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From: ewing@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Rick Ewing)
Subject: Berke Brethed's boat accident
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:55:18 GMT

Has anyone else read the news blurb about Berke Brethed's boating accident.
 According to the news wire, he was thrown from a power boat during a
weekend excursion and got his right arm caught in the propellor.  The
article states that it almost ripped his arm off, but he will be able to
make a full recovery.  Fortuntely for us fans of his work, he should
restart drawing within a week since he's left-handed.  But we all wish him
a speedy recovery.

Didn't Berke Brethed almost get killed in a ultra-lite accident several
years ago?  This guy must have nine lives somewhere...

--Rick Ewing
  Vanderbilt University
From: ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Li'l Abner
Date: 15 Nov 1992 04:07:11 GMT
Organization: Turkey Hall
Distribution: world
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Li'l Abner is (arguably, but IMHO) the best strip ever made -- too bad there
isn't anything like it today.  Anyway, some publishing company started the
project of publishing the complete Li'l Abner -- in 59 volumes or so -- both
the Sundays and the dailies.  I don't know if they succeeded with this
project or not, but I do know that they got at least as far as volumes 7, 8,
and 9.  I've read them.

Does anybody know more about this; like what publishing company is doing this,
whether they've quit or not; when each volume is supposed to come out, if they
are still going, etc...?  Any info would be appreciated.
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From: kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Breathed = Idiot (was Re: Bloom County vs. Outland)
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:01:32 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA

In <1ear5nINNgjo@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU writes:
>
>	Ronald-Ann and Bill are there on a regular basis; Steve Dallas and
>Oliver occasionally drop by, and Binkley's been there once (but he'd changed).

Can anyone give me the date of Oliver's "hacking" incidents in Outland.  I missed
it. <sniff>

>	While I've mentioned that, does anyone know if there's going to be a
>Last Basselope TV special, like there was for AWfWTW?  Amblin' did such a good
>job on the first that I really want to see a second.

I hope that AWfWTW will be rebroadcast again this year, because I happened to
want to record it but couldn't for some forgotten reason.  (Story of my life. ;-)
Does anyone know?  It's a X-mas type show, so maybe...

>In the introduction to PFAI, Breathed
>mentions that one of the amusing things he saw in Outland was how quickly (and
>inevitably) it became like Bloom County.

Breathed is such an IDIOT!  Why didn't he just stick with Bloom County and
just do Sunday strips?  At the time of transition, I remember him saying that
these jokes get old and I need a change.  Well folks, you just heard it from
Jay and myself, Outland is just like Bloom County!  Is that a change?  I think
he heard too much of an outcry from fans and brought back the characters.  I
think he wanted a quick out, but he took the wrong way, to Outland.

Bloom County is dead.  I really miss it.

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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Finding the good Calvin (was Re: Calvin's multiple personalities)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:36:57 GMT

In article <wright.721879659@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wright@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Michael G. Wright) writes:
>Does anyone remember the duplicator that Calvin used to make a 'good' version
>of himself that was a total sap, to use Calvin's wording? ...

  Has this series of strips been included in a collection yet?  I
missed it when it was running in the paper, and have been trying to
track it down since.  Discussion about this sequence shows up in this
group every 4 months or so (always in relation to Calvin's alleged
psyochoses), and I feel left out!


--Raymond Flournoy        
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Computer Science Dept.                    both hands, since 1966."
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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Michelle in "Curtis"
Organization: Interleaf
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:32:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.143210.11811@stsci.edu> wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan) writes:
>When/How did Michelle in "Curtis" gain weight?

She went to bible/choir camp over the summer, and when Curtis met her at the
bus when she returned, she'd gained the weight. This may be the only recorded
occurance of a kid actually eating large quantities of summer camp food.

"Doctor Bruce Banner was accidentally exposed to the radiations of the
incredible Gamma Bomb.  The radiation... KILLED HIM, of course!  What do you
_think_ they make bombs to do, anyway?" --Paul Estin
tyg   tyg@Hq.ileaf.com
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From: hathaway@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Condoms in Luanne
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:44:36 GMT

In article <BxsqDL.6M3@CAM.ORG>, emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend) writes:
> In article <lg8kklINNbkb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jamesc@bassclar.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>>I'm surprised no one has brought up the sequence a few weeks ago
>>in Luanne where  her brother Brad and their neighbor Diane are
>>on a first date and Diane notices a condom as it falls out of
>>Brad's pocket.  Excellent characterization and humor throughout
>>that week of that underrated comic strip.
> 
> I enjoy Luann quite a bit.  I hope they continue with Brad's relationship
> with Diane...
> 
>>The only mainstream daily comic strip that I remember having
>>mentioned condoms before was Doonesbury.  (It's amazing how
>>many comics milestones need the qualifier, "The first
>>except for Doonesbury"...)  Can anyone recall another earlier case?
> 
> Not I.
> 
> -- 
> Emru Townsend     BIX: switch     emru@cam.org     Fido: 1:167/133
> When you aren't looking at it, this .sig is in Spanish.


