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From: moonunit@meteor.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Boo
Keywords: not original (from comp.graphics)
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:47:23 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Meteorology and Space Science

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GEEZ!  CUT THAT OUT!  YOU KNOW I HATE THAT!

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From: amanning@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Andrew Manning)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:57:35 GMT

In article <53818@hydra.gatech.EDU> jb118@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeffrey N. Burch) writes:
>
>There was a newspaper story a few weeks ago (in the Atlanta Constitution,
>I believe) which discussed Watterson and his cartooning efforts.  There
>
>It was also surprising for me to learn that he lives in Santa Fe, New 
>Mexico.  If I'd known that when I was living in Albuquerque, I'd have
>probably driven up there to try to meet him.

Which is precisely why it is not a well known fact where he lives. Do you
think he wants hordes of people visiting him? Anyway, he has only moved
there recently, so depending on how long ago you were in Albuquerque, he
might not have been there when you were. 

By the way, Calvin and Hobbes ranks number one with me too, with Footrot
Flats coming a close second. Don't worry if you have never heard of it, it
is a long running New Zealand strip. 

Andrew M.



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From: dks@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (douglas.k.steckel)
Subject: The Neighborhood
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:46:03 GMT

Netters,

The times i've read this group I've seen nothing about The Neighborhood
by Jerry VanAmerogen( I think). Is this strip still being written or
published? For thos of us warped beyond the Far Side it provides an
outlet. For those unfamiliar with it, picture...

A disgruntled stocky man standing in front of a department store counter 
with his pants around his ankles revealing a pair of boxers with GLENN
embroidered on the leg.

Caption: Glenn produces a second form of ID.


A bubbly, bright eyed, gaudily dressed woman walking down the street
clutching her purse, adorned with little sunshine, happy face stickers.

Caption: Years of psycho-therapy have so cleared Trudy of excess baggage,
  	 that she now travels light.



As usual these discriptions don't do justice to the strip.

Let me know if there are any Neighborhood fans out there.

---------------
Doug Steckel			Guess that quote: "You may call me
dks@alux5.att.com			           streetcar because of
						   my desire for you"	
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From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Subject: Re: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:59:43 GMT

plck@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (David Pollack) writes:

 * The strip whose nastiness REALLY bothers me, however, is Andy Capp.  I
 * haven't found him funny more than a very few times in all the years I've
 * seen him.  He may be a sendup of the typical British working-class lout
 * (except that he has never worked), but I find his every action entirely
 * too loutish to seem even remotely humorous.  The strip invariably ruins
 * my mood.  Does anyone else want to see it sent back to England?

Nope. Andy Capp never lets me down, I like it almost everyday. Forget about
real life, Andy Capp is a comic strip full of funny looking people with
big noses. I love it when Andy gets ``BOP''ed head over heels out the
door and halfway down the block. Political Correctness may have a place
somewhere, but not in comics.

-Mike
From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Tumbleweeds? names, art
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:23:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: i88.1992Apr09.162349.18497
Distribution: na
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL

In article <1992Apr9.093903.114@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:
>In article <steph.702781316@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
>>In <1992Apr8.134605.6131@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:
>>
>>>I've seen a couple of references to Tumbleweeds.  The title is familiar, but
>>>I can't remember the premise.  Could somebody refresh my memory?

>>
>>[...]
>>Other denizens of the town include a corrupt judge, an old maid whose goal
>>is marrying Tumbleweeds, an undertaker, a gravedigger, a criminal, a totally
others...
Names:
Epic the tobacco chewing horse
Judge Frump
Slats
Hildagard
Hogarth Hemp (hangman)
Ham and Beans (two mule skinners)

any others?

>>
>Is this the strip where the undertaker has the signs saying "Joe the 
>undertaker.  You stab 'em we slab 'em," or some such similar thing?  Also if

	He does have sales to pick up business, I believe his motto
is "you plug 'em we plant 'em".  

>if memory serves (after you mentioning the Indians), does the artwork
>look similar to B.C. (as in cavemen, not Bloom County)?

	The artwork is totally unique, nothing like B.C.

--Ken
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Rerun and The Worst Strip (was Re: Peanuts)
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:40:02 GMT

In article <j31H01wr6@cs.psu.edu> plu@math.psu.edu (Todd Andrew Simpson) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.192233.9750@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com!baylor writes:
>
>   (Am I the only one who remembers 5's last name?)
>
>As I recall, it's 95472 - the zip code in which the 95472 family resided.
>I once looked it up and found that it's somewhere in or around Santa Rosa,
>California, which I think is where Schulz lives.  Another thing - 5 is not
>5's full first name.  (I know what it is; am I the only one?)  (Why do I
>still remember this stuff, anyway?)

"Somehow I get the feeling that every Tom, Dick, and Harry would want to
be named 3.14."  You remember this stuff, because this character, though
he only ran for two weeks at most, was probably the best stuff Schultz
has ever done.

