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From: zgilbert@epas.utoronto.ca (Zvi Gilbert)
Subject: Re: worst comic strip
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:58:26 GMT

davel@homxc.ATT.COM (David Loewenstern) writes:
> zgilbert@epas.utoronto.ca (Zvi Gilbert) said:
>} davel@homxc.ATT.COM (David Loewenstern) writes:
>}>
>}> [...] I can't imagine a worse comic strip
>}>(although _Ernie Pook's Comeek_ comes close)
>
>} I beg to differ.
>
>} Ernie Pook is a work of sheer genius.
>} It is a sensitive, intelligent, funny and real strip... sometimes too
>} real (it can give you the shivers).
>
>Well, there's no accounting for taste.  Somewhere, no doubt, there are
>supporters of _Marmaduke_.

I am being compared to somebody who likes Marmaduke.

I have never been so insulted in all my life.

<grin>

>As far as "evocation of the lives of..." -- I disagree.  I find the
>characters in _Comeek_ remarkably uninteresting. I've also never seen
>anything sensitive, intelligent, or funny in the strip.

Off the top of my head:

the long story about the girls' father, and his abandonment of the family,
the story of the teenager who had an abortion
all of Maybonne's teacher interactions (which were funny)
the story about the black kid gtting beat up by a white teacher.

> I can't even recall one strip that *tried* to be funny.

Well, that's why it's a Komeek and not a comic.  :>

But actually, it's an alternative press thing, not a mainstream comic.

Barry's supreme acheivment, IMHO, is the way that she can write the
way kids that age actually do, without being condescending or cute.
Maybonne is always mangling the English language, but her intelligence
and sensitivity come through.

Oh well.

I'm talking to a guy who compared _Ernie Pook_ to the Cosby show!

Sheesh!

--Zvi Gilbert
zgilbert@epas.utoronto.ca
zgilbert@epas.toronto.edu
From: rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Any good one-box comics?
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:44:09 GMT
Organization: Gallaudet University

In article <2348@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit) writes:
> And before everyone yells FAR SIDE, let me explain:
> 
> The Wash. Post has replaced Herman with Leescapes.  The Post
> has been pretty good about listening to readers when it comes
> to the funnies, and today wrote that they are sorry they had 
> to replace Herman, but Unger stopped producing it on 1 August,
> and please give Leescapes (daily) and Curious Avenue (Sunday),
> and then let the editor know what we think.
> 
> Well, Leescapes stinks.  It's only purpose is to prove that
> _anyone_ can publish a comic strip, much the same way that
> George Bush proves that _anyone_ can be president (sorry, couldn't
> resist.  I'll stop that now).
> 
> Can someone recommend a good, maybe even great, one-box strip
> to replace Herman?  We get Dennis, Family Circus, Farside.  Personally,
> I'd like them to trash DtM or FC, and add two four-panel strips, but
> I need suggestions.
> 
> Being a GREAT fan of Toles' editorial stuff, I'm willing to give him
> a try, but so far, I'm not too happy.  Anyone know a good Sunday-only
> strip as well?
> 
> --f2
> --------------------------------
>   How can I be so stupid
>   when I is so smart?
>   --Howland Owl or Dan Quayle, I can't remember which
====================
Ha, you beat me to this. Actually there are two one box strips that I will 
recommend and I'm wondering who knows the artist for each of them.

Guindon

The Neighborhood

Please tell me the artist so I can recommend them.

rlwilliams@gallua
From: jeanthea@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Jeantheau)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Leescapes
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:02:38 GMT
Reply-To: jeanthea@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Jeantheau)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


>>Being in an area that dosn't get this, what would you compare it
>>to? Marmaduke? FC?????
>
>It's a single panel strip. I don't think it's a Far-Side wannabe, because
>the subject matter of the (very) few I've seen isn't quite as silly.
>On the other hand, it doesn't compare to FC or Marmaduke because....

I think maybe the point was, "is it as bad as Marmaduke or FC?"

