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From: buccb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Fusco Brothers!
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:11:00 GMT
Organization: Carlos` Wonderful Wacky World of Tunafish

In a previous episode on rec.arts.comics.strips,
tssmith@netcom.com (Tim Smith) drops complete science:

>>   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
>> (including the teenager daughter and her friends) drawn with *huge*
>> chests?  This strip is worse than a lot of comic books with their
>> women with amazonian endowments.  (And that's saying a lot!)
>
>I never really looked at it that way.  Now that you mentioned it, I
>went back and looked at last Sunday's Blondie.  You're right, all the
>women in the strip have these hourglass, "ideal" figures, like
>something from a Vargas Esquire drawing.  Maybe Chic Young just liked
>to draw that kind of figure.  It looks very 1930's to me, and I never
>paid much attention to it.
>
>A few months ago, I read an article about Blondie in the local
>paper.  Apparently, the strip was started over 60 years ago, and at
>that time, Dagwood was the heir to a railroad fortune, and Blondie
>was portrayed as a "golddigger". (That's a term before my time, but I
>guess it just means a fortune hunter.)  So Dagwood was disinherited
>by his father, and settled down with his sexy wife.  They later
>matured into the straightlaced, not to say boring, suburban couple
>that we have today.

	Are you sure about those origins. I was under the impression
that Blondie started as an "adult" strip (this might explain the
buxom women). I have a compilation of early "adult" strips, and
Blondie is in there. I thought they may have been "bootlegs," but
I read later that Blondie did indeed start as an adult strip. I
need to find the compilation again and look it up.

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From: "Stephen C. Miller" <stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Best Long Time Strip/Gahan Wilson/Cutter John
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:08:27 -0500

In article <1992Apr09.121642.11675@onetouch.COM> csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith) writes:
>If an award were given out for the most consistantly good comic strip
>continuously over the last 20 years, I think there would be a tie
>between B.C. and The Wizard of Id.
>
>
Gee - Doonsbury must be about 20 years old now.  Even with the layoff I
think Trudeau dusts Parker and Hart.  


>********
>
>Who remembers Gahan Wilson, the predicessor to Gary Larson?  I found
>
Larson owes a heck of a lot to Wilson.  So does Piraro and a so do a lot
of other "weird" strippers.

>********
>


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From: pciszek@isis.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 01:48:27 GMT

dove@elaine9.Stanford.EDU (Dav Somebody) writes:

>My fave --- Three big dinosaurs two of them pointing and laughing
>hysterically at a little fuzzy mammal, the third one looking toward
>the sky with his hand out noticing that it has just begun to snow.

I second the nomination!
--
Paul Ciszek, pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu | Saddam Hussein still has a job; do you?
From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Angriest Dog in the World
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:17:32 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ

In article <1992Apr14.234710.7940@hubcap.clemson.edu> trev@hubcap.clemson.edu (Trevor Bauknight) writes:
>The Creative Loafing in Atlanta is the only paper around here that I know
>of in which this appears.  I guess the guy's forte' isn't art...but the

The "guy" is David Lynch, producer/director of Eraserhead,
Twin Peaks, and other things that on average will strip
the varnish from you're psyche.

TADITW, on the other hand, is dull, less minimalist than
the filigreed border on the masthead, and about as artistic
as a baby wearing a bowl of spaghetti on its head.

The "art," by the way, was performed approximately once,
and has been perpetrated xerographically for the past
decade (as far as I can tell; I certainly remember seing it
in 83 or 84).

>dialogue through the window usually sets me thinking...more than I can
>say for a lot of other strips.  And I laugh at the concept-dog almost 

You need to get out more.  The jokes suck.  Billy Crystal's
stuff is better.

>every time.  I haven't quite gotten a grip on this strip's significance, 
>but I have come to the conclusion that someday I will, and it will be a big 
>moment...

$5K/mo in royalties from the syndicator.  Faux-cool
bandwagoneering from the poseur "fans."  A general
being-had all 'round.

Lynch may be lame, but he's rich and lame.

>...so angry he cannot move.  He cannot eat.  He cannot sleep.  He can just
>barely growl...Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches
>the state of rigor mortis.
>
>"Bill...Why is Pete wearing a diaper?"  (grrrrrrrrrrr...)
>"He's trying to get his shit together." (grrrrrrrrrrr...)
>                                        (grrrrrrrrrrr...)
>[night]                                 (grrrrrrrrrrr...)

That's about the speed of it.  In fact, that's one of the
better ones.  Still, it's a pun that Woody Allen would have
left unrepeated at the age of sixteen.  If the paper weren't
free, I'd worry and complain.  As it is, I just hope it
dies from disinterest, or Lynch decides it makes him look
like a chimp.

