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Old 03-30-2017, 05:17 PM   #1
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The Greatest Geek/Techie Comic Ever


This is the very first of these, starting November 17, 1997, and still going strong.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons...7&mode=classic

Now, everybody can appreciate this genius.
Can I please not offend any one with this "The Gospel of the Geeks"

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Old 03-30-2017, 07:36 PM   #2
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Not bad. I'll keep checking that out. My fave, an surely you know about it is

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Old 03-30-2017, 08:37 PM   #3
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General Protection Fault is still going strong. I used to enjoy it, then it got too weirdly dark or darkly weird even for me.

I haven't looked at it in years; I have to check it out.
 
Old 03-30-2017, 09:04 PM   #4
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I'd be tempted to say xkcd, but although they have SOME really, really, really good ones, most are smart but ultimately not funny. So with that said, I'd have to go with Dilbert, it's one of the only geeky comics other than xkcd that I've ever laughed at.
 
Old 03-30-2017, 09:13 PM   #5
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Even though I used to work in a large organization and appreciate Dilbert, I think it has gone stale.

If we are going to go to non-geeky comics, I'd have to say that I think Non Sequitur is the current best and the fitting heir to The Far Side. I like the humor of Close to Home, but the drawing turns me off.

Classic Peanuts needs to just go away.
 
Old 03-30-2017, 11:27 PM   #6
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Frank & Ernest and Shoe often had some great computer-related zingers
 
Old 03-31-2017, 09:12 PM   #7
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I like Shoe; I also quite like Pearls before Swine. My local rag does not carry Frank and Ernest and I'm too lazy to chase them down on the 'net.
 
Old 03-31-2017, 09:32 PM   #8
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One cartoon I'd love to find a copy of. It was in a New Yorker magazine I read on a plane, sometime in the mid-1970's, flying back from a service call on some piece of computer equipment we serviced. The cartoon frame showed an old computer terminal workstation desk, on the terminal screen was a picture of a fox jumping over a sleeping dog, and the technician was down on the floor working on the innards, telling the office manager "It all checks out OK!"

Computers were not well-known to the public in those days (pre-PC), and I'm sure 95% of people that saw that cartoon just scratched their head, thinking the New Yorker has the weirdest cartoons of any magazine.
 
  


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