Funny picture thread

[Teleku]

[Sky]

Legs on the bottom guy are way too long.

After watching many episodes of Cops, I've invented extra-long suspenders; so you don't have to run while holding up your drawers.

[IainC]

Or you could, I dunno... wear trousers that fit?

[Signe]

Or you could, I dunno... wear trousers that fit?

How is THAT gangsta?  Sheesh. 

[LK]

What is it with you an amazing avatars. SRSLY.

[Murgos]

After watching many episodes of Cops, I've invented extra-long suspenders; so you don't have to run while holding up your drawers.

Oddly enough, belts work pretty well in the pants holding up dept.

[Lantyssa]

If the pants are around your knees, the belt has failed.

[tgr]

If the pants are around your knees, the belt has failed.

Or you're getting lucky. zing

[Grimwell]

Oh... if only.

[Aez]

[Sir T]

Reminds me of...



 

[Paelos]

God that comic still brings me back to my childhood...

Where I didn't get half the jokes until I read them all again in my 20s. Awesome.

[Samwise]

We got the complete Calvin and Hobbes as a wedding present and I've been slowly reading through the strip in its entirety.  It's even better than I remembered.

[Mattemeo]

It's the greatest cartoon strip of all time. It's really as simple as that. 10 years of beauty and brilliance. It might have broken my heart when Watterson washed off his ink brush for the last time, but I completely understand why. He was done, and Calvin & Hobbes never fell into the abyss of mediocrity so many syndicated strips find themselves in. Schulz was an incredible guy, but anyone who thinks Peanuts was worth half a damn half the time is off their nut.

[Cyrrex]

We got the complete Calvin and Hobbes as a wedding present and I've been slowly reading through the strip in its entirety.  It's even better than I remembered.

Do want!

Though I wouldn't argue that it's "better", I personally thought that Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons were also pretty great.

[Sir T]

I have the complete set too. Worth every penny, and beautifully presented in the book.

[Yoru]

Oh man, it's only 6 months until the 25th Anniversary of Calvin & Hobbes' first strip.

[Samwise]

We got the complete Calvin and Hobbes as a wedding present and I've been slowly reading through the strip in its entirety.  It's even better than I remembered.

Do want!

Though I wouldn't argue that it's "better", I personally thought that Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons were also pretty great.

We got the complete Far Side collection too.   

[murdoc]

I have the complete set too. Worth every penny, and beautifully presented in the book.

I ordered it this morning, don't know why it's taken me so long.

[Musashi]

It's the greatest cartoon strip of all time. It's really as simple as that. 10 years of beauty and brilliance. It might have broken my heart when Watterson washed off his ink brush for the last time, but I completely understand why. He was done, and Calvin & Hobbes never fell into the abyss of mediocrity so many syndicated strips find themselves in. Schulz was an incredible guy, but anyone who thinks Peanuts was worth half a damn half the time is off their nut.

On the contrary, I think there's a lot of similarities between the two strips.  It's just that Calvin is written by a guy who's able to relate to our generation. 

[pxib]

Shultz redefined the newspaper comic strip: Simple but highly emotive art style, archetypal characters, light-hearted and accessible running gags, small jokes buried in larger jokes, subtle profundity. Almost every new comic in the papers for the last thirty years has been trying to do what Shultz did... and some pulled it off. Then the man got old and ran out of ideas, told the same jokes and made the same observations fifty times apiece and just drove the strip into the ground for decades. Watterson saw the potential for disaster and left when he ran out of fresh ideas. I, for one, wish Jim Davis or Berke Breathed had been so astute. So Calvin and Hobbes lasted ten years... and I'm pretty sure many of us have never read the first ten years of Peanuts because they ended in 1960. Peanuts kept going strong for another ten or fifteen years.

That entire era exists before I was born in 1976. I wasn't really aware of comics until the 1980's and by then, yeah, Peanuts was all but entirely recycled nostalgia for something I didn't experience personally until I went and looked it up years later.

Yeah, Calvin and Hobbes is a great strip and had sarcasm and self-awareness. Possibly it was the last great artwork in a dying medium - for I agree that nothing new will be loved like it was - but greatest? I'm still pretty fond of Krazy Kat.

[Ingmar]

Pogo is worth a look too, although its a lot more in the Doonesbury vein (lots of words, lots of politics) as far as old comic strips go.

[01101010]

Shultz redefined the newspaper comic strip: Simple but highly emotive art style, archetypal characters, light-hearted and accessible running gags, small jokes buried in larger jokes, subtle profundity. Almost every new comic in the papers for the last thirty years has been trying to do what Shultz did... and some pulled it off. Then the man got old and ran out of ideas, told the same jokes and made the same observations fifty times apiece and just drove the strip into the ground for decades. Watterson saw the potential for disaster and left when he ran out of fresh ideas. I, for one, wish Jim Davis or Berke Breathed had been so astute. So Calvin and Hobbes lasted ten years... and I'm pretty sure many of us have never read the first ten years of Peanuts because they ended in 1960. Peanuts kept going strong for another ten or fifteen years.