My answer is:  *nothing* is as bad as Marmaduke.  But I definitely haven't
seen anything worthwhile there yet...


>Lee also does something which *really* irritates me whenver a strip
>artist does it - he bold faces the "key" words just to make sure the
>ignoramus reader understands things....

Yes ,  a definite sign of neophytic writing skills.




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From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Leescapes
Date: 13 Aug 92 11:53:09 GMT
Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

In article 3306@ra.nrl.navy.mil, luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther) writes:
>In article <2277@tymix.Tymnet.COM> filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM writes:
>
>>Is this the biggest waste of newspaper space ever?
>>
>
>I beg your pardon? I find Leescapes to be brimming over with well thought
>out humor, and a supreme level of wit rarely seen these days. It should
>be the model that all aspiring comic strip artists look up to while
>pursuing their dreams..............
>

What?  I can't belive it!  Of all the people in the world...

>Bah ha ha ha ha ha !!!
>
>Seriously,...
>IT SUCKS!!!
>

*phew* My gawd, for a second, I thought Bill Lee's son was on the net.

--f2
--------------------------------
  Friday the thirteenth falls on a Thursday this month!
  ..jus' keepin' alive Churchy & Walt Kelly
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From: mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank)
Subject: Curious Avenue (Was: Re: Leescapes)
Organization: Maryland Appreciation Society, Buffalo, NY
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:28:54 GMT

In article <2585@oasys.dt.navy.mil> jeanthea@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Jeantheau) writes:
>My answer is:  *nothing* is as bad as Marmaduke.  But I definitely haven't
>seen anything worthwhile there yet...

Ah, then you've obviously never seen Tom Toles's *Curious Avenue*.  The
Buffalo *News* junked *Sibling Revelry* for this, largely because Toles
works for the News.  It is tremendously unfunny and the artwork is
unamusingly childish.  Marmaduke/Heathcliff/Family Circus are an
engaging read compared to this.  Example:

Panel : Child is crawling along log suspended horizontally over ravine.
To indicate movement, we have the words "inch inch" drawn next to child.

Panel 2: As above, but child is 5mm farther along the log.

Panel : Child stands on opposite bank of ravine, next to log.  Says
"Gardy!  I'm across!  I made it!"

Panel 4: Other child (presumably Gardy) runs across log in opposite
direction.  Says "Great, Smee!  Now let's go back!"

A real laugh riot.

I'll take aerial codes and T-bone toothpaste any day.

*Sigh*  I miss *Sibling Revelry*.

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From: duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Non Sequiter
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:01:02 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <m14430.713557678@mwunix> m14430@mwunix.mitre.org (Lawrence Larson) writes:
>>>Does anyone out there read this?
>>>We get it in the Boston Globe and between the humour and
>
>>     Yeah, we get it in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle... Very, very
>
>Washington Post too...

Count the Saturday Montreal Gazette as another newspaper with taste in comics.

Well actually...  altho' we get some of the good stuff like C&H, FBFW, the
classics and Farcus (Anyone else read this?  If you're in the business world -
and even if you're not - this is a REALLY funny strip), we also get the
rejects.  

In particular, since Jim Unger decided to go on leave, the Gazette has been 
running this dumb-*ss strip called "Real Life Adventures".  Am I the
only one to think that this is the lamest piece of work ever put on a newspaper
page?

Or are we the only people on this continent subject to this abuse?
-- 
Laurent Duperval
duperval@ere.umontreal.ca
duperval@jsp.umontreal.ca
"If you gotta go, you might as well go happy... or suprised"   -Me
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From: davel@homxc.ATT.COM (David Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: worst comic strip
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:27:55 GMT

... On 19 Aug 92 01:58:28 GMT, fsg@holos0.uucp (Frank Glass) said:

} I've been following this discussion of the worst comic strips with some
} interest, and although I've not seen Leescapes or Real Life Experiences,
} I can't even imagine anything worse than David Lynch's "The Angriest
} Dog in the World".  Anyone familiar with it disagree?  Is there some point
} to it that I'm missing?