How about Zippy?  Has he too avoided this lifesaver?  Questions about 
mainstream aside... 

And a little farther afield - Howard The Duck (the movie though) 
had one in his wallet.  I doubt he he/it made it into any strips though. 

Wm. Hathaway - B'mr MD 
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From: dat@thinkage.on.ca (David Adrien Tanguay)
Subject: Re: Li'l Abner
Organization: Thinkage, Ltd.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:22:46 GMT

ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink) writes:
>
>Li'l Abner is (arguably, but IMHO) the best strip ever made -- too bad there
>isn't anything like it today.  Anyway, some publishing company started the
>project of publishing the complete Li'l Abner -- in 59 volumes or so -- both
>the Sundays and the dailies.  I don't know if they succeeded with this
>project or not, but I do know that they got at least as far as volumes 7, 8,
>and 9.  I've read them.
>
>Does anybody know more about this; like what publishing company is doing this,
>whether they've quit or not; when each volume is supposed to come out, if they
>are still going, etc...?  Any info would be appreciated.

Kitchen Sink is publishing them, and they're up to volume 15 or so (>= 13).
-- 
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Thinkage, Ltd.           Kitchener, Ontario, Canada          [43.40N 80.47W]
From: bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: More non-family in Sally Forth
Date: 22 Nov 1992 07:16:17 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: solar.tamu.edu

Someone posted awhile back about use of the term "Anal-Retentive" in 
Sally Forth.  Now it's debatable whether or not the author was trying
to be a little risque in this strip.

However, in today's strip, where Sally pays a $10 "No Crack" fee (so that
the repairman would wear a long shirt so that you can't see his crack when
he bends over) definitely was a eyebrow-raiser, for me anyway.

I didn't talk like that until I was, oh, 10 or 11 anyway.  At our house
"Crack" was in the same bad-word category as "damn" and "hell" and maybe 
"crap".

Just a casual observation--

WBB
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From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Re : Calvin's multiple personality
Date: 16 Nov 92 09:18:23 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <13NOV199208583097@valley.ops.lmsc.lockheed.com>,
schwartz@valley.ops.lmsc.lockheed.com (Ted Schwartz) writes:
> I was undecided about whether Hobbes was real or not until the strip where 
Calvin sends his parent's car down the driveway and into a ditch. In one panel, 
Calvin's mother is shown in the foreground inside the house, while outside 
Calvin and Hobbbes are shown separately running after the car. As far as I can 
recall, this is the only instance where a "living" Hobbes is shown in a panel 
with someone other than Calvin. This led me to believe that Hobbes is real if 
no one else is watching. 

     Also, there's an older strip where C&H and Mom are in a stalled
car.  While Mom is looking under the hood, C&H blow the horn to
attract attention.  When someone pulls over to help, both C&H are
yelling something about saving everyone.  If my memory is faulty on
the situation, this last frame is OK, because we actually see Hobbes
yelling, despite the presence of two adults.  Of course, neither one
is looking, so this does not invalidate the above.

     (With all the abbreviating, I hope this doesn't sound like I'm
discussing sugar.)
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Breathed = Idiot (was Re: Bloom County vs. Outland)
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:09:05 GMT

kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu  writes:
> In <1ear5nINNgjo@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU writes:
> Can anyone give me the date of Oliver's "hacking" incidents in Outland.  I missed
> it. <sniff>

There was a recent strip where Oliver's dad asks Oliver to stop sending 
subliminal messages over the television.  Oliver's mother thinks Dan Quayle is
wonderful, and O's dad doesn't believe him.  This includes a reference to the 
cucumber in the nose message, and going to church naked.

> Bloom County is dead.  I really miss it.

Let it lie.  Just look what happened to Nancy and Pogo.  That could happen to
Bloom County.

Torsten at Omaha	Is it just me, or does Bill Clinton look like a 
			hedgehog?

