/co/ - Comics & Cartoons

>>473824
For a board that doesn't really read comics, /co/nrad really is a horrible representation of /co/.

>>473831
It was a different time...

>>473831
/co/nrad is old enough to remember when /co/ was different.

>>473833
I understand that he was made very early in /co/'s lifespan, but still, there's no cartoon aspects about him, he could've at least had Mickey Mouse gloves or something.
I know cartoon fandoms weren't really big back then yet, and comics already had an established niche fandom, but still, the design could've at least tried to represent both sides of the board, because as time went on and cartoons became more popular, while comics just kept stagnating, the /co/nrad design makes absolutely no sense for a board that is mainly about cartoons, with comic barely ever actually being discussed.

I can think 2: Bluey and Pom Pom Little Bear

>>473824
At the top of my head, /co/ got me into DC comics and Dan Vs.
Definitely some other stuff, but I'd have to think more about it.

>>473831
/co/nrad was created back when /co/ actually did read comics.

>>473880
I know, but if I had to judge /co/ solely by the board-tan, I'd assume it's a board ONLY about comics, there's nothing about him that says "& Cartoons" to me.
And don't tell me he represents capeshit cartoons cause that's still just comic adaptations.

>>473909
I only remember /co/ genuinely talking about cartoons when the Hub was around. Out of that it was mostly waifu threads that are all interchangeable, as people really say the same shit about all animated girls, be it capeshit, Netflix gorefest, or preschool pastel talking animals.

>>473909
/co/nrad is supposed to look like The Spirit, an old comic book character before capeshit was called capeshit
In a way he's supposed to be the spirit of comics and cartoons
Also no one really uses board tans anymore, not even /v/

>>473939
Avatar?

>>473824
The site will be back in a week at worse. I'm not too bothered about it going down anyways, I've been bored of /co/ and only check it out of habit.

I am genuinely thankful for how much stuff the board has introduced me to though; there's all sorts of shows and comics that I probably wouldn't have heard of otherwise- especially all of the obscure webcomics scattered about.

>>473947
I am aware of his design inspiration anon, he's one of them old timey well-dressed pulp heroes.
But again, that still only represents comics, a more balanced board-tan would take inspiration both from Comics & Cartoons, both pulp heroes and classic animation like Disney or Looney Tunes, but /co/nrad only does half of that.
>In a way he's supposed to be the spirit of comics and cartoons
By taking inspiration from a character that never even got an animated adaptation? Please anon, you don't have to lie, I'm just pointing out the obvious, /co/nrad doesn't represent cartoons in any way.

>>473824
Lucky Penny and Octupus Pie were really good. Went ahead to do my own digging for 3 more comics. I'd have probably found out about Hilda in one way or another though.

What is with this autistic whining, the thread isn't even about board-tans.

>>474050
It could be, though. Somebody post /x/-tan.

>>474050
I'm just saying, not a very good character design tbqfh desu.
Whoever designed him really should've known cartoon fandoms would eventually overtake /co/ and the internet in general.

>>474060
There would be no way for the original artist to be able to know that

>>474004
Alright if that's the case then design a board tan that would represent both comics and cartoons

>>473824
> comics
A fair amount
As far as animation, it helped me become aware of certain things (like finding out about Flow before others did, from a festival, so when I got the invite to see an advanced screening here in Los Angeles, which isn't anything special as it's pretty common here, I was able to go and catch it and hear a Q&A with Gints and some of the other folks who worked on it.

Cartoons are too insular and unless you are hidden under a rock most of the time, you will pretty much be aware even with the amount of really bad, cheap CGI crap that is pushed out every year, even direct to DVD crap. It's comics where it's pretty easy to miss out on stuff even if you really committed and I don't have the patience for that any more.

>>474330
As soon as the trolls were added it was the beginning of the end for its quality.

>>473824
Just off the top of my head, jorel's brother and emmy the robot

>>473824
I've been on /co/ since Fall 2007 so a majority of what I've read or watched since has most likely been through /co/.

>>474382
This. /co/ storytimes introduced me to more things than I can easily list.

