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From: timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein)
Subject: Tumbleweeds?
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 03:39:35 GMT
Distribution: na


Is "Tumbleweeds" still going?
Were there ever any anthologies?  Are they still in print?


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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: C & H number one!?
Organization: Inland Sea
Distribution: rec
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 14:06:35 GMT

gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane) writes:

>Somewhere around the house I have Doonesbury books going back to
>Trudeau's days at Yale, so at least _I'm_ not judging the strip entirely
>on the basis of the last 5-10 years.  But, you know, a comic strip ought
>to at least stay as good or even get better; the artists usually learn
>to draw better (well, Trudeau has improved somewhat).  Consider people
>like Walt Kelly or even Al Capp.

Does Trudeau still draw it?  Thought he'd farmed that out and just did
the writing.

Trudeau has never really recovered from letting his characters graduate
and scatter.  It's not that he can't deal with aging/changing, it's the
loss of their interactions that really weakened it.  Notice how many of
the best strips come when some of this old characters bump into each
other?  Mike needs to get a job in DC and Ginny needs to go to work
with Joni and Mark needs to have an affair with the waitress (remember
the waitress?).
-- 
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From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: I hate Gasoline Alley
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:01:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr8.180113.23431
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


In my opinion, Gasoline Alley is the worst strip ever.  It has
a continuing storyline, but the storylines are never interesting.
It often tries to be funny, but always fails.

Tom
From: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:57:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: unix.204769
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Apr11.042828.27238@amhux2.amherst.edu> twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

>In article <54122@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4646a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Beauchamp) writes:


>>>If anyone understands the "Some of the Non-Vital Organs" strip, please
>>>let me know. 

>>I'll take a stab at it... Larson's reasoning is that the phrase 
>>"vital organs" is silly. In fact, it's downright redundant. 

>That's clear.  It was his choice of the objects to portray as
>"non-vital organs" that I think really confused us ... a sandwich, a
>hat, a trombone, and so on.  I, at least, was looking for some pattern

There's always the possibility that this was a direct rip-off (consciously
or not) from a very similar Kliban cartoon entitled "Some of the lesser-known
organs of the body", which can be found in his collection "A Couple of Guys
Fooling Around with the Moon".

Anyone else familiar with Kliban?  "St. Roscoe preaching to the toilets"?
"Sam lived by an ocean, which proved to be inaccessible"?  "Itzhak Diddley"?

-- 
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  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: lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Crockett Johnson
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:04:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Apr9.150432.582
Organization: Western Washington University


Anyone familiar with the work of Crockett Johnson?  I would love
to read an interview with Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes,
to see if he is a Johnson fan.  A lot of his ideas seem inspired by
Johnson (notice I said inspired, not swiped...Watterson is a brilliant
original).
Johnson did a short-lived comic strip in the forties called Barnaby,
about a five year old buy who wished for a fairy godmother, but the War
was on and there was a shortage so he got Mr O'Malley, a short, magenta-
winged, cigar smoking fairy godfather in an old raincoat.  No one ever
sees O'Malley (he's not invsible, he just is always in the wrong place)
but he's real.  He's also not very good at magic.
	Johnson also wrote a children's book called ELLEN's LION and
its sequel THE LION'S OWN STORY, which are about a little girl with
a stuffed lion.  The lion speaks with her voice (and when her mouth is
full, it can't speak), but it has it's own personality and point of
view.  SOund familiar?
	Johnson is best known for the HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON books
which play with perspective like some of the Calvin Sunday cartoons.
	By the way, the entire BARNABY strip was published in 6 books,
about five years ago, called Barnaby #1, etc.  Highly recommended.
Rob
lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu
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From: west@esd.dl.nec.com (Mike West)
Subject: Re: Tumbleweeds?
Organization: NEC America, Engineering & Support
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:03:01 GMT

From article <1992Apr09.124100.12040@onetouch.COM>, by csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith):
> 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?
> 
> An old west motif.
> 
> Tumbleweeds is a cowpuncher.
> Hildegarde is a homely girl, who is in love with Tumbleweeds.
I would call her more husband starved that in love.  Everyone
dispises her, not just Tumbleweeds.

