November 17, 2014
Go, Read: Round-Up Of Cartoonists Wishing Happy 50th To Wizard Of Id Newspaper Strip
Good week for Michael Cavna, who remembered (or was reminded about) the 50th anniversary of the
Wizard Of Id feature and did a round-up of reactions
here.
I'm generally curious about the role that the 1960s hardcore gag-type strips had on the development of features on the newspaper page. I assume they had a role, because my mind is filled with all of the set pieces and gags these strips employed, but I think we kind of allow
Doonesbury and then the
Calvin & Hobbes/
Far Side/
Bloom County '80s trio to dominate any discussion of the last 50 years on the comics page. If nothing else, strips of this nature found a strong champion in
Garfield, only without the abstraction of genre elements involved.
I laughed at a lot of those paperbacks when I was a little kid. I'm not sure that all of them are worth the time to dig in and read, but the Michael Peters entry was fun.
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