Fozzie Bear
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I'm a cartoonist (and puppeteer). I think you all know that. I support the acceptance of comic strips as art. I think it is nice that several newspapers are now adding color to the dailies and I hope folks are writing their newspapers and thanking them for that, but at the same time we need to write more.
It began with my huge complaint already that the papers were chopping up comic strips and putting them in all kinds of screwy directions in the papers, but when I open my funnies one sunday and the whole back page is covered with an advertisement which replaces comic strips to discuss the pros and cons of having an "Arthritic Theraputic Heating Pad!" Please write your papers and complain about the chopping up of comic strips and the replacing of them with dumb articles or ads. At the same time, praise them on what you think they're doing right. Also, request they run "The Buckets" which a pal of mine is artist on.
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I have another complaint about comic strips. The funny is gone nowadays. They are blah. They need new blood to work on them, or just retire them.
Hagar the Horrible is horrible.
Mary Worth is worthless.
Apt 3-G should be condemned.
Steve Roper and Mike Nomad...wonder what THEY'RE UP TO?!
Rex Morgan, MD should be disbarred
Garfield...what is UP with those FEET!! They're friggin huge!!
Family Circus? The tent should be taken down.
Peanuts--well, I'm a huge fan and they still make me laugh.
Boondocks: There is no way Aaron McGruder should be that angry, he's a kid being fed off a silver platter.
BC and Wizard of Id are still okay.
Shoe is better without McNelly (who created it)
Dennis the Menace is ready for a long break in boarding school.
For Better or Worse, Sally Forth, and Arlo n' Janis should just all be the same darn comic strip.
Over the Hedge and Frank and Ernest are funny to me, too.
The Buckets RULE!! (They're drawn by a friend of mine!)
There's so many more complaints!!
I know people who's comics are far superior to the syndicated strips because they're fresh, and the humor is good. If a comic plans to continue, they need to quit just drawing the first thing that comes to mind and think it through better. In the very least, hire new writers with fresh ideas.
What do you all think? After all, I've insulted some classics.
~Kev le FOZ
It began with my huge complaint already that the papers were chopping up comic strips and putting them in all kinds of screwy directions in the papers, but when I open my funnies one sunday and the whole back page is covered with an advertisement which replaces comic strips to discuss the pros and cons of having an "Arthritic Theraputic Heating Pad!" Please write your papers and complain about the chopping up of comic strips and the replacing of them with dumb articles or ads. At the same time, praise them on what you think they're doing right. Also, request they run "The Buckets" which a pal of mine is artist on.
***********************
I have another complaint about comic strips. The funny is gone nowadays. They are blah. They need new blood to work on them, or just retire them.
Hagar the Horrible is horrible.
Mary Worth is worthless.
Apt 3-G should be condemned.
Steve Roper and Mike Nomad...wonder what THEY'RE UP TO?!
Rex Morgan, MD should be disbarred
Garfield...what is UP with those FEET!! They're friggin huge!!
Family Circus? The tent should be taken down.
Peanuts--well, I'm a huge fan and they still make me laugh.
Boondocks: There is no way Aaron McGruder should be that angry, he's a kid being fed off a silver platter.
BC and Wizard of Id are still okay.
Shoe is better without McNelly (who created it)
Dennis the Menace is ready for a long break in boarding school.
For Better or Worse, Sally Forth, and Arlo n' Janis should just all be the same darn comic strip.
Over the Hedge and Frank and Ernest are funny to me, too.
The Buckets RULE!! (They're drawn by a friend of mine!)
There's so many more complaints!!
I know people who's comics are far superior to the syndicated strips because they're fresh, and the humor is good. If a comic plans to continue, they need to quit just drawing the first thing that comes to mind and think it through better. In the very least, hire new writers with fresh ideas.
What do you all think? After all, I've insulted some classics.
~Kev le FOZ