Tempest In A Penguin's Teapot & Other Tales Too Ticklish To Tell (Trees And Things)

uncarved block: Checking The Wiki

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:50:03 EST

Man, I checked, and you weren't kidding (scroll down to the milestones entry). I knew about a few of the early ones, but had managed to miss most of the exclusions from the last twenty yea

uncarved block: Cartooning For The Long Haul

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:38:04 EST

For my money, Breathed was strongest when it came to the characters developing organically. Cutter John, for one, or Oliver Wendell Jones-- in fact, it's rather telling that Milo Bloom dropped out of most of the later strips, and was in none

1fastdog: Re: Bunch'a wussies

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:27:08 EST

But then I never thought Berkeley was quite as incisive as Trudeau when it came to the political commentary.
I've always thought of Breathed's presentations as comically snarky and clever, moreso than incisive or cutting. I'm not a real big fan

thefadd: Re: I'd Be More Upset

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:37:23 EST

The last person I'll feel sorry for is Breathed. After years of putting out- from what I've seen- colorfully drawn drivel, he should be happy to be back in the news for anything. Talk about a cartoonist who started taking themselves too seriously . . .<

thefadd: Re: Bunch'a wussies

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:34:03 EST
I just read the strip and it didn't even occur to me that it was the strip in question until I went and read one of the articles that quoted it. But then I never thought Berkeley was quite as incisive as Trudeau when it came to the political commentary.

pO157: Re: Bunch'a wussies

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:53:49 EST
Exactly. And there really wasn't anything that bad with the whole strip. I didn't think it was that funny, either. But that is just me.
The paper did seem to lack some courage by failing to print it, and it will simply be up to the paper's subs

uncarved block: I'd Be More Upset

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:31:07 EST
If the world of the comic pages didn't have a long history of dropping strips for very little reason at all. From Doonesbury strips being placed on the Op-Ed page (or dropped altogether) during the 70s, to Gary Larson being told to redraw a st

DEMachina: roles, censorship, etc.

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:45:20 EST
First of all, isn't it the job of any artist to make us think about things in a different way?
Second, I'm not sure what's so offensive about that comic strip. Lola's statements about not having a girlfriend obsessed with western crud mirrors thin

1fastdog: Bunch'a wussies

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:34:48 EST
On the other hand - what's up with the Washington Post? I thought they had some integrity, but I guess not so much.
I'm really surprised that the Post didn't run it, especially since their editorial board leans to the right when the wind is blowi

port1080: Credit where credit is due...

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:09:52 EST
I've become increasingly disenchanted with Salon over the years (it went from being a provocative webzine with interesting pieces from all sides of the political spectrum to a left-wing echo chamber pretty quickly...some of their regular blog/columns like