And near Oak Street, I saw an older man in a chair reading comics. These days it’s a rarity, seeing a person reading a newspaper the old-fashioned way, which is ink on paper and not on a phone ...

One is that several people will write to criticize me for wasting precious column space on a superficial topic like comics. The other is that I will receive more email about this column than ...

“If [Doonesbury] were a column, we’d stop running it.” As the editor’s note said, the strip won’t vanish from our pages. It will still appear in the comics section Monday through Saturday.