jayjay
October 9, 2010, 11:01pm
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Derleth:
So newspaper comics pages are a gerontocracy like unto the Soviet Politburo, and just about as resistant to change. What else is new? Well, don’t expect them to ever improve. Comics artists are online now, making webcomics without worrying what some retired spackle-mixer in West Plains, MO is going to think about their next plot arc. It’s true that 90% of them are crap, but multiply A Metric Shitload by 10% and you still end up with more than enough good ones to keep you up nights reading.
Agreed. The only reason I read newspaper comics anymore is so that I know what the Comics Curmudgeon commenters are talking about.
Mary Worth needs to sleep with the fishes.
Piss up a rope Rex Morgan MD.
Dinette Set is gawdawful too, kill it with fire.
Everyone hates Fusco Brothers, but I wonder: Do people who read the New Yorker hate J.C. Duffy’s non-Fusco cartoons ? ETAAgain: The Onion beat him by five days.
Two months ago, I wrote:
Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew:
The San Francisco Chronicle, which has reduced its Sunday comics “section” to a single four-panel sheet in recent years, still wastes valuable real estate on the Sunday Cathy. (They don’t run the daily strip.) I’m hoping that they will use the freed-up space when Cathy ends for the Sunday Sherman’s Lagoon, which currently runs weekdays only.
Didn’t happen. They just increased the size of two other crappy strips, The Wizard of Id and Hagar the Horrible (which had previously been scrunched together side by side). Phooey.