blake wrote on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:11:12 GMT:

>> On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:25:29 -0700, Mark Thorson >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> sf wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Personally, I've never liked Zippy. Not a Family Circle
>>>> fan either. I like Zits and Sally Forth.
>>>
>>> Many people don't "get" Zippy. They're better
>>> off with Peanuts or Dilbert or other strips
>>> that spell everything out for you.
>>
>> I don't like New Yorker magazine either.

> the new yorker cartoons are mostly not good. some wag said
> you could replace every caption with 'christ, what an
> asshole,' and chances are they would be better.

Blake, the cartoons are about the only things I look at in the New
Yorker! Fortunately, I can look at it in the library and not buy it.

>zippy is more a smile than a laugh. at the very least, it's
>well-drawn.

An amazingly large fraction of the comic strips in the Washington Post
seem to be drawn by people with negligible artistic ability.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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