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@Austin_Dern I... I... it took me much longer than expected to figure out if what I was seeing on their (rather Web 0.1) homepage was a brilliant satire of a really dull and hilariously stereotypical fictional long-running comic... or just a really dull comic.
I mean, I genuinely read through six or seven strips and still was leaning towards "clever satire," a la the "Castle Funnies" from Strong Bad 181 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Apf122RI_Y ). I think a big part of it was the weirdly archaic and inconsistent typography. It looks like it was typeset by a Subgenius with a hangover, for a Kiwanis bowling league newsletter...
Boy, that sure is a comic strip all right. Got little guys in it and words and everything. *charitable smile*
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@zebratron2084 Oh yeah, I forgot the Jim Davis connection. ...
You know, this has got me wondering how neither the Walker/Brown nor the Hart/Parker teams ever did an Old West comic strip.
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@Austin_Dern Oops, wrong Strong Bad e-mail! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09XSC425Ag
snark; tumbleweeds o_o
@zebratron2084 I appreciate their keeping their 'Netscape has an HTML editor now!' style. I don't know that Tumbleweeds was the first comic to go to computer-typeset dialogue but it was certainly the first one to use 'whatever the default font in Text Editor on Mac System 6 is', and stick with that until the comic ended in 2007.
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@Austin_Dern I feel like this explains quite a few things: "Jim Davis, who created Garfield, was Ryan's assistant (from 1969 to 1978) while developing another strip, Gnorm Gnat."