Comments on: The Secret Life of Mark Trail

The Secret Life of Mark Trail

minifigs — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:53:18 -0800

The Secret Life of Mark Trail [Via]

By: DU

DU — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:13:16 -0800

Some of these are pretty funny. Question about process: Flatbed scanner? One of those really expensive photo scanners?

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:13:23 -0800

Is the secret that despite his concern for all the animals of the forest, he's just not into beavers?

By: KirkJobSluder

KirkJobSluder — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:30:01 -0800

One of my dreams is to do a Mark Trail movie that copies all the stylistic conventions of perspective involving freakishly large foregrounded animals.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:16:39 -0800

Fascinating!

By: six-or-six-thirty

six-or-six-thirty — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:29:53 -0800

I can never get tired of such things.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:47:14 -0800

Is the secret that despite his concern for all the animals of the forest, he's just not into beavers? Well, we don't know what they're up to.

By: susanharper

susanharper — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:01:22 -0800

Most of them are rather small. Can you post larger images? And what about other comics? I don't know of any site from which you can get these comics as a Flash file. Is it possible at all?

By: lester

lester — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:25:37 -0800

reminds me of this week in milford, a blog about gil thorp.

By: Ian A.T.

Ian A.T. — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:39:06 -0800

One of my dreams is to do a Mark Trail movie that copies all the stylistic conventions of perspective involving freakishly large foregrounded animals. How about Mary Worth instead of Mark Trail? Here's part one on YouTube, and here are the other four parts, and here's the inevitable Metafilter thread.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:24:42 -0800

That Mary Worth movie is hilarious and disorienting. It's based on strips from almost 30 days and all they talk about is that maybe some guy is moving in. Who the hell reads Mary Worth? Even old people cannot be entertained by 3 panels a day discussing rental bylaws.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:48:00 -0800

Question about process: Flatbed scanner? One of those really expensive photo scanners? They're just panels excerpted from the full comic, which is posted online. There's not much in the way of process here. Copy, paste, crop, copy, paste, make stupid joke about sexy comic people.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:50:01 -0800

Seriously, those panels are not edited. Text is as it appeared online at the King Features site originally.

By: happyroach

happyroach — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:51:25 -0800

Maybe it's just me, but even snarkily turning the dialogue into sex jokes fails to make this comic interesting. It needs the entire dialogue replaced, and maybe the art as well.

By: googly

googly — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:52:39 -0800

I'm a big fan of this genre (cf: The Dysfunctional Family Circus), but I found most of these rather lame, LOLBOOBIES-level 'humor.'

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:54:39 -0800

Who the hell reads Mary Worth? Even old people cannot be entertained by 3 panels a day discussing rental bylaws. Mary Worth is hilarious if you read Comics Curmudgeon often enough to have Josh Fruhlinger's voice in your head as you read it. But yeah, even with that I could never read it daily.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:58:17 -0800

~~Some~~ None of these are ~~pretty~~ funny. Fixed that for you.

By: doctorschlock

doctorschlock — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:22:48 -0800

I've been collecting Mark Trail comics all my life. The best plot-line was when Mark thought that a friend of his was a good farmer. A female partner of his pointed out that his friends' money crop was marijuana.

By: doctorschlock

doctorschlock — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:25:38 -0800

A few years ago, some talented guys re-edited the Family Circus Easter Special. They smashed it up with Apocalypse Now and called it The Family Circus of Pain.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:34:20 -0800

I... don't get it? Wait, let me calibrate my humor gauge... yep, still nothing.

By: sneebler

sneebler — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:05:45 -0800

...I found most of these rather lame, LOLBOOBIES-level 'humor.' And worth every minute! I admit that these are funnier if you read MT as a kid and took it at face value. Ummm, very young, ok?

By: P.o.B.

P.o.B. — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:56:52 -0800

This is like one of those times when a friend shows you something hilaaaarious, and you have no idea what the hell they're getting on about.