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12.30.2005

Out of the Gene Pool 12.30.05














Matt Janz's comic today made me a FAN-FOR-LIFE.

If you've been reading this dccblog for a bit, you'll remember that I have a soapbox rant about comics that are ghosted (aren't drawn by their creators even though the name at the byline is still there). My last post about this was here regarding Boondocks, whose original creator phones in the gag or words to another artist who draws it for him. Mostly it involves the little kid character sitting in front of the television making an obvious comment about current events. Ugh. Don't get me started. But I think Janz is on to the rest of the comics page, really...
Obviously, the comics are part of the selling point of a lifestyle section of a major newspaper, so I understand that staying conservative when choosing strips that will appeal to the most people would be a sound business decision...but there's a lot of regurgitated drek on the funny pages---it seems that the editors think that the public mindset is one that craves pablum.

Deb at 11:48 AM  |  link to this     

2 Comments

Pablum! Wasn't that featured in one of your cartoons?

I only read Dilbert and Pearls Before Swine. The rest is junk, which, as you point out, deal with cute kids saying the darnest things. ha. ha.

By the way, folks, I ghost draw for Deb....

Dembicki at 12/30/2005 5:00 PM   

I'm real surprised that McGruder has to resort to this. Don't comic creators at least wait till middle age before palming it off to ghost artists?

I'd like to think that McGruder's ghost artist is old and grizzled, just for contrast.

On the other hand, running a comic-franchise empire must be rough.

(PS: the thing *I* always look for in comics is swiped panels [that is, the artist re-xeroxing his own panel to save work]. It's low. This doesn't happen so much these days; or, there's a computer program to vary successive panels just a tad...)

Art H. at 12/31/2005 12:53 PM   

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