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You're A Good Man, Marten Reed
Border Reiver:
Looking at both strips as a whole there are broad similarities - the first one that comes to my mind is the fact that I've seen and read 'em all. The second being that the characters are truly engaging and well defined, but none of them are cut-outs, everyone is has more than one characteristic, and only rarely can you absolutely say what's gonna happen next.
DSL:
Correct. One thing Schulz had going for him was a mass market ... Literally millions of people. Much harder to break in, what with syndicates and editors and other gatekeepers and all, but the end result for the folks who " made it" was to occupy one of a few slots with.a nationwide, even global, reach. First cable, then the web, led to fragmenting the audience; the whole nation doesn't listen to Arthur Godfrey or watch Johnny Carson or read For Better or For Worse anymore. Success for web material generally means a smaller, but more intensely loyal, audience.
And of course, I'm being facetious about the merch. Though I hope Jeph's one day in a position to buy a Gulfstream if he wants.
Coffee_Kaioken:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 29 Nov 2011, 11:41 ---You couldn't relate to Calvin?
or Hobbes?
Daaaaaaaang...
--- End quote ---
Rephrase: Calvin and Hobbes is DEFINITELY enjoyable. There is some relatibility/relatability/however it's spelled, it's just not Peanuts or QC.
LoveJaneAusten:
QC is nothing like Peanuts save for facile character analogies. Peanuts relies on the innocence and naïveté of children to create the main conceit of the strip, and witty and insulting repartee barely makes an appearance. Sardonic humor, levied by one character against another, is not a prime function in Peanuts - the closest Peanuts comes is the "blockhead" refrain more common in the first three decades of the strip, but this lacks the back-and-forth banter fundmental to QC. Peanuts does not valorize invective.
Furthermore, a Venn diagram of the content of the two comics would look like a figure 8. Sex, relationship drama, working drudgery, parents, and all the topics belabored daily in QC are foreign to Peanuts. Similarities in the content are superficial and not meaningful in any way.
Even the character analogies are shallow. To say that, for example, Pintsize is like Snoopy because he occasionally confounds his owner is not a profound comparison.
--- Quote from: akronnick on 29 Nov 2011, 07:39 ---The multi-episode story arc thing is relatively new phenomenon.
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Multiple, episodic story arcs is by no means a new phenomenon in any media. The Orlando Furioso was published almost 500 years ago, and it contains several strings of characters and events playing out their plots simultaneously.
edit: The more I think about comparing the two comics, the wronger the comparison gets :-D
DSL:
So stop thinking about it and leave others to their fun.
:-D
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