Lio by Mark Tatulli for April 07, 2009

Too close to the truth…

Computers may seem to have it all but there is nothing like taking the newspaper funnies into the bathroom with you to do your business. I miss that.

Is the rare antiquity the comics page or that kids are reading?

I remember in the 1950s and ’60s when Sunday comics took up to a half-page per strip, with a full page for Prince Valiant.

This makes it all the more painful that the Philadelphia Inquirer recently dropped its separate Sunday comics section by shrinking it into the back pages of the tabloid-sized TV listing section. Sad.

I just became a first time subscriber to our city newspaper. They had lowered the rates to like half price. I even got a 10.00 gift for it too. I hope it lasts.

Even without all the newspapers going bust, the paperboy is a thing of the past.

These days newspapers are delivered by adults in station-wagon and minivans…at least around here.

baslim: We’d sing and dance forever and a day…

Hm, I can’t actually type in the comment box, but I can cut and paste text into it. Weird.   Anyway, I was going to say that I turn 28 later this week, and, growing up in the ’80s watching old TV shows on cable, I always wanted to deliver the paper when I got old enough. However, in my lifetime, the paper has always been delivered by adults in cars. I remember reaching the age of 10 or 11 and finding out that you had to be 18 and have a driver’s license to deliver the paper and being seriously disappointed.

pschearer - the Philly Inquirer did that? How sad. I always loved their comic section back when I lived up there.

Times they are a-changin’ - sometimes I have to wonder if it’s for the better.

something kids of today will not experience is using silly putty to make a color transfer of the comics

Sitting here, reading these comics on my computer; thinking of how some adults have been trying to stretch their incomes by getting up at 3 in the morning to get in their vans to deliver papers…

Jonathan Mayo says: Is the rare antiquity the comics page or that kids are reading?

Oh! Oh! Just what I was thinking, Jon!

To Bald - my brothers and I used to do the Silly Putty trick. The best was stretching all the characters into new shapes. Ha ha!

My feelings exactly!

Is the rare antiquity the comics page or that kids are reading?<<

Both. Also, a full page of broadsheet comics will probably disappear before comics themselves end altogether.

I live in the Philadelphia area and witnessed first-hand the reduction of the comics from broadsheet to cable-guide insert. So depressing. To the little kid who wants to someday draw newspaper comics, this is nothing to aspire to.

All here is off topic from Lio.

Carmy - I signed up as well for a similar deal with the Dallas Morning News. I went for a year.

VermillionSparrow & Doctortoon. Once upon a time I delivered newspapers when I was a freshman in HS. I substituted for the regular guy. Today my newspaper gets here at 6:30am. Back then I started deliveries at 5am and finished before 6am. Ricing a bicycle of course. A smaller 25K person town.

Looking forward to Lio’s Easter

Now I’m depressed.

This is too realistic for me.