Everett True Comics

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Looking for new moderators (midwest.social)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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Question for the Everetters on transcriptions (midwest.social)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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Welcome to c/truecomics (midwest.social)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi y'all,

Just wanted to sticky this to let y'all know that this community exists and I am the moderator (also of [email protected]). 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:

This place is only for the posting of Everett True comics by Condo,
Please try posting the most high quality image of a comic excerpt,
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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Everett True knows his place (October 28, 1915) (lemmy.world)

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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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Everett True doesn't take life too seriously (October 27, 1920) (lemmy.world)

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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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Everett True and Selection Bias (Links to 20 cartoons!) (lemmy.world)

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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:

Everett True doesn't give up his seat! 1905. Inconsistent with how he acts in future years
Everett True complains to Mrs True 1906. A candidate for selection
Everett True berates an employee 1908. Not very good behavior.
Everett True discusses tariffs. 1910. Kind of relevant to current US politics. But the joke isn't that great.
Everett True objects to a preacher's language. 1910. Probably more relevant back in the day.
Everett True pushes past a guy. 1914. Kind of funny, but not really all that exciting
Everett True wants to get waited on. 1914. Maybe kind of relateable... not really though.
Everett True objects to a card game. 1914. I don't really get it, but I don't play cards...
Everett True doesn't do chores. 1916. Only slightly relateable
Everett True objects to a dating couple. 1916. wtf?
Everett True beats up a drunk who doesn't buy a Liberty Loan. 1917. Kind of dated.
Everett True beats up another guy who didn't buy a Liberty Bond. 1917. Also kind of dated. Note that the quality of this image is very poor.
Everett True beats up a guy who wakes him up. 1918. Dated, kind of...
Everett True objects to tipping. 1918. Very relevant, though they seemed to tip differently back then. A candidate for selection.
Everett True freaks out on the phone. 1921. I don't really get this one, I think he was listening to "hold music"?
Everett True gets called to bail out a friend who was speeding. 1921. A candidate for selection.
Everett True can't get a word in. 1921. A candidate for selection.
Everett True irritates Mrs True. 1921. Would be a candidate for selection but I'm not crazy about Mrs True referring to his "brutality" - it sounds like he's abusive (which he isn't shown to be).
Everett True has gout. 1922. Wat is gout? I thought only Kings of England got it. Seems dated.
Everett True hates jazz. 1922. seems weird. I think jazz back then was like rock n roll was later on?

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 [email protected] 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.

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Everett True doesn't like glaring headlights (October 25, 1921) (lemmy.world)

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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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Everett True meets a sealion (October 24, 1919) (lemmy.world)

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Printed 105 years ago today in The Daily Graphic (Pine Bluff, Arkansas.) Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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