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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Newspaper comics (also, briefly, undergrounds)
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 15:16:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 15:16:39 1984
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Interesting...In a recent Sunday paper magazine (Parade?),
Charles Schulz made similar observations on bad
artwork, too many serials, and unfunny comics.  You're in good
company.  I haven't noticed the bad artwork--can anyone point
out other examples?

I'd also like to see more discussion of newspaper comics and
undergrounds.  (One mail order company used to distinguish the
undergrounds/mainstream comics as comix/comics!)  I like the
Rip-off Press comics -- Wonder Warthog, Freak Bros., Fat
Freddy's Cat, but the only reaction I ever get from people is
"Oh, do they still print that?"  If you're interesting in checking
this stuff out, Rip Off has Fat Freddy's Comics #1 out, which has
the unglamorous Freddy imagining himself as the hero in Star Wars,
Conan, etc, etc, and is drawn by the whole staff at Rip Off instead
of by Gilbert Shelton.  It also refers to the 50's comic that
spawned Mad, etc -- the name escapes me.  And best of all, to me,
it has a hilarious story about Fat Freddy's Cat in heaven.  FFScat
is an order of magnitude funnier than popular cartoon cats like
Garfield!

Does anyone else out there like "funny animal" comics?  Walt
Disney still reprints the Carl Barks stories in Uncle Scrooge
and WD's Comics and Stories.  But their new art (and writing) is
incredibly bad!

   Bill Kelly
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