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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Peanuts
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:27:11 GMT

In <apple.702913191@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> apple@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jessica White) writes:

>asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto) writes:

>>Actually, he's gotten a bit better at it lately. I thought he could have
>>done more with the recent strip where Charlie Brown left Snoopy with Linus
>>and Lucy, though.


>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!  

You're not crazy -- he exists.

>If you know who I'm talking about, do you remember his name?
>Also, I was wondering why no more was written about him.

Rerun Van Pelt seemed to have a fairly short career.  He was on the
baseball team for one season.  Can't remember what position he played.
The Peanuts team actually won when Rerun walked in a winning run.  (Gotta
love that tiny strike zone!)  However, their win was revoked when the
powers-that-be discovered that Rerun had bet on the game.  (He bet a nickel).
After that he sort of disappeared.  (Sort of like Pete Rose -- weird :->)

BTW, Snoopy was the one who had bet *against* the team.
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From: tjarks@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (timothy.w.tjarks)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Travels with Farley
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:15:40 GMT
Distribution: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: AT&T

From article <1992Apr15.212840.12437@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by ndj20710@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nathan D. Johnson):
> Anyone else remember a strip called Travels with Farley? 

Yep, and I enjoyed it while it ran.   Your rememberance of the James
Watt bit proves that it lasted at least into the early eighties.

As I remember it, it was pulled from national syndication by the
creator because he wanted it to concentrate on more local issues,
local in this case being San Francisco bay area, and it continued
running in only one paper.  I don't know which paper that was, or
how long it continued.

					Tim Tjarks
					t_tjarks@att.com
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From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: York University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:26:42 GMT

Scott A Elwood asserts:
> Calvin and Hobbes is by far the best comic strip around.  Just trying to
> start some arguments... 

I wholehearted agree !  (Just trying to forestall any arguments ..)

Actually, the Spaceman-Spiff-and-The-Booger-Monsters sub-plot is better
than the Calvin-and-Hobbes-and-Mum-and-Dad main theme.

Come to think of it, Spaceman Spiff exhibits more imagination than 
the almighty Star Drek.

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From: ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: Not!
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:25:12 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.184259.6196@acsu.buffalo.edu> 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)
>
C&H is the first strip I read in the morning, followed by the Far Side.

-Steve- I like Calvin & Hobbes so much that I named my 2 kittens after them.

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From: ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink)
Subject: Re: Chicago Tribune Comics Section
Organization: Turkey Hall
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:54:32 GMT

>I'll add mine...
Why don't I add to it, too?  Who knows?  Maybe I'll be able to *agree* with
Hucke here, if not in rec.humor....  :-)
>>>The Far Side                      B- B+ A+ A+
>>>Peanuts                           B  B  B  B
>>>Dick Tracy                        B- B- D  D
>>>Brenda Starr                      C  D  F  F
>>>Walnut Cove                       B+ D  ?  ?
>>>Fox Trot                          A  A- A  ?  (I know -- a sin, isn't it?)
>>>Broom Hilda                       B- C  C  C+
>>>Barney Google and Snuffy Smith    F  D  F  D-
>>>Sylvia                            C  B  D  ?
>>>Geech                             C+ B  C  ?
>>>Gasoline Alley                    D  D  F  F
>>>Fred Basset                       C  B  C  D-
>>>Amazing SpiderMan                 B+ C  B  C-
>>>Mother Goose & Grimm              A  A  B  A-
>>>Mister Boffo                      B  A- B  ?
>>>Winnie Winkle                     C- D  ?  D
>>>The Buckets                       A- F  ?  ?
>>>Doonesbury                        B- A  A+ B
>>>Blondie                           D+ C  C  B-
>>>Shoe                              B- A  C  B+
>>>Calvin & Hobbes                   A+ A  A  A+ (a better A+ than Far Side,too)
>>>Pogo                              B- B+ C  ?
>>>For Better Or Worse               B+ D- A  A-
>>>The Phantom                       C+ D  C  ?
>>>Beetle Bailey                     C- C  C  B-
>>>Hi and Lois                       C  D  C  D+
>>>Cathy                             B- B  D  D
>>>Hagar The Horrible                C  C+ B  B-
>>>The Lockhorns                     D+ F  D  ?
>>>Gil Thorpe (in Sports section)    B- D  ?  ?
>
>(I get a different paper here... "?" means I've never read that strip.)
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twisted and destructive imagination.  Would YOU like to be my friend?"
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From: Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 09:55:40 -0500

In article <1992Apr8.072237.7558@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:

>>Does anyone else follow this strip? Its been my favorite for awhile. 
>Mine too. 

>>It can be poignant and at times uproariously funny. 
>It is more often good than funny, IMO.

My favorite (stuck on my lab door by the way) is the one where 
Dad says "Its not whether you win or lose that matters..its how
you lay the blame!"