Yes, I'm familiar with it, and no, I can't imagine a worse comic strip
(although _Ernie Pook's Comeek_ comes close, and I've never seen
_Leescapes_).

For those of you who haven't seen it -- _The Angriest Dog in the
World_ is a four-panel strip.  All four panels are exactly the same,
except for lighting (a yard with a lame-looking angry dog, straining
at its leash).  The strip is visually the same every time.  There is a
single balloon in each panel.  The balloons contain a really weak pun.

(Example from _Comic Relief_ 2/92:
 "Pete has a police record."
 "What does he have a police record for?"
 "I guess he likes Sting and their music.")

Worse than FC.  Worse than Marmaduke.  Even worse than _The Invisible Tribe_,
which was a spoof!  So bad there was a letter-writing campaign to _Comic
Relief_ demanding that it be dropped to free up space for a better comic!

These opinions are shareware.  If you like the product,
please send your $0.02 to
               David Loewenstern
   davel@homxc.att.com or simply D.Loewenstern@att.com
From: tbromley.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Leescapes
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:34:20 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit) writes:

> Is this the biggest waste of newspaper space ever?
> 
> The Wash Post replaced Herman with this senseless box.
> 
> Get well soon, Jim Unger!
> 
> --f2
> no face, no name, no number
> no .sig

This same piece of **** also appears in the Sun-Sentinel, a South Florida 
newspaper.  The Sunday Herman was replaced by a Sunday version of Bob 
Weber's Comics for Kids, which had previously appeared Mon.-Sat.

The Palm BEach Post, on the other hand, took a poll of its readers, 
offering three possible replacements.  The winner was Sylvia, a 
frequently funny strip.

Tom
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From: matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks)
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:56:51 GMT

lsmith@atto.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:

>In article <1992Aug17.032326.23086@leland.Stanford.EDU> schmasey@leland.Stanford.EDU (Casey Carlton O'Hara) writes:
>>A friend of mine is looking for a stuffed Hobbes.  Neither of us have
>>seen one, and my basic question is.... does one exist?

>No, at least not an "official" Hobbes. I believe Watterson has said that
>if one were to be marketed it would somehow answer the question of whether
>Hobbes was "real" or not. (The only C&H paraphernalia are the books and
>the calendars from a few years back. Personally, I like it this way.)

My understanding is that Watterson eschews the commercialism that other
cartoonists (and people from just about every other occupation on the
planet) succumb to. This would seem to be the best explanation of why
you don't see little Calvins stuck to the inside of car windows with
suction cups (perhaps in a future daily strip Calvin *will* find himself
stuck to the inside of a car window :-) although I don't see Watterson
being that coy.) I'm sure he's had no shortage of marketing offers, but
he must be making a comfortable living from the strip itself. I think Lance
is right about the question of Hobbes being "real"; picture some little 
kid dragging Calvin (or Calvin's dad?!) along by the arm and it kind of
shatters the world that Watterson's created. 

"Calvin and Hobbes" is the greatest strip since Pogo. IMHO, of course.


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From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Real Life
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:22:57 MDT
Organization: United Order of Non-joiners

rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) writes:
> duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
>>In particular, since Jim Unger decided to go on leave, the Gazette has been 
>>running this dumb-*ss strip called "Real Life Adventures".  Am I the
>>only one to think that this is the lamest piece of work ever put on a
>>newspaper page?
> 
>   I have to disagree. "Real Life Adventures" runs in the Times as well (it
> alternated with "In the Bleachers"), and I find it moderate at times, and
> really funny in others. The strip earns its name -- some of those things
> really DO happen to you in real life -- and that's when it really kicks.

     No, this is when it's really dull.  If it happens to me in real
life, what makes it so funny?  Humourous exaggeration I can laugh at. 
A direct "quote" from real life is not funny.  I live with this stuff
every day.

