favourite cartoons and cartoonists

Ode to a Grasshopper · Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:49 am

Anime is basically the animated version of manga, is all. I think most Japanese comics are manga, but presumably Japan has some sort of non-manga comics too, I don't know.
Do you remember that comic book store we saw last Saturday? The comic book style ones were manga, but the videos/DVDs were anime.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:55 am

Aah ok, I think

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:19 am

So, what can I say hasn't been said before? I like:

1) Far Side - I have all 16 off-the-wall calendars, which equates to ((365-52) + 3) * 16 = 5056 cartoons, some of which are repeats, but still hysterically funny. I really can't think of my favourite right now, but one of them has to be: Two deer walking in the forest. A hunter lurks in the bushes, aiming his rifle at the one with the gigantic bullseye on its butt. The other deer is commenting to the unfortunate: "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal"

2) Peanuts - has noone mentioned this yet? Great stuff, sadly Charles M. Schultz is no longer with us

3) Garfield - classic in all senses. I have sooo many books, I might just have to go re-read them NOW

Also Asterix, Tintin, Calvin & Hobbes, Hagar the Horrible, Dilbert, it's only the really "adult" cartoons (either sex-filled or boring people talking about their office jobs - soap-cartoons

) that I can't stand.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:52 am

Originally posted by Kameleon
Dilbert

I forgot to mention my favourite, and Dilbert is it, the humour is great, when i was on a training course the head of it was exactly like Dilberts boss.

I also liked the conversion to television, that was also very funny.

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:32 am

I don't see what's so funny about Dilbert.
The humor isn't appealing to me at all. Guess I'm one of the few that feels this way.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:39 am

Originally posted by Rob-hin
I don't see what's so funny about Dilbert.
The humor isn't appealing to me at all. Guess I'm one of the few that feels this way.

Have you ever worked in an office building or had a boss? Most of the humour is geared towards working people, in my opinion.

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:48 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
Have you ever worked in an office building or had a boss? Most of the humour is geared towards working people, in my opinion.

Dilbert strikes a chord with folks because it says a lot of thing they think, but can't say because they'll get fired.

Unfortunately, Dilbert is one of those comic strips that has about five different jokes and tells variations of them over and over again. Cathy is another strip that does this.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:51 am

Originally posted by HighLordDave
Unfortunately, Dilbert is one of those comic strips that has about five different jokes and tells variations of them over and over again. Cathy is another strip that does this.

I think that is the way with most cartoons, i only usually see the Garfield and Dilbert one's and that is every few months so the jokes don't get boring for me

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:51 am

@MrSleep

Yes, but not in a cube like in Dilbert.
I woudn't be able to stand it. Give an office and a company car to drive to my clients. Then I'm happy.

I think Dilbert is more American oriented. It , to me, shows how it works in big office buildings in America. Europe is too different IMO.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:56 am

Re: @MrSleep

Originally posted by Rob-hin
Yes, but not in a cube like in Dilbert.
I woudn't be able to stand it. Give an office and a company car to drive to my clients. Then I'm happy.

I think Dilbert is more American oriented. It , to me, shows how it works in big office buildings in America. Europe is too different IMO.

Fortunately i am not positioned in one of those either, i get a fairly even amount of space

You are right, it is orientated to America but some of the jokes about bosses ring true wherever you work

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 7:06 am

Re: Re: @MrSleep

Originally posted by Mr Sleep

Fortunately i am not positioned in one of those either, i get a fairly even amount of space

You are right, it is orientated to America but some of the jokes about bosses ring true wherever you work

Yeah, I guess they are the same everywhere.

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 12:16 pm

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Manga, IIRC, refers to the Japanese comic books in the particular style. Manga is also, as Tam has said, the name of a company which holds a fierce monopoly on the anime market.
Anime is the animated equivalent of manga, often the animation styles and events in anime will differ from the manga from which it's based.
Aside from that there are various categories of anime/manga, hentai, bishounen, and bishouju(sp?) are the only ones I know of. Kid can probably tell you more than me.

Well Sleep, Tammy and Ode are right about manga. Manga is a name of a corp; yet manga now used as nick for Japanese comics.

Anime is the nick given to Japanese cartoon animations. Mostly there are 2 type of anime : shounen anime and shoujo anime. Shounen anime targeted most male viewer; example : Saint Seiya, Slam Dunk, Fist of the North Star (Hokutono Ken), etc. While Shounen anime targeted most female viewer; example : Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon R, Card Captor Sakura, Curious Play (Fushigi Yuugi), etc.

Hentai is an anime which have lots of sex scene, well sometimes the scenes are very disturbing

Example : Urotsukoji (Legend of Overfiend)
Yet some anime also have certain adult scenes, i.e. Kameshennin breasts frenzy (in Dragon Ball Z)

Bishounen : Pretty or good looking male - shounen is Japanese word for male

Bishoujo : Pretty or good looking female - shoujo is Japanese word for female

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 2:53 pm

Originally posted by Rob-hin
I don't see what's so funny about Dilbert.
The humor isn't appealing to me at all. Guess I'm one of the few that feels this way.

I agree Rob-hin, I don't find Dilbert especially funny and like HLD says, it's a lot of recycling of the same jokes. I have had a variety of different jobs, including office jobs, but I don't recognise myself or my job situation is Dilbert, and if I did that would not be funny at all, that would be a reason to quit.

It's just not my kind of humour - at least we are two!

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 5:34 am

Originally posted by KidD01
Bishounen : Pretty or good looking male - shounen is Japanese word for male

Bishoujo : Pretty or good looking female - shoujo is Japanese word for female

Well I'm learning new words today too

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 12:34 pm

I don't want to picky, but I'd like to correct a few things.

"Manga" is originally a straight translation for comic book/pictures; the pictures of funny/comical scenes. So, the non-Japanese comics are also called Manga in Japan. "Anime" is just shorten version of Animation: It's just too long for ordinary, non-English speaking people to use

. There is a translation, as foreign language was banned during 1930s-45 (therefore, baseball uses mixture of Japanese and Japanese-English), but it came back.

@Kid9135873152: Shounen=boy and Shoujo=girl. You should be worried if someone refer you as a Shounen.

The reason many grown-ups (particularly male) read *only* Manga all the time is their mental capacity is just as young as boys...