> 
> Other Characters:
> The Mayor/Judge
> The Sherriff
and his idoit deputy

Don't forget their regular foe (Black something I think), and
his "Baby Brudder" who was monstrous.

> The Newpaper Publisher
who "had his type scattered, so to speak"
and his young helper

There was also the town drunk (Sopwith or something like that).
And the town gambler (Ace).

> The Cavalry Captain
> The Indian Chief
> A Hugh Brave
This is Bulic (Bullock ?) Buffalo.  He has some of the funniest lines
in the whole strip.
> A silly Brave
Lipid Lizard.  More imbicilic that silly.
Both BB and LL lusted after the Chief's beautiful daughter.  Of
course the Chief detested both.

There was also a mute midgit brave called Lotsa Luck.  He rode around
on a mule (instead of a horse), and wrote notes to communicate.
There was also a "normal" brave that would often use Lipid Lizard
as a foil (it wasn't hard).
> 
> Any More? And their names?

Above.
The strip would have real funny sections, but would also have
looonnng dry spells.  I haven't had a chance to read it in ages,
but still have a couple of the books.

Hope this helps.

Mike West
west@esd.dl.nec.com
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From: nin15b43@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:06:21 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA

In article <29E2D3B5.19051@noiro.acs.uci.edu>, dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause) writes:
> 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've seen Thunder Bay mentioned.
> 
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   I recall one week when Liz was sent to buy a bag of milk.  I had not
seen or heard of milk in a bag until then.

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From: stapleton@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Dr. Ross Alan Stapleton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 12 Apr 92 01:35:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: misvax.11APR199218350379
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr9.012636.28221@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, schamber@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CHAMBERLAND S - BIOLOGY) writes...
>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.

It clearly is in Canada, and I watch for signs to confirm that; I'm pretty
sure they've used Canadian Englishisms and metric units on numerous
occasions (litres of petrol, etc.).

ras
From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:27:43 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?


	CAT FUD.

	Oh please, oh please.



Warwick
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From: Sean Alan Squier <ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: C&H: Merchandising (was Re: HOBBES (of C&H) Bumper Sticker)
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:08:56 -0500

I think I may have missed the beginning of the merchandise thread, but
aside from not making dolls of the characters (which has been argued
well on both sides), are there any other items licensed by Watterson,
like coloring books, t-shirts, stationary, etc...  I have seen these
for Far Side and I don't think it detracts anything. (well, not
coloring books, but you get my point).


Sean Squier
(Future CEO - The Walt Disney Company)
ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
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From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:59:28 GMT

In article <ROISE.92Apr7233407@milton.milton.u.washington.edu> roise@milton.milton.u.washington.edu (Linda Roise) writes:
}I can relate.  That's the point.

Certainly relating is *important* -- my not relating to "Ballard Street"
in any way at all is probably 90% of the reason for my hating it.
But *the point* is not whether or not you can relate, the point is whether
or not the strip is funny. And there are a *lot* of women out there who
have not found Cathy funny in the last 2-4 years. How many times can she
be a fashion victim? How many hundreds of times will she diet? Just how
insanely stupid can she be in relationships, both in terms of the morons
she chooses to go out with and in terms of her dealings with them?

I really enjoyed Cathy when she first came out, but it got old in a very
big hurry. I have this personal pet peeve about strips that continue
after they should have died (Peanuts is the quintessential example), and
I think that Cathy is at least two years past her endpoint. Ballard Street
should never have been syndicated in the first place.

Sorry I was grumpy with you, and I am glad that you can relate to Cathy
primarily in retrospect. Otherwise I might think you were like the
comedienne (whose name escapes me, I am embarrassed to say) who describes
all the lotions and creams and electric treatments she uses to keep her
body perfect, then points to her head and says, "And here I use a
combination of sublimation and denial..."
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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:16:50 GMT

A deer has his back to a tree.  A hunter is seen in the background.
The deer thinks:

"Yep, he's trying to shoot me all right.  Do I know this guy?  I've got
to THINK!"


