Comics
I had occasion today to look at the comics page of the Louisville Courier-Journal, which used to be one of the great regional newspapers in the country. I noticed that more of the comics were by dead people than by living ones:
Blondie
Peanuts
Rex Morgan
Wizard of Id
Apt. 3-G
Dennis the Menace
B.C.
And sure, Mort Walker's still "supervising" Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois, but really now....he's 84 years old.
And newspaper people wonder why young folks think that newspapers are irrelevant.
Blondie
Peanuts
Rex Morgan
Wizard of Id
Apt. 3-G
Dennis the Menace
B.C.
And sure, Mort Walker's still "supervising" Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois, but really now....he's 84 years old.
And newspaper people wonder why young folks think that newspapers are irrelevant.
posted by Allthenewsthatfits at 9:20 AM
3 Comments:
Let me get this straight. You're judging newspapers by the content of their comics sections?
And you wonder why this blog is irrelevant.
I guess I need to explain myself more so the more literal sorts can get it. What matters is not the content of the comics; it's what that content symbolizes--resistance to change, being stuck in mid-20th century habits of information flow, being governed by fear rather than opportunity ("We can't discontinue Apartment 3-G! A dozen of our 78-year-old readers might complain!"). The Courier-Journal's comic section illustrated a kind of brain-dead approach to newspapering that the medium can ill afford.
I was kind of lost on this one too , but hey it's your blog " You go girl "
*Z snap with a twist
:)
I miss I think it was "Boone County" with Opus & the Drunk lawyer Steve
That was a funny comic
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