Blondie: caterer Zits dad and Mr. For Better or for Worse: dentist Mrs. For Better for for Worse: bookstore owner (for awhile) Lucy: psychiatrist Mark Trail: naturalist (not to be confused w/naturist) Snoopy: lawyer Wonder Woman: DOJ wonk Mary Worth: apartment manager and all-around gossip Rex Morgan, MD: doctor! Judge Parker: judge!
These probably don't count (Ben says all my comix knowledge comes from 70s tv shows) but give me a C for effort! (Do I hear a D-?)
Re: What about...ossuarianSeptember 8 2008, 04:09:40 UTC
I almost called Dilbert on grounds that Scott Adams was a developer until he was fired for writing Dilbert, so it doesn't break the supposition that software developers are only in comics by software developers.
You're right that I mostly forgot the funny pages and their range of professions. I'm curious about the bookstore in For Better or For Worse, since that comic is very closely autobiographical. In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's father is a patent attorney, so I suppose the legal profession is well represented on the comics pages.
But nobody writes about geeks, so we, as a defense mechanism through no fault of our own, are incredibly self absorbed. If I extended your statement to web comics, it would be like this:
1. Penny Arcade - Two geeks who write and draw a webcomic. 2. Something Positive - A geek who draws a webcomic. 3. Dork Tower - A geek who draws a webcomic. 4. XKCD - Geeky stick figures in grad school (who will one day graduate and become professional on-line cartoonists)
Re: What about...annes3September 8 2008, 12:43:02 UTC
Is that what Calvin's dad does? I thought about him but I wasn't sure. He is a compulsive liar (but in a funny-dad way) so maybe we can't be sure...
I also am not sure what Dennis the Menace's dad does. Dentist? The Wilsons are retired. Dagwood just has some desk jockey job; in the original movies he was a millionaire who had to go to work to support his gold-digging wife, no?
So...all web comix are by geeks, about geeks, for geeks?
I started drawing the comic of my life in a sketchbook. I don't have a job, so I won't include me, but in the most recent one we try to visit a librarian friend (but fail miserably)!
Re: What about...annes3September 8 2008, 12:44:21 UTC
Oh and read "Hi & Lois" (as in "are you the creator of Hi & Lois, because you are making me laugh!") and then read "Pearls Before Swine" today, in that order. Freaky!
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Blondie: caterer
Zits dad and Mr. For Better or for Worse: dentist
Mrs. For Better for for Worse: bookstore owner (for awhile)
Lucy: psychiatrist
Mark Trail: naturalist (not to be confused w/naturist)
Snoopy: lawyer
Wonder Woman: DOJ wonk
Mary Worth: apartment manager and all-around gossip
Rex Morgan, MD: doctor!
Judge Parker: judge!
These probably don't count (Ben says all my comix knowledge comes from 70s tv shows) but give me a C for effort! (Do I hear a D-?)
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You're right that I mostly forgot the funny pages and their range of professions. I'm curious about the bookstore in For Better or For Worse, since that comic is very closely autobiographical. In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's father is a patent attorney, so I suppose the legal profession is well represented on the comics pages.
But nobody writes about geeks, so we, as a defense mechanism through no fault of our own, are incredibly self absorbed. If I extended your statement to web comics, it would be like this:
1. Penny Arcade - Two geeks who write and draw a webcomic.
2. Something Positive - A geek who draws a webcomic.
3. Dork Tower - A geek who draws a webcomic.
4. XKCD - Geeky stick figures in grad school (who will one day graduate and become professional on-line cartoonists)
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I also am not sure what Dennis the Menace's dad does. Dentist? The Wilsons are retired. Dagwood just has some desk jockey job; in the original movies he was a millionaire who had to go to work to support his gold-digging wife, no?
So...all web comix are by geeks, about geeks, for geeks?
I started drawing the comic of my life in a sketchbook. I don't have a job, so I won't include me, but in the most recent one we try to visit a librarian friend (but fail miserably)!
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About bloody time.
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