <They are endangered,
as he points out a lot.> My point is that I disagree with the widely held
assumption that having spin-off products neccessarily makes the comic
strip 'impure.' I would say it depends on the cartoonist. If he gets 
satisfied, and lazy, and hires others to draw his strip or whatever, then it
probably does hurt the strip. If the cartoonist is careful, though, he
can maintain the strip's value. As an example of this check out Charles Schultz.
Never had others do his work, doesn't do all sorts of other things that might
distract him from his cartooning <like direct movies, or write science
fiction> and IMHO Peanuts is as good now as ever. <I know, there's a lot
of disagreement on that point. Hence the IMHO.>

Anyway, that's how I see it. Of course, I wouldn't buy a Hobbes doll 
anyway. 

I remain,
Karl Allen
kallen@cs.utk.edu
From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: WOW!!!!!!!!!
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:28:41 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ

In article <9APR199200371249@mary.fordham.edu> areid@mary.fordham.edu (Darin Reid) writes:
>200 messages on this group in it's first two days!  
>I didn't realize that comic strips were so popular! 

It is, of course, the only reason to buy a modern newspaper.

alt.news-media is four weeks old and has had 101 articles, total.

				--Blair
				  "The prosecution rests."
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From: irving@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Myers)
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:44:27 GMT

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

>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?

I like F.B.  Perhaps it reminds me of home, or something, but the quiet way it
looks at the humor in a simple lifestyle is something I can identify with. 
Sure some of the humor is reused, a lot.  But reality is like that.  Don't you
have someone who you constantly rib for their  -- say  --- poor piano playing?


Hate = Nancy, Fam CIr. (for about 10 years), Outland, Many many others
Love = C&H, Foxtrot, Baby Blues, Far Side, Cathy (usually)

But then, hey, I follow Brenda Starr, Dick Tracy and The Amazing Spider Man,
and The Phantom, too.

-- 
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From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll)
Subject: Re: Bob 'n' Dave (was Re: Bad college strips (was Re: stupid strips)
Organization: Technophiles Inc. - Engineers with Attitude
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:03:35 GMT

Yeah, Bob 'n Dave has slipped some (isn't that the same everywhere?).
The old stuff was utterly hilarious - I liked it as much as any "real"
strip, even Sylvia, Doonesbury or C+H. I'm cracking up writing this,
thinking of "Planet of the Bobs", the coffee paeans, "Vanilla Christ"
and "Bob 'n Dave in other countries". The Fantabulous Four and
Electric Kool-Aid Man count as Bob 'n Dave. Bob 'n Dave has been in
National Lampoon at least a couple times.

Heck, when our research group had to do the Friday party, we did a Bob
'n Dave theme, with coffee, candy cigarettes, Kool-Aid, and (of
course!) bread. It was primo.

P.S. The strip is an acquired taste - you have to work with it for a
while before it takes.

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From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Subject: Welcome from me!!!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 09:38:35 GMT

I just wanted to welcome everyone to this new and exciting news group.
Actually I just wanted to be one of the first posters.:-)

----SCAVENGER

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get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson  |
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Subject: Re: New Zealand Comic Strip
From: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 08:20:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <1992Apr08.193035.2749@onetouch.COM> csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith) writes:

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

Footrot Flats.

>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.

Most of the jokes are farming jokes. Quite respectable really!

>Anyone know of any books of it available?

Loads, but whether they're published outside NZ I don't know. You can by
them (imported) in London.

Jeremy

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From: ddebry@itchy.dsd.es.com (David DeBry)
Subject: Re: Arnold (sniffle)
Reply-To: David DeBry <ddebry@dsd.es.com>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 01:06:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.163908.26468@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston) writes:
|> trombley-sarah@CS.YALE.EDU (Sarah Trombley) writes:
|> 
|> >_I_ remember "Arnold!"  I adored that strip, and I think I still have at
|> >home an enlarged panel with Arnold yelling at the teacher, "Are you
|> >saying I'm not precious?!?"  The strip was very popular in Detroit--the
|> >reaction to its cancellation was so strong that the author (I forget his
|> >name) wrote to the Free Press to thank us, and even drew a little "in
|> >memoriam" panel...Tommy the Goon Boy standing by Arnold's grave ("Eaten
|> >by a giant bird") saying, "Here's a nice article in the Free Press..."
|> >Alas, I have never been able to find a compilation.
|> 
|> >"AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"
|> 
|> If anyone knows of a compilation, please let me know.  This was my 
|> favorite strip of all time.