That entire era exists before I was born in 1976. I wasn't really aware of comics until the 1980's and by then, yeah, Peanuts was all but entirely recycled nostalgia for something I didn't experience personally until I went and looked it up years later.

Yeah, Calvin and Hobbes is a great strip and had sarcasm and self-awareness. Possibly it was the last great artwork in a dying medium - for I agree that nothing new will be loved like it was - but greatest? I'm still pretty fond of Krazy Kat.

I gotta admit, I stopped reading print media about the same time that Calvin and Hobbes stopped. In fact, that was the primary reason I had the newspaper in my hand at any point. The winter series of strips especially with the snowmen creations were my apex for C&H.

[pxib]

Pogo is worth a look too, although its a lot more in the Doonesbury vein (lots of words, lots of politics) as far as old comic strips go.

Yeah, everybody who isn't trying to be Schultz is trying to be Kelly. It's what Non Sequitur has turned into, for example, and the best of Mother Goose and Grimm.

[Merusk]

I wouldn't mention Davis in the same breath as a real cartoonist.  Particularly around other cartoonists.  Davis began his career as a Marketing Exec, saw the money being made off of Merchandising things like Star Wars and set out to create a media empire.   The entire concept of Garfield was researched and spitballed down to his hared of Monday.  It's why Garfield has shown up on every fucking thing you can post a label on.  

Meanwhile, Watterson has made nary a dime off of Merchandising.  Every single Calvin & Hobbes item you've ever seen (outside of the books) was plagiarized to make someone else money off his fame.

The most amusing thing, to me, about C&H was Watterson's own disdain for Calvin.  In one of his books he comments that he was always amazed by the people who would tell him that they thought Calvin was a great kid who they'd love to raise.  His quip was something along the lines of "The kid's a menace, why would you want to inflict that on yourself?"  Still, the guy got so much right for never having been a parent or having kids that he was obviously still able to channel that inner 8 year old.

I made a screensaver of all the C&H snowman strips at one time.  I wonder where I put that thing.

The original Popeye and Blondie were pretty amusing, too, but I'm a bigger fan of Little Nemo.  My parents had this book when I was a kid and I read the whole thing several times.  It's worth the price.

[Mattemeo]

Shultz redefined the newspaper comic strip: Simple but highly emotive art style, archetypal characters, light-hearted and accessible running gags, small jokes buried in larger jokes, subtle profundity. Almost every new comic in the papers for the last thirty years has been trying to do what Shultz did... and some pulled it off. Then the man got old and ran out of ideas, told the same jokes and made the same observations fifty times apiece and just drove the strip into the ground for decades. Watterson saw the potential for disaster and left when he ran out of fresh ideas. I, for one, wish Jim Davis or Berke Breathed had been so astute. So Calvin and Hobbes lasted ten years... and I'm pretty sure many of us have never read the first ten years of Peanuts because they ended in 1960. Peanuts kept going strong for another ten or fifteen years.
That entire era exists before I was born in 1976. I wasn't really aware of comics until the 1980's and by then, yeah, Peanuts was all but entirely recycled nostalgia for something I didn't experience personally until I went and looked it up years later.

Don't get me wrong - I'm very aware of exactly how important Schulz was to the strip movement and I have a few collected editions of the first years of Peanuts, and they're wonderful - very much of their time, it's true - you hit the nail on the head with why C&H is so emotive to our generation - as Peanuts was back then. But yeah, it's the latter years of Schulz' life that spoil the splendour. I still admire his work ethic - never missed a single strip but for one tiny sabbatical in the 90s - 50 years of daily strips is astounding work. To be brutally honest, and it's a sentiment I seem to share with others here like yourself - I'd happily read any Peanuts retread than put up with a single fucking Garfield strip.

Yeah, Calvin and Hobbes is a great strip and had sarcasm and self-awareness. Possibly it was the last great artwork in a dying medium - for I agree that nothing new will be loved like it was - but greatest? I'm still pretty fond of Krazy Kat.

One of my biggest loves in cartoon strip format shares the era with Krazy Kat - Segar's Popeye/Thimble Theatre. Segar's life was tragically short, but he left a stupendous ammount of brilliant work behind.

[NiX]

That's a shameful ripoff of a better drawing.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I was debating putting this in the awesome thread but it doesn't quite fit.

[Draegan]

Is that supposed to be insinuating that one of those pylons or whatever they are is stuck up that person's ass?

[Signe]

Did you look at what it was advertising?  Or did you just want to type that so you could see it in print? 

[Teleku]

To be fair, I didn't get the joke at all until he wrote it out.

[Draegan]

I saw what it was advertising and was hoping what I thought it meant wasn't true.  Sorry to offend your sensibilities.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Must we explain every joke?

[rattran]

Bollards.

[Signe]

You didn't offend me!  I was teasing you.