It's certainly a lot more timeless than Charlie Brown complaining about
the last out of the 1962 World Series...
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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Merchandising: What's unethical about it
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:05:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.095851.1210@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Ben Fulton <fulton@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>I would never buy a Hobbes doll.  How could you stand to look at it and
>know that it probably won't ever come to life?  WAY too depressing for me.
>
I think that that would be a fault in the User, and not in the manufacturing.
MY Hobbes doll would definately be alive!  (And he would find a whole
community of other live stuffed animals...)
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From: uslave@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (KJS @ucsb.mcl)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Lets hear it for Fox Trot!
Keywords: Fox Trot!
Date: 15 Apr 92 05:08:47 GMT

In <iy12iB1w164w@netlink.cts.com> joshm@netlink.cts.com (Josh Mercer) writes:

>vlcoleman@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (vicki coleman) writes:
>> >started reading it a couple of years ago.  I do, though, wonder why it'not 
>> >more popular than it is--I never see FT books on the bestseller shelves.
>> > 
>> There are at least 3 Fox Trot collections available.  The latest one
>> just came out a week or two ago.
>> --

Lessee...
Fox Trot
Pass the Loot
The Works
Black Bart Says Draw
Eight Yards, Down and Out

>I know that.  I said I never see it on the bestseller shelves, unlike any 
>Calvin and Hobbes book which is on a bestseller list instantly.

True, but I think Fox Trot is better.  I like Calvin and Hobbes, but the fact
that it has become so trendy turns me off a bit. (I was the first person I knew
to read C & H.  The next thing I knowm it was everywhere.)

Maybe it's just that Fox Trot is newer.  It seems more fresh, while C & H just
doesn't seem *quite* as funny as it used to be.


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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: C & H number one!?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:34:13 GMT

In <KILCUP.92Apr7203727@einstein.mps.ohio-state.edu> kilcup@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Greg Kilcup) writes:

>Having been overwhelmed with 50 message this first day of
>the rec.arts.comics.strips, I can't believe that nobody
>even mentioned the obvious number one strip:

>            ==================
>            ==  Doonesbury  ==
>            ==================

>I mean, C+H, Foxtrot and Far Side are certainly all up there,
>but one must admit that Doonesbury out-classes them all.

In what?  Certainly not humor.

>Shall I assume that since it is published on the editorial
>pages of many papers, many of you forgot about it?

Even as a political strip, it is greatly inferior to the late, lamented
Bloom County.
--
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   overburdened with information" -- J. Golden Kimball
From: ack@coos.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Mr. Boffo Books?
Summary: anything other than unclear on the concept?
Keywords: Mr. Boffo Joe Martin Books
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:58:12 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

I have been searching for any Mr. Boffo book in addition to the wonderful
"Unclear on the Concept"

ARE THERE ANY????

Also, what else does he write and are books available for them?

My favorite Mr. Boffo T-Shirt:

"Never let them see you sweat" -Number 1 on a list of phrases that most
confuse Sylvester Stallone.

And my favorite Mr. Boffo strip:

"Number 5 on the list of things you don't want to hear from your girlfriend
in a letter: 'Rival motorcycle gangs are vying for my attention'"

-A

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From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
Subject: Re: Rose Is Rose
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 19:11:19 GMT

In article <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 found the "decipher the cute thing the kid is babbling" trick
as tiring as the Family Circus.  Yawn.

--Ken
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From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Merchandising: What's unethical about it
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:55:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr10.185554.10626
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

rowdy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (robert.dieckmann) writes:


>Regarding the applauding of Watterson and his decision
>not to merchandise Calvin & Hobbes stuff:

>I don't see what is unethicl about it.  Sure it can go
>too far (whatever that means to each individual).  I would
>love to buy a C&H shirt.  Last week I bought a Warner Bros
>T-shirt with, amongst others, Foghorn Leghorn.  My wife got
>a Bullwinkle and Rocky J. Squirrel shirt.  We enjoy the shirts,
>and I don't think it represents anything "unethical" or "selling out."

I like t-shirts, stuffed animals, etc. that remain true to the
source material.  Selling out is when the Peanuts characters are
used to advertise Butternut Bread, Met Life, etc., or Dennis the
Menace is used to hawk Dairy Queens.  I really don't care about
the selling out aspect of things; what annoys me is when 
character(s) are seen so often that I want to wretch.  The
prime example of this are the Garfields which stick to car
windows.  It was cute when it was something I saw a few times
a month.  It was annoying when it seemed like 1/3 of all cars
had them.

