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[–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

"Too many feminist creeps"

What a strange complaint

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Garfield I recognize. What are the other three strips Breathed is parodying?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Goofus n Rufus, to me looks like the art style of Ziggy. The name is reminiscent of Goofus and Gallant from Highlights Magazine.

    I am sure i knew Atomic Mary at one point, but I am drawing a blank.

    Maybe @m_f@discuss.online or @JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social might have some ideas.

    Those darned cats looks like maybe a mash up of Doonesbury, and Garfield.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)
    • agree, Ziggy or other simple / big-nose comics (he wasn't unique in that) done in sort of a Borscht Belt / old-timey / spit-take style
    • Garfield, yup
    • Mary Worth
    • Doonesbury for sure, and I'm thinking that dressing 'em up as cats is just a way of drifting it far enough so that it's not exact copy, just like the others

    I actually do remember this one. Maybe not from the time, but in a reprint book. Great strip.

    @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Worth

    This is a totally new one to me.

    Fun fact, Academia Waltz, the strip that became Bloom County was largely inspired by Doonesbury.

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