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From: steveho@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Steve Ho)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 04:01:54 GMT

	I concur that Calvin and Hobbes is a great comic strip.  However, there 
must be some "Doonesbury" fans out there!


-- 
Steven Ho, steveho@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca.
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From: snd@elan.cs.princeton.edu (Stefanos Damianakis)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: Computer Science Department, Princeton University
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:00:17

In article <ku3stgINNbo8@bosque.cs.utexas.edu> gert@cs.utexas.edu (Gert Westermann) writes:
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   From: gert@cs.utexas.edu (Gert Westermann)
   Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
   Date: 7 Apr 1992 14:10:40 -0500
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   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)
   >
   >					A big fan,
   >					Scott Elwood   


   But who would want to argue with that?

					  Another big fan,

I third the motion!

					Yet Another Big Fan!
From: kallen@cs.utk.edu (Karl Allen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Rerun and The Worst Strip (was Re: Peanuts)
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:37:45 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu

In article <??cH?9=m6@cs.psu.edu> plu@math.psu.edu (Todd Andrew Simpson) writes:
>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!  
>
>There was such a character, called Rerun, and he was Linus and Lucy's
>little brother.  Come to think of it, I don't know what happened to him.
>Also, why would anyone name a kid Rerun?  I don't know, but there was
>another kid in Peanuts who I haven't seen for years who wore a shirt
>that said 5 on it.  Turned out his name was 5....

Rerun appeared recently, I believe. It's tricky to spot him, because he
looks almost exactly like Linus. I don't recall what his most recent 
appearance was about, but I vaguely remember him standing at the bus stop.
For the first few days, I thought it was Linus, then someone called him
Rerun, and I noticed he didn't have a blanket. That is, I think, the only
way to tell them apart. 

As for the name, his parents chose Rerun because having another kid seemed
somehow like watching the same show on television again. I think Schultz
was making a joke about TV, but I'm not sure. 

Five? Oh, I thought it was V. 

I remain, 
Karl Allen
kallen@cs.utk.edu
From: bobsoron@world.std.com (Bob Soron)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Favorite Mr. Boffo
Keywords: Mr. Boffo
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:20:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.BMMMM4.M8n
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

Lawyer to client in prison: "The good news is we got the charges
reduced to meter feeding. The bad news is you'll be the first man
in this state to be executed for a parking violation."

Bob Soron
bobsoron@world.std.com
"With Velcro, gravity is obsolete" -- Mister Boffo
From: michael@dime.cs.umass.edu (Michael Kieras)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Rerun and The Worst Strip (was Re: Peanuts)
Date: 16 Apr 92 23:33:46 GMT
Reply-To: michael@dime.cs.umass.edu (Michael Kieras)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <1992Apr13.192233.9750@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> baylor@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
>I LOVED Rerun. He was responsible for the only game Charlie Brown's team
>ever won, when the opposing pitcher couldn't hit his strike zone (too small).

Actually, I have many of the old books, and I definitely remember the
team winning at least one other time.  The reason they won was that
Charlie Brown stayed home in bed.  Linus came into his room and told
him about it.

I'm not sure about this, but I think the reason he stayed home in bed
was because he had a rash on his head that made it look like a baseball,
and when he watched the sun rise, he kept seeing it as a baseball.  At
the end of this series of strips, his head was back to normal, and he
went to see if the sun would be normal, but it looked like the head of
the Mad magazine guy (Alfred E. Neuman?).


Michael Kieras
michael@cs.umass.edu
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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: Sally Forth stuff ... Was Re: stupid strips
Keywords: Sally Forth
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:16:15 GMT

In article <ku4pnkINNdl2@girtab.usc.edu> hozman@girtab.usc.edu (The Hoz!!!) writes:
> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>
>}Now, about that question over the artwork, what happened was this: 
>}... [discussion of Sally Forth's authorship omitted] ...
>
>Thanks for the info Karl, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about
>all facets of Sally Forth.  
>

  Well, while I don't agree with Karl's critique of the New Yorker
(Roz Chast's cartoons are great!  And I'm from California!), I'll have
to come to bat for him here.  

