Plain Dealer drops Dilbert

BANG had the Sunday strip in, but I imagine it printed earlier last week before the shit hit the fan.

 

nah

 

I don't understand either of those tweets especially the first one.

 

It’s been all downhill for newspaper comic pages since Calvin and Hobbes ended (speaking of nutjob artists …)

Other than Frazz and Pearls Before Swine, I can’t think of a “new” strip in the past 30 years that’s consistently good. At least among the ones my newspapers have run.

 

Calvin and Hobbes was one of those strips I saw very differently once I was responsible for a little person. Every parent I knew loathed it the same way they hated Rugrats. Once there was a real little boy in a car seat speculating if his Jeff Gordon car would fly out the window and meet us in Hopkinsville, I saw their point.

Never got into Dilbert. The most I saw of Adams' comic was in the background on The Drew Carey Show.

 

I’ve probably shared this here before. Going back maybe 25 years, I worked at a paper in a heavy senior citizen community and we canceled Hazel. It was our most expensive comic and was never funny or even amusing. It made Family Circus look like a laugh riot.
There was such an uproar, we had to bring Hazel back.

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...creator-scott-adamss-black-hate-group-remark/

Adams posted a poll on Twitter Sunday morning after the backlash, asking users to weigh in: “True or false: The media created a surge in racial division and then canceled me for pointing out the obvious impact of their evil work.”

“I’m accepting criticism from anyone who has seen the full context here,” he wrote in an earlier post. “The rest of you are in a fake news bubble but I trust you suspected that.”

 

He’s enjoying nailing himself to the cross far too much.

Whatever — I never really liked his comic strip anyway.

 

I must be as terrible a parent as my ex thinks I am. I got my then 10-year-old the complete box set for Christmas.

 

I got into Calvin & Hobbes in my teens and don't remember my parents ever objecting. (Not sure my Dad remembers today who Calvin & Hobbes are)