December 20, 2004
funny bizness in the funnies
Continuing on the theme of digital media inbedded in older media (television and, in this case, newspapers), there was something funny going on in the funnies on friday.
There was one comic (in The Washington Post) that seemed to speaking directly to the "Reading At Risk" conversation we had at the University of Maryland a few weeks back. Here's the comic, Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis.
Then there was Rhymes With Orange (which is one of my favorites, along with Pearls Before Swine, Boondocks, and Zippy the Pinhead), by Hilary Price, which also spoke to the digital condition and the supposed conveniences of the machine age:
And was Friday National Question Authority Day (yes, I think I remember President Bush signing something to that effect...IN MY DREAMS)? There were two comic strips on that theme. I would like to make the observation that the artists in question, Wiley, Jerry Scott, and Jim Borgman are also liberal POLITICAL CARTOONISTS. Rush Limbaugh is right: the left wing controls the media. This is proof. I think I'll call into his show tomorrow to tell him (in HIS dreams). Here are the comic strips.
