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From: naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran)
Subject: American Imperlialism - NOT!!!!
Summary: Get a life, people!!
Keywords: american imperialism scare mccarthyism shit
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 17:56:21 GMT

DISCLAIMER: I was born in Canada, grew up in Canada and have lived here all of
my life so far and I hope it stays that way. I personally like Canada and all
the component nations that make it up (From the English Setler's Nations to the
First Nations).

Now, I thought about Canadian Content Regulations for comic strips, but like
someone else mentioned before: Doesn't say much about us if we need to protect
our culture that way! But what I would like is to see more Canadian based
artists and cartoonists get their day on the page. Maybe we should pressure out
newspapers to have a special day when a page or two spread is given to Canadian
cartoonists and the readers can vote on which cartoons they would like to read.


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.

There are more but, unfortunately, those comic strips have to make themselves
"Universal" so Canada seems to disappear from the strips and it is hard to know
when a comic strip is Canadian.

Anyways, why waste money on regulating comic strips when we should have
regulations stating that for every twenty movie screens in Vancouver, there
should be at least one screen showing a Canadian movie. Right now, it is
difficult to find a Canadian movie playing at a movie theatre and good luck
trying to find it at a video store.

'Nuff said. :-)

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From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C & H number one!?
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:54:52 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <1992Apr7.195322.13654@doug.cae.wisc.edu> sether@cae.wisc.edu (Steven Sether) writes:


>Doonsebury is sometimes pretty good, but many times I don't think it is that
>funny.  I Just think that C&H is a better strip.  The latest stuff out of 
>Doonsebury about the democratic candidates just doesn't make me laugh.  I did
>like when Doonseburie's wife took the job driving a cab, and drove all over 
>city, and into another state with one of her passengers.

I liked it when he won 23M in the Lottery and then said that it wouldn't 
change his life.  He would continue studying, to get a good job, to
earn lots of money...oh yeah, right. :-)

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From: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Adam Levin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:08:38 GMT
Reply-To: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

In article <1992Apr7.222128.30505@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao) 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)
>
>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.

You can say that again. Outland is more annoying that anything.
>
>About the ``Far Side'' the great thing is that about one on every 7 or
>8 will really get me to explode with laughter, while the others will
>be routine -- just a twitch of the upper lip.  The odd thing is that
>many readers are like that, but each is amused by a different subset.
>
>IMO, reading many in a row, like from a book, ruins the Far Side --
>much better in small doses.

I agree. A few years ago, the Smithsonian Natural Sciences Museum had
an exhibit of all Far Side cartoons around the entire building. At the
beginning, it was great, but after about a half an hour, you were just 
laughed out. It is still great a great strip (panel?). Unfortuately, 
neither of the papers I subscribe to (in Philly or Beantown q:-(   ) 


                                                   
Adam Levin		st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
"Is college hard or easy? It's easy! Just remember
 the three magic words! Sink or Swim!!!"
		--Matt Groening, _School is Hell_
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Subject: Schulz's drawing ability (was Re: Fusco Brothers!)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:02:54 GMT

In article <cnrjdta.tssmith@netcom.com> tssmith@netcom.com (Tim Smith) writes:
>
>The best strips are those that combine great drawing and great
>writing.  C&H and FBOFW.  As much as I like Bill Watterson's drawing,
>
>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. :-).
>
Charles Schulz CAN draw, but it's just not appropriate for the strip. Part of
the charm of Peanuts is the fact that the characters are so simply drawn, and
yet are able to show lots of character (pardon any pun). And as I mentioned
in a seperate post, C&H, especially the early ones, takes a LOT from Peanuts.
It's only natural that Bill Watterson have praise for what is clearly a huge
influence on his style...

Peter
From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts original cast
Date: 17 Apr 92 05:10:40 GMT
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Originator: hshubs@eff.org

In article <1992Apr16.181429.6443@cs.brown.edu> cs132102@cs.brown.edu (Simon Park) writes:
>Just a note of interest to die-hard Peanuts fans. The original cast of the 
>cartoon consisted of Charlie Brown, Patty (not Peppermint), and Shermy. I
>think Snoopy was a minor character initially. 
>
>The first cartoon that I can recall has Patty and Shermy sitting on a curb
>as Charlie Brown walks by. Shermy says, (I'm going by memory here so please
>forgive any mistakes) "There goes Charlie Brown..... Yeah, good ole Charlie
>Brown." The cartoon ends with Shermy wearing a grimace saying "How I hate 
>him!"

