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Super Kinky Fun Comic
 Steve Glassbrenner | Toon Section Manager
Garfield
If you're anything like me, you're wondering how and why Garfield is connected to the Super Kinky Fun Comic this week. After years of "revisiting" the same material, I honestly see Garfield and other encumbant classic cartoons as a threat to fresh new creative material. Survival of the fittest dictates that an animal that fails to change, fails to survive. Unfortunately this doesn't ring true with cartoonists. Such cartoons as Garfield, Peanuts, Cathy, For Better Or For Worse, Family Circus, and countless others have exhausted every avenue of comic material available. So if Garfield has kicked Jon, Nermal, and Odie off the table a hundred times, how can the strip still survive? The answer is sentimentality. People grew up with Garfield and Peanuts, and even though they fail to break any new ground, they have a spot secured in papers world wide. It's hard to make it as a comic strip artist, especially when you have no chance of unseating a "safe" strip that is guarenteed not to offend or legitimately entertain anyone.
Name: Dogg
Comments:
Crybaby? People like Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) knew when they ran out of interesting ideas for their strip and move on to other things. I respect that. The first rule of entertainment is to entertain your audience. The second rule is to leave them wanting more. I never claimed expertise as you said, but around age 6 or 7 when I went weekly to the library with my mom I always checked out the Peanuts collections untill I realized a few years later that it was all the same. Just because a strip did something when it got started doesn't mean it should keep someone else from doing the same by sticking around when it merely regurgitates the same thing. That's why it gets lumped into the catagory with other comics that do the same. If a new album by any band you like turns out a cruddy album, you shouldn't be forced to buy it just because they were great back in the day. And saying that Peanuts is wearing out it's welcome by sticking around after Mr. Shultz passed is not a dead horse. The strip is still present even if he is not. Thanks for reading your highness, may you reign forever!
Cheers
Dogg
Name: adam
Comments:
that is soo damn trew, ROCK ON MAN
Name: king crybaby
Comments:
no kidding--peanuts isn't breaking any new ground now because it isn't made anymore.
on another note, peanuts broke *all* the new ground for years. it built everything comic strips have become to this day. if it wasn't for the fresh air that peanuts allowed, newspaper comics would've died years ago.
i for one resent you lumping it into a category with family circus and cathy. neither of those particular strips ever did *anything* daring or new while peanuts broke the necessary ground for people like you to do the "shittiest cartoon ever."
especially since sparky's death, it seems like you're attempting to beat a dead horse with that point. so what if by year 45 peanuts became a little stale? in the 44 years that preceded it, it was consistently the best strip in any newspaper.
before you begin swinging blind arms like that, perhaps you should read up a little. know your history before you claim expertise, please.
Name: Jeff
Comments:
I dunno man...something about Garfield just makes me laugh. I don't know what it is, but he just succeeds.
On another note, that site is very...loud.
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