Honestly now, do you like his art? Does it add anything to the SD? Would you be less likely to read and enjoy columns without it?
I love the artwork, but it has no effect on whether I read Unca Cece. For a while I lived in Philly (pre-Internet years), and the local City Paper gave Unca Cece the short shrift - the space they put aside for his column was small, so they didn’t publish Slug’s artwork. While I missed it, it didn’t detract much from the “Cecil Experience”.
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No, I don’t particularly like his artwork. While it is certainly a striking and unique style, it always nauseates me. I would enjoy reading Adams’ columns more if I didn’t always have some disgusting picture of
(a) some grotesque person, possibly
(b) in a bikini,
© vomiting, and/or
(d) in some unpleasant situation involving invertebrates.
What is Slug trying to accomplish? Involuntary bulimia? Getting people not to show Cecil’s work to their more sensitive friends? Getting people to show Cecil’s work to their in-laws?
I might be in a minority, in which case I accept that. I’m just thinking there might be others like me.
i think his artwork is wonderful. it works. if it can make someone react, or notice, or fulfill the graphic designs of the imagination so fully, it’s good in my eyes. whether it’s ugly to look at or not, i respect his ability, and appreciate it. i do like it though.
Whaddaya mean, “If you can’t take the heat”? Was that directed at me? Do you want me to stop reading the columns?
yeah, take it personally boris,
:rolleyes:, that was sarcasm. i don’t WANT you to do anything, you may do what you want to do. just laugh at it ok…? it’s an opinion. that is all.
I love Slug’s artwork. I read the column first then take a close look at the art. 90% of the time it gets a smile out of me.
Sorry, I just hate the expression, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” It sounds to me a little too much like, “If your opinion doesn’t agree with mine, please remain silent.” I just didn’t know what you meant by it.
I generally avoid looking at his artwork. I personally don’t find it either attractive or interesting. Most of the time, it inspires nausea. Really, the column is fine without it.
I love the artwork and tend to stare at the drawing for several minutes before, during and after I read the article(s). It remings me of Robert Crumb’s stuff, of which I have several volumes. It tends to bring a new persepective to the column - I think Slug is really immaginative.
We’ve had a lot of body function/illness/medical questions of late, so Slug’s just going with the flow. He’s done some very comical stuff as well. (The Tycho Brahe and “Why don’t dogs’ feet freeze?” cartoons are two of my favorites.) We start asking questions on other subjects, Slug won’t do the puking/underwear/orgasm stuff as much. Ya really can’t blame the piper when the audience is calling the tunes.
He seems to repeat a lot. Time for a new generation of characters, like Doonsebury; familiar, but still new.
To me, Slug’s drawings are an integral part of the Straight Dope. It wouldn’t be the same without it. Sometimes his way of interpreting a certain point of Cecil’s answer in a comical drawing makes me stop and think. He’s very good at pulling out one idea and getting a good visual joke out of it.
Very few cartoonists’ work, in and of themselves, can make me laugh out loud. Slug’s do, and I often find myself giggling days later on remembering the funny visual.