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Mikael Bergkvist
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Has any comic actually had you laugh out loud? Is there any comic that still stands out as the funniest thing you ever read?
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John Byrne
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MAD used to be able to find my funny bone. I read the early comics in paperbacks in the Sixties.
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Steven Brake
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@JB: Your showing the "4" logo on Weed Witchards costume as a golfer shouting "Fore!" in What The? #2, "My Badguy, My Enemy! never fails to crack me up. :)
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Jean-Michel Walker
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Calvin and Hobbes. I used to read the collected volumes on the NYC subway in my 20s. I'd get very disgruntled looks from passengers.
From superhero comics, Fantastic Four #55, p.2; the Thing saying; "My religion's got nothing to do with it." Also p.10 panel 2 from the same issue.
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Dave Kopperman
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I'd laugh at pretty much anything as a kid. As an adult, the only comic that reliably made me not just chuckle but laugh my ass off was Kyle Baker's Plastic Man.
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John Byrne
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Have you read any of the Jack Cole originals, Dave?
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Dave Kopperman
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Most definitely, though admittedly not more than about a dozen issues or so. They were a favorite of my mom's so I got them fairly young. Cole is obviously genius nonpareil, though humor is one of those things that is a) highly subjective, and b) frequently period/context specific, so I confess to finding the Baker issues funnier in the moment.
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One of the checkmarks in the 'pro' column for Hugh Hefner was him bringing Cole in for Playboy work, which was no doubt a major payday.
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James Woodcock
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Calvin and Hobbes remains my favourite humour comic strip.
The aforementioned WHAT THE? Issue 2 is the funniest mainstream comic I
have ever read. I was genuinely shocked to discover JB could be so funny.
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Brian ONeill
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The funniest thing I ever read in MAD was a piece by Don Martin(and Don Edwing) on comics sound effects. The array of 'throwing up' onomatopaeia that accompanied 'Andy Capp drinking water by mistake' almost killed me!
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John Byrne
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One of the checkmarks in the 'pro' column for Hugh Hefner was him bringing Cole in for Playboy work, which was no doubt a major payday.••• Many a moon ago I was discussing page rates with a fellow pro of my generation. He complained that Marvel’s rate was (then) $50 per page, while he knew PLAYBOY paid twenty or more times that for a full page cartoon. So, he said, Marvel would only get $50 worth of work from him, while if he did a job for PLAYBOY he would give them $1000 worth. I felt his logic was flawed. What if that $1000 was PLAYBOY’s lowest rate. If they gave him a raised, would he be able to give them more? He had no real answer.
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Mikael Bergkvist
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One would think continuity and frequence matters. I suspect that Marvel would offer more work, more consistently, than Playboy ever would. And also, why not do both?
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