| July 31, 2005 |
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The Comics Curmudgeon
During  a newspaper strike in 1945, New York's Mayor LaGuardia famously read the Sunday comics on the radio so kids wouldn't miss their beloved funnies. This ain't that. Since he was a kid, Josh Fruhlinger has been assimilating newspaper comics with a vengeance, and now he offers trenchant commentary on almost 50 strips. From iconoclastic favorites like Boondocks, to pre-ironic chestnuts such as Beetle Bailey, to postmodern envelope-pushers like Zippy the Pinhead, no genre escapes his scrutiny. It's a safe bet that anyone who can write 200 words on a single Rex Morgan M.D. and calls Peanuts' Lucy "the Jungian archetype of the hostile therapist" has something to say about everything. Thus, we get entries with titles like "Extreme crap," not to mention a welter of scorn for Family Circus. No, these aren't your parents' funnies... they're Josh's. (in Comics & Animation) |
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