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From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Subject: Re: Peanuts baseball team
Keywords: peanuts, baseball
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:54:50 GMT

In article <Apr.12.11.34.35.1992.29407@ruhets.rutgers.edu> zweldron@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Matthew Charlap) writes:
>greg@cs.washington.edu (Greg Barnes) writes:
>...
>>LF Patty
>
>Um, Patty is the SStarting Pitcher on another team, if I remember correctly.
>She's also mentioned many times the b'zillion times her team beat chuck's
>--Matthew

There's a difference between Patty and Peppermint Patty. You're thinking
of the latter. Neat that Schulz had the chutzpah to give two characters the
same first name!

Someone mentioned the fact that Charlie Brown has an 0-600 record. In the
REALLY early strips, however, Charlie Brown actually did win a few games,
even though he wasn't the best pitcher in the world. 

I guess that's the problem with doing 15,000 strips. You're going to have to
forget some of the details. Also from a late 50's strip: Snoopy said he was
an "only dog", but later on we are introduced to some of his brothers and
sisters....

Peter
From: gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C & H number one!?
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:16:31 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix

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.

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

Doonesbury is rarely funny, although I love to see Trudeau zing Geo
Bush, etc.  But Trudeau never really learned how to draw, which
automatically reduces him from approaching first place. C&H is the best,
but For Better or Worse and Shoe are up there; both are better drawn
than Doonesbury and FBOW is much better written.

--Jeff Frane

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From: pfile@jaywalk.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Pfile)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Milk & Cheese - Dairy products gone BAD!!!
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:03:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: jaywalk.PFILE.92Apr15180350
Organization: /users/pfile/.organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: jaywalk.berkeley.edu


I recently discovered this really sick underground strip when someone
posted some tiff files to the net. As though led by god, when I visited
UW-Madison a few days ago, I found some back issues of their satire paper,
_The_Onion_, and in a few of these, in the back, were some of the funniest
cartoons I have ever seen, including Milk & Cheese.

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.

I'd like to get my hands on more of this sick comic. Thanks for any info.

rob pfile
pfile@sprite.berkeley.edu
From: an12370@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 8 Apr 1992 22:36:48 GMT

ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder) writes:

> I like Calvin & Hobbes so much that I named my 2 kittens after them.

Gee, I know someone else who named her two cats Calvin and Hobbes,
too!  I wonder if this is common... (people who named their cat
Garfield or their dog Marmaduke need not reply :-).
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From: gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:22:26 GMT
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

>Anybody read this? Any opinions? Should she have had the third child?
>Will Michael & Martha stay together forever? Will Gordo turn his dad
>in for abusing him?

My second favorite strip (after Calvn).  If you've ever seen any of the
Lynn Johnston's early art you know how much she's progressed as an
artist, while retaining a great sense of humor, and a humanistic view of
her community.  IMO she follows in the tradition of the great humorists.
Good, tight line too.

--Jeff Frane

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From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: family circus
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:43:44 GMT
Organization: New York University

In article <1992Apr08.175620.1427@onetouch.COM>, csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith) writes:
> Nancy's original artist, Ernie Bushmiller, retired a few years ago, and
> was replaced by a new artist.  The humor drastically improved, but I 
> have not read it lately.

I believe Bushmiller retired due to a death in the family; namely, his
own.  In any event, he's dead now.  You also might be surprised to know
that amongst comics fanatics, the Bushmiller _Nancy's_ are VERY highly
regarded, due to the sheer dadaness of it all.  Get your hands on one of
the compilation books of the strip...it's a weird, weird trip.

--Aaron
From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Best Long Time Strip/Gahan Wilson/Cutter John
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:58:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: hubcap.1992Apr10.175800.27534
Organization: Clemson University

"Stephen C. Miller" <stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:

>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.  

BC dates to the '50s.

-Mike
Organization: Old Dominion University
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 11:48:44 EDT
From: <MRH100S@ODUVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
 <92104.094138IO92275@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>

Look, Ma!  The nose fairy left me a whole quarter!!
From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:27:56 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:

>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.

More likely co-related - it happens all the time in the music industry
too, apparently - two well-known artists reach the same conclusion
(joke or tune) from a lesser know source.  Just like when you are talking
in a group and two people come up with the same witticism simultaneously.


Warwick
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From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:19:44 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.201432.11357@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
> Does anyone else follow this strip? Its been my favorite for
> awhile. 

I've been following this strip ever since the local paper started
carrying it which was when Lizzie was about 18 months old.  How old is
she now?  12?  13? 

My all-time favourite is unfortunately defunct.  It was Boomer's Song.
Great strip while it lasted.
(I even wrote the author when it ended).
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From: jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:52:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr8.195200.11277
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

In article <1992Apr08.210742.129291@cs.cmu.edu> kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes:
>Okay, this is my last FC cartoon...it will all be off my chest after this.
>
>As inspired by Jeffrey Verdegan:
>
>
>(Dolly, Jeffy, PJ and Billy are standing by their father's favorite chair.
> Behind them, a panicky I Dunno and Not Me cringe in the corner.  The father 
> is slumped over the front of the chair.  He has a bullet hole through his 
> head.  A smoking .38 lies on the bloodied rug.)
>
>
>Mother:(entering)  All right, who shot daddy in the head?
>
>Jeffy: I Dunno
>Dolly:  Not Me
>
>(And, of course, at the top of the panel is an old dead guy welcoming
> Bil to heaven.)

