On January 5 a certain national newspaper carried an excellent article on how comic strips may be the saviour of the printed newspaper. Article was signed off with a picture of Ginger. What more can be said!
I don’t buy a daily newspaper! I, for one, will become a permanent customer for any daily that offers good coverage of international news, has no corny puns for headlines, forgets the juicy bits about the private lives of celebrities and gives me the dinky di little Aussie Meggsie every day. Don’t want a newspaper on a website, I’ll spill my morning coffee on the keyboard and other passengers on the train will knock my laptop onto the floor.
If all newspapers fold what will we line the bottom of birdcages with? What will we wrap our fish in? What will we have when the schools hold a paper drive? And finally, what will we read when we go to the loo?
Chikuku, Meggsie now appears in over 100 times the newspapers he was in back when the 80,000 readers defected to the other paper with him.
He appears in dozens of newspapers all over Australia - every state in the country runs Meggsie, as well as 34 other countries - he’s also translated into different languages for non-English speaking countries.
svspatel over 14 years ago
the world of ironies..
usfellers over 14 years ago
On January 5 a certain national newspaper carried an excellent article on how comic strips may be the saviour of the printed newspaper. Article was signed off with a picture of Ginger. What more can be said!
pearlandpeach over 14 years ago
Yeah, but the newspapers have got to stop reducing the comics to something that makes a magnifying glass a neccessity.
usfellers over 14 years ago
Agree. Comic strips can carry more than humour. Larger size can give artists more scope to present detail.
Superfrog over 14 years ago
When the broadsheet I used to read turned itself into a tabloid, I knew it was the end.
Ginger Meggs over 14 years ago
The article is here for anyone who wants a read: http://jasonchatfield.tumblr.com/post/316335839/humour-can-save-the-daily
bald over 14 years ago
and now some newspaper sites want to make their websites a membership (paid) format,
amingv over 14 years ago
What do you call it when a dead man sings his own requiem?
usfellers over 14 years ago
I don’t buy a daily newspaper! I, for one, will become a permanent customer for any daily that offers good coverage of international news, has no corny puns for headlines, forgets the juicy bits about the private lives of celebrities and gives me the dinky di little Aussie Meggsie every day. Don’t want a newspaper on a website, I’ll spill my morning coffee on the keyboard and other passengers on the train will knock my laptop onto the floor.
usfellers over 14 years ago
Horse for courses I guess.
kit_jefferson over 14 years ago
If all newspapers fold what will we line the bottom of birdcages with? What will we wrap our fish in? What will we have when the schools hold a paper drive? And finally, what will we read when we go to the loo?
Ginger Meggs over 14 years ago
Chikuku, Meggsie now appears in over 100 times the newspapers he was in back when the 80,000 readers defected to the other paper with him.
He appears in dozens of newspapers all over Australia - every state in the country runs Meggsie, as well as 34 other countries - he’s also translated into different languages for non-English speaking countries.
A few more than 80,000 fans these days :)