OK, I’ll just copy and paste what I did last week, since that is apparently what Mahoney, Goldsmith, and Garnett did:
OK, another three-panel daily strip (panels 4, 5, and 6) that has been padded with useless filler panels (1, 2, and 3) to make a Sunday strip. This seems lazy and cynical to me. I always thought that the point of the Sunday strip is to use that extra real estate to either explore a character or plot point in more depth, or to set up a more complex punchline.
It’s true that I’m not a comic strip artist, and I don’t know how much work goes into doing a daily comic strip for years on end. Also, I should just appreciate the comic—especially a legacy comic like “Andy Capp” that I’ve loved since the ’70’s—for what it is.
But it’s BECAUSE I love “Andy Capp” that I complain about a drop in quality. If I didn’t care, I would certainly just stop reading it. And, at the end of the day, the gags, stretched out or not, are still classic Capp, so of course I keep tuning in, to read, enjoy, and occasionally complain.
OK, I’ll just copy and paste what I did last week, since that is apparently what Mahoney, Goldsmith, and Garnett did:
OK, another three-panel daily strip (panels 4, 5, and 6) that has been padded with useless filler panels (1, 2, and 3) to make a Sunday strip. This seems lazy and cynical to me. I always thought that the point of the Sunday strip is to use that extra real estate to either explore a character or plot point in more depth, or to set up a more complex punchline.
It’s true that I’m not a comic strip artist, and I don’t know how much work goes into doing a daily comic strip for years on end. Also, I should just appreciate the comic—especially a legacy comic like “Andy Capp” that I’ve loved since the ’70’s—for what it is.
But it’s BECAUSE I love “Andy Capp” that I complain about a drop in quality. If I didn’t care, I would certainly just stop reading it. And, at the end of the day, the gags, stretched out or not, are still classic Capp, so of course I keep tuning in, to read, enjoy, and occasionally complain.