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Comic Strip Mashups

backseatpilot — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:48:02 -0800

How to Love Golden Age Comics

carsonb — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:24:20 -0800

How to Kick a Person in the Teeth | How to Contemplate the Back of Your Pate | How to Eat Beans Without Soiling Your Jeans | How to Get Your Beard Sheared | How to Sharpen Your Wits | How to Block a BackSlapper's Sock | How to Grope for Bathtub Soap | How to Eat Crackers in Bed | How to See TV | How to Keep a Cool Conk | How to Double Your Bubble Gum Bubble | How (Not) to Reel on a Banana Peel | How to Tweak a Beak | How to Fall on Your Face | How to Laugh at a Bum Joke
...and many more hilarious how-tos from Basil Wolverton's Culture Corner. All the Culture Corner strips are also available together as a PDF or Comic Book Archive (.cbz). For lots more classic comic strip goodness check out the Golden Age Comics archive, an amazing collection of public domain comics freely available for download.

All hoomanity kin now live off th' fat o' th' land -- namely Shmoos!

not_on_display — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:30:26 -0800

In 1948, Al Capp introduced the Shmoo to the cast of characters in his popular comic strip, Lil' Abner. What started out as a cute, tasty, malle able parable quickly morphed into a merchandising fad of giant proportions, even by today's standards. In 1979, Hanna Barbera failed to recreate the fad with The New Shmoo. In 2000, Hanna Barbera's parent companies redeemed themselves for that sin.

Yow! I am having FUN!!

not_on_display — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:30:49 -0800

The Zippy the Pinhead Archive: Are We Having Searchable Fun Yet? lets you search through many years of Zippy daily comic strips by keyword or date, from January 1, 1994 to the near-present. Sundays included. The Roadside Tour lets you search to see if Zippy's been in your part of the world! [Click the "Where's Zippy?" javascript button for detailed location indeces] Also onsite: Understanding Zippy. Bill Griffith has been drawing Zippy since early 1971. The Zippy Quotes Database (used by the old FORTUNE program and the m-x yow command in GNU Emacs). Also available in a different format here. Zippy's inspiration is mentioned previously on MetaFilter. Laundry is the fifth dimension!!

Comic strips translated into Middle English.

Kattullus — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:14:41 -0800

Japes for Owre Tymes is a blog that translates one newspaper comic strip a day into Middle English. "Why? Because it can..." If you want to try reading the translated strips but need a bit of help here's a Middle English dictionary.

Look at all the MAPLE SAP I got!

The Card Cheat — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:17:45 -0800

The worst comic strip ever? Thrill to the stilted, unfunny adventures of Uncle Funny Bunny and Chumpy, brought to you by Jerry Beck, of Cartoon Research fame.

Crumbling Paper - old, old comic strips

Kattullus — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:19:54 -0800

Crumbling Paper is a collection of old comics. And I mean old, some from the early years of the 20th Century. There are strips from artists such as George Herriman, Rube Goldberg, Basil Wolverton and Gustave Verbeek. It has such strips as Katzenjammer Kids, Little Orphan Annie and Count Screwloose. Warning: Some of these comics feature racial caricatures, as was the unfortunate norm when the strips were drawn. Here is the collector, Steven Stwalley, on Race and Ethnicity in the Early Comics. [via Eddie Campbell]

Ach, those damn 110 year old kids!

madamjujujive — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:04:00 -0800

The Katzenjammer Kids * are 110 years old this month, the world's longest running comic. Watch 1918's Policy & Pie (pt. 2), rare animation by creator Rudolph Dirks who lost the strip to William Randolph Hearst in a court case. The strip was taken over by Harold H. Knerr, but Dirks retained rights to the characters and produced a rival cartoon under The Captain & the Kids for Pulitzer papers for several decades. Five artists followed Dirks and Knerr creating the strip for Hearst.

Steve Canyon strips online

staggernation — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:05:53 -0800

Steve Canyon. Starting last month, the comic-strip site Humorous Maximus has been re-running (with his estate's permission) Milton Caniff's classic daily strip.

Eagle 5 to immediate launch! Take it, Alan!

beaucoupkevin — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:12:38 -0800

Look-in was a British TV and comics magazine that featured interviews, crosswords, etc. Of interest to those of us raised raised on 70s and 80s television, there was a wealth of gorgeously-rendered licensed comics material inside. These strips included Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Space: 1999, and Terrahawks. (Via)

Mary Worth acted out.

Rumple — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:21:33 -0800

A month of the venerable, slow moving comic Mary Worth, precisely acted out by fans. Requires QT. via the equally venerable, slow moving memepool.

RIP Farley the dog.

ktoad — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:02:34 -0800

Nancy , the best comic strip ever? Close but no cigar. Pogo? Peanuts? Calvin? Good choices all, but still wrong. Krazy Kat you say? Again I shake my head sadly, friend. For Mr. Dave Astor has finally stepped forward to settle this debate once and for all. The greatest comic strip ever appearing on newsprint? Why, it's For Better or For Worse of course. Let the debate begin.

