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I keep seeing that the 'cartoon' is coming back. was there an actual cartoon, or is language meaningless?
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bune wrote:I keep seeing that the 'cartoon' is coming back. was there an actual cartoon, or is language meaningless?
I think they're using the term "cartoon" and "comic" interchangeably, not referring to the 1997 TV special.

I also think that the predictions that new Far Side comics are coming are a bit premature. The first thing I thought was that it would start to be distributed digitally (a new classic one per day?), as that's never happened before.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Three brand new installments of The Far Side were published this month:

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/115/taxidermist
There's more, and he's updated the site a bit. There's a nice intro about how he got back into drawing panels, it's worth reading if you're a big fan. And the images are not embeddable, so you'll have to follow the link:

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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He's great. This one still gets me too.

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:please explain
Hamburgers are made from cow.
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Huh?
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The first panel is him getting a text, supposedly, from his GrubHub driver.

But in the second panel, his delivery guy is a stork.
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Okay
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What is the joke
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Jorge wrote:What is the joke
storks don't deliver food, Jorge.
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Storks don't eat babies
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Don't come at me like you're a stork expert. :gomez:
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B that comic fucking sucked
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