stupid comics in the news

[davemerrill]

Learn all about STUPID COMICS today from AOL NEWS! That's right, the mass media finally wakes up and takes notice of one of the most vital sources of information available today - Mister Kitty's Stupid Comics!!

http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/a-look-at-the-worlds-stupidest-comics/19645056

Will this lead to book deal, TV show, movie, inevitable cocaine-fueled downfall, tabloid lawsuit, comeback, self-aware cameo role, footnote in history for Mister Kitty? Stay tuned!

Comments

[tohoscope.livejournal.com]

It'll be a new sitcom on CBS: $#@% Dave and Shain Say About Comics.

[(Anonymous)]

Great article! First BoingBoing and now this. The world takes note! Take note, world! Take note indeed!

-Tim E.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

That's a really decent writeup! Well done you guys!

So, when does the hate mail from SCOTT!!!! SHAW!!!!!!! start hitting your inbox? :)

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

I guess it's hard to write emails when your eyes are filled with bitter tears...

[(Anonymous)]

"I also think it's very salient to today's comic readers and publishers that even the silliest comics of the 1950s outsold the 'hottest' of today's comics."

To quote Ash Lynx, "Word."

--Carl

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

I kind of feel misleading when I'm talking about how much better the stupid comics of the 50s and 60s sold than modern comics, I mean, it's a different world, videogames, TV, the internet, etc. It's not the same playing field. On the other hand, comics in the 50s and 60s weren't obsessed with Power Girl's blood-spattered cleavage. There was at least an *attempt* to appeal to a broad audience.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

well, and also, price and availability. Whole lotta difference between a 12 cent comic you can buy ANYWHERE, every drugstore, newsstand, supermarket, blah blah Vs. a 3.99 comic where one must seek, find and enter the forbidden cave of geekatude, if your city has one, as there is only something like 2500 comic shops left in the US now.

but I sing that song overly much, I know.

in many ways I also blame that late '80s hard push to the 'graphic novel' and 'this way bookstores will RESPECT us' nonsense, with the $20 and up pricetags. "It'll be JUST LIKE IN FRANCE" some thought, forgetting that those TinTin books were priced as 'cheap disposable' entertainment for the locals, based on the local cost-of-living rates. See also Japan and the $3 collection Vs. the $10 price in the US.

Blah blah blah but at least it's on the topic. :)

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

in many ways I also blame that late '80s hard push to the 'graphic novel' and 'this way bookstores will RESPECT us' nonsense, with the $20 and up pricetags. "It'll be JUST LIKE IN FRANCE" some thought, forgetting that those TinTin books were priced as 'cheap disposable' entertainment for the locals, based on the local cost-of-living rates. See also Japan and the $3 collection Vs. the $10 price in the US.

Really, you guys just ruined my fun!

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

It's that broad audience I just don't understand!