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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Commercialization of strips (was Clavin & Hobbes question)
Keywords: Schultz, Peanuts
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:25:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: udel.1992Apr10.022549.28651
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

In article <1992Apr8.171237.4360@techbook.com> gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane) writes:
>potential.  Another great thing about _him_ is that he has vowed never
>to exploit C&H: no Calvin mugs, no Hobbs t-shirts.
>
Didn't Charles Schultz make a similar vow?  He certainly complained about
comercialism and commercializing things in his strips often enough (remember
the commercialization of Beethoven?  (No, not that dumb new movie :-)  )

The point is, Charles Schultz, despite his posturing, gave into the
temptation of commercialization.  And what a temptation:  $25 million
income last year alone!
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From: zulauf@csn.org (Mike Zulauf)
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse - die, die, die!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 16:32:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.072856.8041@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>gert@cs.utexas.edu (Gert Westermann) writes:
>
>

stuff deleted

>I think there's a good possibility that grandma will die soon. Of
>course, it would be more interesting if healthy grandpa dies instead,
>leaving frail grandma alone.
>
     Of course it would really be interesting if one of the characters
went psycho and killed off the whole lot in a nice bloody rampage.
I'm sure it could drag on for many weeks, what with torture, police
standoffs, hostage-taking, etc.

     I hate this strip, in fact I rank it with the worst of them, ie.
Family Circus, Nancy, Rose is a Rose (now there's a REAL dog!), etc.

     Just my opinions (but if they're not yours, then you're wrong!)

Mike Zulauf
zulauf@orbit.colorado.edu

>-- 
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> circumstances make women more affectionate and men more amiable."
>                                                ...Brillat-Savarin


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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:33:13 GMT

kdontas@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Kejitan Dontas) writes:


>	 This time I just took the tooth under
>	 the pillow, Billy, but next time I'm
>	 bringing the pliers !
>	 BEWARE Billy !
>		Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !

>			Tooth Fairy



YES!  I'd almost forgotten about that one!  Definitely on my top ten!


                                --Steve "...and in just a few hours I
                                  was able to mix and pour." Stelter

                                  sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: CounterPoll
Date: 8 Apr 1992 22:53:33 GMT

markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
> kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes:
>>
>> Okay, it was inevitable.  Send me your top 10 favorite comic strips, in
>> order of preference, and I'll compile them for this bboard.
> 
> OK, that will be fun.  But for even *more* fun, send *me* your top 10
> *most hated* comic strips, and I will post the results.
> (I'm hoping Dondi, the "Robot Monster" of the comic pages, wins this one.)

I take it this is to be a Bottom 10 of All Time list, as "Dondi" ended
its long run somtime around 1986.
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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Kreme, Just Kreme)
Subject: Re: Calvin & Hobbes, Cathy my favs
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 11:33:50 GMT

cma@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (christine.m.dakes) writes:
>Does anyone know how to fan letters to your favorite comic
>authors?  (in my case, for Cathy and Calvin & Hobbes).

Write to:
	Bill Waterson, Calvin & Hobbes
	c/o Your Newspaper
	123 Newspaper address
	City, ST, zip

Same for Cathy, just use her name instead of Bills.

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From: an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Fusco Brothers!
Date: 8 Apr 1992 22:55:43 GMT

gt1293c@prism.gatech.EDU (W. Scott Radeker, IV) writes:

> I can't believe no one else likes the Fusco Brothers!  It's great.

I agree.  It's one of those strips most folks either really like or
really don't.  My wife doesn't care for it, but I think it's really
good.  The repartee is usually clever, sometimes even witty.  If I
ever learned to talk like that, I'd be insufferable!