				--Blair
				  "Read every-other-word
				   of Zippy the Pinhead
				   for a secret message..."
From: phantom@hardy.u.washington.edu (PHANTOM)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:09:25 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle



bloom county is now "Outland", and has been for about 2 years now.
From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Rose Is Rose
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:07:24 GMT
Organization: Cray Computer Corporation

In article <JEFFT.92Apr9145456@tailgunner.mit.edu> jefft@athena.mit.edu (Jeff Tang) writes:
>
>Four years ago, Rose is Rose was irredeemably lame (or so I thought at the
>time).  90% of the strips were Pasquale saying something in baby and Rose
>translating.  However, it slowly grew with the characters developping a
>little bit each month.  Now, I'd rank it among my top ten.

I almost agree...sometimes it's great, but some of the running themes are
getting a bit old (like the guardian angel, and the "parents reverting to
kid-size when feeling insecure" bit).  I thought it was a watershed for
this strip when Pasquale learned to pronounce his words, since that was
getting REALLY old...

My 5-year-old thinks it's one of the best (right up there with (ugh) Garfield).

>Mimi is such a bitch!

Really...I like Clem and his dad, too...
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From: mudcr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David C Roller)
Subject: Chicago Tribune Comics Section
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:11:51 GMT


I thought I would list the comics in the tribune and give them a letter
grading.  I will say now that my grading on the serials is much
different than for the funnies.

The Far Side B-
Peanuts B
Dick Tracy 
Dick Tracy B-
Brenda Starr C
Walnut Cove B+
Fox Trot A
Broom Hilda B-
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith F
Sylvia C
Geech C+
Gasoline Alley D
Fred Basset C
Amazing SpiderMan B+
Mother Goose & Grimm A
Mister Boffo B
Winnie Winkle C-
The Buckets A-
Doonesbury B to B-
Blondie D+
Shoe B-
Calvin & Hobbes A+
Pogo B-
For Better Or Worse B+
The Phantom C+
Beetle Bailey C to C-
Hi and Lois C
Cathy B-
Hagar The Horrible C
The Lockhorns D+
Gil Thorpe (in Sports section) B-


I consider myself a fairly tough grader.  Annie which was just replaced
by Walnut Cove would have recieved an F.  As would Moon Mullins replaced
last year by the Buckets.

I am basing my grades on the quality of the last 3 months of cartoons.
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To boldly go  and make disciples of al nations.
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit  and teaching them to obey everything Christ has commanded.
Surely He is with us always to the very end of the age and the galaxy
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From: ide@studio.enet.dec.com (Jamie Ide)
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date:  8 APR 92 15:06:51    


In article <1992Apr8.153331.17029@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes...
>hozman@aludra.usc.edu (The Hoz!!!) writes:
> 
>>dove@elaine9.Stanford.EDU (Dav Somebody) writes:
>>>Hey, what do you think the stupidest strips out there are?  I have to
>>>admit, though hating Family Circus, it at least attempts to be funny.
> 
>IMHO, the most consistently awful strip out there is Sylvia.  I find it
>hard to believe that there's anybody, anywhere, who is amused by it.

When "Sylvia" came to the Boston Globe, one of their (female) columnists wrote a
column which championed it as "female humor."  OK, maybe hormone injections
would make me appreciate the humor, but no drug could make me see past the awful
drawing.  How can anyone stand the terrible artwork?

I guess "Cathy" falls into the "female humor" category as well.  Anyone have a
good example of "male humor"?  :^)  :^)

Jamie Ide

ide@studio.enet.dec.com
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From: roise@milton.milton.u.washington.edu (Linda Roise)
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Cc: roise
Organization: Seattle University
	<ROISE.92Apr7182332@milton.milton.u.washington.edu>
	<1992Apr8.035516.8268@adobe.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 07:34:07 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.035516.8268@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:

   Who is this "we"? Is this the same "we" who relates to Kathy [sic]?
   My wife detests Cathy, and she is certainly a career woman. We don't
   miss the Far Side; I disagree strongly with this "we" stuff.

   Or, to quote my wife sitting here beside me:

   "Cathy is diets and shopping; shopping and diets. Who needs it?"

Sometimes I wonder why I get into posting news.  Somebody ALWAYS has
to do this.

This "we" refers to "those of us who occasionally miss the point of
Far Side cartoons," as someone earlier mentioned.  

I also spoke for myself.  There was a time in my life when I struggled
with food.  I had anorexia nervosa.  I used many of the Cathy strips
to illustrate the problem in my later lectures to college classes.
Today my partner's daughters, who are teenagers, are into the Mall
thing.  I hate shopping, but I can relate when I think of the girls.

I can relate.  That's the point.

