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irishbreakfast
05/17/09

In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
Quit waffling on twee: it's never good. It means sugary, overly-precious, diabetic-coma inducing crap that is in bad taste. Think of the bedroom decorations of a 7 year old Paris Hilton, or one of those Christmas-in-July stores you were dragged into by some horrid relative at some time in your poor brutalized childhood. That's twee. You may now continue, but this little vid ain't twee, and don't go there again. Who keeps letting the children out to blog on the weekends?
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skahammer
05/17/09

@irishbreakfast: But what's more twee than being ostentatiously anti-twee, huh?

Also known as the I'm-Not-a-Hipster paradox.
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Awesome X
05/17/09

@irishbreakfast: What's the word for pompous, overly critical, eye-roll inducing comments that are just bad form?
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irishbreakfast
05/17/09

@Awesome X: "entertaining"? and to skahammer: "ostentatiously anti-twee" is my new motto, thanks!
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Awesome X
05/17/09

@irishbreakfast: Douche'.
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El Matardillo
05/17/09

In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
Something tells me that cartoon is the future of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Dickdogfood
05/17/09

@El Matardillo: Yes, but which is Bill and which is Hillary?
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WretchedGnu
05/17/09

In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
In the Ware cosmology, that head is actually a cat's, not a mouse's.
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Foster Kamer
05/17/09

@WretchedGnu: Mousehead, cathead, shrunkenhead. Tomato, tomoto, potato.
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WretchedGnu
05/17/09

In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
Aside from Lynda Barry and Ruben Bolling, Chris Ware is the god of a comic book culture that is otherwise pretty shallow.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
05/17/09

@WretchedGnu:

re: Lynda Barry. If you can catch her on her speaking tour she is a delight. Smart, funny, and interesting. Saw her last summer and she signed copies of her new book What It Is. Awesome book too.
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WretchedGnu
05/17/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: That book is the one thing I haven't seen yet. I used to live in Evanston where she might still live. Got my own signed picture of Marlys playing basketball for some reason.
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Carol Gardens
05/17/09

@WretchedGnu: I could never hate on Chris Ware. Although I enjoy (not quite the word) the equally bleak Rusty Brown and Jimmy Corrigan stories more than Quimby escapades. PS: I would add Dan Clowes to your list.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
05/17/09

@WretchedGnu: "...Marlys playing basketball..."? Heck yeah!
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Perhaps Not
05/17/09

@Carol Gardens: Oh, there are a dozen or so wonderful comics people out there. Charles Burns, Alison Bechdel, David Mazzucchelli, Seth, Scott McCloud, Kyle Baker, Joe Sacco, and Bryan Lee O'Malley, to name a very few. Even some of the ultra-mainstream sci-fi and fantasy stuff is pretty good - has anyone tried Transmetropolitan or the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
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saintjim
05/17/09

In reply to A Healthy Overdose Of Twee
I'm not sure what words I would use to describe that cartoon. But I am sure that "twee" wouldn't be one of them.
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Helman
05/17/09

@saintjim: "horribly sad"?
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limber
05/18/09

@saintjim: On the one hand, I am relieved that it's a mouse and a CAThead, for reasons I can't quite puzzle out.

On the other... Is this more or less alarming than Tom and Jerry? I almost prefer my cartoon animals trying to murder each other, when presented with this unexpected alternative.

And lastly, the music is unexpectedly catchy.
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