Gary True Don't
Doonesbury had a slow Sunday, so decided to attack the bloggers as a bunch of catfood eating nerds. Frankly I'm insulted. I'm partial to Kibbles and Bits.
When was the last time this strip was funny or fair? He should have retired in 1976. Might have been rememberd as being a topical icon of the 70's, instead of a dead horse beater of the next 30 years and beyond.
Update: Ed Driscoll has a history of the MSM's resentment of bloggers.
When was the last time this strip was funny or fair? He should have retired in 1976. Might have been rememberd as being a topical icon of the 70's, instead of a dead horse beater of the next 30 years and beyond.
Update: Ed Driscoll has a history of the MSM's resentment of bloggers.
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Poor Gary. Nobody pays attetion to him anymore -- and it's all those darn bloggers' fault.
Hey, as long as he spells "blog" correctly . . .
Good Update.
Yeah. . bloggers aren't held to the same standards of truth as the MSM (pardon me while I laugh). They are held to a higher standard because if you post something that isn't true. . hundreds of others are going to jump on your case and get it right.
I haven't found Doonesbury to be funny for quite some time, but what's weird about Sunday's strip is that it isn't even rooted in the faintest truth. How many bloggers are impoverished, unemployable nerds who use Hotmail-like screen names and eat cat food? I wonder if Trudeau knows how hilariously square he sounds, like a member of the World War II generation griping about "dirty hippies" even though he's never actually met one.
It's also a strange line of attack from a guy who has held only one rather frivolous job during his entire adult life. I drew a weekly newspaper comic strip in college and later I tried, half-heartedly, to re-sell some of my work. Eventually I gave it up, saddened by how the form brought out nothing in me but thoughtless stereotypes, snarky comments, and dreary, shallow observations. So...angry, semi-employed crackpots whose work has no market? Please. He's describing the life of the aspiring comic-strip artist far better than he's describing the typical blogger. If a syndicate hadn't picked up his work right out of college, he'd be describing himself.
Jeff, I love comic strips. Can I see yours anywhere? Maybe you would post a favorite on the web?
CIV copied comics as a child and took a brief class on drawing comics. Alas, as with many other interests, CIV lacks the aptitude to go with the attitude.
I remember when they were called the 'funny papers' and they were. Now, there is far too much politics mixed in with the humorous strips. I've always advocated that the papers make room for the blatently political strips on the editorial pages.
CIV: I did my little comic strip from 1991 to 1993, before college newspapers had Web presences--in fact, before there even was a Web--so except for a couple of scans, they really only exist on microfiche and in the photocopies and originals in my files. However, on the off chance I'm ever famous for something, I have little doubt that some of the dumber cartoons I did will come back to haunt me!
So, Jeff, rather than scan them in and post them on the web for your blogger friends, you are holding out for future fame and fortune when you can sell your doodlings for big bucks?
OK, as a conservative and capitalist, I can accept that. Really. I would never hold it against you. Nope.
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