NCS Prez: Polls Arbitrary and Unfair

Editor & Publisher has picked up on a letter by National Cartoonists Society President Rick Stromoski decrying the use of polls to choose comic strip features for the newspaper funnies page. Some parts of Stromoski's reasoning may ring truer than others; I don't know anyone that really sees comic strip cartoonists serving the same journalistic function as a newspaper columnist, even a sports writer, an equivalency suggested by Stromoski. It would of course be a better world for the funny papers if strips reflected the considered, idiosyncratic choices of an individual editor rather than a kind of false consensus.

Speaking of oddball, arbitrary decision-making, check out this breakdown of strips by categories at Comics.com. This means it was someone's job to sit down and decide where "Geech Classics" went.
 
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