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Comics in 2010

Edgy DC Jan 21 2010 08:20 AM

Sexy June is going to kick Sexy Rex's sexy ass! And it's all over some sexy layabout teenage cousin of June's trying to crash with them. My God, rich people have sexy fights.

cooby Jan 21 2010 06:28 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Well, it's about time Mary showed up in this storyline. While I'll admit there is nothing I enjoy more after a ten hour work day than the blissful relaxation of a quiet story, the Wilbur/What's his name angle was like watching paint dry and eventually peel. Now the action begins.

Willets Point Jan 21 2010 06:44 PM Re: Comics in 2010

"Action" is relative in Mary Worth. Except when Aldo drove off a cliff.

Edgy DC Jan 21 2010 07:50 PM Re: Comics in 2010

And when Detective Scott got all shot up with the picture of Adrian in his shoe.

Edgy DC Feb 01 2010 09:45 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Bill Watterson gives his first interview in 20 years. Unfortunately they keep asking him about fans.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 02 2010 04:54 AM Re: Comics in 2010

And the barber snipped off those wing things from Dagwood's hair! A few weeks ago he hinted that he had that urge, and yesterday he gave in to it.

Valadius Feb 02 2010 09:05 AM Re: Comics in 2010

A familiar face has popped up in the Spider-Man strip the last couple of days: Basically, Spider-Man is looking for even more time to watch TV, so he's going to bum off his hero responsibilities on the other super-powered citizens of New York.

Number 6 Feb 02 2010 02:30 PM Re: Comics in 2010

It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason "Calvin and Hobbes" still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did. One of the few to whom the art is the main priority. A true master.

Edgy DC Feb 02 2010 02:53 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Not mentioned there is the untold millions he walked away from by not licensing his characters for merchandise or commercial endorsements. It's almost unthinkable how big that that potential pile of cash was.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 02 2010 02:58 PM Re: Comics in 2010

The article didn't ask what he's doing now. I wonder if he has a job, or if he's living off his Calvin and Hobbes earnings. (While he didn't sell coffee mugs and plush toys, he did sell a ton of books.) Too bad he doesn't get a cut of all those stupid automobile decals that show Calvin peeing on a race car driver's number. Bill Watterson is the J. D. Salinger (or, if you prefer, the Greta Garbo) of newspaper cartoonists. And Steve Ditko is the Salinger/Garbo of comic book creators.

Number 6 Feb 02 2010 03:00 PM Re: Comics in 2010

No kidding. I'm trying to think of a world-class talent in another field who took a similar path, either sacrificing money and notoriety for the sake of the art, or not caring about the trappings enough to even make it a sacrifice. It's not easy. The world of art is littered with those whose considerable talent was eventually hijacked by greed and/or vanity.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 02 2010 03:01 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Edgy DC wrote: Not mentioned there is the untold millions he walked away from by not licensing his characters for merchandise or commercial endorsements. It's almost unthinkable how big that that potential pile of cash was. Wait... so the Calvin-pissing-on-a-Phils-logo stickers covering my Mitsubishi aren't legit?

Edgy DC Mar 25 2010 07:35 AM Re: Comics in 2010

You know, a lot of comic strip writers and artists are afraid to give you the crack of Dick Cheney's ass, but Tom Batiuk just puts it right out there and makes you deal with it.

cooby Mar 25 2010 06:21 PM Re: Comics in 2010

I don't get that! Why is he going down the cellar? And what is a space heater? I thought it was to heat little rooms and not water????

Edgy DC Mar 25 2010 08:35 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Wow, you don't get a Crankshaft strip? That only happens to me, like, five days a week. I was a kid when he started, but I don't remember John Darling being as violently unfunny as Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean. In fact, I'm pretty sure scientists have proven that a strip callled Funky Winkerbean can't possibly ever be funny. Anyhow, "space heater" is what you call a "hot water heater" when your strip is running on fumes and you don't really care anymore, aren't sure you ever did, but you've got a deadline to meet.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 25 2010 08:44 PM Re: Comics in 2010

I suppose some people have bills to pay. Me, when I put something this crappy on paper, I usually flush the result.

Ashie62 Mar 28 2010 01:09 PM Re: Comics in 2010

I'm still waiting for Winnie Winkle to get married and adopt Dondi

Edgy DC Mar 29 2010 02:35 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Check out panel one. Snuffy Smith: hillbilly headbanger.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 29 2010 03:13 PM Re: Comics in 2010

"IF LIFE DEALS YER A BAD HAND, THEN YOU G'WAN PLAY THE ACE OF SPADES! THE ACE OF SPADES!"

Edgy DC Apr 02 2010 07:37 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Margo's about to get smoked.

cooby May 02 2010 01:51 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Mark Trail: Will he stay or will he go?

Rockin' Doc May 03 2010 02:59 PM Re: Comics in 2010

If he goes there will be trouble and if he stays there will be double.