     The strip is boring to me too, though I wouldn't call it the
lamest.  I'd generally reserve that title for "Family Circus."
-- 
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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Subject: Re: Non Sequiter, LeeScapes, Real Life (was Re: Non Sequiter)
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company
	<1992Aug13.140102.3070@cc.umontreal.ca> <l8mcavINNcv2@aludra.usc.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:32:16 GMT

In article <l8mcavINNcv2@aludra.usc.edu> rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) writes:
	...(alternating with "Bizzarro")...

Talking of which, how do you like it ?

I think it's quite funny, though at times it seems to suffer from
"Far Side" envy (I just have three of the booklets, we don't get
these daily one-panel strips in newspapers here).
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From: jan_b@lysator.liu.se (Jan Besehanic)
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:27:24 GMT

schmasey@leland.Stanford.EDU (Casey Carlton O'Hara) writes:

>A friend of mine is looking for a stuffed Hobbes.  Neither of us have
>seen one, and my basic question is.... does one exist?

No, and it probably never will.
This is because Bill Watterson doesn't like the idea of 
turning Calvin & Hobbes into Yet Another Garfield Clone.
I agree totally with him.
Of course, T-shirts with Calvin & Hobbes are all quite alright though...


>If so, is it Hobbes as a little toy stuffed tiger that people other
>than Calvin see, or Hobbes as Calvin knows he really is?  Either would
>do, I'm just curious.  Also, how big is it?

Of course Hobbes is real!!! How dare you suggest otherwise!!
If Hobbes didn't exist then who else would protect Calvin
from the drooling hideous monsters with more teeth than the
entire Osmond family residing under his bed?

>Sorry if this is not the right group to post this to; I'm still rather
>new to this whole newsgroup thing. 

There are no right groups for anything, anything else would
be regarded as heresy.

>Thanks in advance!

You're welcome.

>-- 
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>schmasey@leland.stanford.edu             _|_|___________)
>Disclaimer:  All opinions expressed here are yours.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Any good one-box comics?
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:54:12 GMT
Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

And before everyone yells FAR SIDE, let me explain:

The Wash. Post has replaced Herman with Leescapes.  The Post
has been pretty good about listening to readers when it comes
to the funnies, and today wrote that they are sorry they had 
to replace Herman, but Unger stopped producing it on 1 August,
and please give Leescapes (daily) and Curious Avenue (Sunday),
and then let the editor know what we think.

Well, Leescapes stinks.  It's only purpose is to prove that
_anyone_ can publish a comic strip, much the same way that
George Bush proves that _anyone_ can be president (sorry, couldn't
resist.  I'll stop that now).

Can someone recommend a good, maybe even great, one-box strip
to replace Herman?  We get Dennis, Family Circus, Farside.  Personally,
I'd like them to trash DtM or FC, and add two four-panel strips, but
I need suggestions.

Being a GREAT fan of Toles' editorial stuff, I'm willing to give him
a try, but so far, I'm not too happy.  Anyone know a good Sunday-only
strip as well?

--f2
--------------------------------
  How can I be so stupid
  when I is so smart?
  --Howland Owl or Dan Quayle, I can't remember which
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Subject: Speeenvarken
From: mdturner@riker.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:56:20 GMT
Reply-To: mdturner@riker.acs.calpoly.edu 
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

any one seen Speenvarken?
From: jeanthea@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Jeantheau)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Leescapes
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:00:20 GMT
Reply-To: jeanthea@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Jeantheau)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

>     There was an ad in my hometown a handful of years back that I still can't
>forget... It was one of those people-on-the-street testimonial ads, where
>they ask something like, "Why do *you* subscribe to the Times?"  The final
>clip was this older woman who chortled, "I get it just to read Marmaduke...
>That dog is so crazy!  [laughter as ad fades]"
>     I just sat there for like a minute staring in disbelief at the screen.