I believe that that was the -first- one.  It set the stage for everything
that followed.

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The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:24:03 GMT

     Hey, this is great -- this is the most responses I've
gotten from a posting since the "Jamie's Junker" days.
('Member that, Weemba?)

     OK, so about 50,000 people wrote and posted to say that
_For Better or Worse_ does make references to Canada.  That's
good, I guess I don't read it regularly enough to have picked
up on that.  Thanks for the corrections.

     There were also mentions of a few other Canadian strips
-- the rather ho-hum _Herman_, Ben Wicks' pseudo-political
one-panel cartoons and occasional _Outcasts_ revivals (_Grope
and Flail_ only?), and the truly dismal _Chubb and Chauncey_.
(I wondered why _The Province_ here in Vancouver kept running
it.  The author must be a friend of the publisher or something.)
That's good too, though I don't think the distribution of these
is very big.

     For those who missed my original point, let me reiterate
that the "cultural imperialism" that I was talking about
consists of a *combination* of two things, neither of which is
by itself very bad:

(1) Americans' lack of interest and concern about Canada, and

(2) Americans' production and distribution advantages over Canada.

Either of these by itself is fine; (1) is probably true the
other way too and (2) is just market forces.  But the
COMBINATION of these two things means that Canadians artists
find it much more difficult to break into the comics market.

     The issue is not "being culturally dominated by a comic
strip"; the issue is being culturally dominated by the USA in a
very broad spectrum of arts and entertainment media, of which
the comics medium is a small and glaring example.  Another
example that someone else pointed out, this one *large* and
glaring, is the movie industry; other examples abound.

     I don't think that "Canadian culture" is very distinct
from "American culture", but the fact remains that Canadians
seldom see stories and features about the people, places,
personalities, and history of Canada in the popular media.
I feel that this is one reason why Canadians find it so
difficult to understand one another.

     The "thousand points of light" solution, advocated here, of
just verbally encouraging artists of all kinds to produce work,
seems hopelessly naive to me.  In the face of the American arts
and entertainment industry, such encouragement has to be backed
up by cash money, and/or legislation that gives some breathing
space to Canadian artists.

     In places like Canada, culture has to be protected from
market forces as much as the environment does.

--Jamie.
  jamie@cs.sfu.ca
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From: zulauf@csn.org (Mike Zulauf)
Subject: Re: Mafalda
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:38:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.220417.26258@news2.cis.umn.edu> tabacman@gauss.geom.umn.edu (Eduardo Tabacman) writes:
>In article <1992Apr08.165616.34529@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>>Has Mafalda ever been published in English?  I've read it in Spanish, but
>>I feel evangelistic about it-- I want to buy it for my non-Spanish-reading
>>friends.
>
>Now, there is a really good strip. Probably one of the best ever (if not the
>best).  I don't know of any translation to english, but there's got to exist one. I know it was translated to zillions of languages, including Malayan (or 
>whatever the correct name of the language of Malaysia is).

     I agree!  I picked up a number of Mafalda books last time I was in
Argentina.  My Spanish is pretty bad though, so quite often I miss the
point of a strip.  I've never seen any English versions.

                              - Mike

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: markn@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (mark.nevar)
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 16:48:21 GMT

In article <steph.702713349@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
>In <1992Apr7.215418.28231@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>>Should she have had the third child?
>
>Yeah.  Of course, I'm a little biased, since her pregnancy coincided exactly
>with that of my first neice.  I got the call to come to the hospital on
>Easter last year, and grabbed the sunday paper on the way out -- and their
>girl was born on the same day.
>

Actually, Easter, 1991 was on March 31. April Patterson was born on April 1.
Same day as my daughter. Both had the same due dates as well - March 28.
April and Laura (my daughter) have pretty much tracked each others development
as well. It's sort of like deva vu all over again.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: Milk & Cheese - Dairy products gone BAD!!!
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 04:58:11 GMT
Organization: Living in a satellite fantasy, waiting for the night to end.

pfile@jaywalk.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Pfile) writes:

> Does anyone know where this comic originates? It doesnt seem to be a
> wisconsin local phenomenon, although with a title like that it wouldnt
> boggle the mind to find that it is written at Wisconsin. 

