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Coffee and the comics pagePosted Friday, August 15, 2008, at 12:12 PM
I love me some Dilbert. Garfield is another favorite of mine. I read the paper and then treat myself to the comics page almost every morning while enjoying my fourth cup of coffee.
I know you do the same. I bet some of you pick up the paper at Cup N Cork or Grace's and just turn it over for that page-O-chuckles. Well, it may interest you to know that one of those strips is changing. Lynn Johnston, the writer of "For Better or For Worse," is starting a new endeavor using all her old material. She's going to draw new strips in the old way and run old strips sporadically and it seems eventually only the old strips will run. So some are new, and some have already been run. I guess it could be exciting. Is it new? Is it old? OH! this week's new! Aaww... I've already read this one. She's calling it "new-runs" and justifies it saying, "It's going to be a whole new generation reading this." She attempts to explain in the youtube video below.
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Chris Harris manages the feature sections in the Southeast Missourian. Those colorful, fun pages toward the end of the A section? That's her and her team. She works on Health, Home and Garden, SE Live, neXt, Religion, the Sunday Good Times section and the daily comics pages. She deals with everything from the flu and fitness topics to house projects and kitchen tips to the latest plays and art exhibits in town. You know: conversation topics. She uses this space to talk about what's coming up, what you're interested in and what she found yesterday. You can sum it and her up in one word: Random.
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My grandfather still asserts that "the funnies" are the best part of the paper. I must concur with him.
A big "rats" that new "Peanuts" and Charles Schulz is no more. Always my fave.
Regardless, no comic strip is funny before the obligatory coffee.
I love Lynn Johnson's strips and I think some of her old strips are more compelling than the rerunning of Charlie Brown.
I wish the paper carried ZIT's written by the same people who write Baby Blues. I laugh out loud almost every time I read it. Thank goodness I subscribe to the Post for their comics and puzzles.
I'd like to see "Get Fuzzy" included on the comics page. Funny like "Bloom County" was funny.
And FYI, Chris-I went to the "wall to wall rythm & blues" at the Bel-Air. A little, teenie, tiny sound system was playing music. Hardly "wall to wall". What gives?