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Good Web comic…

Comic from Tom Tomorrow…

Peanuts made The New Yorker last year and I didn’t even know. Link courtesy of The Comics Curmudgeon

Okay, it was done back in 1951, so the verbage in the story probably didn’t seem as bad at the time. (Either that, or the writer was pretty sure his younger audience would find it hilarious, kind of like an older audience does now.) ;)

Seems to be an accurate statement. :) Courtesy of User Friendly, a great web comic.

Some interesting lists of 100 going around out there right now: The 100 Most Annoying Things of 2004 92 CLEAR CHANNEL’S MEDIA MONOPOLY It’s official, they now own the broadcast rights to that guy down the street with a Mr. Microphone saying, “Hey Good Looking, I’ll See You Later!” 91 THE IRISH they come here and take all of our good jobs (EDITOR’S NOTE: Sorry, this was left off of “The 100 Most Annoying Things of 1804” list and I had to find a place for it) ...

“They’re comics! They’re books! They’re a joyless synthesis of both!” Lileks, whose site I would definitely recommend for those suffering through humorless days, examines the horror that is Hanna Barbera cartoons rendered in still life. Link courtesy of Boing Boing

So how were Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster paying the bills when they were coming up with that revolutionary idea? Why, drawing the comic adventures of Slam Bradley, private detective and racist thug, of course! Ben-San Arizona shares a few choice panels from his collection of old Detective Comics (before Batman took over). Courtesy of Daily Scans