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*** And, at least if Pastis' directors commentary is to be believed, Bil Keane actually liked those strips.
*** At a comics convention, Pastis was giving a talk, and mentioned strips using each others' characters, adding that it was all done in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Jeff Keane (now doing the strip) stood up and yelled "Go to Hell, Pastis!" and stormed out. It was all staged, of course.
** ''Family Circus'' itself [https://web.archive.org/web/20140204051319/http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/ive-already-contacted-a-lawyer/ responded] to ''Pearls Before Swine'''s Take Thats with a strip where the kids are read a book called ''Pig and Rat Get Lost'', which causes them to leave the room to watch TV.
** On the announcement of the retirement of the comic strip [[Cathy]], Stephan posted some [https://web.archive.org/web/20130724144709/http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/on-the-retirement-of-the-comic-strip-cathy/ ruminations] on how the many Take Thats he had made early in his career, and how Cathy Guisewite responded. Mildly heart-warming.
* ''Liberty Meadows'' has often parodied other newspaper comics. While some of these parodies are affectionate, others are clearly take-thats. For example, one arc had Frank on a date with "Debbie the Psycho," a thinly-veiled ''Cathy'' stand-in who constantly babbled about swimsuits and her weight, nearly [[Driven to Suicide|driving him suicidal]]. Other strips mocked the sentimental banality of late-period [[Peanuts]].
* While ''Sally Forth'' is known for being rather safe material, the current author Francesco Marciuliano tends to take repeated jabs at his competition using his own webcomic ''[http://www.medium-large.com/ Medium Large]''. He usually does this by portraying well-loved icons in disturbing scenarios, but he once did a more pointed strip referring to ''Momma'' as "starring some squiggles and what may be a nose."
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* Al Capp frequently used ''[[Li'l Abner]]'' to deliver Take Thats to pretty much anything that bothered him. Within his own medium, his "Fearless Fosdick" character, a [[Show Within a Show|strip within a strip]] parodying ''Dick Tracy'', stands out. Fosdick is portrayed as an idiot with a penchant for violence that [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|just can't die]]. Eventually the in-universe creator of the strip is revealed to be completely insane and the strip a result of his violent fantasies.
** Capp famously depicted a parody ''Mary Worth'', who took a vacation from her strip (to her author's relief) to meddle in Abner and Daisy Mae's affairs. That strip then reciprocated, depicting Capp as a drunken lout.
* After ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]'' creator Scott Kurtz announced he was going to offer his comics to newspapers, ''Non Sequitur'' had [https://web.archive.org/web/20130614051753/http://www.websnark.com/archives/2004/12/wiley_blinks.html a strip] involving a fat nerd named "Scotty" trying to get into a club.
* Berkely Breathed's ''[[Bloom County]]'', and its offshoots ''Outland'' and ''Opus'', pretty much live for this trope, taking shots at both politics (''Bloom County'' had Oliver's attempt to protest apartheid by turning the South African ambassador to the U.S. black) and pop culture (one story arc in ''Outland'' involved Mickey Mouse's sleazy cousin Mortimer getting fed up with the changes Michael Eisner was making at Disney, and beating the crap out of him).
* It was inevitable that someone would do this regarding the [[Wii]]. According to [[FoxTrot]], "Soon kids across the world will be rushing home from school so they can Wii." Then again, this is arguably funny enough to merit a pass.
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