Comments on: A Comic Moment

By: ross

ross — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:13:02 +0000

i get the washington post and i’m amazed at how much the comics fucking suck. the only ones that amuse me are the ones that suck the most (spider man, mark trail, apt 3g come to mind)

and then there’s ZIPPY. which is not always great but is miles above this other shit. god it’s shit. i can’t believe how shitty it is.

By: Amy Payne

Amy Payne — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:07:53 +0000

I work for a mid-sized newspaper in Michigan. You wouldn’t believe the flak our editor-in-chief took when we stopped running For Better or For Worse because the artist was issuing re-runs of old content.

People cancel subscriptions over this kind of stuff.

I imagine the publishers figured, that, in the face of having to cram a paper onto smaller and smaller broadsheets to save on print costs, it was better to squish the strips than to remove any of them.

By: Michael Leddy

Michael Leddy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:27:24 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Jason.

My local paper enlarges the Sunday comics. So we have our big 8-page comics section, but with fewer strips. It’s very strange to see The Family Circus looking more like a mural.