tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post3837918230369981843..comments2024-03-29T00:04:32.434-05:00Comments on Althouse: "If making graphic novels felt like a staid long-term relationship, then doing gag comics is like playing the field."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79738144979404830312011-08-24T12:56:50.371-05:002011-08-24T12:56:50.371-05:00Unfunny cartoons.
He should try the WSJ's Pep...Unfunny cartoons.<br /><br />He should try the WSJ's Pepper and Salt, which runs those exclusively.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bizarrocomics.com/" rel="nofollow">Bizarro</a> has an occasional good one.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69711368974924591972011-08-24T12:55:39.782-05:002011-08-24T12:55:39.782-05:00It's exceptionally hard to sell cartoons to th...It's exceptionally hard to sell cartoons to the New Yorker. I tried several times in the 80's without success. And mine weren't the least bit funny.dashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04868089073835012093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5706124065620860712011-08-24T12:50:23.595-05:002011-08-24T12:50:23.595-05:00It's even easier to sell comics when they don&...<i>It's even easier to sell comics when they don't have to be funny.</i><br /><br />Bingo.<br /><br />The New Yorker is now a hip magazine. Do hip people ever laugh out loud? And let down their guard? The guard of being superior and in the know? Of course not. But a knowing chuckle is allowed, ergo the cerebral mildly amusing cartoons that fill the rag.ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90630299867936573702011-08-24T11:38:14.166-05:002011-08-24T11:38:14.166-05:00I read somewhere that Peter DeVries used to write ...I read somewhere that Peter DeVries used to write the captions of many of the cartoons. Verbal and visual humor are not homogeneous gifts.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10146673437302413502011-08-24T11:26:39.813-05:002011-08-24T11:26:39.813-05:00And by "no one else"... I mean no other ...And by "no one else"... I mean no other woman.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36063660979881999412011-08-24T11:25:53.163-05:002011-08-24T11:25:53.163-05:00"PS Is that why you went from art to law, Mad..."PS Is that why you went from art to law, Madame? Or just you needed the money?"<br /><br />I went to law school for 2 reasons:<br /><br />1. I wanted to have children.<br /><br />2. I was starved for verbal stimulation.<br /><br />(No one else in the history of the world ever went to law school for those 2 reasons.)Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5936599187151561342011-08-24T11:24:54.239-05:002011-08-24T11:24:54.239-05:00It's even easier to sell comics when they don&...It's even easier to sell comics when they don't have to be funny.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450897654318345683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-975412762929169772011-08-24T11:19:04.689-05:002011-08-24T11:19:04.689-05:00He ought to channel Charles Addams a little less.
...He ought to channel Charles Addams a little less.<br /><br />But his point is well-taken. You have to be able to withstand a lot of rejection.<br /><br />PS Is that why you went from art to law, Madame?<br /><br />Or just you needed the money?edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.com