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I’ll never wrap my head around the claim (in Frederick Schodt’s landmark 1983 book) that an average manga page is read in 3.75 seconds.

I love Chris Ware and Dan Clowes, but lord am I glad we’ve been able to move past the internal struggles their generation was burdened with about the worth of their medium, and the self-flagellation and doubt that came with it.

We do not apologize for the medium. That’s dead, buried, and gone.

I’m curious how common this is in Japan, because it’s almost nonexistent elsewhere. One of favorite comic authors, Mohiro Kitoh, uses word balloons without tails. He’s the only author I know of who does this, and somehow it usually isn’t confusing. I love the look of those floating “unbroken” ovals.

I HOPE that phrase is dead and buried by NOW….

No writer or reporter has had the slightest excuse for using it since…like…the late ‘90s, honestly.

That’s why I’m hesitant to turn my handwriting into a font, even though it would save a ton of time and be more consistently neat. Because I like to play around with it a lot, getting surreal or expressionistic with it, and it’s always on a whim. Typing it would make it less spontaneous that way.

Exception:

When being overly-verbose is the core of the humor and has been perfected to an art in itself. (see: Breathed, Berke. 😎)

Mine:

In writing dialogue, I think the default approach should be to use as few words as possible. Not in the sense of dumbing it down or stripping it of nuance or subtlety, but of simulating the way people really speak, avoiding redundancy and unnecessary exposition.

And *timing* is everything.

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Quite simply, the greatest editorial column ever written. (And a relic from a “normal” time…)

My dad and I were reading it in the local paper, in total hysterics. Awesome memory. 😊

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Also… he might wanna get that checked out.

Fudd has a nephew?

The influence of these fools is a scathing indictment of our society just by itself.

Some of them did. Kurt Schlichter is happy as a clam.

I’m genuinely surprised he said this. It’s both so tone deaf and out of nowhere.

But WHY. What is their justification? What is their rationalization? Fetterman…whatever. He’s damaged. But the others? What REASON do they have? They do not need to do this. Politically it will earn them nothing. And it is morally indefensible.

Why.

What’s the context for this? I love it.

Nice!

Trump, and the widespread admiration/veneration of him, has forever altered my previous understanding of what “adulthood” means.

Ah, so THIS is that (yet another!) new revival I heard was happening. As heartwarming as it is that this universe is still alive after all (after 2017 I was sure the book would be closed forever on the ‘87 version), I think it’s awkward that the entire Joe Books run is (I assume) being ignored.

Which WAS the joke in the cartoons. 😆 He’s obviously a western bandit, but incongruously playing all these other roles.
Having him actually BE a pirate as his default setting — honestly? — it’s so dumb and so “missing the joke” that it almost feels insulting to the kids reading.

A name!

Oh, really? LOL. They have that look I associate with “published in Europe first”. I’ve really fallen out of touch with the scene.

Yosemite Sam the pirate. For some reason, that was his default identity for years. Friz Freleng was probably inadvertently referencing these comics when he once expressed puzzlement that “everyone seems to remember him as a pirate”. (He thought it was because of his three pirate shorts.)

Boy, that Scrooge page — I have a Whitman issue from 1980 that looks like that same artist. Whoever it was …argh. Just so unappetizing.

I wonder when the WB characters stopped being required to have “™️” after their every mention. 😆

So what’s this? Very recent European DuckTales revival comic?

Wait—-she’s a mom?

I mean…spending actual time and effort on that….

Ah. I guess I should have known it was the ‘50s and not the ‘70s by the nice inking and relatively energetic posing.
The ‘70s comics I’ve seen actually aren’t as lifeless and wooden as most LT/MM official imagery was then, but they were definitely inferior to this.

Rush Limbaugh fan art….?

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I’m almost afraid to ask, but was it anywhere near as weird as Ben Garrison’s pro-Trump cartoons?

Man. I trailed off eons ago, but I have very cozy memories of being in the campus computer labs in the middle of the night in like 2003 (where I wasn’t supposed to be 🙂) binging Gene Catlow.
I’m not even very deep in these circles, and I still clearly remember how sad people were when he died.

Never heard of him. Had to look him up. It’s always jarring when very cute and/or pretty art comes from a mind choked with rage, or hate. What kind of stuff did he used to say to you guys? Standard pre-maga boilerplate? Homophobia? Bible-thumping? (I’m gonna guess he wasn’t preaching trickle-down.)