A typically excellent page from EC Segar's THIMBLE THEATRE. Spinach was never as big a deal in the newspaper strip as it was in the animated cartoons. I know this is a rant I have been on before, but looking at actual-size reproductions of the Sunday pages of THIMBLE THEATRE or PRINCE VALIANT or LITTLE NEMO, I am struck by how big the pages were and how much freedom this gave the creators. Looking at yesterday's Sunday comics was discouraging. They are tragically lame and unfunny, so limited in space available and evidently aimed at the simplest common denominator among the readers. I haven't seen any I felt an urge to clip and save. This despite some strips like MUTTS and GARFIELD seem geared primarily for grandmothers to put on their refrigerators with little angel-shaped magnets. Feh.
Submitted May 11, 2015 at 08:57PM by dr_hermes http://ift.tt/1zSTlN5 comicbooks
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