Cool!!  Except, of course, that then we'd see an eternity of cartoons with the
heading "Bil Keane is dead, so Billy is filling in for today's strip."  If
there's one thing that's worse than a dotted line showing an errant kid or
I. Dunno, it's those insipid "Kid's sketches."  UGH!!



----------

Jeff Verdegan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer-Aided Engineering Center
jjv@caestaff.engr.wisc.edu
(608) 263-1875
From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: family circus/foxtrot
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:23:34 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

I forget who mentioned it, but yes, I do remember Foxtrot doing a string
of substitute authorships for Family Circus.  I loved it.




What's this?

             /-------\
----\         \       \            
X    \         \       \
(home) \-------/        /             X(dead guy stopping car from making
                      \--------------\  Billy a grease spot at an 
                                      \  intersection)-Phew...
                                        \
                                        /
                                       \/\-----------X(post Office)

A rough drawing of B. Keane's next cartoon:  Billy being sent to post a
letter.  (When you can't think of any new ideas, draw lines)
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From: schamber@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CHAMBERLAND S - BIOLOGY)
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:26:36 GMT

>In article <1992Apr8.004312.1600@cs.sfu.ca>, jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>>      Well, there is one strip by a Canadian that I know about:
>> _For Better or Worse_, by Lynn Johnson.  But although I don't
>> think she refers to the USA, I have never seen any references to
>> Canada in that strip.

I saw a reference lately: the family went to visit the grandparents in
Vancouver. They came back in Ontario.
That's the only reference to Canada that I saw.

Sylvain Chamberland
Dept. of Biology
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario 

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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Rick O'Shay
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:33:40 GMT

In <#tsjrz.tssmith@netcom.com> tssmith@netcom.com (Tim Smith) writes:

>Do any old-timers here remember a strip called "Rick O'Shay"?  I
>remember reading it in the LA Times back in the late '60's--early '70's.

>The main characters were Rick (a yound marshall in the Olde West),
>his sweetheart, the schoolteacher, Gaye Abandon, and Hipshot, a
>curmudgeonly old gunfighter with a good heart.

>I believe the author was named Stan Lynde (not really sure), and that
>he was (is?) an artist who lived in Montana.

>Anyhow, this was, IMHO, a great strip--really well-drawn and funny.
>Were any Rick O'Shay books ever published?  Are any available today?

There must have been some -- I read one at my uncle's house, before
his wonderful collection was pruned.  I haven't seen one in years, however.
I think your only chance to find one would be a used book store.




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From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Best Long Time Strip/Gahan Wilson/Cutter John
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 12:16:42 GMT

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.

Anyone (dis)agree?

********

Who remembers Gahan Wilson, the predicessor to Gary Larson?  I found
most of his stuff very bizaare and hilarious.  My favorite:  A lonesome
stretch of road with a single diner with a large sign "EAT". Over the
horizon comes the largest monster you have ever seen.  Two cooks in the
diner are looking out the window at it. One says, "Oh, my God! I hope 
it can't read!"

********

My favorite Cutter John strip from Bloome County: Cutter John and cohorts
are zooming along in their Star Trek motif, but they are talking like
Star Wars:
The evil empire is dead? Now the Galaxy is free for all us little phone
companies.
We can charge higher rate, give worse service and no one will notice.
But look! What that?
It's the empire! Its back! It bigger and badder than ever ! Its . . .

THE DEATH STAR!!!!!!

Retreat!

They zoom away from a billboard showing the new AT&T logo, which _does_
look an awful like the death star.
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From: euaaen@eua.ericsson.se (Anders Engwall)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Strips in narrative form (was: Prince Valient confession)
Date: 10 Apr 92 07:41:14 GMT
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden

wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:

>I like the way the story is told in 
>narrative form with no voice bubbles.

How many other strips use this format? The only other one I can
think of is the Dutch classic _Tom Puss_ by Marten Toonders.
Any others?
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From: cdm@hydrogen.Tymnet.COM (Concert Data Manager)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: PEANUTS: Whatever happened to....
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:14:21 GMT
Reply-To: cdm@hydrogen.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

In article 29456@daffy.cs.wisc.edu, pochron@rt1.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron) writes:
>Whatever happened to the recurring character of "Loretta" in the older Peanuts
>strips?  She's the girl who would always try to sell girl scout cookies to
>Charlie Brown or, on rarer occasions, one of the other characters.  I haven't
>seen her used in ages!

And where's Violet?  And Pigpen?  And the girl with the "naturally curly hair"?

Seems Mr Schulz likes to stay with his core characters, and what works.
From: jefft@athena.mit.edu (Jeff Tang)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Rose Is Rose
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:55:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: tailgunn.JEFFT.92Apr9145456
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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.

Mimi is such a bitch!
--
Jeff Tang
jefft@athena.mit.edu
From: ucrl@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Christopher Lee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Far Side Vs. Calvin
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:20:49 GMT
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology


The Far Side has Calvin and Hobbes beat by a mile. 
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