tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8174377487001136016..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Highest Page Views - #50Assistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-11747803930840571822019-09-04T17:06:13.058-04:002019-09-04T17:06:13.058-04:00Sam nailed it first off. I think Trudeau's hum...Sam nailed it first off. I think Trudeau's humor developed a negative correlation to his political activism, and I have noted the same in other once-funny writers and comedians.<br />For Better or Worse, and Calvin and Hobbes, are my continuing favorites.<br />For anti-PC-humor now, Tom, I think Babylon Bee is first-rate.AesopFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08136804368672830018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-63395155639249269942019-09-04T05:31:20.181-04:002019-09-04T05:31:20.181-04:00The "anti-war" folk were also, objective...The "anti-war" folk were also, objectively "pro-Killing Fields" folk. But they refuse to accept that, despite it being true.<br /><br />We need more humor against the increasingly establishment PC-gulag supporters. Wish I could tell better jokes.Tom Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-62967064870959514112019-09-02T07:48:59.155-04:002019-09-02T07:48:59.155-04:00I was in junior high school in the Chicago suburbs...I was in junior high school in the Chicago suburbs during the peak of the Vietnam war. There were lots of draft-avoiding (dodging to use the term of the day) male teachers who had no motivation or interest in teaching. They fit the Doonsbury irony mode to a tee. DirtyJobsGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05758528269715802477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-33205440493272446372019-09-01T18:00:58.396-04:002019-09-01T18:00:58.396-04:00Good points about nuance working only one way in t...Good points about nuance working only one way in the strip, and the absurdity of preppie Trudeau mocking the Bushes for being preppies. I read the strip for years. I mailed a number of Doonesbury books to to a Claremont NH native living in South America, for her own use or for her English students. (She married while in the Peace Corps.)<br /><br />I don't know when I stopped reading Doonesbury.My guess is about 20 years ago,though it could have well have been well before that. I definitely stopped looking at Doonesbury years before I stopped reading the comics pages of the local paper. It became tedious. IIRC,I do recall Clinton being portrayed as a waffle. <br /><br />Of the comic strips that began in the '70s or so, For Better or Worse kept my attention much longer than Doonesbury. I purchased books of FBOW comic strips (from used book stores) decades after I stopped purchasing Doonesbury books. Because it focused on the humor inherent in family situations instead of being a platform for expressing the politics of the creator, it never became tedious.<br /><br />Both FBOW and Doonesbury hit the wall of declining newspaper subscriptions.RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-78268824786974980662019-09-01T17:52:44.250-04:002019-09-01T17:52:44.250-04:00Same here, Sam. I remember the panel size controv...Same here, Sam. I remember the panel size controversy. I think Trudeau wanted to get moved off the comic pages. I think I was getting the Cedar Rapids Gazette at the time, and that's what they did. I tried to read it but so many of the stories were lost in the weeds of character backstory that I couldn't follow most of them.<br /><br />Anybody else remember Mallard Fillmore, the supposed conservative answer to Doonesbury?<br /><br />I liked Berke Breathed's Bloom County for quite a while. Though unabashedly liberal, it was like early Doonesbury in the way it skewered some sacred cows on the Left. Journalists and aged hippies were two fairly frequent topics of fun. It also jumped the shark (before the phrase was cool) but Breathed decided to get out rather than spiral down.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-69164467270288088622019-09-01T14:03:48.475-04:002019-09-01T14:03:48.475-04:00I grew up. Trudeau was in a rut, and kept digging...I grew up. Trudeau was in a rut, and kept digging it deeper.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com