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University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         Houston, Texas
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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Where-Go Pogo ?
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 16:07:22 GMT

cpalmer@swamp.watson.ibm.com (Charles C. Palmer) writes:

>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

The Record in North Jersey has it.
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From: v106lr4h@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric T Sasse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Mother Goose and Grimm
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:17:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


    Has anyone noticed how this strip is also running out of ideas? The sunday
 strip is 7-8 frames of the same thing, either the same picture or belabouring
 a point, and then the last frame is some horrible punchline. The daily strip
 has become unoriginal and oft times just draws one big frame stealing an old
 fairy tale scene that has nothing to do at all with what the rest of the 
 strip has become, and stuffs Grimmy on the edge of it just to hold onto the 
 theme. That damn cat Atilla has ruined it all! Ha ha. When it was new, it was
 funny. It's all become as bad as Marvin has.
   There seems to be a parallel with some strips that run outta ideas, it's the
single frame in the dailies without many words. 
   Peanuts, Goose and Grimm and Marvin have all succumb to this idiocy and have
got to go! Well, occasionally peanuts is good, but I wish it would revert to a
more intellectual phase again.

                                                        -Eric
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From: steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:19:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: faust.STEINAR.92Apr9211936
	<1992Apr9.000621.1578@merrimack.edu>
Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway

Further Canadian content in _For Better or for Worse_: My husband has
a strip from a few years back hanging on his office wall in which 
Elizabeth (who was, i think, about 7 at the time) asked her father to
proof-read something she wrote for school.  It was a short essay on
the population of Canada (only Elizabeth got confused and wrote about
"The Copulation of Canada").  

Also, i remember reading a Thanksgiving strip once in October, which is
when Canadians but not USians celebrate it.

It seems to me there are actually lots of small clues that the strip
is set in Canada; it just rarely says it directly.  The same is true
of a lot of strips from the U.S.  

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
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From: njblock@athena.mit.edu (Ned Block)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Question
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:58:44 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.201642.8497@nic.unh.edu> ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink) writes:
>Question:
>
>Calvin and Hobbes, (especially in the Sunday comics), seems to be a lot of
>old stuff.  Some look familiar, some don't.  Does anybody know what's going
>on, there?  What's Watterson doing, did he take a vacation somewhere along the
>line...?
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Subject: Funny comic strip
From: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:00:40 GMT
Reply-To: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center

I have had a Far Side-type comic in my wallet for a number of years now. It
still cracks me up.

An airtraffic controller is talking to the pilot of a 747 that we see is
coming in ... UPSIDE DOWN!!

	Now! Mrs. Johnson, now! Push all the buttons and SCREAM!!!

I showed this to my girlfriend when I was teaching her to drive in my car. I
told her to not get into a situation like that. I got a bigger laugh out of
it than she did.
					Tony
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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Peanuts
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:42:56 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

In article <apple.702913191@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> apple@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jessica White) writes:
>I was just wondering...  does anyone else remember a little boy who 
>rode on the back of his mother's bike?  I believe that he was the little 
>brother of Linus and Lucy, but I'm not sure.  Please someone let me 
>know that I'm not crazy!  :)  No one I have ever mentioned it to
>remembers him!  
>
>If you know who I'm talking about, do you remember his name?
>Also, I was wondering why no more was written about him.

Whether you're crazy I don't know, but Lucy and Linus's brother was
named Re-run.  I presume Schulz stopped using him because he couldn't
think of anything else to do with him *besides* having him ride on
back of the bike.
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From: naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran)
Subject: Re: American Imperlialism - NOT!!!!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 07:23:32 GMT

axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>In article <naran.702842181@sfu.ca>, naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran) writes:
>> 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.

>The _New York Post_ picked up "Betty" a few months ago.  I guess they 
>thought it was biting, which made it a perfect NY tabloid strip.  I think
>they're wrong.  It's certainly, um, laid back, but I find it totally
>mediocre.  And I agree, there's certainly nothing particularly Canadian
>about it.  I had no idea it was from Edmonton until just now.

