THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Himu on November 18, 2008, 05:43:10 PM
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Because that'd rock. I'm looking through amazon here, looking for a potential Xmas gift, and all I see are random collections but nothing complete. I guess asking for something like that is going overboard, considering how long it lasted no?
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the chris ware designed fantagraphics books are good
you may want to look into the older out of print Kitchen Sink editions.
i recall liking them, but not as much as the fantagraphics ones
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What are the fantagraphic books?
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the current publisher of the Krazy Kat collections
http://www.amazon.com/Krazy-Ignatz-1925-1926-Furfur-waay/dp/1560973862/ref=pd_sim_b_2
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The comic started in 1913 and ended in 44 according to wiki. Are all the volumes not out yet?
Ergh, my bad. Amazon just fucked up on the page listing all the volumes. It only lists the volumes from the 20s to 1941. The other volumes are out, just not on that page.
EDIT 2: There *is* only 1 volume of pre-1925 stuff :-/ that's a decade of missing strips.
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i can't imagine trying to find good sources for all of those strips was a fun job.
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One of the reviews says this:
Numerous publishing companies have attempted to reprint the strip. Unfortunately, the undertaking seems somewhat cursed (much akin to the "Don Quixote" legend in the world of film). Eclipse attempted to reprint all of the Krazy Kat Sunday pages. They made it to 1924 and then aborted the series. Some time after Fantagraphics picked up where Eclipse dropped off.
So apparently Eclipse did print the old shit, it's just out of print (and not even listed on Amazon, which is odd).
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buy the fanta popeye hardcovers
they are awesome
popeye is kind of a mean fucker
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One of the reviews says this:
Numerous publishing companies have attempted to reprint the strip. Unfortunately, the undertaking seems somewhat cursed (much akin to the "Don Quixote" legend in the world of film). Eclipse attempted to reprint all of the Krazy Kat Sunday pages. They made it to 1924 and then aborted the series. Some time after Fantagraphics picked up where Eclipse dropped off.
So apparently Eclipse did print the old shit, it's just out of print (and not even listed on Amazon, which is odd).
i thought it was one of Dennis Kitchen's pet projects as well. maybe he just sold them. i dunno. it was a while ago.
buy the fanta popeye hardcovers
they are awesome
popeye is kind of a mean fucker
thimble theater is the absolute shit.
as is Annie.
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Because of this thread, I bought all those Krazy Kat volumes AND the complete Calvin and Hobbes, which I had been putting off.
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but no popeye
smh arf arf
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but no popeye
smh arf arf
You made that post after I had already gone out to buy shit. Plus, no offense, I can't see myself liking Popeye. The current comic strip is terrible anb Popeye cartoons were always my least favorite and omg that terrible live action version.
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ec segar popeye is nothing, and i mean nothing, like the cartoons or the current comic strip (which changed after segar died, to reflect the tone of the cartoons)
it is a comedy-adventure strip with some sly social commentary
popeye is kind of an asshole who starts fights for no real reason a lot of the time
plus, no spinach
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Really? No spinach? I never knew. I'm going to see if I can hunt some of these down online to see if they fit my tastes.
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well, there's a little spinach later on, but it isn't really used in the way they used it in the cartoons
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it's radically different
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Because of this thread, I bought all those Krazy Kat volumes AND the complete Calvin and Hobbes, which I had been putting off.
:bow himu-chan :bow2
How much did all those Krazy Kat volumes total up to?
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Really? No spinach? I never knew. I'm going to see if I can hunt some of these down online to see if they fit my tastes.
Oh please. Popeye fights random Mexicans in the old cartoons! Some of those cartoons are classics!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylfBazTgAVQ
Let's look at the facts:
1. Popeye makes a whale into his own boat.
2. Popeye beats up any Mexican that looks at him the wrong way.
3. Look at that drinking contest. LOOK AT IT.
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the first few years of the popeye cartoon are great, and capture a little bit of the spirit of the comic strip
at the beginning he is sort of a mean fucker in those, too
it started to go downhill in the WWII years
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they changed studios, didn't they?
i need to get the complete milton caniff books as well
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yeah, the fleischers were bought out by a company which evolved into famous studios, which put out those awful popeye cartoons from the late 40s and into the 1950s - you know, the ones with the ugly nephews who all looked like midget popeyes