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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 ...
Obviously. Adding comic insult to an insult comic’s injury: Late Monday, NBC News posted a story about Hinchcliffe trying out some of his rally material Saturday night at a Manhattan comedy club.
In fact, the strips in question were pure sarcasm and just went over their heads. Comic strips have been under fire for decades for being seen as too controversial for the issues of the day.
Then-Plain Dealer Editor Doug Clifton wrote those words to open a column in 2002, and I’m stealing them today because of Beetle Bailey. I would rather write about anything else but the comics ...
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.
Peter’s many credits spanned comics, novels, television, films, and video games, including an award-winning 12-year run on ...
Comic-book movie culture is, after all, only as good as the movies it gives us. And this was the year that the corporations — let’s name names: Disney and Warner Bros. — failed. They made ...
When I was a kid, Saturday mornings meant watching cartoons and Sunday mornings meant reading newspaper comics. I waited all week to tear into the pages of "Calvin and Hobbes" and "Peanuts." ...
In 2021, I watched the comedian Varun Grover perform in New Delhi. As per usual, he had the audience in the palm of his hand. About 10 minutes in, Grover said (in Hindi), “Please understand the ...