MILK AND CHEESE is the creation of the severely twisted Evan Dorkin, who's
also responsible for BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT COMIC BOOK (Marvel Comics)
and his labor of love, PIRATE CORP$! (Slave Labor Graphics).  Ev's a
Brooklyn boy, which makes even more sense than Wisconsin if you think
about it.  The M&C strip currently appears in the UK version of DEADLINE
and in X MAGAZINE, both of which are available at better-stocked comic
shops, and has been collected by Slave Labor into two comic-book format
collections: MILK AND CHEESE #1 and MILK AND CHEESE'S OTHER #1. 

MILK AND CHEESE is great stuff, but PIRATE CORP$ (which is a full-length
comic, not a strip) is an absolute masterpiece.  All the MILK AND CHEESE
and the best issues of PIRATE CORP$! are available direct from Slave
Labor:

	Slave Labor Graphics
	983 S. Bascom Ave.
	San Jose, CA  95128

(That's if your local comic shop doesn't have 'em.  Chances are they
won't.)  And if you want to write to the Big E himself, it's:

	543 Van Duzer St.
	Second Floor
	Staten Island, NY  10304

He has *lots* of original art for sale.  Tell him Lazlo from X sent you.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

NIBBLE SAY ABANDON CATEGORIZATION
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: coop1w13@bnr.ca (Bill Saunders)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Reply-To: coop1w13@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 18:19:21 GMT

My current fave was in last year's day calendar:
 
Superman is changing in a phone booth and pauses to see if there's anything
in the coin return slot.
 
My roommate's fave from last year's day calendar:
 
Two young deer in the woods, one with a plaque-thing around his neck, sim-
ilar to the ones used to mount deer heads.
 
The other deer to the one with the plaque:
 
Alright, now stay still! Here comes Mom!
 
(Or something like that...what can I say, I didn't pick him for a room-
mate!)

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: beckman@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Mattox Beckman)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:08:31 GMT

	How about the one with a huge python with a bulge in the middle curled
around Garfield's supper dish...

	Or the one with the python in the pet store that broke out of its
cage.  A parrot was nearby, squawking: "Brakk!  Polly wanna cracker.  Polly
wanna cracker.  AAAAAAA!  GETTIT OFF ME!  Polly wanna cracker!"

	-Mattox  <><
	beckman@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: jeffj@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (jeffrey.n.jones)
Subject: Re: Bloom County and Outland - Political Satire or Characters?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:47:09 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.014246.26879@acsu.buffalo.edu> v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) writes:
>
>     It's an odd, and hard to reach, combination and he carried it
>     off brilliantly.  

Sighhhh. I miss Bloom County and Outland seems like the results of to
much drugs!



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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: mwalker@wc.novell.com (Mel Walker)
Subject: Re: Hi I'm Calvin
Keywords: Calvin, Hobbes
Organization: Novell, Inc. - Walnut Creek
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:11:07 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.183042.23648@odin.diku.dk> elgaard@diku.dk (Niels Elgaard Larsen) writes:
>Hi, I'm Calvin, Eminent computer personality.
>
>This net is great. I have allready found alt.pyrotechnics. Tomorrow
>Hacker Spiff will create alt.insects, alt.dinosaures, and
>alt.rec.calvinball . This group will be renamed to sci.calvin.oracle .
>Of course I will from now on post to ALL groups.
>

I vote in favor of alt.rec.calvinball, the only true sport. It not only takes
athletic ability, but it also takes imagination (to think up rules and scoring
methods that have to be different in every game) and a good memory (to
rememeber the aformentioned rules).

--Mel Walker                                       mwalker@optics.wc.novell.com

"This is a poem. Please do as you're told.
 And this is a bucket of water, ice cold.
 Please take this water and pour it on me.
 Don't hesitate. Do it ASAP!"
            -- Calvin, after touching the "Pernicious Poem Place"

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:53:51 GMT


How about:

"I used to be somebody.  Wife, kids, great job.  Then one day somebody
said, 'Hey!  He's just a big cockroach!"


