Comic Strips Honor Veterans
D.D.Degg
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2009/11/why_do_very_few_comic_strips_b.html
it seems to be a practice on the way out.
But Greg Evans' Luann is spending all week at it
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/11/11&name=Luann
And Cathy did a nice tribute today
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/11/11&name=Cathy
Others would be
Daddy's Home
http://www.gocomics.com/daddyshome/2009/11/11
Arlo and Janis
http://comics.com/arlo&janis/2009-11-11/
and Nancy
http://comics.com/nancy/2009-11-11/
Drabble mentions that the day is today
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/11/11&name=Drabble
and I'm still trying to figure out if Red and Rover is just really
subtle about it
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/11/11&name=Red_n_Rover
Cavna, above, is amazed that Beetle Bailey doesn't
pay tribute to to veterans on this day, whereas I am
feeling the same way about the new Fort Knox strip.
http://www.gocomics.com/fortknox/2009/11/11
Though I do understand that it is a brand new strip
and Paul Jon may not have even known when any
particular strip would be published. Next year tho...
Today's Funky Winkerbean features a veteran in the
middle of what promises to be a really depressing story.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20091111&name=Funky_Winkerbean
Finally Snoopy raises a mug of root beer to Bill Mauldin
in the 1996 Peanuts strip, but all the regular places
reprint the 1962 comic. The one place I know to get
the "Peanuts Tall" hasn't updated yet.
http://www.unitedfeatures.com/?title=Bio:Peanuts%20Tall%20Dailies
All in all a pitiful percentage of strips
honoring those who have protected us.
D.D.Degg
Evan Kirshenbaum
User Friendly incorporated a veteran today
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091111
but had a bigger "Remembrance Day" strip on Sunday
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091108
> All in all a pitiful percentage of strips
> honoring those who have protected us.
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strip on 11/11 back in 2003:
http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/031111
...but they don't seem to have made a regular thing of it since.
(We can now debate whether that strip honors veterans, mocks them,
or both.)
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Mike B
with Jon singing of his love for them....
<http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2009/11/11/Garfield.275.g.gif>
Brian Huntley
> And Cathy did a nice tribute todayhttp://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/11/11&name=C...
I'm somewhat surprised, but "Cathy" is one of the best today. I must
say that Luann holds some promise, based on Greg Evan's record, of
doing a good week.
Jym Dyer
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And to almost but not quite totally change the subject, we found
out Liz's last name yesterday.
Ted
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George W Harris
<ddd...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Today's Funky Winkerbean features a veteran in the
>middle of what promises to be a really depressing story.
>http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20091111&name=Funky_Winkerbean
So you're saying today's Funky Winkerbean
features a veteran?
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Doesn't the fact that there are *exactly* 50 states seem a little suspicious?
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Mark Jackson
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:04:54 -0800 (PST), "D.D.Degg"
> <ddd...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Today's Funky Winkerbean features a veteran in the middle of what
>> promises to be a really depressing story.
>> http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20091111&name=Funky_Winkerbean
> So you're saying today's Funky Winkerbean features a veteran?
So you're saying there's a Funky Winkerbean today?
http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/tuesday-november-10-2009/
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Joseph Nebus
>and I'm still trying to figure out if Red and Rover is just really
>subtle about it
>http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/11/11&name=Red_n_Rover
I think it's a Veterans Day tribute. But I tend to be an
inclusionist in things.
>Today's Funky Winkerbean features a veteran in the
>middle of what promises to be a really depressing story.
>http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20091111&name=Funky_Winkerbean
In other news, water wet. But, boy, that Batiuk is a class act
to splatter a story of a veteran drinking himself to death while refused
by his putative friends and family, just for the week of the 11th, isn't
he?
>Finally Snoopy raises a mug of root beer to Bill Mauldin
>in the 1996 Peanuts strip, but all the regular places
>reprint the 1962 comic. The one place I know to get
>the "Peanuts Tall" hasn't updated yet.
>http://www.unitedfeatures.com/?title=Bio:Peanuts%20Tall%20Dailies
Oh, now, I'd wondered where one might regularly see the 'Tall'
run, outside the newspapers that I've given up reading, anyway.
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Dann
> George W Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:04:54 -0800 (PST), "D.D.Degg"
> > <ddd...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >> Today's Funky Winkerbean features a veteran in the middle of what
> >> promises to be a really depressing story.
> > So you're saying today's Funky Winkerbean features a veteran?
>
> So you're saying there's a Funky Winkerbean today?
>
> http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/tuesday-november-10-2009/
>
Thanks for the chuckle, Mark. I saw that Medium Large on Tuesday and
my first thought was of Funky and this week's arc. It wasn't a
necessarily humorous "first thought" either.
Your spin on it was good enough to provide a bit of humor, even if it
was gallows humor.
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D.D.Degg
> D.D.Degg wrote:
> >Today's Funky Winkerbean features a veteran...
> So you're saying today's Funky Winkerbean
> features a veteran?
I will admit to not following Funky too closely.
Is Wally or is Wally not a veteran?
D.D.Degg
Jym Dyer
http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/tuesday-november-10-2009/
=v= The most recent deathwatch is for Wally Winkerbean.
=v= I trust by now you've seen the second strip here:
http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/thursday-november-12-2009/
<_Jym_>
Jym Dyer
=v= Wally's newest cheerup strategy is to go see the
Cleveland Browns. Uh, good luck with that.
<_Jym_>
Jym Dyer
> =v= Wally's newest cheerup strategy is to go see the
> Cleveland Browns. Uh, good luck with that.
Http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20091114&name=Funky_Winkerbean
=v= Baltimore Ravens - 16, Cleveland Browns - 0, if this
website is to be believed:
http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009111600/2009/REG10/ravens@browns/recap
I'm sure Wally had a celebratory time afterwards, in his
apartment with the drawn curtains, multiple six-packs, and
bedside handgun.
<_Jym_>
Disclaimer: I'm not a football fan, but I play one on the Net.