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In a 2006 poll conducted by Gawker.com asking, 'Do you now find — or have you ever found — The Funny Pages funny?', 92% of 1824 voters answered 'No.'

Daniel Clowes, creator of seminal and contro versial comic series Eightball, is currently producing the serial Mister Wonderful for the New York Times Magazine’s The Funny Pages. Previous contributors include:

Megan Kelso’s Watergate Sue

Seth’s George Sprott (1894-1975)

Jaime Hernandez’s La Maggie La Loca [Direct links to PDFs]
01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10
11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20

Chris Ware’s Building Stories [Direct links to PDFs]
01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10
11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20 Publish Post
21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30

The NYT also presents a slideshow exploring the medium of comics featuring Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco, Chester Brown, and previous Funny Pages contributors Seth and Chris Ware.
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if charlie parker was a gunslinger…

“ Section 163 of the Canadian Criminal Code provides the country’s legal definition of “obscenity” : 163. (1) Every one commits an offense who (a) makes, prints, publishes, distributes, circulates, or has in his possession for the purpose of publication, distribution or circulation any obscene written matter, picture, model, phonograph record or other thing whatever; or (b) makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells or has in his possession for the purposes of publication, distribution or circulation a crime comic.

— What’s obscene in Canada?

“ A razor company once invited George Bernard Shaw to shave his famous beard. He responded with a postcard: Gentlemen: I shall never shave, for the same reason that I started a beard, and for the reason my father started his. I remember standing at his side, when I was five, while he was shaving for the last time. “Father,” I asked, “Why do you shave?” He stood there for a full minute and finally looked down at me. “Why the hell do I?” he said.

— Overruled | Futility Closet

if charlie parker was a gunslinger,
there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats: Old New York #10

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