	Does anyone know how to get in touch with the author of the
strip?  Perhaps we can appeal to him to release an 'unpublished' compendium.

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From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Art in Blondie (was: Fusco Brothers!)
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:17:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: tssmith@netcom.com's message of 10 Apr 92 04:32:47 GMT

>> 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 . . . drawn with *huge* chests?
> Maybe Chic Young just liked to draw that kind of figure.  It
> looks very 1930's to me . . .

=x= Blondie actually started out as a 1920s-style "flapper," and
had small breasts (as was the style of the time).

> Apparently, the strip was started over 60 years ago, and at
> that time, Dagwood was the heir to a railroad fortune . . .

=x= "Heir to the Bumstead billions," in fact.  The strip started
out being about Blondie and her search for a rich beau.  It was
one of those strips that showed fancy flapper outfits and
grandiose ballroom scenes and such.  She eventually met Dagwood
and it was True Love (TM).
    <_Jym_>			"If you don't get a good night
				kiss, you get Kafka dreams."
				    -- Hobbes

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From: Ben Fulton <fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Fox Trot
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:44:51 -0500

In <1992Apr10.194435.26684@u.washington.edu> monetc@milton.u.washington.edu writes:

>>Does anyone out there read Fox Trot?
>Yes! I particularly enjoy finding the details hidden amidst things
>like newspapers that people are reading and radio announcers.

Those are great - watch for them.  "Paulina marries cartoonist!  'What
a catch' says supermodel'"  or on Jeopardy, "It's the art of turning
things in just before the deadline."   BZZZZT!  "What is cartooning?"
Bill Amend is great.

ben
fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
right here, right now
there is no other place I'd rather be!
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From: toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Timothy Olin Jarrett)
Subject: Re: Serious strips: Rip Kirby, Spidey, Rex Morgan, MD
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa 
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:45:43 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.120141.5915@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> "Stephen C. Miller" <stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>I never read these strips as a kid.  I never read these strips as an
>adult.  In the past year I've started reading them.  Man, are they ever
>WONDERFUL!
>
(...stuff about Rip Kirby deleted...)
>
>Spidey is obviuosly the best.
>
(...stuff about Rex Morgan deleted...)
>
>Anybody else a fan of the serious serials?

I'm not quite sure that the Spider-Man serial fits in with the others you've
mentioned.  Rex Morgan in particular has a feeling of "soap-opera" that many
of the other serials share (Mary Worth, anyone?)  But Stan Lee's Spider-Man
manages to continue a typical comic-book plotline (lots o' action, heroine in
distress, save the world) while keeping enough one-liners in to make it 
a great daily read.

For instance:  Anyone catch the George Bush parody in the sequence on Doctor
Doom's attempt to take over the world by threatening to blow up the oil fields?

Flunky:  Sir, what if Doctor Doom manages to destroy additional oil fields?
Bush:  He wouldn't dare...
[next frame, close-up on slightly hyperthyroidic face]
Bush:  He might lose his favored-nation status!
Flunky (out of frame):  Why didn't _I_ think of that?

or

Flunky:  Sir, it's time for your speech on crime, education and the environment.

Bush:  Not now...Doctor Doom is about to address the world!

Best political satire I've seen on the Bush-man, and in a single panel of a 
"serious serial."  Completely cured my doubts about Stan Lee's adequacies as
a writer.

>-- 
>--------------------
>=Steve Miller	 		    stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
>		(Former rock star turned grad student)
>  Happyhappy joyjoy happyhappy joyjoy happyhappy joyjoy happyhappy joyjoy

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"No sir, I didn't like it."
From: jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:50:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr8.125012.5311
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

In article <1992Apr07.192516.230591@cs.cmu.edu> kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes:
>I hate that syrupy piece of crap.  It used to be good years ago, but now
>it's nauseating.
>
>And what is this guy's hang-up with dead people?