Tom
From: amm50@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Andrew Murphy, Amdahl Ireland Ltd.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Bloom County
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:14:24 GMT
Reply-To: amm50@joyce.mfg.amdahl.com(Andrew Murphy, Amdahl Ireland Ltd.)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


Hi,

   Is anybody else a fan of Bloom County ? It doesn't appear in any
newspapers here, so I've only got to know it through buying collections
in book form. In the last book that I bought, which was about a year ago,
Bloom County winds down at the end and all the characters go their own
ways. Since then, no new books have appeared. Does this mean it's finished
completely? If so what is Berkely Breathed at these days?

                 Andrew Murphy, Amdahl Ireland Ltd.
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:18:32 GMT

pcaster@mizar.usc.edu (Dodger) writes:

>On a somewhat similar vein, I laughed out loud at the recent
>one about the professor who invented the gadget to translate
>dog into English.  The professor is walking down the street with
>the ridiculous helmet that looks like a 1950's diving helmet and
>all through the neighborhood, different dogs are depicted barking.

>The translation is always the same....bark = hey.  It sure struck
>me funny, but sure doesn't read funny here.

Only problem I have with this cartoon was that I saw that exact same
joke on some stand-up comedy show a couple years ago.  The comedian
was talking about how stupid dogs are compared to humans; after all,
you don't see people sitting on their front porch all day going,
"Hey!...Hey!...Hey!..."

I don't know which came first, the stand-up routine or the cartoon,
but I have no doubt that one stole the joke from the other.

                                         --Steve Stelter
                                       sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: serious strips
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:58:10 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

Actually, speaking of Dr. Rex Morgan, MD...

I was just telling someone who sent me his 'top ten worst list',
that I, as he, hated Mary Worth and Apartment 3-G.  Now I remember
that I hate Dr. RM,MD...oh, and I hate Judge Parker.


I also hate Ernie and Broomhilda(of course, these are supposed to
be funny)
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From: iam30974@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ivan Moscoso)
Subject: Re: Doonesbury
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 03:26:46 GMT

rivenbur@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Reid Rivenburgh) writes:

>In article <KILCUP.92Apr7203727@einstein.mps.ohio-state.edu> kilcup@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Greg Kilcup) writes:

>   Having been overwhelmed with 50 message this first day of
>   the rec.arts.comics.strips, I can't believe that nobody
>   even mentioned the obvious number one strip:

>	       ==================
>	       ==  Doonesbury  ==
>	       ==================

>   I mean, C+H, Foxtrot and Far Side are certainly all up there,
>   but one must admit that Doonesbury out-classes them all.


>I was beginning to wonder about this myself.  I had seen a few
>references to Doonesbury, but they seemed to be a little negative.
>What's the general opinion out there?  Is everyone groaning now that
>the inevitable first Doonesbury posts are out?
>[...]

Just to add my thought(s)...

Doonesbury is one of those strips that I never really think about, though
I enjoy it again, and again...  (no paper subscription here..sadly...)

To pour something old into the pot, I recall hearing a few months ago (around
the time when the whole "controversy" over the Quayle strip came out)... that
Trudeau supposedly doesn't draw, but writes the material...  too bad I don't
have any strips laying around, but is this common knowledge?  Am I just 
dreaming this?

This wouldn't really affect my enjoyment-levels...  and as a parting thought,
I first got 'hooked' during the '88 campaign, where that mystical, invisible,
voice shrouded in (gosh, is that an american Flag??) frequented the pages of
the chicago tribune...

--
-ivan					     tribune-less in Urbana, IL.
From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: New Comics-only paper? (was Chicago Tribune Comics Section)
Date: 10 Apr 92 07:02:55 GMT
Organization: New York University

In article <1992Apr10.035357.6226@eff.org>, hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs) writes:
> Has anyone ever published a comics-only (okay, with ads) newspaper?
> Also, are there any newspaper staffers reading this newsgroup?

One just started about a month ago here in NYC, called "The Daily
Comics."  There are several others around the country, but they only
come out once every two weeks.
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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Funky Winkerbean
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 12:23:19 GMT

Judging from the fact that all of the characters in Funky Winkerbean
are going to be graduating this year, I get the impression that the
artist is planning to retire the strip.

Can anyone confirm that?

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From: sherman@oak.math.ucla.edu (The Ahkond of Swat)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 02:48:05 GMT

In article <7467@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?

"Mr. Osborne, may I be excused?  My brain is full."

Runner-up: Brain Aerobics.

Which reminds me... time to get back to work!
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From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:31:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: hubcap.1992Apr8.143112.21602
Organization: Clemson University


Lots of people don't like Heathcliff. On some levels, it is certainly
brain-dead. But look closer... that guy can cram more action into one
panel that most people could put in an eight panel sunday strip. The way
he can suggest stuff like ``being in the front yard, seeing into the house
through the window and down the hall where Heathcliff is making the mouse
walk the plank into the goldfish bowl while juggling the garbage cans as
the garbage men, who are standing in the wet cement of the freshly
poured sidewalk, look on'' with a few well chosen lines, is great.

-Mike
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