In this case ("Cathy") I relate more in retrospect than in prospect.
I'm no longer there.  I was never quite there in the first place, and
my career didn't take me (thank heavens) down the paths that Cathy's
did.  I can't work with a piled desk; it's not my style.  But I can
relate.  I'm 47.  Maybe you folks are younger than I am, or for some
other reason just CAN'T relate to that strip. 

That's the point.

If we can't relate to the viewpoint of the cartoonist, we are not
likely to like the strip.

And for someone who likes it, I didn't even spell it right the first
time around...
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Subject: Re: Gahan Wilson [was The best Far Side cartoons]
From: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:01:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Keywords: far side gary larson

In article <1992Apr9.161517.6074@mlb.semi.harris.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com writes:

>     This talk of the Far Side had me thinking of my favorite Gahan Wilson
>cartoons.  Any other Gahan Wilson fans out there?  Two of my favorites are:

>	["It's the most determined suicide I've ever seen."]
>	
>	"We've discovered what has been clogging your chimney."]

Personal favorites:

	Two lobsters sitting at a table, holding knives and forks.  The
	tablecloth is checked.  There is a large chafing dish on the table.
	The lobsters are wearing bibs with little pictures of people on 
	them.

	A man carrying a drink is smiling and walking across the bottom of
	a swimming pool.  The water in the pool has pulled neatly back to
	allow him to pass.  One of the two guys sitting at the edge of the
	pool says to the other, "Best damn special-effects man in the 
	business."

	A man is hawking tickets outside a tent labelled "Freak Show:  See
	the Bearded Lady, Dog-faced boy, etc."  He's getting very little
	attention from the passers-by, who tend to have two heads, or 8 ears,
	or 26 fingers, or whatever.  To his assistant, he mutters "We never
	sell ticket one in this stupid town."


-- 
          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
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From: a0s5109@titan.ucc.umass.edu (John K. Norcott)
Subject: Re: I Go Pogo
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:52:07 GMT

 I don't like it as much as the "Old" Pogo.  I am a Globe addict and have been
following Pogo since day one, and while the "old" was what I would consider
sometimes weak politically, the new Pogo doesn't seem to have either the
quiet sense of humor or the same quality artwork as the "old".  Also, I
always worry when the kids carry on in Dad's shoes.  Talent is rarely
inherited.  <Besides, they ended up dropping Geech !!!  Why couldn't they
have dropped Kudzu???  That hasn't been funny/witty/clever in years !!!>

-- 
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From: hamon@a.cs.okstate.edu (HAMON SHARON ANN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Date: 9 Apr 92 04:27:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater

>I read an interview with her, and while she does have a boy and a girl which
>the comics children are based on, she didn't have a baby recently. April is
>totally fictional.

Maybe she intends this as a hint to her hubby ;-).

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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Counterpoll-- Most-hated strips-- Results!
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:18:59 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

Well, the votes seem to be trickling to a stop.  Turnout was low-- 15 
ballots received.  Dondi did not win.  The top ten winners are:

                  votes
 1 Marmaduke        8
 2 Nancy            8
 3 Family Circus    7
 4 Garfield         7
 5 Cathy            6
 6 Zippy            5
 7 Dondi            4
 8 Heathcliff       4
 9 Snuffy Smith     4
10 Teenage Mutant   4
   Ninja Turtles

Runners up, with 3 votes each:

   Annie, Beetle Bailey, Blondie, Herman, Outland,
   Rose is Rose, Sylvia, The Lockhorns.

With 2 votes each:

   Andy Capp, Dennis the Menace, Fred Basset, Fusco Brothers, 
   Gasoline Alley, Mary Worth, Peanuts, Pogo, Rex Morgan MD, Ziggy

With one vote each:

   Amy, Apartment 3-G, Ballard Street, Crankshaft, Curtis, Dick Tracy,
   Duffy, Duke, Ernie Pook's Comeek, Frank and Earnest, 
   Funky Winkerbean, Geech, Gil Thorp, Henry, Hi and Jinx,
   Hi and Lois, Jim's Journal, Lolly, Luther, Marvin, Momma,
   Out Our Way, Overboard, Perky and Beanz, Queen of the Universe,
   Sally Forth, Sheila, Sherman on the Mount, Smilin' Jack,
   Spider-Man, Stanley Family, Tank McNamara, The Phantom, Tumbleweeds

The above results are unweighted.  Assuming, however, you hate your 1st-ranked
strip ten times as bad as your 10th-ranked one, and assuming people who
didn't provide a ranking hate all the comics at about the 5th-rank level,
we have:

 1 Family Circus   60
 2 Nancy           51
 3 Marmaduke       43
 4 Cathy           40
 5 Zippy           35
 6 Garfield        34
 7 Heathcliff      27
 8 Teenage Mutants 25
 9 Snuffy Smith    23     
10 The Lockhorns   22
11 Sylvia          21     
12 Dondi           19
13 Andy Capp       18
14 Annie           17
15 Rose is Rose    17

So Marmaduke and Nancy end up on more most-hated lists, but Family Circus
is the winner in terms of sheer amount of hate generated.

