Talk:Comic strip switcheroo

I composed another page, Great April Fools Switcheroonie which is essentially about the same thing. How do we get around to merging the two pages and deciding on an official article title? As it is, the National Cartoonist Society calls it "April Fools Switcheroonie," while the creators of Baby Blues simply refer to it as "Switcheroonie." --Toquinha 29 June 2005 05:08 (UTC)

I'd go with the NCS name (coincidentally, I'll be visiting the Charles Schulz museum tomorrow, though he didn't participate). Then it's a matter of merging material (I've got almost all of the GIF files from that day at home, but GIFs are still frowned on, and it'd be hard to upload ALL of them and claim fair use :) ), and setting up redirects. --JohnDBuell | Talk 30 June 2005 02:55 (UTC)

Actual cartoons

Showing an example or two of the strips from that day (and no more than that) I think would be a very legit claim under fair use - does anyone have a favorite or two they'd like to see? The one-for-one swaps would be the easiest to illustrate, and as stated, I do have a bunch of the originals still saved from nine years ago. --JohnDBuell 21:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, absolutely upload a couple. —User:ACupOfCoffee@ 23:44, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Here are some.

• http://www.gocomics.com/the-born-loser/1997/04/01
• http://dilbert.com/strip/1997-04-01
• http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1997/04/01

A chain of six, part of a loop of nine:

• http://www.gocomics.com/bignate/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/thebuckets/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/stonesoup/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/duplex/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/betty/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/realitycheck/1997/04/01

Six (including a chain of three) out of a loop of eleven:

• http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/roseisrose/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/jumpstart/1997/04/01
• http://www.gocomics.com/luann/1997/04/01

—Tamfang (talk) 04:56, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Prior or subsequent switches?

In the early or mid 1990s, the student newspaper of UT Austin had its cartoonists switch strips, don't recall if it was on April 1st though. Esquizombi 02:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Those sorts of switches and guest appearances are still pretty common (as noted) - if there are online references, feel free to add them. --JohnDBuell 02:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if a school newspaper is notable enough to mention. -Unknownwarrior33 07:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Might be if they go on and have syndicated comic strips. --JohnDBuell 15:15, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

But is that the case here? If so then I'd recommend making it clearer, but I honestly don't know. -Unknownwarrior33 19:53, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

As always, we'd need independently verifiable and specific examples first. --JohnDBuell 00:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Wasn't there another?

On April 1, 2005, Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine, Bill Amend of FoxTrot, and Darby Conley of Get Fuzzy all ran the same comic dialogue in their respective strips, but with their own core characters saying the lines.

I seem to recall there being 4 strips that participated in this little trick. I don't remember what the 4th was. Anyone else remember? I think maybe Luann, but I'm not sure.

Well it's not Luann. Note btw that the dialogue is similar but not exactly alike. —Tamfang (talk) 05:03, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Basic article content failure

Nowhere on this page is it stated what this "Comic strip switcheroo" actually was. There are hints and implications only. That needs to be in the first paragraph, probably first sentence. 121.45.203.91 (talk) 00:19, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Done. 167.206.122.66 (talk) 19:21, 3 April 2012 (UTC)