Who says Doonesbury stopped being funny and relevant about ten years ago??…me, for one…but now that he’s mentioning blogging, do I have to reconsider??
Who says Doonesbury stopped being funny and relevant about ten years ago??…me, for one…but now that he’s mentioning blogging, do I have to reconsider??
Actually, Doonesbury is one of the few comic strips I still enjoy. Mostly, I suppose, because its politics and social messaging all align well with my own belief system, but I also like to kid myself I’d find it witty even if I were a raving dittohead.
Recent arcs regarding Mike’s strident daughter taking on SUV owners really amused me. As a non-driver (one of the few 40 year old non-drivers in our culture) I despise SUVs, not just because of their monstrously self indulgent decadence, but because when you’re trying to cross the street and there’s one in the lane closest to you, it’s like someone built a frickin’ wall right there… you cannot see around it, and you have to just sort of pray as you move around it that there isn’t something coming up on the other side that’s going smear you across its radiator grille.
Anyway, I like Doonesbury fine, often times more than I like THIS MODERN WORLD. But I still miss CALVIN & HOBBES.
I’m a Frazz, Get Fuzzy, and Zits fan myself, with the occasional guffaw for Boondocks (when it doesn’t make me wince). I guess I feel like Doonsbury has lost it’s bite; it was just as liberal twenty years ago, btu it felt more vicious – and unlike political commentary, I like a bit of tooth in my political humor.
Or maybe it’s just that he’s retired Uncle Duke, the character I personally identified with…
A.L.
While there is no actual safety anywhere for thinking people posting their thoughts on the Internet these days, I suspect it’s even more unsafe than the norm to publicly identify with Uncle Duke.
Frazz means nothing here in Central FL, I guess. Get Fuzzy just started up here and I’m not impressed. Zits seems vaguely familiar but I guess it hasn’t impacted on me, either. I enjoy Boondocks, but it only runs in the Sunday funnies here. The only newspaper strips I really like are Foxtrot, Dilbert, Doonesbury, and Garfield, and I read that dull Canadian soap opera strip (For Better or For Worse, I had to walk over to the break table and check the title) mostly because it seems to be the last vestigial remnant of the great continuing adventure strips of the Golden Age, and unlike most current comic strips, it has good art.
I also like, in the local kneejerk liberal weekly rag, This Modern World and The City and Tom the Dancing Bug, but, y’know, I’m a liberal and not retarded, so I kind of have to. I mean, I think the Secret Liberal Coalition has actually passed some bylaw requiring it.
Hmmm. I intermittently read the alternative comix in the back of the New Times, but none of them ‘stuck’ (Ernie Pook’s Comeek a little bit), and now that the New Times is no more, I’ll be missing all those, since I seldom read the Weekly.
Garfield!! You like Garfield?? OK, I know most people do (Tenacious G, my SO for one), but it could be written in kana as far as I’m concerened. I just don’t get it…maybe if someone could explain it, I’d get it and TG wouldn’t glare at me when I rant about it over breakfast any more…
…sadly, the comics are the first thing I read in the newspapers we get, and if I lived in NYC, I don’t know what I’d do…
I do read ‘Garfield’, but as with nearly everything, all is contextual. On the local funnies page, ‘Garfield’ stands out as being often funny, even if it is generally predictable and lazy and half-note. I also occasionally read ‘Mother Goose and Grimm’, since every once in a while, it’s also funny, usually when it twists some comic book reference around in a manner nearly worthy of ‘The Far Side’. But I mostly skip it, especially when it has any of its regular characters in it; then it’s just not funny.
The modern newspaper funny page, like everything else, is mostly aimed at the common folk, and that makes it a wasteland for anyone with any taste at all. I’m amazed there are half a dozen comic strips I actually can read.
SOMEONE GIVE ME MR, BORGMAN’S EMAIL ADDRESS…..HE WRITES ZITS, THE COMIC. PLEASE…URGENT!