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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
Zebediah:
Football in Texas is not a sport, it's a religion. Even at the Pop Warner and high school levels.
Oilman:
Trending back towards comics, if there's an American version of the old style British "sports comic" - Alf Tupper, or Roy of the Rovers - I don't know about it
explicit:
Yeah, that's because Texas. New England gives barely any shits about sports in general. Of course, there is a commitment and we are competitive, but no one gets kicked off a team unless they're 1.) a huge bastard or 2.) there's too many people on the team so someone has to get cut.
And the openness part depends on where you go. Texas is much different from Florida, which is much different from New England, which is much different from California. I also lived in Row Houses for a few years, so there's not exactly much openness in that.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Oilman on 28 Jan 2015, 12:23 ---Trending back towards comics, if there's an American version of the old style British "sports comic" - Alf Tupper, or Roy of the Rovers - I don't know about it
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Closest I can think of that's still clinging to life is "Gil Thorp," ostensibly about the all-sports coach of the Milford Mudlarks, but it spends more time on teen drama and Social Issues (TM) than it does on sports. There were a couple in the 1940s I remember seeing on old microfilms but I can't remember the names.
jwhouk:
There is, of course, Tank McNamara. Bill Hinds (who is now the sole artist/cartoonist, since his cohort Jeff Millar passed away from cancer) takes topical sports issues from the US and tries to play on the absurdity of it all.
Example: Latest edition, regarding the Manning brothers, sitting in a duck blind somewhere in their home state Louisiana:
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