Edgy DC Aug 30 2010 11:55 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Yeah, because there's a big black market value on Royals merchandise.

metsguyinmichigan Aug 30 2010 02:32 PM Re: Comics in 2010

And, it's not like Kansas City, Mo. and Kansas City, Kan. are far apart....

Edgy DC Aug 30 2010 02:55 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Yeah, Fox is grabbing at straws, implying that nobody in Kansas roots for the Royals, or deals in the memoribilia. Isn't he?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 30 2010 03:13 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Well, they do say he got it at the Royals' stadium in Kansas. Then again, it's possible that Shady Shrew isn't a liar, but the kind of imbecile who'd make that mistake about a place to which he'd physically been; his paying stadium prices for memorabilia would lend some support to that supposition. Personally, as the entire thing involves animals that can walk upright, dress themselves (if somewhat archly, in the fox and the shrew's cases), and communicate across species lines, I'm a little suspicious of everyone involved.

Ceetar Aug 30 2010 03:58 PM Re: Comics in 2010

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Well, they do say he got it at the Royals' stadium in Kansas. Then again, it's possible that Shady Shrew isn't a liar, but the kind of imbecile who'd make that mistake about a place to which he'd physically been; his paying stadium prices for memorabilia would lend some support to that supposition. Personally, as the entire thing involves animals that can walk upright, dress themselves (if somewhat archly, in the fox and the shrew's cases), and communicate across species lines, I'm a little suspicious of everyone involved. Or simply that he was vacationing in Kansas, and took a quick side trip across the border (something I'd certainly do if I found myself in Kansas) to buy the merchandise.

metsmarathon Aug 30 2010 04:48 PM Re: Comics in 2010

the real mystery is whose teeth those are on the bottom shelf

Ceetar Aug 30 2010 04:53 PM Re: Comics in 2010

on a side note, I find this http://joshreads.com/ site interesting. will read more.

Edgy DC Aug 30 2010 05:32 PM Re: Comics in 2010

metsmarathon wrote: the real mystery is whose teeth those are on the bottom shelf Well, he's clearly got a glove belonging to Mordecai Brown.

Edgy DC Aug 31 2010 07:56 AM Re: Comics in 2010

on a side note, I find this http://joshreads.com/ site interesting. will read more. Well, of course you will. How else would you find out about Jersey Circus?

Willets Point Aug 31 2010 09:37 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Ceetar wrote: on a side note, I find this http://joshreads.com/ site interesting. will read more. Edgy DC and cooby are repeat honorees for Comment of the Week there.

Ceetar Aug 31 2010 09:51 AM Re: Comics in 2010

on a side note, I find this http://joshreads.com/ site interesting. will read more. Well, of course you will. How else would you find out about Jersey Circus? oh dear.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 21 2010 11:06 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Then she'd be the author of Gone With the Wind

Edgy DC Sep 21 2010 01:23 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Wow,I'm not trying to cause too much trouble here, but King Features Syndicate still puts kids of color in the back of the bus.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2010 01:30 PM Re: Comics in 2010

On the other hand, today appears the first African-American I've ever seen in Apartment 3G's racial fantasist version of New York. She might even be gay. Could Mary Worth be far behind? No way! They'll integrate in 15 or 20 years, minimum.

themetfairy Sep 23 2010 02:09 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Unshelved recently had a promotion - if you could convince seven of your friends to subscribe to the library-based web comic via e-mail, RSS or Facebook, they would send you an autographed postcard. I recruited sixteen new subscribers, and today I received these postcards in the mail -

Edgy DC Oct 22 2010 07:36 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Punchin' Day today in Mark Trail.

cooby Oct 22 2010 01:52 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Mark Trail has been STELLAR lately

Edgy DC Oct 22 2010 02:08 PM Re: Comics in 2010

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 22 2010 02:17 PM Re: Comics in 2010

This is as disconcerting as Beetle Bailey's Abu Ghraib visits. Is that blue-jumpsuited guy Bizarro Mark Trail?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 22 2010 02:19 PM Re: Comics in 2010

He really kicks ass.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 22 2010 02:25 PM Re: Comics in 2010

He sure doe.

Valadius Oct 23 2010 06:16 PM Re: Comics in 2010

The greatest Mark Trail ever was last week, when he leaped over a twelve-foot-high fence in a single bound to knock the rifle out of the inexplicable THIRD senator from Trailia's hands. (We were introduced to the other two in the "get out of our side of the lake where we store illegal game meat for bad senator's restaurant" story.) Of course, they could mean state senator, but I doubt Jack Elrod and his predecessor ever paid much attention to such things. Seriously, the most pleasure I'm getting out of this story arc is how ridiculously implausible it is in the world of politics today. Such a scenario went out of date about, oh, one hundred years ago.

