Every now and then we get these salesmen that come through and want to sell us new comic strips, and other features. Of course, we would have to drop something to add theirs.
Just curious as to what people actually read and like, or don't like.
What comics do you like. Are there some that you just don't like?
Do you even know whether we have a comics page?
Several of the classic cartoonists have died, and they are giving us reruns or having someone else do the cartoon, which leads some of us to think they should be discontinued.
These are strips like Blondie, Peanuts, Gasoline Alley, Wizard of Id, and such.
What about the astrology?
What about bridge?
What about those little puzzles like Sudoko?
Do they make a difference to you? Would having them or not having them make a difference as to whether you got the paper or not.
I know several of you are just online readers ... its not likely we will start running comic strips on our web site.
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Comic Strip..that's easy....
Calvin & Hobbes. Best Ever! haha
I have to wonder if maybe catering to different age and interest groups isn't an answer.
A page each week taylored to the youth, elderly, families and sportsman for example.
I'm not sure the daily syndicated things still have the impact the once had in the past.
I loved the front page color article on the "Greater Praire Chicken".
Made me wonder what happened to all of them in this area?
My favorite is the "Backwoods Bobbleheads". It is a cartoon about the zany antics of 3 city commissioners and the crazy fun they have blocking the development of a small rural town.
One of the normal commissioners is a bald headed man who has smoke coming out of his ears every time he sees the crazy commissioners coming up with another stonewalling plan.
It's all good clean family fun. Every time the public gets mad, the commissioners have their patented reply, "tough cookies, you are stuck with it", whether it is about development, retail or personnel management.
My favorite issue was when the townspeople wanted something and presented a petition, and the Head Crazy Commissioner said, "oops! sorry... I LOST the petition!!! Didn't matter anyway!!". Wacky fun.
In almost all editions, there is at least one critical city employee and 15 residents who get disgusted with the monkeyshines and leave for a better town somewhere else, but the Crazy Commissioners hoot and holler and say "They're gone because we wouldn't do what they wanted us to", "HA HA HA".
Most comic strips end with a guy in a white suit chasing at least one of the Crazy Commissioners around with a butterfly net.
In the "Backwoods Bobbleheads", there is an unlimited supply of replacement professional employees and new residents who never seem to have any reservations about coming to such a town.
But that's just the comic strips. Reality is different.
Backwoods Bobbleheads sounds familiar. I must have read it when I was a kid or something.
But seriously, don't discontinue Peanuts. Charles Shulz and my dad were in the same unit in WW2. 20th Armored div. US Army.
My favorite comic strip is Doomandgloomsbury. One secret antic after another by the good old boy political abusers where the select few profit at the expense of everyone else.
Each episode shows the entrenched fat cats and beaurocrats who have always been in control clamoring to regain what they've had in the past. They don't know what to do with themselves because they've lost their whole life purpose.
I loved the front page color article on the "Greater Praire Chicken".
Made me wonder what happened to all of them in this area?
i liked that one too.
beetle bailey , garfield ,
New comics: How about the City Commission/Manager feud, seems to be a new gaf every week. Like the Commission's got a track record to hid behind..
Calvin & Hobbes!! All the way!
Keep the classics!
um, does the political commentary belong on another page besides cartoons?
Didn't think it needed explanation. But, much of what the City Commission has press released to the public, this past year, has to be laughable [as in comedy].
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