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From: dexter
Subject: Re: Condoms in Luanne
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:46:43 GMT

In article <1eci3jINNtn@agate.berkeley.edu>, c60b-2hz@e260-2a.berkeley.edu (Nathaniel Meyers) writes:
|> In article <lg8kklINNbkb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jamesc@bassclar.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
|> >
|> <The only mainstream daily comic strip that I remember having
|> <mentioned condoms before was Doonesbury. 
|> < Can anyone recall another earlier case?
|> 
|> Well, there was a Bloom County sequence where the editor of the Bloom County

i remember a strip from grace's ERNIE (published in sweden as an EXTRA: 
censored/forbidden grace or something like that...) where doris gets a 
condom in the mail (i think... ) and ernie whispers in her ear what you 
do with it (the how to:s i guess ...;) ) and it all end with ernie asking her
what she had thought it was and she answers "a shower-cap for mice..."


dexter
From: bn823@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Mullaney)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: WEEKEND 11/15
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:46:55 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bn823@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Mullaney)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In "Murder She Wrote" Mel (Momma) Lazarus made a cameo appearance.

Did any one else notice a similarity in Sunday's 'Marvin' (last two
panels) to Calvin and Hobes?


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From: kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Bloom County vs. Outland
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:07:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA

In <1edlhkINNgrq@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU writes:
>In article <lgkhubINNmig@news.bbn.com> ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer) writes:
>>
>>If we want to complete this tracing of the ancestry of these strips: When I
>>was at Univ of Texas in Austin ('78-80) Breathed had a strip in The Daily
>>Texan (the student paper) that was clearly an early proto-Bloom County.  It
>>was, of course, much more "college-oriented" (like the early Doonesbury)
>>
>	Wasn't this "The Academia Waltz"?  About eight or so of them were
>reprinted in "Classics of Western Literature"; Breathed said those were the
>only ones where he wouldn't be charged with libel or obscenity.

Yep. "Academia Waltz"  Now this is something I think he could make a book
out of that people will buy.  If he's got enough strips to make a book, he
should do it, because an pre-history of Bloom County would be an interesting 
collector's item.

Sans that, anybody got 3 years of _The Daily Texan_ in their closet? ;-)

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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin's multiple personalities.
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:48:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov15.234853.27610
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha

And I suppose that Robin Williams should receive electroshock therapy 
because his behavior suggests MPD?

Torsten at Omaha
From: slf@netcom.com (Sharon Fisher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin's multiple personalities.
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:18:13 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:

>And I suppose that Robin Williams should receive electroshock therapy 
>because his behavior suggests MPD?

Tourette's, actually, according to articles I've read.
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From: jim@grafix (Jim Kuiper)
Subject: Re: Calvin's multiple personalities
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:36:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.055622.7455@news.uiowa.edu> thedens@fangio.cipl.uiowa.edu (Dan Thedens) writes:
>If we're performing medical diagnoses on Calvin, I would 
>suggest that he may have a glandular disorder as well.
>His head has grown to be as large as the whole of the rest
>of his body.
>
>Dan Thedens
>thedens@fangio.cipl.uiowa.edu

Speaking of glandular disorders, how about *any* Far Side character?

Examples: The Far Side daily calendar, 12/11/92 (Both characters.)

                    and *especially*

          The Far Side daily calendar, 12/27/92 (Beats Calvin by a mile.)

+-------------------------+--------------------------+
| Jim Kuiper              | "Hey! Look what Zog do!" |
| jim@spatial.eid.anl.gov |            - Gary Larson |
+-------------------------+--------------------------+
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From: angus@well.sf.ca.us (Angus P. MacDonald)
Subject: Re: Dilbert...
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:09:57 GMT

In <s9uguB1w165w@netlink.cts.com> macdevil@netlink.cts.com (Leonard Cayetano) writes:

>Who is the author?  My local paper a few months ago discontinued 
>publishing the comic, and I remember seeing a Dilbert book out at 
>Bookstar a few weeks ago (didn't buy it at the time and regret it now).  
> 
>Thanks to all who help.

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From: jeanthea@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Jeantheau)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Berke Brethed's boat accident
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:32:05 GMT
Reply-To: jeanthea@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Jeantheau)
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

>Has anyone else read the news blurb about Berke Brethed's boating accident.
>Didn't Berke Brethed almost get killed in a ultra-lite accident several
>years ago?

