Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 2, 2024I love that Caterpillar boots were among the returned items, and in this photo an Amazon worker took, you can clearly see the "CAT" logo near the cat. Cat climbed into Amazon return box, found alive 630 miles away wapo.st/3JJ3vqT
- Untitled May 1, 2024A new cartoon for May Day! This has been an incredible year for unions in the USA - may next year be even better. Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! #PoliCartoon #Union #LaborDay2024 #MayDay2024 #May1st #UBI #LivingWage
- Untitled April 30, 2024People on reddit are fighting about a cartoon I did about why the US health care system sucks and I am enjoying this too too much. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1ch0l0r/why_us_health_care_is_such_a_terrible_system/?sort=old
- Untitled April 30, 2024I just posted a new cartoon! It's patreon supporters only for now, but in a week or so I'll make it public. :-) https://www.patreon.com/posts/deus-ex-machina-103359912?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
- Untitled April 30, 2024Nothing against Brian, who of course needs and should make a living. But I'm increasingly frustrated by the Substackization of blogging/news writing. To read Brian's work I have to subscribe, which at the lowest price level is $75 a year. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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It’s stuff like this that reminds me to be grateful to Bill Watterston for retiring before his strip became hackneyed; he could have played it safe, and kept his very marketable juggernaut going forever, while it slowly became Dennis the Menace. Instead, he ended it. Thanks, Bill.
I realize the strip was published in the ’80s, but imagine if the last panel was published on or after 9/11
I know, I think that way about The Simpsons. I look at some of the old stuff and smile and then I quickly get pissed off because it’s still on air and it’s new stuff is so bad I don’t even bother watching it anymore. So disappointing.
One think I loved about Watterson was his huge fight against the syndicate that published his strip; they wanted to turn it into Garfield with Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, mugs, shirts, etc. He fought them every inch of the way; not only that he also fought for more creative freedom for Sunday comics and for more space for comics in newspapers in general.
Even more than that, Watterson’s fight about with the syndicate was about who should own the strip. The syndicate owned it; Watterson said they should give it to him. That Watterson won that fight is amazing.
Watterson gave a great speech against syndicate ownership of comic strips; you can find the text of it here.
I wonder what Bill Watterson thinks about webcomics?
Amp,
The link you gave is about abortion…not exactly related to Watterson’s fight against syndication ownership, don’t ya’ think? ;)
The abortion debate is about who has the right to control a woman’s body, a connection can be made.
I mean, I don’t know that that was the intent of the link, but there you go.
Heh. No, that wasn’t the intent of the link. Here’s the post I intended to link to.
Yesterday’s Pearls Before Swine strip perfectly summed up how I feel about newspaper comic pages these days.
Bjartmarr: Good one! Golf gags were one thing Watterson hated most of all; that and especially not relating to an audience. Great comic.