Bil Keane must die, but when he does, we can all blame it on I. Dunno.
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From: yarnot@csusac.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: Re: Compilations
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 07:10:30 GMT

In article <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?
>--
>
I picked up "On the Mommy Track" last year.  Hadn't seen Fastrack for a while,
but it didn't take long to remember them all.  I don't know if it's still
around.



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                                     change a light bulb?

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From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: New Comics-only paper? (was Chicago Tribune Comics Section)
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:24:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.035357.6226@eff.org> hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs) writes:

>Has anyone ever published a comics-only (okay, with ads) newspaper?

There is a Valley Comic News out here in western Massachusetts, which
claims to have sibling publications across the country.  I've seen a
similar item in the Boston area.

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From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Zippy isn't funny anymore
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:29:07 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <zbrjk8h@lynx.unm.edu> lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
>Nobody around here carries the strip so I follow it in the tradebacks, but
>as far as I can tell, ZIPPY has *always* been functionally equivalent to
>"The Adventures Of Griffy Complaining"!  Griffith's social-commentary
>angle has been the driving force behind the strip since it started.

	Oh no!!!  You must try to locate one of the "full length" books like
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET (it might be called "AM I HAVING FUN YET") or ZIPPY
STORIES.  These are not collections of short strips, but longer stories
where true true Zippy-ness can be experienced.  Start with ZIPPY STORIES if
you can.  They may both be in print -- check your local bookstore's copy of
BOOKS IN PRINT.

	ZIPPY STORIES is sooooo different from the stuff in the newspapers.
It's all reprints from when Zippy was an underground comic character.  It
initially took me several readings to get into it, but Zippy managed to
alter my entire sense of humor with that one book.

	One major difference is the emphasis on mind-altering drugs.
I don't indulge in them myself, so this was initially a turnoff for me.
But once I got around that roadblock, Zippy became my favorite comic
character.

	If you have ever used the "yow" command from GNU Emacs, which
supplies a random Zippy quote:  the quote database comes almost entirely
from ZIPPY STORIES and ARE WE HAVING FUN YET.

>I've never really thought that Zippy was a "ha ha funny" strip -- more
>just a platform for Griffith to let of steam.

	The "Griffy" character has always been a complainer.  But he didn't
play a prominent role in the early Zippy stories and strips.

	Even so, the same wonderful social commentary is present.  But it
isn't stated so directly -- no Griffy character blurting it out.  It's
more subtle.

                                                        Dan

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From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Poll
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:14:00 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

Okay, it was inevitable.  Send me your top 10 favorite comic strips, in
order of preference, and I'll compile them for this bboard.


Oh, I forgot, I'd like to kill that little guy in "Ziggy"...but not his
dog.  I'd also like to blow up "Gasoline Alley".
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Frank and Ernest and God (was Re: The Best Far Side cartoon)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:08:55 GMT

dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:

>In article <1992Apr13.220941.13871@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group) writes:
>>
>>_Frank and Ernest_ are also great at picking on God!

>My favorite is the one that shows Moses standing on the mountaintop, holding
>some stone tablets and looking *very* confused, and the Voice from the Clouds
>is saying:


Two angels are talking: "Well, they've just invented gravity; we can ditch
the Velcro idea..."


                                          --Steve Stelter
                                            sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: Chuck.Lavazzi@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Outland vs. Bloom County (WAS Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Date: 11 Apr 92 03:14:02 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service


	And speaking of "Outland"...how many of you caught the "Bill and Opus
Christmas Special: A Wish for Wings That Work" last year?  I thought it was one
of the hoopiest things on major mediocretin media in some time.  Great animation
and a sense of humor that was utterly Brethed.  Truly mutant.  Good sound
effect, too.

Chuck
No .sig, no fat, no foolin'

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From: Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Using computer for comics 
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 00:04:05 -0500

In article <1992Apr9.095443.373@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:
>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:

|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.


Heheh..

That brings up another topic, so this goes under a new thread.

Has anyone actually used a computer to produce a comic strip? Let
see.. what software would be appropriate. I suppose Autocad might
be overkill. Some of the paint programs might fit the bill. I know
that Bloom County was produced with extensive use of a xerox ma-
chine. Good cut-and-paste would be mandatory, but the final pro-
duct shouldn't have that computer-generated clipart look.

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