Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Scheduled Issues
Thursdays and Sundays I have off work, and Saturdays I work during the afternoon. So... no nightshift time wasting on those days.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Comical thoughts
I've always admired Bill Waterson's work with "Calvin and Hobbes". His artistic style and humor are, in my opinion, still far and away the best thing to have been published in the funny pages. If I ever get paid to syndicate, the first purchase I'm going to make with the royalties is the three volume complete collection of all the Calvin and Hobbes comics. Currently the ninty plus dollar anthology is a luxery item beyond my budget, but I'm patient enough to use ucomic.com in the meantime. I kind of have this secret hope that ever since the series stopped being published, Waterson has continued to draw up additional C&H strips. I can't image someone who drew a strip almost everyday for a decade could all of a sudden shut down the comic making facilities in his head and ignore any future inspiration for a punch line in a four panel series. The best day of my life would be the day tomes and volumes of new Calvin and Hobbes are published, but I'm incredulous if that day will ever arrive. Oh, and the first C&H comic run was on the day I was born. Special.
In the meantime, I like to read "Pearls before Swine" and "Zits" has its moments. I hate "Garfield." Seriously, Jim Davis has been recycling the same punchlines for the past three decades. I can only imagine the reason the orange cat still has a strip in every paper is baby boomers who love their Garfield would be ticked to no end if the comic were discontinued. Since their generation is the only one that a) votes and b) writes in to their local paper, there's always going to be a place for Garfield. Luckily, theirs is also the generation that has no idea how to get on the line, so hopefully it will be the internet and not high colesterol and no exercise that kills Garfield. And Marmaduke... man. Same story. Worse drawings.
"Peanuts" is all well and good, but with the number of smaller comics out there that are way funnier, I feel it's time to let Schultz's characters move on to collections and anthologies as oppossed to a sacred place in every paper.
In the meantime, I like to read "Pearls before Swine" and "Zits" has its moments. I hate "Garfield." Seriously, Jim Davis has been recycling the same punchlines for the past three decades. I can only imagine the reason the orange cat still has a strip in every paper is baby boomers who love their Garfield would be ticked to no end if the comic were discontinued. Since their generation is the only one that a) votes and b) writes in to their local paper, there's always going to be a place for Garfield. Luckily, theirs is also the generation that has no idea how to get on the line, so hopefully it will be the internet and not high colesterol and no exercise that kills Garfield. And Marmaduke... man. Same story. Worse drawings.
"Peanuts" is all well and good, but with the number of smaller comics out there that are way funnier, I feel it's time to let Schultz's characters move on to collections and anthologies as oppossed to a sacred place in every paper.
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