I think you just hit the nail on the head about why Canadian cartoonists and
cartoons don't get that far: Mediocrity. Someone recently mentioned that
Canadians are willing to be Mediocre while Americans could not settle for that.
Anyways, for Canadians, it is a little biting, but I can't think of one
Canadian who would say it was fully deserving of the title. It tends to go for
the wholistic laugh (the whole strip makes you laugh) rather than key words or
phrases to hang the joke off of. But for your general, useless trivia database
(which we all keep) :-) here is something to add: 

SCTV also started in Edmonton
but it did not really hit Canadian attention until about the time "Bob & Doug
McKenzie" was introduced to the series, afterwhich it was quickly picked up by
NBC. The thing no one remembers was that before going national, the original
SCTV was nigh on boring yet somehow managed to get a severe following in
Edmonton. If you would like to see this for yourself, look for a small TV
station (probably local cable) that bought all the episodes. In fact, the
Edmonton episodes are so boring, even by Canadian standards, that only American
stations play the Edmonton episodes! :-)
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From: orson@bluemoon.rn.com (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 15:32:59 EDT

My favorite calvin snowmen:

The group gathered around his father's car with gaping mouths, and one
under the tires.

The snowman who came to life and begane making henchmen, which Calvin
had to destroy with the hose.

 This is from
     orson@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet
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From: jeff@media.mit.edu (Jeff Tang)
Subject: Fox Trot little details
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:00:06 GMT



In the first book, look very carefully at some of the backgrounds. You'll
find, among other things, a painting where a unicorn eats a little sprite
or fairy or something.

Or there things like this in the other books.
From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts, Snoopy, and Cookies
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:42:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: craycos.1992Apr9.214240.20580
Organization: Cray Computer Corporation

In article <1992Apr9.140004.2602@stsci.edu> wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan) writes:
>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?

A while back I picked up a biography of Charles Shulz from a remainder bin
at K-Mart.  One of the pictures in it has C.S. and his current dog (circa
1988), with a caption saying something like "I think he only likes me
because I give him cookies".  So my theory is that he's been transferring
the cookie obsession from his real dog to Snoopy.
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From: wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan)
Subject: References in Strips From Other Countries
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 16:38:11 GMT

In article <steph.702714993@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
>                                                  Andy Capp is full of
>British references, and I've always assumed Fred Basset is from England
>as well.
>                                                  A comic strip will
>reflect its setting and authors, and I think it's a bit snide to complain.

Well, it seems that The Philadelphia Inquirer (Fluffya Inkwire) did
something about it.  When I lived in Pennsylvania and took the
Inquirer, there were times when the Inquirer would fill in copy of
it's own in Fred Bassett.  For example, where something would have
*obviously* referred to the Prime Minister, the "ime Minister" was
deleted and "esident" put in its place.  The thing was, I was *never*
sure that "Fred Bassett" was from the UK or from the US for a few
months.

-- 
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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: Ernie Pook's Comeek
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:15:31 GMT

In article <65254@apple.Apple.COM> stadler@Apple.COM (Andy Stadler) writes:
>In article <kub30fINNcuc@aludra.usc.edu> baruz@aludra.usc.edu (Noan Atoll)
> writes:
>>Is this widely syndicated?  ...
>
>Simply, the best.  Seems to be fairly widespread - LA Weekly, SJ Metro,
>Village Voice, etc.  Hard to pick up on - the drawing is pretty poor and
>the text can be thick.  But it's more subtle that you first realize.  For me,
>it took somebody giving me a collection (in a book) which I read and went
>crazy over.  Now it's the first thing I turn to.

  I had been a fan of Lynda Barry and Matt Greoning's Life In Hell way
back when I was in high school (81-84).  Then I went to college, and
then overseas, and lost contact with both strips.  What a shock to
come back and find The Simpson's to be such a phenomenon!  And Ernie
Pook's Comeek has also surprised me.  I remember it being much closer
to Life In Hell--interesting, if somewhat warped, gags; crude but
expressive drawings; fun word-play and cultural references.  When did
she go over to the 'pained narrative' format?  (Which is not to say
that Lynda Barry is not still the Funk Queen of the Universe.  I just
sort of miss the old style sometimes.)