Yup. Or maybe it was hang-gliding. I think this guy needs to take up
bridge.  And I don't mean bridge as in "tying a bungee cord to..."

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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Need Jim Davis' address
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:44:27 GMT

You could also try the syndicate.

Torsten at Omaha
From: br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Clinton=hedgehog or groundhog?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:16:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a recent posting someone asked whether Bill Clinton resembled a hedgehog.
Personally, I'd vote for Portnoy, the groundhog in Bloom County, either that
or Breathed's caricatures of Ted Kennedy.

J. Del Col
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From: dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Bloom County vs. Outland
Date: 19 Nov 1992 22:46:32 GMT
Distribution: na

kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec) writes:
>
> Yep. "Academia Waltz"  Now this is something I think he could make a book
> out of that people will buy.  If he's got enough strips to make a book, he
> should do it, because an pre-history of Bloom County would be an interesting 
> collector's item.

Ah, but there *was* a book of "Academia Waltz" cortoons, called,
predictably enough, "Academia Waltz".  It went out of print years ago,
I think, but if you're truly desperate, you might try calling the UT
Co-Op in Austin.  I've seen the book, but do not have a copy myself.
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From: flicek@eb5ts4.EBay.Sun.COM (Dave Flicek)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Comic Books Value????
Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:31:41 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: flicek@eb5ts4.EBay.Sun.COM (Dave Flicek)
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Does anyone know if the following comic books are of any value?
Most are in average condition.  None are mint.
Thanks in advance for any responses.

Rin Tin Tin No. 12 Mar-Apr 1956
Combat No. 26 Oct 1967
Korak, Son of Tarzan No. 19 Oct 1967
Hi and Lois Vol 3 No. 10 May 1971
Cheyenne No. 13 Nov-Jan 1960
Cheyenne No. 10 Feb-Apr 1959
Roy Rogers and Trigger Vol 1 No. 105 Sept 1956
Roy Rogers and Trigger Vol 1 No. 104 Aug 1956
Our Army at War No. 226 Dec 1970
Sad Sack Comics Vol 1 No. 87 Oct 1958
Sad Sack Comics Vol 1 No. 218 Jan 1971
Star Spangled War Stories No. 122 Aug-Sept 1965
Classics Illustrated No. 47 Aug 1965
Ringo Kid Vol 1 No. 6 Nov 1970
Top Cat Vol 2 No. 2 Jan 1971
Wonder Woman No 164 Aug 1966
Treasure Chest Vol 27 No. 1 Oct 1971
Tales to Astonish Vol 1 No. 97 Nov 1967
Tales of the Unexpected No. 90 Sept 1965
Battle Vol 1 No. 70 Jun 1960
Rawhide Kid Vol 1 No 83 Jan 1971
Looney Tunes No. 108 Oct 1950
Walter/Lantz New Funnies Vol 1 No. 160 Jun 1950
John Paul Jones No. 1007 1959
Sea Devils No. 25 Sept-Oct 1965
Fantastic Four Vol 1 No. 43 Oct 1965
Fighting Forces No. 98 Feb 1966

Dave Flicek

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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Li'l Abner
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:54:40 GMT

> Does anybody know more about this; like what publishing company is doing this,
> whether they've quit or not; when each volume is supposed to come out, if they
> are still going, etc...?  Any info would be appreciated.

Kitchen Sink just published the volume containing the first appearance of the 
Shmoos!		KS also sells Lil Abner merchandise.

And don't forget Dogpatch USA in the Ozarks!

Torsten at Omaha
 
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From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Anthony Wallis)
Subject: Why Hobbes is a tiger.
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:45:21 GMT

Douglas Fowler wondered:
> .. why Calvin doesn't have a lion - they're more fierce than
> tigers.  Now this is a real analytical one - why is Hobbes a tiger?
> Why not a lion?  Or a dinosaur? 

Lions are *social* (Ugh !) cats.  Tigers are _solitary_.
Dinosaurs lay *eggs* (Double Ugh ! Feminine archetype symbol !).

All this piffle about Calvin's psyche !  Calvin is quintessentially
non-social, solitary, masculine and non-feminine, solves problems
by application of ingenuity and controlled violence, and doesn't
give tuppence for authority, convention or correctness.

In other words, he is one of the few TOTALLY SANE in this guilt-ridden,
flake-infested, hen-pecked, shrink-enamoured, socialised, conformist
asylum that is the ghost of a dead Western civilisation.

(Phew !  That felt good.)

--
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