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Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Ceetar Feb 16 2015 03:21 PM

The last Charlie Brown/Lucy football gag has such ambiguity!

Edgy MD Mar 09 2015 06:37 PM Re: Comics in 2015

Some serious menacing going on here. Look at poor Henry in the background. Henry is an aerospace engineer. You offend one client, it could cost your firm a billion-dollar contract.

Ceetar Jun 18 2015 08:48 AM Re: Comics in 2015

Calvin & Hobbes is such a timeless comic.

Mets Willets Point Nov 03 2015 10:05 AM Re: Comics in 2015

The crossover of Mary Worth and The Phantom that we've all been waiting for!

cooby classic Nov 03 2015 10:08 AM Re: Comics in 2015

Has anybody else been following A3G? It's so poorly done now that's it's laughable

Edgy MD Nov 03 2015 10:28 AM Re: Comics in 2015

No shields anymore between NYC hacks and their fares?

Benjamin Grimm Dec 08 2015 06:52 AM Re: Comics in 2015

For about two weeks now, Gasoline Alley has been taking place in a classroom as kids learn the history of scrapbooks. This is a strip that desperately needs to be put out of its misery.

cooby classic Dec 08 2015 06:56 AM Re: Comics in 2015

And ours

cooby classic Dec 31 2015 11:29 AM Re: Comics in 2015

Hey Johnny Lunchbucket, is this you? John Plugger Mellencamp December 31st, 2015 at 11:58 am [Reply] @Bill Peschel (#31): I personally think this year we should have made an exception. It would be fun to see a COTW thread with 1000+ comments

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 31 2015 07:57 PM Re: Comics in 2015

No!

Benjamin Grimm Feb 05 2016 06:12 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

From 47 years ago this month: Charlie Brown prepares for the 1969 baseball season:

cooby classic Feb 05 2016 09:07 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Charlie Brown, a true student of the game. Did you ever wonder who coached his team? No dads?

cooby classic Feb 05 2016 09:18 AM Re: Comics in 2015

Benjamin Grimm wrote: For about two weeks now, Gasoline Alley has been taking place in a classroom as kids learn the history of scrapbooks. This is a strip that desperately needs to be put out of its misery. meanwhile exactly two months later.... a BEAR in a forest fire revives the scrapbook storyline

Benjamin Grimm Feb 05 2016 10:03 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

It's absurd. And if I'm a helicopter pilot, high up in the air, and I see a bear picking up a book, I doubt that I'd immediately recognize it as a scrapbook. I was in that exact situation once. And my words were, "Hey! The bear jumped off! He's picking up something! It looks like a book!"

cooby classic Feb 05 2016 10:07 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Exactly! I remember you telling us about that! (were you really going to let the bear in the helicopter with you?)

Benjamin Grimm Feb 05 2016 10:18 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

I was still trying to decide when the bear jumped off.

cooby classic Feb 05 2016 10:21 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

I hope he didn't burn up :(

Mets Willets Point Feb 05 2016 03:27 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

I was just coming here to report that Gasoline Alley is still going on about scrapbooking, but I see that that important news has already been reported.

cooby classic Feb 06 2016 08:53 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Obviously there's more to scrapbooking than I got out of it

Benjamin Grimm Feb 06 2016 10:04 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

It's probably more fun during a raging forest fire.

Edgy MD Feb 06 2016 12:22 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Say what you want about GasAl, but they've got you suckers talking about it. Look at these enraptured fans commenting on today's episode.

MFS62 Feb 07 2016 04:49 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's absurd. And if I'm a helicopter pilot, high up in the air, and I see a bear picking up a book, I doubt that I'd immediately recognize it as a scrapbook. If I'm a helicopter pilot ... and I see a bear picking up a book, I immediately go back to the airport, land, and check myself into rehab. Later

cooby classic Feb 08 2016 08:48 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

A book maybe....it could be its bear guide....but a scrapbook, get thee to a rehab center

El Segundo Escupidor Feb 09 2016 05:40 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Jughead is asexual. Discuss.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 09 2016 06:59 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

This is bad news for Big Ethel.

Edgy MD Feb 09 2016 08:48 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

To heck with Riverdale. What happened to the scrapbooking bear?

MFS62 Feb 10 2016 08:16 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Edgy MD wrote: To heck with Riverdale. What happened to the scrapbooking bear? He was last seen walking down the street, paw in hand, with Jughead. Later

Frayed Knot Feb 10 2016 08:31 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

I think Jughead's bigger problem is that those "drawings" make him look like his name needs to be changed to Geometrichead.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 13 2016 09:57 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Edgy MD wrote: To heck with Riverdale. What happened to the scrapbooking bear?

Edgy MD Feb 13 2016 12:42 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Fucking bear-murdering Gasoline Alley bear murderers. The bear, one of nature's fiercest predators, helped you into a helicopter during a forest fire, and he got left behind for his trouble. I want to burn some newspapers, now.

cooby classic Feb 13 2016 04:29 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Edgy MD wrote: To heck with Riverdale. What happened to the scrapbooking bear? WHAT???? As farfetched as this goddamn storyline was they couldn't figure out a way to save the bear?

