why they continue to print "the family circus"
i mean, does anyone like it?
there is a great line in the movie go that i think encapsulates my feelings towards it.
todd: And it's always there, in the lower right hand corner, just waiting to suck.
bring back calvin and hobbes. because remember kids: it's either spectacular, unbelievable success, or crushing, hopeless defeat. there is no middle ground! . . . ok. there is a middle ground, but it's for sissy weasels.
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Ah, for the halcyon days of Bloom County. Bloom County. These days, the only print comic that still gladdens me is Doonesbury. Most of my paneled joy comes from electronic ventures:
Something Positive
Questionable Content
Scary Go Round
Achewood
They also have the virtue of being able to be read from the inception, though as these are nominally narrative (with the exception of Achewood, which is sporadically sequential but in an odd way), one generally has to go back to the beginning (and suffer through some initially awkward art, as in the case of Questionable Content). Still, much deliciousness once one becomes acclimatized.
they keep running it because it's utopian for the segment of the population that can fool itself into believing that the years between the end of WWII and the Vietnam War were years of innocense -- at least for middle-class white kids who knew their place in (or hadn't figured out how to disrupt their place in) the matrix of race, gender, class and sexuality that the segment of the population mentioned above understands as utopia. what's really sad is that the poor kids of Family Circus are stuck in permament childhood, never allowed to grow into their dirty secrets of incest, tranquilizers and violence.
but that's just me imagining Family Circus as the prequel to Natural Born Killers...
lord i missed you! what continent are you on these days?
missed you too. :) still in chi-town, but just barely. heading for Africa on the 31st, but back in AZ for x-mas.
in the meanwhile, spent 12 hours of tuesday night and wednesday morning in the ER with boyfriend, whose post-surgical pain failed to respond to the vicodin he'd been prescribed. now he's on oxycontin. rush limbaugh, eat your heart out...
love...
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