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Hello y'all,

I'm looking for a few (1-3) people willing to moderate this community and keep it active. I am planning on going away for a while, focusing on my studies and future, and avoiding social medias and the brainrot it brings me.

I would love it if the community would retain the same nature it does now, being Condo comics featuring Everett. I can't control what the future moderators will do, though, so kindly let me know if you're interested.

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Hello everetters,

For a while I've been thinking about transcribing the comics I post so more people can enjoy them, but I've never actually transcribed before so I could use some pointers.

I'm very bad at describing anything that isn't dialogue, and I'm unsure if transcribing solely the dialogue is sufficient to get the message across, so maybe with somebody with more experience could voluntarily transcribe the comics at their own convenience? In which case, I would post their transcription in the text body.

If anybody got any suggestions / advice on how to transcribe actions and environment, or if you want to voluntarily transcribe some comics posted here, feel free to let me know in the comments.

Cheers!

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I was looking around for some specific comics, when I ran across an archived version of the 1907 book titled The Outbursts of Everett True. I was going to link directly to the PDF, but thought some people might like the source page better.

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Welcome to c/truecomics (midwest.social)

Hi y'all,

Just wanted to sticky this to let y'all know that this community exists and I am the moderator (also of !madmax@midwest.social). I don't want to be the only one posting so I hope y'all post your favourite True strips in here as well. Also some simple rules:

  1. This place is only for the posting of Everett True comics by Condo,
  2. Please try posting the most high quality image of a comic excerpt,
  3. If you can, post the publication date of the comic strip, otherwise type either nothing or (date unknown).

Okay Everett lovers let's get this twentieth century party started

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This concludes the week in New York for dear Ev

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Originally published 1906-12-24

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Discovered thanks to Rolando's post in the sticky. I actually do think this is worth posting because it's funny. What would y'all do in his situation? Genuine question. WWED (What Would Everetters Do)?

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Originally published 1906-12-23

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Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image slightly cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to post something yourself!

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Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick one yourself and post it!

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Printed 107 years ago today in the Grand Forks Herald. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found the the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a comic from there and post it yourself!

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Several of E.T.'s comics are about the importance of voting. Early voting wasn't a thing back then, but it is now, and it has started in most states. See here: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

btw this is an edit of a cartoon that came out in October 1913, e.g. see this example in The Day Book of Chicago. I love the fact that he's saying "Punk!" in the original.

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Printed 112 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, especially on the letters, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick something from there and post it yourself!

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!

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Originally published 1906-07-19

This concludes the baseball arc!

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Live action Everett True (www.youtube.com)
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Originally published 1906-07-18

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Detroit Times. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site; feel free to look there for something to post yourself!

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Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon from there and post!

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Rolando@lemmy.world to c/truecomics@midwest.social

People sometimes ask why these old comics are still relatable, and part of the answer is: selection bias! Namely, those of us who post them tend to select those that we find relatable. To highlight that, here are all the Everett True comics on the Library of Congress site that came out on October 26 (of various years). These are not cleaned up or even cropped from their newspaper:

SO TO SUMMARIZE, out of 20 candidates, only 4 of these are candidates for selection. I'd probably pick the one related to the dangers of speeding, because it might appeal to the !fuckcars@lemmy.world crowd (of which I am one!) Or maybe the one about tipping, since the image is a lot cleaner. But many of the other ones are dated, some don't make sense, and some even present Everett in a very unflattering light.

Another thing to think about is that this may not be a complete selection of the comics that could be available. Some might only be in newspapers that are not in the Library of Congress' archives. Some might not have been selected for publication by the editors of the papers that are (because I think a batch of comics would be sent to the newspapers periodically, and the editors would then fit one in whenever they had room). And some, like that one example from 1917, might be in such poor condition that it couldn't be cleaned up enough. I think this is a type of survivorship bias, but I'm not sure. ~~Anyway, I hope that was interesting! And if it wasn't, then... OUTBURST.jpg.~~

EDIT: I should have ended this by saying: as you can see, there are plenty of comics that aren't chosen, but maybe you see some that you think are worthwhile! If so please feel free to post it! Just take a screencap and crop, look for more comics here:

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Printed 103 years ago today in the East Oregonian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Originally published 1906-7-17

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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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