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Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 27, 2021 | GoComics.com

 

Beginning Monday, all McClatchy papers going to standardized comics and puzzles pages as opposed to each product having its own vendor-supplied version.

No more Dilbert in Fort Worth. No more Gil Thorp in Columbia. As they ran separately from a main comics page (Dilbert on the biz page; Thorp in Sports). Reader outrage sure to follow, which is why they're posting three days of "Dear Readers" warnings.

You just need to know "how" to read it.

 

I adored Bloom County, still have some of the books, and there are three stuffed Opii somewhere in my studio.

When Breathed returned to cartooning, it seemed like he was more regressive about women than I remembered. A handful of us tried to explain why we weren't crazy about a series of strips he did devoted to being "friend-zoned." I tried to be sympathetic about it and one of his web people responded that they'd seen my picture and it was no wonder I knew what that was like. So I may have taken that personally and should have stayed objective even though I was no longer reviewing funnies/comics by then. I never warmed up to the revived BC. Copping to that right now.

Thing is, I'm generally not likely to clutch my pearls over cartoonists who prefer that their women reflect cheesecake of days past. Pretty pictures are pretty pictures. My CIS-het self thought Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows was lovely even when most of my colleagues were screaming for his head.



This is my favorite Pastis strip. I appliqued Rat in the last frame on a sweatshirt.

 

By staff reports.

 

Have tried - and failed - to get Dilbert several times. Also sums up my feelings about "The Office." When it comes to workplace humor, give me Dagwood v. Mr. Dithers any time.

 

I liked the minor characters in the American Office. (Creed and Phyllis are my favorite characters.) Admitting to an appreciation for Gareth in the UK Office. MacKenzie Crook held his own so well with Toby Jones in The Detectorists, it made me want to revisit the original Office to see what I'd missed the first time. I was cringing too hard back then to notice much.

I know a half-dozen engineers of varying flavors. Below is a comprehensive list of every one of them who enjoys Dilbert:

 

When I worked for large newspapers chains, I loved Dilbert because so much of the bureaucracy modeled what happened at my various jobs and life. Once I left that world, my desire to read it practically died because I couldn’t relate to it.

Same thing with Get Fuzzy. When I was a single guy, that comic spoke to me. Now, I read old strips and it just doesn’t make sense.

Of course, I only read the serial comics as stated earlier and maybe glance at Sally Forth but that is too depressing because now my life mirrors Ted Forth and that is more than I can handle.