Today's comic strip beatdown: Em

bad as this is, "The Omnipresent" is infinitely more deserving of an LBZC funthread

http://www.emcartoons.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=139

they do comics about ILX now? lololololololol

oh wait this ties in with that kooky swedish girl thread you started the other week dom

It's just... there are no jokes in this comic whatsoever. It's like the kind of banal "light-hearted" chat you'd share with a new flatmate before you worked out what their sense of humour was like, combined with the stand-up comedy routine of idiots.

http://www.emcartoons.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=32

"thelondonpaper"

what i will agree with is that there is far too much handwringing arts-yuppie pander in the free london newspaper comic canon, but this is unfortunately to be expected

Would you expect any less from thelondonpaper? I have hardly any idea what thelondonpaper is but I'm sure thelondonpaper is the worst shit ever from thelondonpaper name alone.

It ties into that whole Peep Show Conservative thing me and my LBZC homies talk about when we're on a cultural tip, the London free papers are a mix of effette liberal handwringing bullshit in the culture section (CSS, Josie Long, dating websites where you're matched up with people depending on how cute you find a picture of a panda), and reactionary right-wing bullshit in the news sections. It's just our generation right now, maaaaaan.

"SEBASTIAN!! MAYBE IF WE DON'T USE THE SPACEBAR, IT COULD BE CONSIDERED AN ORIGINAL IDEA??"

Uhhhh...every free city paper in the world is like that, Dom.

Okay LJ what is "The Omnipresent" and where can I find it? I am starting to get hooked on this shit, in the same way that edgy teenage goths get hooked on autopsy photos.

"The Omnipresent" is a cartoon found in The Metro (London), a cartoon which defies all previous notions of how lamely unfunny it is possible to be. I might have a scout around online but I warn you, this shit is to use your own expression weapons-grade.

I'm not sure I really dislike Em, though it's certainly not funny. I guess it's not meant to be funny, but somehow slightly realistic.

At first I thought it was called 'Em' ie 'E minor', a musical chord.

Even the slightly creepy Em fans hate on The Omnipresent

That cartoon in the London Lite the name of which escapes me but is basically lol at chav kids is far worse than anything in thelondonpaper or Metro.

Does Private Eye still run Yobs?

Private Eye still runs *everything* more or less

i've begun to really fucking hate private eye.

I don't think any of the humorous content of Private Eye has actually changed since its inception (or at least since Peter Cook stopped being involved), has it?

It's Grim Up North (London) truly is the excelsior thread of comic strips

The complete lack of a mouth in one frame bothers me.

When I was in my late teens, I read Private Eye every week, and our local priest (a friend of my mum's) said: "yes, I went through a phase of enjoying Private Eye when I was your age". Now, I read it occasionally, and I know what he meant.

Same here, but I think I probably started earlier. Pretty sure that, even when I was 11 or 12, I could tell that Yobs was fucking dregs.

Except without the whole local priest thing, obv.

And the obv., come to think of it.

I'm not sure Yobs had started when I first read Private Eye - but then, this was back in the days of The Secret Diary Of John Major.

The Secret Diary Of John Major..... which was generally quite good as I recall. Though not as good as 'Dear Bill'.

Never really liked the 'St. Albion's Parish News' thing. And the Gordon Brown one is pretty poor as well (though it looks like we won't have to endure it for too long).

I think Yobs has been going since the 80s.

I once read a Tony Husband strip parodying Oasis called something like 'We're Bigger Than Fookin' Oasis'. It was in a porn mag

The Gordon-Brown-Stalin one is pretty dire, and I never got into St Albion's Parish News either. Dear Bill was classic, and I liked the 90s one-panel cartoon series "101 uses for a John Major" - as a punting pole, for example.

That cartoon in the London Lite the name of which escapes me but is basically lol at chav kids is far worse than anything in thelondonpaper or Metro.

-- Colonel Poo, Friday, 4 July 2008 14:06 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Just had a look through a copy we had lying around, it's "The Kids Of Today" by Neil Kerber.

lol he's the dude who does "Supermodels" in Private Eye :-/

And those fucking awful football cartoons on the Mirror sports pages

damn him

bad as this is, "The Omnipresent" is infinitely more deserving of an LBZC funthread

-- Just got offed, Friday, 4 July 2008 13:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

CHRIS
ROY
TAYLOR

AN AUSSIE

KING BOY PATO YOUR COUNTRY HAS SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR

HERE IS HIS WEBSITE

HOLY FUCK

seriously this guy fills me with the most unspeakable rage and i know very little about him save that he draws the shittiest comics known to man

The worst crime of all 3 London free papers is having unsolveable Sudoku puzzles.
The lazy cheapskate gits just remove most of the numbers at random rather than employ someone to actually create a puzzle that people can use logic to work out.

Most cartoons in newspapers are rubbish. Em is slightly better than average.