Edgy DC Oct 26 2010 08:17 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Mary Worth is having mirror problems again.

Ceetar Oct 26 2010 09:24 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Doonsbury is 40. [url]http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130815184

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 26 2010 11:07 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Edgy DC wrote: Mary Worth is having mirror problems again. She does seem a lot happier in mirror-world, if the smile's any indication.

Willets Point Oct 27 2010 08:43 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Josh Fruhlinger is correct. This is the funniest thing on the comics page today.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 27 2010 09:03 AM Re: Comics in 2010

I'm getting a colonoscopy next month. I wonder if I should create a Facebook page for my colon?

Willets Point Oct 27 2010 09:04 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm getting a colonoscopy next month. I wonder if I should create a Facebook page for my colon? Not Facebook. Pacebook. I'll be your colon's Pacepal!

Benjamin Grimm Oct 28 2010 06:58 AM Re: Comics in 2010

I think Dustin really needs to get out of that house.

Edgy DC Oct 28 2010 07:09 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Talking about this? Is that slogan still being used on TV ads?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 28 2010 07:32 AM Re: Comics in 2010

"You have to admit, she's got a point, son-- after all, you are a piece of shit, aren't you?"

Benjamin Grimm Oct 28 2010 07:56 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Yeah. Dustin's dad is always chipping away at his son's self-esteem, and now Dustin's sister is doing it as well. Mom might as well join in, too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 03 2010 06:39 PM Re: Comics in 2010

[url]http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/226848?RS_show_page=1 Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau with a shout-out to my Dad in the new issue of Rolling Stone: What were your favorite comic books growing up? All the superheroes. I started, as most kids in the Fifties did, with Batman and Superman, and then the revelation of what Stan Lee was doing at Marvel took over, and I fell into that rabbit hole with Spider-Man and his peers. But a very heavy influence was a serial in the Sixties called Phoebe Zeitgeist. It was written by Michael O'Donoghue, who later became the head writer of Saturday Night Live, and it was illustrated by Frank Springer. It was an absolutely brilliant, deadpan sendup of adventure comics, but with a very edgy modernist kind of approach. To this day, I hold virtually every panel in my brain. It's very hard not to steal from it.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 03 2010 07:21 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Wow! Very nice!

Edgy DC Nov 03 2010 08:09 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Way to go, Gary.

Edgy DC Nov 11 2010 09:34 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Frank, his jaw still stinging from Mark Trail slugging him with five knuckles worth of righteousness, is subsequently midwifed by Mark out of the mouth of Hell. http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp? ... Mark_Trail

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 11 2010 10:47 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Mark Trail to the laws of physics: "Kiss my righteous ass."

Edgy DC Nov 14 2010 05:59 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Is it me or can nobody else read comics online anywhere today?

Edgy DC Nov 14 2010 06:01 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Not just me. SUNDAY COMICS UPDATE: Uh, you guys, the Sunday comics all seem to be unavailable, on all the usual suspect Websites? OH MY GOD IT’S COMICSGEDDON! Damn it, this is the newspaper industry’s revenge for me finally cancelling my print susbscription, isn’t it? Well, I got stuffs to do, so I’ll try to post Sunday strips tomorrow, assuming they appear. ASSUMING ANY COMICS EVER APPEAR ONLINE, ANYWHERE, EVER AGAIN.

Ceetar Nov 14 2010 06:09 PM Re: Comics in 2010

Got my normal Dilbert in the email, but I haven't read any non-webcomics regularly that I noticed. Was there any reasoning or just some sort of crazy internet slowness?

Benjamin Grimm Dec 15 2010 07:16 AM Re: Comics in 2010

This was in the Daily News letters column today: Strip search Plainview, L.I.: I couldn't agree more with Voicer Barbara Ettorre regarding the comic strips, especially "Get Fuzzy." It is the most infantile and moronic strip around. You discontinued "One Day at a Time" and continue to run this nonsense? Bill Barrett One Day at a Time??? My guess is he's thinking for "For Better or For Worse". I don't recall any recent comic strips featuring Ann Romano and Schneider.

Edgy DC Dec 15 2010 08:16 AM Re: Comics in 2010

Valadius Dec 15 2010 09:43 AM Re: Comics in 2010

For the last few weeks, Spider-Man has teamed up with a familiar orange rock-skinned gentleman to do battle against the Mole Man, who has spirited Mary Jane and Aunt May to his lair underground.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 18 2010 06:32 AM Re: Comics in 2010

This was in the Philadelphia Inquirer today: Yeah... as if!

Fman99 Dec 18 2010 06:34 AM Re: Comics in 2010

This was in the Philadelphia Inquirer today: Yeah... as if! Fuck that.

themetfairy Dec 18 2010 08:46 AM Re: Comics in 2010

This was in the Philadelphia Inquirer today: Yeah... as if! Fuck that. You mean Phuck that!