Do comic strip writers steal each others strips? Look...
Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:10 pm
How is it that they happened to have pretty much the exact same gag on the exact same day. It is april fools... so is it an April fools joke? No other strip I've looked at has it.
Check em out here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _uc/latest
One is called foxtrot and the other is called pearls before swine.
Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:14 pm
Perhaps they are both drawn by the same person? Any idea on the strip writer's name/s?
Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:15 pm
I know another strip that has it, hold on, let me get an image.
This one is called Get Fuzzy, it is my favorite comic of all time.
This one is called Get Fuzzy, it is my favorite comic of all time.
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Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:19 pm
Different writers/artists then although I do notice that both are "Dist. by USF. Inc.". Hmmm.
Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:10 pm
It's probably an April Fools joke... The comic strip makers are all friends, and like to play tricks on their distributers... Once they switched comics for a day...
Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:39 pm
More likley a joke.
Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:25 pm
It is just an April Fool's day joke. Foxtrot, Get Fuzzy, etc are all great comics. They wouldn't steal from each other. 
Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:19 pm
Yes, they're buddies... I think it's sort of an april fools thing today.
Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:21 pm
I remember an April Fool's joke a few years back when all the characters of comic strips switched places. Garfield was at Blondie's or something like that and Snoopy was in Garfield's...yada yada yada. 
Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:15 pm
It's No Joke (Actually, It Is): Three April Fools' Comics Share Same Theme
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp ... 1000864852
By Dave Astor
Published: April 01, 2005 updated 4:05 PM ET
NEW YORK At least three cartoonists did April Fools' Day comics containing similar content.
Today's "FoxTrot," "Get Fuzzy," and "Pearls Before Swine" strips shared a Ouija-board theme.
"It is an odd coincidence," quipped "FoxTrot" creator Bill Amend, adding that he was too close to deadline on future strips to speak more with E&P about the matter.
"Pearls Before Swine" creator Stephan Pastis declined to comment, referring E&P to a United Media spokesperson. (United syndicates Pastis and "Get Fuzzy" creator Darby Conley, while Universal Press Syndicate distributes Amend's comic.) The United spokesperson subsequently e-mailed E&P a pair of tongue-in-cheek statements from Pastis and Conley (reprinted after the next paragraph).
In the first panel of each of the three strips, a character is shown playing with a Ouija board and explaining to another character that it spells out messages from the beyond. In the second panel of each comic, the Ouija-playing character spells out an insult and threat to the other character. In the third panel of each strip, the insulted/threatened character says: "Somehow I imagined the afterlife to be a more peaceful place."
Conley's statement about today's "Get Fuzzy" strip: "I can tell you that I wrote it. Some months ago, Stephan Pastis had run a very bad idea, which did involve an Ouija board, by me to see if it was funny. It was not. During that conversation, however, I gave him a brilliant joke to use for this idea, but he said that he wasn't going to use it. Having written it myself, I decided to go ahead and use it in my strip. And you can ask Bill Amend about it, because I mentioned the whole thing to him that day, and he'd tell you what I just did."
Pastis' statement about today's "Pearls Before Swine" strip: "All I know is that I wrote what I thought was a pretty decent strip and then ran it by Darby to see if he thought it was funny or not. Apparently, he liked it too much. I had no idea that he was so desperate for material. I know he's close to deadline, but that's not an excuse. In the future, I'll keep my ideas to myself. How it ended up in 'FoxTrot' I have no idea."
hehe.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp ... 1000864852
By Dave Astor
Published: April 01, 2005 updated 4:05 PM ET
NEW YORK At least three cartoonists did April Fools' Day comics containing similar content.
Today's "FoxTrot," "Get Fuzzy," and "Pearls Before Swine" strips shared a Ouija-board theme.
"It is an odd coincidence," quipped "FoxTrot" creator Bill Amend, adding that he was too close to deadline on future strips to speak more with E&P about the matter.
"Pearls Before Swine" creator Stephan Pastis declined to comment, referring E&P to a United Media spokesperson. (United syndicates Pastis and "Get Fuzzy" creator Darby Conley, while Universal Press Syndicate distributes Amend's comic.) The United spokesperson subsequently e-mailed E&P a pair of tongue-in-cheek statements from Pastis and Conley (reprinted after the next paragraph).
In the first panel of each of the three strips, a character is shown playing with a Ouija board and explaining to another character that it spells out messages from the beyond. In the second panel of each comic, the Ouija-playing character spells out an insult and threat to the other character. In the third panel of each strip, the insulted/threatened character says: "Somehow I imagined the afterlife to be a more peaceful place."
Conley's statement about today's "Get Fuzzy" strip: "I can tell you that I wrote it. Some months ago, Stephan Pastis had run a very bad idea, which did involve an Ouija board, by me to see if it was funny. It was not. During that conversation, however, I gave him a brilliant joke to use for this idea, but he said that he wasn't going to use it. Having written it myself, I decided to go ahead and use it in my strip. And you can ask Bill Amend about it, because I mentioned the whole thing to him that day, and he'd tell you what I just did."
Pastis' statement about today's "Pearls Before Swine" strip: "All I know is that I wrote what I thought was a pretty decent strip and then ran it by Darby to see if he thought it was funny or not. Apparently, he liked it too much. I had no idea that he was so desperate for material. I know he's close to deadline, but that's not an excuse. In the future, I'll keep my ideas to myself. How it ended up in 'FoxTrot' I have no idea."
hehe.