Newspaper comic strips should be like television programs. They should be rated by the readers and those strips that get low ratings should be pulled and replaced with new strips.
Sorry to disagree, Capt. C., but it sounds like you don’t know much about the comix biz. It is exactly reader opinions that keep the zombies going.
Old fogies make up a large percentage of newspaper readers, and not only do they vote in elections in disproportionate numbers, they also respond to newspaper comics surveys, keeping alive the strips they remember from childhood. And as people live longer and longer, the comics they keep alive get older and older too. (Yesterday’s Lio on this subject was brilliant.)
Worse yet, the old fogies also try to kill off edgy new strips. I remember when the Philly Inquirer almost dropped Piranha Club (nee Ernie) because of low initial ratings, but for once someone apparently took a chance and kept it, for which I am grateful.
And lest any old fogies want to complain, in 11 days I become eligible for Medicare, thus establishing my own fogyness and immunizing me to charges of ageism. (You can tell I’m good fogy material because of my inability to come up with a cool screen name.)
What about old comics in re-runs that are still relevant, like Calvin & Hobbes? I say ones like that can stay, but pulling up the old For Better or Worse, forget it.
Seriously though…I personally don’t like certain comics (Rex M-organ donor M.D. & Mary Worthless I’m lookin’ at you). But there are folks out there that do like such strips and who the hell am I to deny them their pleasure? Longer
live Nancy, Peanuts and so on, I just won’t read them.
KingRat almost 16 years ago
So they need to make room for comics that star people who have been dead for a century?:)
Dutchboy1 almost 16 years ago
Homer: “I am so smart, SMRT”
ChiehHsia almost 16 years ago
KingRat… yer thinkin’ too much.
CaptainColorado almost 16 years ago
Newspaper comic strips should be like television programs. They should be rated by the readers and those strips that get low ratings should be pulled and replaced with new strips.
pschearer Premium Member almost 16 years ago
Sorry to disagree, Capt. C., but it sounds like you don’t know much about the comix biz. It is exactly reader opinions that keep the zombies going.
Old fogies make up a large percentage of newspaper readers, and not only do they vote in elections in disproportionate numbers, they also respond to newspaper comics surveys, keeping alive the strips they remember from childhood. And as people live longer and longer, the comics they keep alive get older and older too. (Yesterday’s Lio on this subject was brilliant.)
Worse yet, the old fogies also try to kill off edgy new strips. I remember when the Philly Inquirer almost dropped Piranha Club (nee Ernie) because of low initial ratings, but for once someone apparently took a chance and kept it, for which I am grateful.
And lest any old fogies want to complain, in 11 days I become eligible for Medicare, thus establishing my own fogyness and immunizing me to charges of ageism. (You can tell I’m good fogy material because of my inability to come up with a cool screen name.)
k_sera almost 16 years ago
What about old comics in re-runs that are still relevant, like Calvin & Hobbes? I say ones like that can stay, but pulling up the old For Better or Worse, forget it.
Pab Sungenis creator almost 16 years ago
pschearer: “Fogy” is not an age, it’s a state of mind. You could be in your 80’s and not a fogy, and I know some fogies in their 20’s.
TonysSon almost 16 years ago
But…but, I like my Gasoline Alley Oop!
Seriously though…I personally don’t like certain comics (Rex M-organ donor M.D. & Mary Worthless I’m lookin’ at you). But there are folks out there that do like such strips and who the hell am I to deny them their pleasure? Longer live Nancy, Peanuts and so on, I just won’t read them.