-- 
'Verily, there be no leader as wise as the Vision!'
                         Windsor Morgan (wmorgan@stsci.edu OR NHT@PSUVM.BITNET)
                         Space Telescope Science Institute
                         Baltimore, MD   21218
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: Left to right
Originator: saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:10:32 GMT
X-Bytes: 1368

I've got two, and I'm surprised nobody mentioned these yet:

1) Several vultures surrounding unseen carrion, one with a cowboy hat
and a jacket on says "Hey! Look at nme! I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy,
howdy!"

2) A bear in a cave holding two skulls with hunting hats still on them
talking to two young cubs, "Ok, once more and then its time for bed..
'Hey, Roy, let's look in this cave..'".

Some of my favorite Far Side running gags;

- if the panel is about snakes in a snake's house, there's a picture
hanging on the wall with snakes in it; likewise, amoeba's houses have
pictures with amoebas on the wall, and so on

- the female animal in most panels has on the same sort of glasses that
the human females wear in Larson's cartoons


A bonus favorite: Cow tools.

I LOVE this newsgroup.


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: New newsgroup alt.comics.buffalo-roam
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:44:37 GMT

This new newsgroup just showed up here.  Apparently they plan to have a comic
strip distributed through the Net, in GIF and Postscript form.  Has anyone
out there seen the printed version of a comic strip called "Where The Buffalo
Roam"?  What's it about?
From: thomase@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Thomas Stan England)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:59:23 GMT
Reply-To: thomase@tekig5.pen.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

Mine was:      Scene of two polar bears eating an igloo...

	Caption: "Oh, hey! I just love the things! ... Crunch on the
			outside and a  chewy center!"
From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin-Hobbes/Bloom County/Outland
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:30:15 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <BMoDIr.GyD@world.std.com> bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum) writes:

>In article <_y8t0w-@rpi.edu> pinelr@aix.rpi.edu (Rob Pinelli) writes:
>>
>>   2.) Do you notice that Hobbes rarely calls Calvin by name, but Calvin 
>>       addresses Hobbes by his first name frequently?
>>
>I hadn't noticed that, but maybe it's because Hobbes never talks to anyone
>except Calvin.

Therefore, we can understand why Hobbes might assume that Calvin knew he was
talking to him.

--
As usual, JIMHO.
	  Gavin...                  Plus qu'il n'en faut.           
	  willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie                                      
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: cpalmer@swamp.watson.ibm.com (Charles C. Palmer)
Subject: Where-Go Pogo ?
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 19:17:08 GMT
Reply-To: cpalmer@swamp.watson.ibm.com (Charles C. Palmer)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

I understand that Walt Kelley's children are now doing the Pogo
strip again.  The problem is that I can't find it.  Does anyone
know of a newpaper in the NYC area that is carrying it?

Charles C. Palmer ( cpalmer@cpalmer.watson.ibm.com )
Network Design Tools               Tie 863-7411      914/784-7411
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center   P.O.Box 704       Yorktown Heights,
NY  10598
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: foxx@foxxjac.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew "AJ" Foxx)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Reply-To: foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:08:03 GMT

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?
|> ]
|> ]	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.  
|> 
|> Of course I hone have my FS book with me, but that is the best one
|> I can think of right now...
|> 
|> smbaker@waltz.cc.purdue.edu


Midway through the meal, lightning flashes through the kitchen
window. In the shadows, a chicken reveals himself, pulling off
his dog costume, saying to the startled family, "NO, I'm NOT
your little dog Fifi! I'm the chicken you THOUGHT you fixed for
dinner!  Would you like to know where you little Fifi is? 
Ha ha ha ha ha!..."

caption: *Dinner on Elm Street*


The whole office died laughing.  For some reason, we could just
hear the chicken speaking those last words with a sarcastic
french accent.

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan)
Subject: Peanuts, Snoopy, and Cookies
Originator: wmorgan@nemesis.stsci.edu
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:00:04 GMT

What is with Snoopy's obsession with cookies?  It seems once a month
(sometimes more) the final panel ends with Snoopy wanting cookies, or
Snoopy thinking about how good cookies are, or Snoopy thinking about
how cookies are the greatest product of all of Earth's civilizations.
Why?
-- 
'Verily, there be no leader as wise as the Vision!'
                         Windsor Morgan (wmorgan@stsci.edu OR NHT@PSUVM.BITNET)
                         Space Telescope Science Institute
                         Baltimore, MD   21218