Mets Willets Point Feb 25 2016 03:12 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

The scrapbooking story continues and now includes a profanity-spewing bear!

Benjamin Grimm Feb 25 2016 03:28 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Yes, apparently the bear didn't die, he was hibernating.

cooby classic Feb 26 2016 11:28 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

I am speechless...

Benjamin Grimm Feb 26 2016 02:55 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

I feel like I did when Yoenis Cespedes was about to sign with Washington and instead came back to the Mets.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 12 2016 08:39 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Dilbert has a guest artist this week. And in Zits recently, we got a rough idea of where Jeremy Duncan lives. (Missouri, maybe?) The strip reminded me that we really don't know where most comic strip characters live. Dagwood and Blondie? Dennis the Menace? Who knows? There are a few strips I can think of that take place in a specific place. Jump Start is in Philadelphia. The Piranha Club is in Bayonne, New Jersey. One Big Happy seems to take place in the South somewhere. And I've always assumed that Peanuts took place in Minnesota, but I don't know if the strip ever included anything that confirmed that. But most other strips are intentionally vague about their location.

cooby classic Mar 12 2016 09:57 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

For Better or Worse is in Canada...but I don't know where.

Edgy MD Mar 12 2016 01:47 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

It's hard to place Peanuts anywhere but Minnesota. They occasionally (like, once every five years) got specific. Lucy was once named "Outstanding Fussbudget of Hennepin County." Archie's Riverdale was named after Riverdale in the Bronx, but was originally set in Massachusetts. (Mr. Lodge was a Massachusetts senator.) That's no longer canon, and Riverdale has long been treated as a midwestern locale.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 12 2016 02:36 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

cooby wrote: For Better or Worse is in Canada...but I don't know where. That's right... It was somewhere in Ontario. I can think of strips that take place in fictional towns, like our collective favorite Gasoline Alley. Al Capp's L'il Abner took place in the town of Dogpatch which is considered to be in Kentucky but I don't know if that was ever mentioned explicitly within the strip.

Mets Willets Point Mar 12 2016 04:07 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Many years ago I visited a friend who was then living in Sonoma County in California. This is where Charles Schulz lived from the 1960s onwards. We passed through the town of Petaluma and my friend asked if the name sounded familiar. We remembered that Snoopy was adopted from the Petaluma Puppy Farm. So Peanuts may be based in Minnesota, but he brought a bit of his California home into the story as well.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 12 2016 04:54 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

It was the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.

Mets Willets Point Mar 12 2016 08:23 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Oh, I screwed that up. Maybe Daisy Hill was in Petaluma?

Mets Willets Point Mar 12 2016 08:54 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Here are some comic strip locations I could find on Wikipedia For Better or For Worse - fictitious Toronto-area suburban town of Milborough, Ontario. Bloom County - fictional town based on Iowa City, Iowa Garfield - Muncie, Indiana Heart of the City - Philadelphia Heathcliff -a port town called Westfinster. One Big Happy - based on Baltimore Blondie - suburbs of Joplin, Missouri Curtis - Baltimore Dennis the Menace - Wichita, Kansas Family Circus - Scottsdale, Arizona Funky Winkerbean - fictional town of Westview, OH Get Fuzzy - Boston Zits - suburban Ohio The Lockhorns - in or near Huntington, New York Mary Worth - fictional Santa Royale, California Beetle Bailey - Camp Swampy, inspired by Camp Crowder in Missouri Rex Morgan, M.D. - fictional Glenwood, CA

Frayed Knot Mar 12 2016 09:12 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Not surprisingly, several of those: Garfield, Zits, Lockhorns, FBFW, Family Circus (and maybe others) are in/near the hometowns of the strip's creator:

Edgy MD Mar 12 2016 09:51 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

The Lockhorns was originally called The Lockhorns of Levittown. I'm shocked that they got their shit together enough to move some time in the last 50 years.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 26 2016 08:29 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Ohio confirmed!

Benjamin Grimm Jun 13 2016 12:43 PM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

I just got a phone call on my office phone. The person on the other end said, "Sorry, I think this is a wrong number. I was looking for Super Duper." Anyone remember the comic strip of that name that used to run in the Sunday pages of the Daily News?

Edgy MD Jun 14 2016 07:06 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

I remember Super Duper, but I don't remember it being drawn like that. I do remember I'm never being depicted without a plunger, which I guess was comedy gold.

RealityChuck Jun 14 2016 08:57 AM Re: Comics in 2015 (and 2016)

Toonerville Folks was set in the fictional town of Toonerville. All superhero strips have a location. Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and Howard the Duck all had newspaper versions. Brewster Rockit is set on the spaceship R. U. Sirius.