  Sally Forth must take the award for the longest sustained smirk of
any character!  Can't Howard/Mac draw *any* other expression?  When
she is being sarcastic (oh, about 85% of the time) the smirk is
appropriate I guess, but all the other times it just makes her look,
well, *crazed*!  My roommate and I are wondering whether the smirk is
some sinister foreshadowing of Sally eventually snapping, and turning
into a serial killer.  Hey, it could happen.  And it would be more
entertaining, too!  

  (As always, please take these comments with a smilie or two.)


--Raymond Flournoy        
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From: buccb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Date: 16 Apr 92 04:24:13 GMT
Organization: Carlos` Wonderful Wacky World of Tunafish

In a previous episode on rec.arts.comics.strips,
twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) drops complete science:

>Has anyone else seen a strip called "Jim's Journal?"  We get it at
>Amherst, but it seems not to be distributed very widely.  This is kind
>of an existentialist/minimalist strip with a small but pretty
>dedicated following here and at UMass.  I was wondering if New England
>has the only pocket of "Jim's Journal" fans in the country.

	Hi, Tim!
	I love Jim's Journal. I wonder what I did with the
compilation. 


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From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis)
Subject: Re: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:02:59 GMT

Perry Pederson :
.. the sexism and racism that the Beetle Bailey strip has ..
.. General Halftrack is always leering at his secretary ..
.. the love-starved female officer .. chasing after Sarge 
.. the small-breasted plain looking . is the only _normal_ reoccuring female
.. Yo protrays the american stereotype of a japanese person ..

You don't like certain stereotypes (e.g. sexual and "racial"=national)
and you express that dislike via the medium of the highly-loaded loaded
words "racist" and "sexist".  Well, that's quite the fashionable thing
to do these days, isn't it ?

I can imagine how, say, a visiting English officer would be portrayed on
Beetle Bailey: monocled, goofy, tweedy, handlebar mustached, and
uttering things like "I say, chaps, time for a spot of tea, what !"
And what about a Krau.., er, German officer with a dueling scar,
saluting with a rigid arm at 60 degrees elevation?  Australian with
corks bobbing around the wide brim of his hat ..  etc. etc.

God, I love those stereotypes !  I want to see a visting officer from a
central african banana republic WITH A BONE THROUGH HIS NOSE !

So go stuff your political correctness, sir ..

--
tony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada
From: kallen@cs.utk.edu (Karl Allen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts original cast
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:53:30 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu

In article <1992Apr16.181429.6443@cs.brown.edu> cs132102@cs.brown.edu (Simon Park) writes:
>Just a note of interest to die-hard Peanuts fans. The original cast of the 
>cartoon consisted of Charlie Brown, Patty (not Peppermint), and Shermy. I
>think Snoopy was a minor character initially. 
>
>The first cartoon that I can recall has Patty and Shermy sitting on a curb
>as Charlie Brown walks by. Shermy says, (I'm going by memory here so please
>forgive any mistakes) "There goes Charlie Brown..... Yeah, good ole Charlie
>Brown." The cartoon ends with Shermy wearing a grimace saying "How I hate 
>him!"
>
>Schultz has come a long way since then.
>
>Simon Park

Not only was Snoopy a minor character, he didn't belong to Charlie Brown.
There's one strip in particular that I remember, where Charlie Brown is
walking and Snoopy following. Charlie keeps turning around and saying
"Go home! Don't follow me!" Patty walks by, sees them, and scolds 
C.B. by saying "He lives that way, Charlie Brown, he's not following you!"
C.B. gets embarrassed, Snoopy has a 'So there!' look. 
Eventually, of course, Schultz had Snoopy belonging to Charlie Brown from 
the time he was a puppy. Ah, well, with 50 years of strips, there's bound
to be an inconsistency or two. 

I remain, 
Karl Allen
kallen@cs.utk.edu
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From: M14430@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 19:04:34 GMT

>is the What We Say To Dogs, where the guy balls out his dog Ginger,
                                           ^^^^^
haven't seen that one!
 
>and the only words Ginger hears and recognizes are "Ginger"
 
Ginger reappears every now and then - my later favorite was the day she
got chewed out again "You call that mowing the lawn? Bad dog! No biscuit!
Bad dog!"