Scott Adams posts killed Dilbert strip about Apple’s lust dust
Scott Adams on a recently killed Dilbert strip: My editor thinks this comic is inappropriate for newspapers. He might be right. You won’t see this one published anywhere else.
Posted on: April 30, 2012
Newspapers react positively to Funky Winkerbean gay prom story-line
Today kicks off a four-week story-line in Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean around the topic of a gay couple wanting to attend prom together. I reviewed the series last week. I’ve scanned the news this morning looking for newspapers who are telling their readers that they’ve pulled the strip or moved it off the comics pages, […]
NYT Reviews Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?
Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch out For and creator/author of the graphic memoir Fun Home, has a new book out entitled Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. The New York Times gives it a favorable review:Bechdel weaves emotional honesty with highbrow deliberation in a way that is never burdensome, and mostly light. […]
CSotD: Coverage that sparkles
Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on any but the low-hanging, sparkly fruit.Granted, the GSA scandal is easy coverage, since there’s no possible justification for the wretched excess involved, and I suspect that, if they had gone to Seattle, stayed in penthouse suites and gorged on Kobe beef and caviar while […]