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THIS WEEK'S COMIC: DOOMED TO REPEAT

Paul Krugman's blog post "History Roolz," posted today at 10:17 AM, has an eerie thematic similarity to this week's comic, posted today at 1:00 PM (but completed and submitted over two days ago).

 

He even ends his column with a reference to the "condemned to repeat" history line -- I titled my comic "Doomed to Repeat" (mine is the less accurate reference, but I liked it).

 

Could make for an awkward moment by the punchbowl at the New York Times / Boing Boing Christmas Party this year.

 

THIS WEEK'S COMIC

 

 

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BONUS TOM THE DANCING BUG: "Shluff! It Sleeps Among Us!"

In honor of my being tired today:

 

 

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Another great comics reprint book

"Sugar & Spike" was a comic book by Sheldon Mayer that started in the 1950s, about two toddlers whose babytalk was fully understandable to each other, but sounded like gibberish to adults.  (This device was later used in the cartoon series "Rugrats.")

 

It was a great comic book that I remember well from when I was a kid in the 1970s.  It's seldom seen any reprintings, so it's great to see this released.  But DC gave it the full prestige Archives treatment, so the cover price is $59.99.  But I wish they had found a way to make it more popularly priced (by making it softcover, for example) so that kids, and not just adult-nerd-collectors could enjoy it.

 

You can buy it here.

 

 

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Comment. Of. The. Week!

On the gocomics page, "donaldo" admitted:

 

"At last the australopithecine is back. The only reason I didn’t request him back for weeks was because I couldn’t spell it."

Lost Works of a Master

Can't wait to read this.

 

Carl Barks was one of the greatest cartoonists ever, famous for his revered Donald Duck comic books.  But he also did some obscure comics using the MGM cartoon characters, and they're now available in this new book.

 

The Barks Bear Book

 

 

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Charley: Sex and the Single Australopithecine

Bonus comic from the Pliocene Epoch of Tom the Dancing Bug... one of the very first Charley comics.

 

 

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A friendly reminder...

... about the tip jar.

 

thanks

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OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON: I SEE YOU

Michiko Kakutani's review of Ron Suskind's book "Confidence Men," including this passage,

 

"Mr. Geithner — whom one top banker quoted in these pages refers to as 'our man in Washington' for helping avert more systemic changes affecting Wall Street — denies that he obstructed or slow-walked any presidential directive...."

 

reminded me of this comic from early last year, when "Avatar" was all the rage...

 

 

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with all precincts reporting, we can now announce a winner

The winner of the t-shirt vote is... God-Man!

 

 

It really shouldn't have been much of a surprise.  Deities and deity-superheroes are notoriously difficult to beat in popular elections, as this very early Tom the Dancing Bug (actually, pre-God-Man) demonstrates.

 

 

Now I've got to do the fun work of designing the God-Man t-shirt.  Stay tuned.

 

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