Plain Dealer drops Dilbert

[HanSenSE]

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

 

[Azrael]

nah

 

[Songbird]

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

 

[I Should Coco]

As anyone who worked at a newspaper that was so foolhardy as to tinker with its comics section knows, nothing is more fraught with peril. People who read the comics do so with fanatical loyalty, even if the strip they follow completely sucks and is drawn and/or written by the great-great-great nephew of its creator. Dilbert hasn't been funny for some time, like a decade, but had it been canceled on those grounds, reader fury would have erupted. I mean, Charles Shultz has been dead for 20 years, and there are still papers who print reruns of Peanuts, because there are still readers who want it. Also, it is noteworthy how few editors in top newspaper management read the funnies themselves. This has been true since the '70 and '80s when papers were riding high. I'll bet more than a few papers now canceling Dilbert had management unaware the paper carried it.

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.

 

[OscarMadison]

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.

 

[MTM]

We did a comics survey 15 or 20 years ago and one or two of the strips showed very little readership. Once they were cancelled, though, the crazies came out of the woodwork. I'd rather take a phone call from a Pished-off soccer mom that some of those idiots.

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.

 

[Azrael]

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."

 

[I Should Coco]

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

Whatever — I never really liked his comic strip anyway.

 

[playthrough]

Is this why Dilbert is drawn without a mouth?

 

[matt_garth]

 

[dixiehack]

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 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.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

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)