--Raymond Flournoy        
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From: djordan@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Danny Jordan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Comic Relief
Date: 8 Apr 92 06:32:35 GMT
Organization: Florida State University Computing Center


   Anyone else read the magazine Comic Relief? it comes out monthly and
 collects all the best political cartoons and a whole month's collection
 of daily syndicated strips much as Doonsbury, Calvin&Hobbes, Far Side.
 And a few Dave Barry and Job Bob Briggs articles also, its always a
 gutbuster to read. My favorite is always the Political Cartoons though,
 and they divide them up as to what political issue its referring too.
 Last month's had a bunch of hilarious ones about the William Kennedy
 Smith trial, you can usually find it in your local comic book shop.
 If you can't e-mail me and I'll give the their address.

      -Danny


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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Comments on Many Strips
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:23:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.184814.1308@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jsw21124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph S. Walker) writes:
>
>Now let's see if I can't start some arguments.

Okay, I'm agreeable.  I mean, I'm not agreeable.  I mean... err...


>PEANUTS: I maintain that a comics section without Peanuts is a comics section
>without a soul.  I know it's fashionable these days to complain that the
>strip has gone downhill, but I just don't see it.  It's different than it used
>to be, but at least once a week there's a gem.  That's a hell of a lot better
>than most strips ever do.  A lot of you are going to be surprised at just how
>big a hole there'll be when the strip inevitably ends (and please, God, don't
>let anybody else take it over).  Plus, Schultz has gone 40 years+ WITHOUT
>subjecting his readers to a self-indulgent "sabbatical."  Why do the modern
>heroes have to do so?

The Boston Globe doesn't have Peanuts, and I don't miss it at _all_.
I liked Peanuts as a kid, but I think I grew out of it.
-- 
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From: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Frank and Ernest and God (was Re: The Best Far Side cartoon)
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:02:34 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

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:

	"Equal angles???  Wait a minute; those are for Euclid..."

-- 
          David M. Tate            |"The man who hath no music in himself
     dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu       | Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sound
  A poem should be dumb, / As old  | Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils
 medallions to the thumb.-MacLeish | 	Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice", A.V
From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Random Data
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:49:52 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ

In article <10340@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>People who should go on sabbatical, or just fall off a cliff:
>
>	Jim Kelly

Uh, that should be Jim Davis.

And you can add the guy who does Grin And Bear It,
a three-joke funny if ever there was one...

				--Blair
				  "Needs more mustard."
				  -Mike "Don't Call Me 'Mickey'" Mauser
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From: cctimar@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Cary Timar)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Organization: Vanderbilt U. Math Grad Student
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 01:52:34 GMT

The original poster mentioned that most comic strips were infused with
U.S. culture, because the U.S. market is ten times as large as the
Canadian.  In fact, until a few years ago, they were almost all infused
with U.S. WASP culture, for the same reasons.  Recently, a few strips have
started featuring black U.S. culture.

The original poster mentioned references to July Fourth and other U.S.
holidays being visible, while references to Canadian holidays were not.
The same is true of the religious holidays - when did you last see
references to Christmas being celebrated in January?  to Rosh Hashanah,
to Ramadan?  or even to the Catholic holidays not observed by Protestants?

How often do you see indicattions that the central character in a strip
has an ethnic identity - Italian, Polish, Swedish, or whatever?

On the other hand, most North American readers are familiar with the
details of U.S. WASP culture, and can, therefore, appreciate these strips.
How many would be able to appreciate a strip centred on a Hindu family
in India? There is a certain degree of deviation from the U.S. WASP norm
that will still allow a strip to sell: beyond that, you begin to lose your
audience quickly.
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