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The final Cathy strip (with one last aack), from Oct. 3, 2010
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Buster Keaton was born 131 years ago today, on Oct. 4, 1895
u/Auir2blaze — 11 days ago
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Charlie Chaplin trying to pick up a coin in The Immigrant (1917)
u/Auir2blaze — 15 days ago
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Sunrise (1927) used sets built for forced perspective, with children and smaller actors appearing in the background
u/Auir2blaze — 17 days ago
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An interesting Wizard of Id from 1986
Around that time, the CIA was allegedly assisting Osama bin Laden as part of an effort to undermine the Soviets in Afghanistan
u/Auir2blaze — 20 days ago
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A rare example of a Garfield strip that Garfield didn't appear in (Sept. 5, 1986)
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Heathcliff entertains the cat food convention (Sept. 30, 1986)
u/Auir2blaze — 21 days ago
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Charlie Chaplin in an early non-Tramp role. (Making a Living 1914)
u/Auir2blaze — 26 days ago
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In 1986, Jim Davis held a contest inviting kids to suggest a new character for his strip U.S. Acres. The winning entry was Max the Skateboarding Bird
The contest got around 15,000 entries from elementary school students.
u/Auir2blaze — 27 days ago
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Johann Schwarzer was an Austrian pioneer of "erotic" films, like The Vain Housemaid (1908). His company was raided by police in 1911 and most of his films were destroyed. He died in 1914 while serving in the First World War
u/Auir2blaze — 1 month ago
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A selection of comic strips that ran on Sept. 11, 2011
For context, that Buckles strip contains the actual strip that ran on Sept. 11, 2001.
u/Auir2blaze — 1 month ago
The Mysterious Island (1905) is Georges Méliès's take on The Odyssey, showing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus
u/Auir2blaze — 1 month ago
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For decades Hard Luck (1921) was Buster Keaton's only major lost film. It was reconstructed in 1987, but the ending was still missing. That footage, seen here, was later found in a Russian archive and added in
u/Auir2blaze — 1 month ago
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Even the smallest Family Circus edits are interesting to me
Aside from changing the mother's hair, the only difference is adding "game of" into the caption.
But it makes a difference. The 1987 version feels like it's referencing "electronic tag," like Lazar Tag which was big at the time. Or I guess "electronic tag" might represent how someone born in the 1920s might describe an 8-bit video game, like Pac-Man or something.
By adding a few words, the 2026 version makes the caption about how the kids are playing tag, which predates the electronic age of video games etc. Even though I think the original caption would still work, because no doubt there are a bunch of kids who play "electronic tag" in Roblox or Minecraft or whatever.
u/Auir2blaze — 1 month ago
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The final week of U.S. Acres daily strips from April 1989
In 1986, U.S. Acres got one of the biggest releases of any comic strip, being syndicated to almost 500 papers. Three years later Jim Davis decided to discontinue it because it hadn't really caught on as he'd hoped. Reportedly it was running in around 100 papers by 1989
u/Auir2blaze — 1 month ago