Memo to Bil Keane: It seems that banality, as a virtue, is underappreciated.

Thanks to all who voted.
From: hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: More Reality of C&H
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:49:46 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

Then there's the theory that Calvin not only imagines that that
Hobbes is alive and all the Spaceman Spiff (and Calvinosaurus) stuff, but
that Calvin imagines what it would be like to be really BAD all the time
and terrorize his parents.  The true Calvin might just be a fairly ordinary
loner with a vivid imagination ... (trust me, I KNOW the type).


-- 
"Is that real blood?" 
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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Dilbert
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:13:43 GMT

In article <JEFFT.92Apr7144034@mint-chocolate-chip.mit.edu> jefft@athena.mit.edu (Jeff Tang) writes:
>
>I really like Dilbert.  The funniest new strip since Foxtrot, I'd say.  The
>book is excellent also, though I'd like to see a collection of old strips.


If you hadn't said that, I was going to.  I like Dilbert.  I purchased
a copy of Dogbert's Big Book of Business and almost died laughing!

Does anyone know of any other Dilbert-related books?  I'm looking for
a reprint of a series he did a few years ago where Dilbert's Ego went
out, got a toupe, and came home just to be crushed by his fainting
Insecurities.

I'm clipping the current series of Engineering's view of Marketting
too.  Wonderful stuff!
-- 
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The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
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From: amanning@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Andrew Manning)
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:00:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.143506.16072@cis.ohio-state.edu> ffriedma@cis.ohio-state.edu (frank e friedman) writes:
>
>	I'm a new subscriber to this group.  There has been a lot of talk
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sorry, but I couldn't resist

Andrew M.
From: belville@athena.mit.edu (Sharon Belville)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Summary: cat fud
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:06:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr9.150648.29215
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <willimsa.702829572@unix1.tcd.ie> willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams) writes:
>In <1992Apr8.155526.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>
>>I vote for either "CAT FUD", or "Midvale School for the Gifted," where
>>the door clearly says 'pull' and the kid is pushing with all his might.
>
>WHAT THE HELL IS THE CAT FUD JOKE ???????!!!!!!!!!!!?????
>
>(I've never seen it :-) )

Lots of crudely lettered signs saying "CAT FUD" and pointing into the open
door of a clothes dryer.  The cat is looking curiously at the signs, and the
dog is hiding around a corner watching and thinking, "Oh please, oh please."
--
Sharon Belville
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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 22:53:49 GMT
Keywords: far side gary larson

warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:

>What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?


Sir, you're getting a fax from your dog.  I think its your cat.

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From: an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Date: 8 Apr 1992 22:39:35 GMT

tvaughan@electron.rutgers.edu (Timothy E. Vaughan) writes:
>
>Hooray!  Someone shares my loathing of this strip!  In college my
>roommate and I had a contest to see which strip was stupider:
>Family Circus or Nancy.  We each rated the strip every day for a month
>or so, and the low score would be the stupider.

Were you a college student during the Bushmiller days or the Scott
era?  The Ernie Bushmiller "Nancy"s were so mindnumbingly bland, they
were downright existential -- almost like a Swedish film.  Some folks
I know took to reading the panels backwards to see if it made more
sense (or was more funny) that way.

Jerry Scott, on the other hand, has done a serviceable job with
"Nancy", IMHO.  It follows a road well-travelled by other strips, but
at least when the panels get pasted into the newspaper out of order,
people do notice.  BTW, Jerry Scott is also co-author of "Baby Blues".
--
David C. Tuttle                               dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Software Systems Specialist               Department of Biomathematics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         Houston, Texas
From: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Rose Is Rose
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:14:40 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <29E3E40B.15470@noiro.acs.uci.edu> rallen@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Allen) writes:
>"Rose Is Rose" is one of my favorites.... as a "family sitcom", it's not as
>realistic as "For Better or For Worse" or "Foxtrot", but its loopy humor
>and the way the worlds of the rather bizarre kids and their equally bizarre
>parents mirror each other makes it approach the literary genre of "magical
>realism". IMHO, of course. What do the rest of you think?

I've never liked it.  It seems to have about three gags, and I find EVERY
single character in the strip to be thoroughly unlikeable.  I have no
sympathy or empathy for anything that happens to anyone in the strip.

Just my opinion...

-- 
Michael Rawdon
rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

After the fire, the fire still burns;
The heart grows old, but never, ever learns;
The memory smoulders, the soul always yearns.
After the fire, the fire still burns.
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