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Cow & Boy by Mark Leiknes



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btw… Who is going to let me help you be happy today? . Which one of you “Cash-Giving Souls” will it be?

I like to read these to fall asleep.

Back in the day every bookstore seemed to have several shelves of comic collections.

Nowadays you're lucky to get Garfield #241, the Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts uber-massive tomes, and Pearl Before Swine (which for some reason I can't stand.)

If I look around online I can see there are some others, including a few of those I find in my newspaper. But it's pretty pathetic especially when I consider the world of webcomics which is so richly flourishing.

But webcomics, being ad-driven generally, post at best one strip a page. I'd pay something to get behind a paywall where I could view a physical book's worth of strips at once on an iPad. I'd pay more to actually be able to get the book.
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Nowadays you're lucky to get Garfield #241

And that would be proof that if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

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Nowadays you're lucky to get Garfield #241

And that would be proof that if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all.

It’s ironic that I read Garfield in the Purdue paper when it first came out - and didn’t think much of it.
As I got older, I shared the view that they were pretty much pathetic and not funny, even as a multi-cat
owner.

I came across some of the earlier books (less than #25) at Goodwill, just a few, and I got them for 25 cents each, and… they were very funny! And then I started reading them more regularly AND taking a look at the site “Garfield Without Garfield” and some of the genius of the strip began to really become apparent - same as Peanuts, Calvin and for that matter, the strip above - Cow & Boy.

Having made a HUGE transition to include web comics into my day each day — I REALLY appreciate the value of the effort some of these people put forth. It’s got to be a serious bitch to make a strip each day - and there aren’t a lot on the web that update every day, let alone 5 days a week.

Even with big strips having other writers/artists (not just because the original creator is ancient… but I wonder if strips like Garfield are still actually handled by Jim Davis — though we already know that Dilbert is, and not every one of those is a winner, but Adams writes it every day, and I’ve NEVER seen a rerun in during the entire 20+ years.

I have a few of those giant collections (Calvin & Dilbert) - and I hate TOUCHING THEM — they are like works of art. Frustration because Calvin’s 3 volumes contains comics I’ve never seen before. I never EVER read Calvin when it first appeared in 1985 - it wasn’t until ~2001 that I read three of the “treasury” collections that I was sorry I missed them every day, but glad I didn’t have to wait for 1 a day for 10 years!

In 2005, I was at a bar in Atlanta that had, of all things, a “book exchange” shelf. They opened early for lunch, so I guess it was there for people to read. I walked in one day - and the first 40 books of Doonsebury were there.

I had never read but a few, and the few I read, generally tended to irritate me in a “non-patriotic way.” Well, I grabbed them all, started at the beginning (and for a Nixon fan, to read all the early ones, really required something) - but it was about then that my appreciation for PJ O’Rourke started to come around (and even Nixon liked PJ, and really like Parliament of @#$%&, and reviewed it!) and… lo and behold, I became a Doonesbury fan - not just after an understanding of the eyes of the 1969 student (having two brothers that spanned the era, I had my eyes forced open to everything at a young age, from draft lotteries and how uptight the household was, to the views of a 1965 high school graduate being discussed around a pre-schooler, who heard, saw it on the news/Sundays, never understood, but was putting it all together at a very young age).

So now I read them all — perhaps not every day, but I catch up. No Dick Tracy type stuff, or super heros, just pure comedy or the occasional hybrid strips like Doonesbury and Ted Rall (especially when he shows up in MAD).

Which is the comic book that comes back to the beginning - inheriting hand-me-down MADs, the one comic book my mother DIDN’T throw away that belonged to all three of us. Why? Because SHE was reading MAD in the late 50s because my oldest bro had them around.

The earliest tangible copy in my collection is #20. One day, I hope to re-collect the first 100, in near mint - just because.