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RealityChuck Mar 14 2011 07:37 AM

(might only display for a few days).

MFS62 Mar 14 2011 07:49 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

I miss that strip in my local paper. It was one of my favorites. Later

RealityChuck Mar 14 2011 08:04 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

MFS62 wrote: I miss that strip in my local paper. It was one of my favorites. Later It's online at http://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara

G-Fafif Mar 14 2011 08:15 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Tank I kept taped to the wall next to my bed for several years of my adolescence: One black ballplayer to another black ballplayer: "That's COLD, baby!" Uptight white veteran ballplayer: "You think it's cold now, Willie, you should wait 'til we get to Montreal." Tank to the two two horrified-looking black ballplayers: "You'll have to forgive Joe. He doesn't learn the new slang until May." I think the strip peaked right around then.

Edgy DC Mar 14 2011 01:45 PM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

It's no Scroogie.

Frayed Knot Mar 14 2011 05:00 PM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Yeah, the only 'Scroogie' cartoon I remember was just like that one. In it a white ballplayer arrives at ST and sees (out of the box) two presumably black players saying hello amid sound effects of: SMACK, SLAP, BANG, BUMP, etc., before saying; 'Ten years in the big leagues and I still don't understand the handshakes'.

Edgy DC Mar 14 2011 05:02 PM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

White people. Amiright, folks?

RealityChuck Mar 15 2011 07:28 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

It continues....

Edgy DC Mar 15 2011 07:35 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

I can't get over the idea that that looks like a tumbleweed that might have appeared in Peanuts, perhaps in one of the Spike-in-Needles stips. I guess there's no chance that Schulz used an inker that's now working on MacNamara, is there?

RealityChuck Mar 15 2011 06:50 PM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Schulz always insisted on doing all the work himself.

RealityChuck Mar 16 2011 06:50 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 16 2011 06:52 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

"Get A Laugh" has never seemed more imperative.

RealityChuck Mar 17 2011 06:57 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Edgy DC Mar 17 2011 07:31 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Getting wordy.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 17 2011 07:33 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Like Cathy!

Willets Point Mar 17 2011 07:43 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Ack!

Edgy DC Mar 17 2011 07:52 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Like Cathy! See, that's the deal with Cathy to me. I thought Cathy Guisewite more or less did a good job keeping the strip running on her small bag of recurring themes, and providing in the punchlines new angles on old themes. But the wordy build-ups to the punchlines, with no incidental humor along the way, made you do more work than the punchline was worth. It's not that I'm too lazy to read. It's just that humor needs rhythm. At least Tank gets two gags in here along the way. I actually thought the first was funnier.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 17 2011 08:09 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Edgy DC wrote: But the wordy build-ups to the punchlines, with no incidental humor along the way, made you do more work than the punchline was worth. It's not that I'm too lazy to read. It's just that humor needs rhythm. Absolutely.

G-Fafif Mar 18 2011 03:16 PM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Filling in for Chuck with the "laugh" of the day. I figured Mr. Delta Club's financial savvy was implied by his going to Citi Field's multiple ticket windows, as gorgeously illustrated in Monday's strip, thus saving on extraneous fees. But the Mets, those bastards, they got him, too. Or as Tank put it in 1978, "That's COLD, baby!"

G-Fafif Mar 21 2011 06:59 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

Finishing the arc, with quite possibly the first comic strip pages appearances of Fred Wilpon.

Edgy DC Mar 21 2011 07:34 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

They do the word baloons by hand but computer font the sign.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 21 2011 07:52 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

The word balloons are a font, too. (I think most cartoonists these days use a handwritten font for their lettering.) Take a look at the E's... they're all identical.

Edgy DC Mar 21 2011 08:01 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

You're right! It loked hand lettered to me initially, but close inspection showed me the S's were all the same. It's different from most standard word ballon fonts these days and a little scratchy for computer work. Maybe it's computer generated but inked over? Or maybe an inked-over alphabet got saved as a font by the strip's makers for their use alone?

Benjamin Grimm Mar 21 2011 08:04 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

I think the cartoonist creates a font (or, more likely, has one created for him) out of his own hand lettering.

Edgy DC Mar 21 2011 08:08 AM Re: Today's Tank McNamara

I imagine many do that. Others, I know, just go with comic sans.