Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, October 09, 2005


Although some good strips have appeared in recent years, notably "Zits," "Mutts," "Get Fuzzy" and "Frazz," Watterson left an enormous hole in the comics page when he retired, a hole no strip has filled.

The history of comic strips in the last fifty years has been the creation of enormous holes, until nothing has been left but the vastest of holes, filled in forlornly at the bottom by insufferable cuteness, refrigerator magnets, and ghosted racial and political intolerance.

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