A little while back on "The Simpsons" they had Homer reading the newspaper.
In one of those little moments that are easy to miss, Homer laughed
and said, "He, he... That crazy Marmaduke!"  I think this was a clear
slam on Marmaduke (that it *would* be the favorite strip of an idiot)....


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From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Big Squeegee)
Subject: Re: Non Sequiter
Organization: The International House of Secretions
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:31:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.140102.3070@cc.umontreal.ca> duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
*In particular, since Jim Unger decided to go on leave, the Gazette has been 
*running this dumb-*ss strip called "Real Life Adventures".  Am I the
*only one to think that this is the lamest piece of work ever put on a newspaper
*page?
*
*Or are we the only people on this continent subject to this abuse?

No, we get it here in Milwaukee.  I admit it's been pretty lackluster so
far, with one exception.  It was a close up of a fellow with a thermometer
in his mouth and an anxious look on his face.  The caption read "Remember:
there are TWO types of thermometers."  That was the one and only time I've
laughed at that strip.


Mark "Bring back Bizarro!" Lippert 
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Stuffed Hobbes?
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:15:12 GMT

acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams) writes:
>While I agree with Watterson's philosophy about not merchandising C&H,
>I've never been sure if he's equally opposed to an animated version.

>I personally don't view animation as cheapening the strip.
>Any responses?

As long as Watterson writes the script for it, anyhow, it would
probably be a Good Thing.
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From: guy@world.std.com (Guy K Hillyer)
Subject: Re: Long Sam and other nostalgia
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:28:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.143254.10269@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col) writes:
>
>I also want to know who drew The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.  I can
>remember the names of the brothers--Fat Freddie, Phineas and Free-Wheelin'
>Frank, but I can't remeber the name of the cartoonist.  I believe he 
>also drew Wonder Warthog, a parody of superhero strips.
>

Gilbert Shelton, I believe.  Yes, he also did WW.
From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tim Lynch's Imaginary Friend)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Eyebeam (was Re: COLLEGE: What are the cliche's?)
Summary: Past strips, coming to a comics shop near you!
Date: 13 Aug 92 04:19:31 GMT
     <15k2o0INNdia@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Aug06.092259.3428@sco.COM>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Leapers For a Better Yesterday

davidv@sco.COM (Uncle David) writes:
>speaking of Eyebeam, and i absolutely love the strip, what has happened 
>to it? i've got 4 of the books (Eeenie Meenie Minnie Tweed; Eyebeam, 
>Therefore I Am, The Minds's Eyebeam, and Teetering on the Blink), but
>haven't been able to get my hands on any of the others, nor have i seen
>anything since Teetering on the Blink. 

Sam Hurt has stopped drawing 'beam and may have stopped Queen of the Universe
(his syndicated strip starring Peaches) now that Universal is no longer 
carrying it.  His newest venture, League of Slime, appears in the Austin Comic
News and God knows where else; Eyebeam has just crossed over into it.

However, there IS good news!  Double Diamond Press, publishers of Hepcats
[insert shameless plug here--I love this book!], has so far printed four
books (comics for the mundane) of Eyebeam starting with the very first Daily
Texan strips.  There is a fifth coming out RSN, I've been told.  I don't
have the address of DDP handy, but their phone number is (512)837-5545.  Talk
to Martin--he's a nice guy--and ask about Eyebeam and Hepcats.

(For those of you going to the SDCC, Double Diamond WILL have a table, and
Martin and Sam will be there.  Too bad it's a bit far for me... :( )

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From: sjk@kepler.unh.edu (Stephen J Kenny)
Subject: Re: Leescapes
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:10:28 GMT

In article <3306@ra.nrl.navy.mil> luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther) writes:

< INSERT STUFF HERE>
>Bah ha ha ha ha ha !!!
>
>Seriously,...
>IT SUCKS!!!

Being in an area that dosn't get this, what would you compare it
to? Marmaduke? FC?????

Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA