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Interactive Videogame Comics
An admirable themed article on Robot6 devotes various recommendations to webcomics that deserves wider recognition. One of these recent articles gave a glowing with faint praise to a fun adaption of...
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Non to Nonnonba: Autobiographical Visual Metaphors
Recently, I read the pseudo-autobiography of Shigeru Mizuki, the residential founder of Yokai (Ghost stories) Manga. While recent reviews of the book seem to garner mostly praise, my perception was...
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Belated Scanlation Interview
Sometime late last year, I was approached by an Indian fan who wanted to interview me and Minifig for scanlating two Asterix tribute albums from various French artists. I was suspicious at first,...
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The Rise and Fall of June
June 1 - Thorn's Law of Martial Bliss: The length of the marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding.June 4 - Hughes' Burned Lawn Axiom: Grass growing from sidewalk cracks never turns...
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Worthy Sprite Comics
A recent comic article brought up the question of whether there would ever be any groundbreaking sprite comics along the likes of the trailblazers 8-Bit Theater and Bob & George.While there haven't...
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Broom Hilda's Flights of Fancy
It's not unusual for cartoon characters, once they grow popular to stop doing their bad habits so as not to influence younger children. Like so many others, Broom Hilda had a tendency to drink beer...
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Forgotten Characters: Garbagemen Abercrombie and Fitch
In honour of National Garbage Day, here's a tribute to the profession what Opus the Penguin called a "Waste-Management Artisan". There aren't that many garbagemen in the funny pages, Dilbert's guest...
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More Comic News Summaries
Following up from my previous post are more stuff ripped from the headlines that reminded me of comics, or if not outright comics, then certain photomanipulations.DucksRecently in Quebec, there was a...
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Yluj Delleps Sdrawkcab Si July
July 1 - Canada Day (Annoyingly enough, today's Final Jeopardy's question was on the Declaration of Independence)July 4: Independence Day - Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government: No one's life,...
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Pet Peeves - an Extra "K"
A few days ago, I was watching an awful Science Fiction movie about alien breeding invaders intruding upon a world populace, as they are won't to do. As usual, I was seeing it on fast-forward with...
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Forgotten Rituals: Hagar's Annual Bath
When legacy strips get carried on by replacements, there are two ways the comic can be carried out. One is to carry on as faithfully to the material, staying straight to the formula, and allowing no...
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Similar, but not Quite the Same
I've written previously about various comics that were lazy enough to reuse comics over the years in the hopes that new audiences wouldn't notice. In fact, the samples I've posted are actually a...
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Forgotten Characters - Walter, Adam's Chauvinistic Neighbour
To counter Adam's reluctance in being a stay-at-home dad, there was Walter who was quite outspoken in his opinions and practically wore his expressions on his sleeve. There was no attempt at subtlety...
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August Placement
Aug 2: Wild Bill Hickock Shot During Card Game 1876 - Canada Bill's Motto: A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.Aug. 8: London's Great Train Robbery 1963 - Munder's Corollary: Everybody who does not work...
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Business Metaphors
In the newspapers comics world, Dilbert's pretty much taken the top slot when it comes to portraying cutthroat elements of office politics. Of course, that was only after experimenting with multiple...
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It's a Cat's Lives
I've just recently found out that yesterday was World Cat Day, which seems appropriate since the internet seems tailor-made to support cat-related sources such as amusing cat videos and Cat Memes. One...
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Voice Impressionist Robin Williams
Last week, the world was shocked when renowned actor Robin Williams committed suicide. There was further outpouring of grief when it was further revealed that the man had been battling depression.In...
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Cropped Covers
I was browsing through 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die, a brick of recommended essential reading material of comic paperbacks, hoping to chance upon a GN I came across in the mid-90s. It had...
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Remember? Remember? The Labours of September
Remember? Remember? The Labours of SeptemberThe Fun Tower Season and Plotz.I know no reason why Fun Tower SeasonShould ever be forgot.Some drunk British guy mangling the verses to the Guy Fawkes...
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Influential Books
There's been some kind of meme going around with the following theme: In your status, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than a few minutes, and don't think too hard...
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