Marmaduke is a newspaper comic strip drawn by Brad Anderson from 1954 to the present day. The strip was created by Anderson, with help from Phil Leeming (1955-1962) and later Dorothy Leeming (1963-1969). The strip revolves around the Winslow family and their Great Dane, Marmaduke.
Basically, its boring and campy. But...
A guy, Joe Mathlete, decided to start a fansite where he explains today's Marmaduke in 500 words or less.
Marmaduke is an asshole. Monday, December 11th, 2006
Marmaduke receives oversized Christmas cards from the marketing arms of Woofs, Barfoo, and several other popular dog food conglomerates every year (in addition to numerous other seasonal greetings from unknown, possibly non-corporate acquaintances). He then displays said cards on the outside of his doghouse, primarily to fuck with his owner-couple, who are virtually friendless after years of Marmaduke's arbitrary rampages. Sunday, December 10, 2006
Marmaduke is plotting a bit of quaint, 1940s-level yuletide date rape. Thursday, December 07, 2006
Marmaduke, like Michael Jackson and Michelle Tanner before him, has vastly eclipsed the other members of his family in terms of popularity. Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Marmaduke has responded to his owner-lady's poultry-based holiday dinner menu with threats of Hitchcockian animal-rights activism. Owner-Lady regrets her candor. they are hilarious.
Like Doonseberry or whatever that bullshit is. The worst part about that comic is not that the stories are lame and boring but that the drawings look like shit.
On December 13 2006 14:21 CharlieMurphy wrote: Like Doonseberry or whatever that bullshit is. The worst part about that comic is not that the stories are lame and boring but that the drawings look like shit.
If you don't like Doonesbury.. I don't know what to tell you. It's a classic, and it is consistently funnier than most of the other strips I see. The humor is always sharp and topical, and the drawings are really very good, just stylized.
"Jon's father is such a dyed-in-the-wool hayseed that he can only think of women as breeding stock, and on top of that, absurdly evaluates them using livestock-judging criteria. That's solid enough, but elevating the primary gag is Jon's bored here-we-go-again response. In panel 2, he suddenly remembers his father is insane. His expression in the remaining panels is that of a man disappointed: with his father, and with himself, for thinking for those fleeting seconds that this conversation could be normal. He was calling his father for approval, because he has finally achieved modest success in a basic area of human life, and all he got was a white slavery joke.
Garfield, too, lets us know he understands the joke of the senior Arbuckle's questions. But since he has no vested interest in Jon's dad's reaction, Garfield instead responds to Jon's weary disgust. And it makes him happy. These things matter to cats."
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