>>473824
I started reading DC stuff because /co/. Mostly Giffen's run on Justice League, then anything with Booster Gold or Blue Beetle I could. The hype around Blackest Night also had me read a few things and other event books. Some indie stuff I have forgotten but I Kill Giants sticks with me.

For cartoons whatever was streamed back when that was aloud, especially movies. Secret of Kells was my favorite to watch with /co/ for a while. It was also fun to watch things as they were coming out. Fondest memories are of Transformers Animated threads and Batman Brave and the Bold.

I would also read webcomics of /co/mrades that were regulars to the board. But all I remember is ColeSquid at this point.

>>473824
I think the only show that I heard of via /co/ that I wouldn't have come across eventually through some other channel is Over The Garden Wall

>>474493
I became of aware of nick and other shows aimed at audiences of an age that I haven't been since before I lurked 4chinz. Like Owl House and Steve Universe. And while I'll watch Lego direct to DVD and other stuff that's meant to be family family, and can even enjoy some Curious George when I am home sick and Kids PBS is the only TV that I can stomach, most shows meant for kids just are too teletubbies for my last frazzled nerve.

kevin spencer

>>474512
Shame you had to learn about Kevin Spencer through /co/, my condolences...

>>474518
it's ok. It's become one of my favorite shows once I started actually watching through it a month and a half ago. it's amazing and I wish more people knew about it

Thankfully it doesn't seem to be truly over, but to answer the question it's mostly been a lot of recent output by Disney and CN that I would've never heard of otherwise. I was one of the "lucky" people that was able to binge Star VS. from start to finish without any waiting (and I barely remember most of it but still remember enjoying watching it.)

>>474519
I'm with you on that one, I feel the same way about most Canadian cartoons to be honest.

>>474509
Honestly Wakfu/Doofus are the series I most associate with plus4chan from back in the day. Remember there was a pinned thread filled with download links for the episodes and such.

>>474522
definitely. It just felt so nice to be able to obsess over a cartoon with more than 1 season for a change. I'm usually stuck in one season hell with the shows that attract my attention. 8 whole season of KS is just the right amount for me

>>474532
>I'm usually stuck in one season hell with the shows that attract my attention.
Christ, that's the amount of seasons a few of my favorite shows have. Gary & Mike, as great as that show is, has a cliffhanger that will never be resolved. It never even got a rushed ending like Inside Job, which is another show I lament the loss of.

>>474536
Gary & Mike, thats one I still need to finish. I have this bad habit of watching...4 episodes of a show in a row then forgetting to ever watch anymore. It's so cool having more than one show in the style of Celebrity Death Match.

Undergrads is a show that ended on a cliffhanger for me.
>inb4 but the movie
it's never happening. I've decided to stop taking the copium. even if it does it's gonna be weird and awkward and bad probably. maybe I'm just being pessimistic though.

one of the all timer short lived shows for me is stressed eric which in all fairness got TWO seasons (or series as those wacky brits like to call em.) genuinely such an under appreciated show. it sucks that the widest exposure it has is a mr enter review where he complains about it being "2 MEANSPIRITED!!!!!!"

>>474537
>2 MEANSPIRITED!!!!!!
Kek, I'm actually one of the few weirdos who thought certain post-movie SpongeBob episodes were funny BECAUSE of the mean-spiritedness.

>>474539
exactly! complaining about a cartoon being too mean spirited just doesn't make any sense to me. sometimes people are....MEAN! sometimes it's FUNNY to watch something bad happen to someone. We don't need to sand off the edges of every single cartoon that comes out, it won't make them better. Some cartoons are mean, some aren't, some are a mix, and all of the above is perfectly fine. Simple as. Post movie spongebob gets too bad of a rap in general. It's more of a mixed bag than anything but some people really just get deranged over it when there are definitively great and classic episodes that have come out during that era.

we had 7 fucking janitors and none of them did anything about the board schizos
one of them was also a janitor for /a/ and most likely is the one who was babysitting EvW threads

>>474566
>one of them was also a janitor for /a/ and most likely is the one who was babysitting EvW threads
Odds on him being the one who kept deleting posts pointing out Duck Nuns weren't actually /co/ and actually from a Japanese artist?
I kind of figured he got kicked out since eventually the threads stopped coming

>>474566
Do we know what their private/personal reasons for banning people were?

