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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

We got to see lots of goodies today, including this Captain America piece by Joe Simon, and original art by Frank King & Milton Caniff.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:27 UTC

Hang in there.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:48 UTC

Tokyo Rose A name given by Allied troops (but not actually used) to female English speaking radio hosts, broadcasting songs and anti-Allied propaganda aimed at demoralizing the enemies of Japan during WWII Tokyo Rose seen here in this mid 1960s Charlton war comic

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

... but I'm a human, I can out-think them

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

Who loves ya, Ba-By, baby (Electric Company humor where they would enunciate syllables by two diffetent people's mouths to form a two syllable word)

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:16 UTC

I just flew in from London and boy are my arms tired

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:02 UTC

Mike Mignola 1981 cover of Pulp Alley Dominic Fortune, The Spirit, and Doc Savage The issue also features boxer Muhammad Ali

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

#fishincomics

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

The Teetotalers Regret

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:33 UTC

Question: Does Capistrano have a sports arch-rival, and are they called the Spits?

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

Crypto and AI, the power usage for these two things of marginal value is a head shaker. Crypto is inefficient by design too, and with AI, its users will ask more and more, with no end in sight. My entire lifetime we've asked questions about energy, and here we invent Crypto and AI.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:12 UTC

Thanks for posting this. I had some notion of the amount of energy used, but this is another facet. I don't want to be anti-innivation, but bitcoin and its cousins seem like a colossal mistake.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:08 UTC

Take me out to the ballgame

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

In English, Lao Che translates to Boeing

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:34 UTC

Sadly, the internet had lots of promise that went sideways. Losing local newspapers has had all sorts of ripple effects, one being the loss of reading strips daily. That cut across generations, social groups, and more. It gave us another comminality and ties. Everyone knew Lucy and the Football.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

Tourism Barcelona is having protests against too much tourism. I can understand, but to not be hypocrites and NIMBYs, all the protesters should also not be tourists themselves anywhere known for tourism either. No trains to Paris or Florence.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

Sad but true. I wonder how much a webstrip like XKCD could have made in the 1980s? I think it would have done well.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

Schulz enjoyed leveraging Snoopy et al however he could. Why should corporatikns have all the fun. Always struck me as odd how much fame and money a cartoinist doing a daily syndicated strip could make versus comic book writers and artists doing work for hire.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

First I've heard of this thing. At a glance, it seems like local Facebook, but I guess it has a dark side.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

So Donald is a troll as well as a duck.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 11:42 UTC

Bongo Boards

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:30 UTC

Its amazing how that hashtag took off.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:24 UTC

Cartoon Network is not dead

From what I gather, someone started up a hashtag. CN was rolled into Warner Animation in 2022, but still exists (as does Boomerang). There may be many concerns about animation, but this it is not literally true that CN is dead.

kidscreen.com/2024/07/08/w...

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:18 UTC

No. It was absorbed into Warner animation some time ago, nut still exists. I think that hashtag was misinformation (or at best poetic, dead as in a not what it once was)

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:25 UTC

@juliemason.bsky.social

Chris Matthew's made a good point on that 3am phone call ad from Hillary's campaign. Trump really could use that same tactic now.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

#YearsFinestCover for Eerie <post 10> 1975

Nice scifi cover by Ken Kelly for Eerie 64 and Sanjulian's cover of El Cid, a recurring character, for Eerie 66 compete.

I'm going with the two robotic Exterminators, especially the one with the tank treads, by Ken Kelly.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 11:17 UTC

Superman!

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 01:54 UTC

Superman!

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

Seriously! I would have put money that the Bluesky AI Nanny would have tagged one or both of those covers.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

Judd Holdren as Rex Barrow in 1953's serial, The Lost Planet. Judd had previously played both Captain Video and Commando Cody, but after this, mostly small parts. He became an insurance agent in 1960. He tragically took his own life in 1974.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

#YearsFinestCover for Eerie <post 9> 1974

A close contest with Sanjulian in Eerie 58 and Ken Kelly in Eerie 60

I'm going with Sanjulian's Witch Woman and her zombie pirates.

We're seeing more Warren ad text, justifying some of the composition leaving borders dark and simple now.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

#YearsFinestCover for Eerie 1973 <Post 8>

For this year, the winner is the Werewolf painting by Sanjulian, for its chilling sense of menace.

Manuel Sanjulian, who is still with us, is known for his fantasy art, such as Conan the Barbarian and Vampirella.

Eerie was about 9x a year now

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 03:04 UTC

Tatsuo Yoshida Creator of Speed Racer, he died in 1977 at 45 from cancer.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 00:59 UTC

Ken Kelly and the Micronauts packaging paintings

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 00:42 UTC

I never thought of Shiera as a sidekick. It also brings up that work partners can have a hierarchy, or more informally, a divisions of expertise. 'Sidekick' denotes an apprenticeship, but there are far more kinds of working relationships.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

It is neat. Plus there are non-Smithsonian museums to visit, from the Bible Museum to the Spy Museum to Nat Geo and the Holocaust Museum and more.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:33 UTC

It could be like Prime's Rings of Power, but with a meet cute, a handsome but dull rival, a small village with a toymaker, and of course a troll or dragon or pillagers. Something for everyone, with a happy ending where the survivors kiss under the mistletoe.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:47 UTC

Because real christmas belongs to Odin! Haha. We need more Odin Rom Coms. Ragnarok and Reindeers, Midgard and Mistletoe, etc

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:21 UTC

The Twilight Zone: The Still Valley Based on a 1939 story from Weird Tales, a starving bedraggled Confederate, as the war has turned against them, who doesn't want his comrades to have died in vain - is given a choice to call the Devil for aid... and says No.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 20:11 UTC

#MerryChristmas in July for all those who celebrate. No judgement.

Great American Family and Hallmark have Christmas romances all weekend.

So, you can forget about politics and convince yourself it's already December, if you are so inclined.

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

Its neat to see this - this is one of my baseline Wondwr Woman images along with Lynda Carter.

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