Umm....is this right?

ShawnString — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:28:12 -0800

KA-BOOM! I know Duke was based on him, but i was expecting...oh i dont know...a little nicer?

comics

srboisvert — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:55:44 -0800

ComicsFilter

We Don't Need No Steenking Syndicates!

zoogleplex — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:12:02 -0800

Scott Kurtz throws down the gauntlet. The mighty creator of PvP offers any newspaper the opportunity to include his fine and funny comic strip on their comics pages absolutely FREE OF CHARGE,, thus totally destroying the aging and now ineffective syndicated cartoon business model. Check out his theory on why the syndicates are goin' down, soon, and the background behind his decision to challenge them on their home turf.

The business model of the funny pages

mathowie — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:09:44 -0800

When I was in college in the early 90s (B.W. -- before web), I used to subscribe to the daily newspaper just to get my comics fix every morning (back when Bill Waterson, Gary Larson, and Berkeley Breathed were king). Then the web came along and I had to suffer through the only (unfunny) cartoonist to embrace the web. But not anymore. With stuff like Comics-via-RSS and Comictastic I can fire up an app and start laughing every morning. I doubt I ever buy a newspaper again for the funny pages, and on top of that, these even let me avoid the lame ones I don't care about.

Gafield Gets Old

hipnerd — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:13:17 -0800

Garfield turns 25 this week. 25 years of comic strips, none of which were even remotely funny. Why do the great comics, like this or this or even this, disappear from our newspapers, while drivel like Garfield thrives? Some people even love Garfield. The rest of us just want to see him burn.

Comic Strip Classics Stamps

plep — Fri, 23 May 2003 05:32:10 -0800

Comic Strip Classics Stamps. (via Dublog).
Related :- A nice collection of exhibits at the National Postal Museum, part of the Smithsonian (such as this exhibit of Cuban stamps and this one on FDR's stamp collecting); the Bath Postal Museum of British postal history; stamps of Greenland; stamps of Tibet.

Fight it out Guys! Go for Broke!

hughbot — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:22:01 -0800

Penny Arcade, everyone's favorite gamegeek comic strip(well, not everyone's, but mine) is facing legal action over a recent strip they did, parodying Strawberry Shortcake. It seems American Greetings owner of such 80s icons as Popples and the aforementioned Shortcake, don't take too kindly to folks using their precious nostalgia. Here's the offending cartoon.

Eno on the Beach

Shane — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:10:30 -0800

A simple, absolutely perfect short comic about musician/artist/music producer Brian Eno (by cartoonist Tom Hart). If this puts you in the mood, why not draw wisdom from one of Eno's (and artist Paul Schmidt's) Oblique Strategies. Click (or refresh if clicking doesn't work) for a new aphorism, like shuffling a Tarot deck and drawing a new card. "Honour thy error as a hidden intention" is one of my favorites. (More inside for anyone still interested.)

muckster — Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:12:43 -0800

"It was just something I did for myself, and I e-mailed the link to 10 friends that I didn't think would get offended," David Rees said. "It took off." Half a year later, the NYT gets its war on.

Settle — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:02:01 -0800

Which Jerkcity Character are you? The personality test to end all others. PLUS: although it only has a few entries so far, rands' blog is looking really great. In case you didn't know, Jerkcity is a daily comic strip enjoyed by all the cool people on the internet, similar to the weekly Hotendotey or Sanscomic, (a comic strip by Ecco the cat, who "does anal") but with more mechanical production, more Perl/TCL jokes, and more references to hlauaghaghgah. Please note that you cannot be 1337 if you like RedMeat. This post is dedicated to Quonsar The Magnificent and all other truly 1337 mefiers willing to stand up for what is right. Remember: argument's are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Harry Hopkins' Hat — Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:15:26 -0800

This may be too New England-centric for some but it's kept me amused all morning. Comic strips that are about the Red Sox, Fidel Castro and rampaging monsters. There's also a truly bizarre Billy Bragg fan fiction page.

badstone — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:07:48 -0800

Plop. Scott Adams has a new comic. His words: "...it 's an engineered comic strip devoid of any artistic integrity whatsoever." It's a Dilvert spinoff set in Elbonia that he started over the summer. Now he's shelving it due to the resemblance between Elbonians and a certain nation we're at war with right now.

hincandenza — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:49:47 -0800

Tiny Sepuku: Relationship advice column meets "Hello Kitty". It's funny cuz it's true!!! Tiny Sepuku is Ken Cursoe's brilliant, sometimes bitter, and always bitingly funny advice column/ comic strip. I became a loyal reader when it was syndicated by the Seattle Weekly a few months ago, but it seems that Ken has been churning out these nuggets of wry insight, which so perfectly capture the almost comical absurdity of dating in these modern times, since waaay back in '97. He now has a website where you can indulge yourself in all that archived "Sepuku" goodness...