>>474599
Perispammer's spammed Peridot's anus so much that a storytime saved on Desuarchive glitched out and replaced one of the pages with Peridot's anus
It's fixed now but I think that was the one time I was genuinely pissed at him

>>474600
peridot butthole did unspeakable damage to 4chan

i'm just glad we have plus4chan's /co/. finally, no more fucking "can we admit X sucks now" threads and other samefag botslop bullshit (for now).

A lot of Comics and Animated shows I would have never known about cause of language barriers/distribution to channels/streaming sites. basically
>>474382

>>474604
Last I remember using it was back when the Archie Sonic Ride was happening and there were after-threads here daily. Good times.

Yeah I think I'm just going to sit out the storytimes until the site comes back

>>474629
I expect the sitemasters are rushing to patch up everything and get it working again because of just how many people use 4chan on a daily basis. It's already the longest amount of time it's been out in years.

>>474509
FUCK, completely forgot about that. Before finally watching the show properly a few years ago, in 2009-2011 I seen a few random episodes on streams hosted by /co/mrades.

>>473824
Tons, the only reason I ended up on 4chan way back when was because of comics in the first place. They only way for me to "read" them was by watching reviewers on Youtube but I grew frustrated with the way they skipped pages or chunks of a page and talked over the whole thing which I wasn't into.

More recently I give /co/ credit for reintroducing me to "Leave it to Chance" a few months back, that's a book I must've read at the library or something when I was probably a toddler because every cover I saw for the issues hit me like lightning. Empowered, K6BD, The while Illuminated Wars parody, JL8, Forming - maybe I would've come across those without /co/ but in this world it was where I heard about them first

Requiem Chevalier Vampire and Olivers other works, that other French comic with the little witch apprentice, Meg Mogg and Owl, theres so many books to choose I was there for so long

>>474509
Good call, and good times

I was always kinda passive with comics and cartoons consumption, watching what is popular and easily available. Overall /co/ led me to appreciate Original english dubs more (I'm french), and showed me more cape comics than what our media offers.

>>473824
I mostly followed during DC Rebirth, but what made me come back every year was Usagi Yojimbo. Best comic. Insane how Usagi is mostly known as TMNT-adjacent lore, but his own comic book is so much better.

>>474685
This site probably runs like shit on your end. Well unless they got those new servers up and running.

>>474693
runs fine on computer, even on DSL

>>474699
Cool. Wait you guys still use DSL?

>>474708
hopefully only for a few more months. But there are still many places in France where fiber isn't available because it wasn't profitable to install a line for the amount of people living there. they voted a law last year to force 100% coverage soon so they are finally finishing the job.

>>473824
People having mental breakdowns over Bluey made me check it out. Very well done show, but I’d only recommend it for autists or parents. Also let me know that The Raccoons has HD remasters being uploaded on Youtube, and I’ve been meaning to check Geronimo from the /co/ threads

It got me to read a bunch of stuff like pinky and peper, blacksad, diffent cape runs, irredeemable, comics by cate wurtz. I came from anime so it also made me discover that I loved cartoons as much as anime and that animation as a medium is magical.

>>473824
>Comics
Ward Sutton's Kelly strips
Robert Crumb's stuff, I only knew him for the Fritz the cat movie
Omaha the Cat dancer (shockingly kino)
Sabrina online (It's mediocre once Zigzag is introduced but the early chapters are good)
>Cartoons
Felidae
Atlantis
The Clone Wars microseries
Watership down
Tragedy of Man (I love this one, I imported a blu ray from Hungary just to own it)

>>473824
Thanks to /co I found the Maxx and Primal. That's it. 5 years on /co/ and I only found 2 good shows.

>>473824
Too many to count. The JSA storytime thread alone pretty much familiarized me with the whole of the DC Universe circa 2006.
Fewer cartoons, and almost all of them from the era back when 4chan still allowed mogulus threads.

>>477083
I really haven't learned about many shows from /co/, but in my defense I was a cartoon nerd BEFORE I came to 4chan.