Comments on: Analysis: Mark Trail v marijuana growers http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2012/05/01/analysis-mark-trail-v-marijuana-growers/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sat, 25 May 2013 07:32:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike Peterson http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2012/05/01/analysis-mark-trail-v-marijuana-growers/#comment-123108 Mike Peterson Wed, 02 May 2012 09:59:18 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=12360#comment-123108 There is very little wit involved in taking on the daily Mark Trail strip for doing what it has done so for a very long time.

Or Apartment 3G. Or Mary Worth. Or Family Circus.

We get it. Hipsters are very witty and have little tolerance for those four strips. And they don’t much like Gil Thorp, either.

And apparently their finely-tuned sense of irony doesn’t see anything odd in endlessly, repeatedly declaring that the same half dozen strips lack originality.

]]> By: Donald Rex Jr http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2012/05/01/analysis-mark-trail-v-marijuana-growers/#comment-123101 Donald Rex Jr Tue, 01 May 2012 20:22:33 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=12360#comment-123101 Mark Trail was always its own nitch, it seems silly to expect it to jump the track now,

]]> By: Brian Steinberg http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2012/05/01/analysis-mark-trail-v-marijuana-growers/#comment-123098 Brian Steinberg Tue, 01 May 2012 17:06:13 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=12360#comment-123098 This is a common theme in Mark Trail art, and something I’ve blogged about extensively on my Comics Examiner blog

http://www.examiner.com/article/those-pesky-mallards-return-to-steal-mark-trail-s-spotlight

There is a school of thought that “Mark Trail” consists of older storylines and art that are being refreshed, and that the big animal shots help obscure artwork that is no longer modern (not that most of Mark Trail looks particularly au courant).

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