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Non Sequitur?

09 Saturday Oct 2021

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I think I previously mentioned that Dustin replaced Get Fuzzy in my daily “big four” comics rotation. I still have GF in the extended hopper. However, in March, I think we’ll 3 years without a new panel. So, as the title might suggest, I’m leaning towards de-hoppering the odd trio, having already added a more up-to-date replacement. Decisions!

Barring an emergency, this concludes this Saturday’s posting.

A Real National Emergency

24 Sunday Jan 2021

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Amerikan newspapers are now officially dead. For years, the only valid reason for picking up one of these otherwise useless fish-wrappers was to peruse the comics section, especially on Sundays. That, now, is a thing of the past.

Recently and by chance, I noticed an omission in a Sunday Hagar panel, wherein two frames (the first two) were missing. Today I ran a test with the print edition of a newspaper, which again is dead and thus needs not be named, and confirmed the horror. The following series were illicitly truncated:

  • Blondie
  • Hagar the Horrible
  • Garfield
  • Hi and Lois

I’m sure this happens in multiple papers across the dying police state. Why? I suspect two reasons: 1) continuing suicidal thrift from the editors, and; 2) a state of growing illiteracy that now prevents the average Amerikan from comprehending the antics of a Viking Raider or an anthropomorphic cat.

For future comics needs, merely search field the title, or turn to Go Comics, ArcaMax, or Comics Kingdom. Yes, it’s a new low, but one we can move past – for now.

Comics News

06 Tuesday Oct 2020

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As I mentioned, I substituted Dustin for Get Fuzzy (no new stuff!) in my big four daily funny reads.

Now, I have two more on the radar:

The Far Side is back! Kind of. We know what we’re getting with Larson.

And now, there’s Hypergamouse, a new short on Webtunes with more than a little Vox Day influence. If you used to follow Alpha Game, then you’ll get it immediately. If not, it’s still funny.

 

Monday Morning Laughs and Learning

13 Monday Jan 2020

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I forgot to mention this when it happened a little while back: I have adjusted my big mandatory four daily comic strips. I switched out Get Fuzzy for Dustin. It’s now:

Garfield;

Pearls;

Dustin; and

Dilbert

Not that big a deal. I still read Fuzzy from time to time along with some others. It’s just that without any new strips in, what(?), a year or three, they were getting a bit old.

In other news, as a full-time meddler and part-time Francophile, I discovered – not at all to my surprise – that the annual tuition at a very good French state university costs about the same as, maybe even a little less than, my QUARTERLY tuition at UGA almost thirty years ago (ouch!). Yes, there are subsidies. They opted for an educated citizenry without a student loan usury crisis. Yet somehow they still manage to have long vacations, first-class highways, skyscrapers, GUNS (yes), nuclear-powered and armed warships, and a France that’s still, grabblers’ antics aside, almost 95% French. But hey, we got us freedom fries, right?!

Comic Partial Truth

07 Tuesday May 2019

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This Gorrel cartoon gets it right, about the Dems in 2020 and about the timing of socialism. The more “successful” commie-lite programs (e.g. Sweden) were implemented during times of existing economic success, tomes when there was money to fritter. America doesn’t have that. Our current condition is of a restorative mode and, sadly, most of it is simply over-papering with fake money.

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Garfield at 40 and Happy Summer

21 Thursday Jun 2018

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Missed this the other day. The world’s favorite cartoon cat turned 40 on Tuesday.

And, Jim Davis says he’s “still trying to get it right.” So, if you’re having problems with a project, consider that the best selling comic creator in the world is having the same issues, four decades in.

The 40th Birthday Strip!

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Jim Davis, 6/19/2018.

Also the first official day of Summer, 2018. Have some lasagna.

Comic Connections

07 Thursday Dec 2017

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So this morning, as usual, I read today’s Pearls Before Swine panel. It was unusual but unusually good. See it HERE.

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Pearls, Dec. 7, 2017. Pastis/Go Comics.

Based on Pastis’s and Pig’s soul-searching I did a Google search and settled for his (Pastis’s) page at Wikipedia (Infogalactic it’s not, but they try). I found something very interesting.

A while back I noted my Big Four daily comics: Garfield, Pearls, Get Fuzzy, and Dilbert. 

It turns out that three of the four have more in common than just my liking them. There’s a Peanuts connections too. Charles Schulz was Pastis’s mentor going into the field. A little later Pastis received public praise from Scott Adams (Dilbert) which launched his career. Pastis later collaborated with and learned from Darby Conley (Get Fuzzy).

I looked around for a connection to Jim Davis and Garfield but couldn’t find one. So I made one. Via this article (and a few in the past) the two titans are hereby linked.

Carry on.