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“The humor in the strip is based on the sickness of people’s pitiful state of unhappiness and misery. There’s humor in struggling in ignorance, but I also find it heroic the way people forge on despite the despair they often feel.” — David Lynch

Filmmaker David Lynch sadly passed away today. In his memory I’m sharing a newspaper strip he worked on called ‘The Angriest Dog in the World’.

( Comics under the cut… )

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In the recent post-U.S. election thread, I made the claim that polls are b.s. But maybe the problem is that they don't focus on the right issues. Like homework. Or bedtime. Or choice of mom as running mate.

Enter Calvin, not-so-professional pollster, who strove to impress upon his dad the importance of considering his image, character, and degree of permissiveness in his "campaign" to remain dad.

( 'You rate especially low among tigers and six-year-old white males.' )

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A little non-partisan humour for U.S. Election Day.

( 'Nice underpants' )

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One of Schulz's only two known drawings of the Great Pumpkin; naturally, they were both in a Sunday title panel (October 30, 1977 here) and thus out of the strip's actual continuity.

Margaret Jo McCullin: So what are you going to do this Hallowe'en, Terry?
Terry Rialto: Well, I enjoy spending Hallowe'en night out in the pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear.
McCullin: Oh, like in Charlie Brown!
Rialto: Charlie what now?
McCullin: The cartoon. Charlie Brown's a cartoon.
Rialto: (offended) There's nothing cartoonish about my religious beliefs.

--"Delicious Dish," Saturday Night Live S26 E3 (October 21, 2000)

( 'Oh, Great Pumpkin [...] Vindicate me before mine enemies!' )

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It's St Valentines Day, where those with romantic partners or interests seek to pursue those interests and lavish affection on them, and those without romantic partners or interests celebrate Cheap Chocolate Eve and or read comic books. (Or maybe that;s just me)

But love in all it's wholesome forms, romantic or otherwise, should be celebrated and rejoiced in, and I can think of no more wholesome example of platonic love and affection than these two.

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I suspect this will resonate with... well, pretty much every member of this community...

( Calvin and Hobbes dropping a truth bomb )

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( How not to do atonement )

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Yesterday I posted to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The New Teen Titans,.

Today I'm posting to celebrate the 40th Anniversaryof something which could hardly be more different, but which I loved just as much.

You see, it's 40 years since the first appearance of "The Far Side"!

For over fourteen years, between July 1980 and January 1995, The Far Side was a refreshing blast of absurdity. Off-beat, warped, sometimes surreal, frequently grotesque. You never quite knew what was coming, and that was a huge part of the fun.