On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:42:58 GMT, James Silverton wrote:

> 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.
>
some of the reporting is very good. i'm pretty impervious to poetry of any
sort, and the stories usually seem extremely pointless.

>>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.

appallingly true. and shrinking them down to fit two pages as they did
recently didn't help much. and i'm sick of squinting to read the numbers
on the crossword grid.

the houston *chronicle* has a pretty nice on-line comics page, and you can
build a custom selection to see your favorites every day under a one-click
u.r.l.:

<http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl>

while we're on the subject, i might as well throw in a plug for *the comics
curmudgeon*:

<http://joshreads.com/>

....for pungent commentary on the strips of the day.

your pal,
blake