Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 02, 2018
October 01, 2018
October 03, 2018
Transcript:
richard's poor almanack --- by richard thompson comic strip previews for 2007 snoopy: joe bronze age! pre-classical peanuts. just when papers are running out of reruns, a cache of ancient strips dating back some 4,000 years is found. for better or for worse. ends its 28 year run when a giant squid gets loose are carries off everyone in the strip. except for anthony. even mary worth all comic strips. by pure chance, all strips appearing on june 4th will have the same joke. something about cloned chickens & leftovers. smiley: y r u always flat on your back? lol!!! emo: u r so cheerful i can't stand it!!! smiley 'n' emo. debuts october 12th. widely vili-fied as the worst strip of all time, it's a huge hit with the jaded youth of today. optioned by pixar. blondie. terrorists take out dagwood. blondie dates anthony. guy: "almanack!" why, it's genius! richard's poor almanack. adds final "k." the pulitzer committee takes notice.
Unfortunately, due to a typography error the new “k” was misplaced, and the strip went to press as “Richard’s Poork Almanac” for three months. The confused editor ran it in the Food Section, where old readers couldn’t find it and its new audience just wrote angry letters to the Post about the lack of bacon jokes. By the time the mistake was found and corrected, the committee had already given the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning to a “Ziggy” panel that had been printed without the black ink.