Gary Larson speaks

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1. Ed Power

   Man, I miss ‘The Far Side’…and ‘Calvin and Hobbes’…and ‘Bloom County. >sigh

2. Malc

   None of those strips were actually spotted, nurtured and published by genius syndicate execs (in fact Calvin and Hobbes was turned down by the syndicate that initially gave it a green light to be developed).

   The public will go for anything that’s good. Even editors have shown they have an appetite for change. The problem is the major syndicates. They’re incompetent and it’s in their business interests to keep foisting the tired old pap onto you.

   Papers should sponsor their own strips, paying decent money to encourage local talent. The time for change is now!!! Don’t put up with this dead wood, America, Lobby your editor!

3. KMiller

   Malc, can I go and live in your world? It sounds so much nicer than the one I’m living in now. (Sigh)

4. anon

   sorry. I agree that there are too many awful strips as to ruin the stature of just about every current daily newspapers comics’ section, but why you don’t hold the newspapers responsible is weird to me, are you a newspaper editor? Or perhaps a cartoonist shunned by the syndicates? There are many NEW syndicated strips that are my favourite ever, Pearls Before Swine, Poncho Cafe, Ink Pen, Get FUzzy, Monty, Speed Bump, Get Fuzzy, Lio, etc.

5. Ed Power

   O yeah. There are a lot of strips I enjoy. I just miss those 3 strips. 🙂

6. Lynda

   I recently re-read “History of the Far Side”. Oh I so miss the brilliant art work and humor of Gary Larson. Comic strips today are so awfully lame. What happened to Bill Waterson and his Calvin and Hobbes ? What is this world coming to! We need both of these men back. Does he see these mails? I applaud his involvement in making cruelty to animals his focus…a good man! OK, there it is.

7. WALTER METCALFE

   WHAT IS GARY LARSON DOING NOW AND WHERE DOES HE LIVE?

8. r stevens

   He’s outside your window, sharpening his steak knives, Walter! CAREFUL.

   Gary is a hungry man.