Saw an article in Newsweek this morning talking about today's best comic strips. While noting a handful of top strips, the writer also notes:
The first challenge for all these strips is simply carving out space. The comics are crammed today with seemingly immortal, humor-challenged fare like "Garfield"? and "Hi & Lois," many of which are now tediously passed down by their creators to other writers. Finding an audience means a new strip has to bump off those mysteriously popular vets.
I have to say that I agree wholeheartedly with this. Our local newspaper (Athens Banner-Herald) doesn't carry a single one of the strips mentioned in the article, but does carry a whole lotta crappy ones including both the two he singles out, as well as such notable wastes of newsprint as "The Phantom" and "Snuffy Smith." The Banner-Herald is also one of those papers that relegates Doonesbury to the editorial page, so there's no telling what they'd do with something like Boondocks, which can be even sharper-tongued. *sigh*
Posted by Jason at August 8, 2003 08:56 AM