Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 14, 2009
July 13, 2009
July 15, 2009
Transcript:
Zonker: "Dear guys: what's the deal with shrinking comics? Is there no end to it?- A.J. Boise." Mike: Well, hard to say, A.J. - despite the evidence, editors don't want to lose comics readers... but they're facing severe economic pressures like everyone else. So we've all got to make sacrifices. Zonker: So you're asking folks to stick with us, Mike? Mike: Begging them, actually.
turoc15 about 15 years ago
go comics hasn’t charged me yet. unless i want to be a genius. i am secure in my own doltishness.
Akenta about 15 years ago
gocomics doesn’t really charge much $11 for a year is very reasonable. Now the fact they let ads on their site that carry viruses is something I don’t want to support. Until I hear back from them how they are working to stop this is, I’ll just keep on the look out for being hijacked to another web site.
rmleon about 15 years ago
I use gocomics for free. recently canceled my newspaper subscriptions to save money and help the environment. That’s when I started logging onto gocomcs.
Yukoneric about 15 years ago
You guys pay????
pibfan868 about 15 years ago
The nominal fee for a year gives you far more archive access in one place than you might otherwise have, so I don’t mind it. Pibgorn was the strip that made me commit to it though.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member about 15 years ago
No doc, they aren’t unreadable, it’s just that yours eyes are starting to show their age!! :-D
farren about 15 years ago
I pay at comics.com, I pay here, I pay at King Featurss. Worth it for the archives, if nothing else (and keeping the ads at bay here). $15 or less per year isn’t bad at all.
Mary Finkelstein Premium Member about 15 years ago
I don’t pay for comics. Period. I have been reading them online ever since the Detroit Free Press started censoring comics for content, and because they started making the frames smaller and harder to read. I login to gocomics and comics.com daily to get my fix every day. I don’t need all the bells and whistles – gold accounts, comics sent to my e-mail, etc. Just give me the comics!
Potrzebie about 15 years ago
FREE COMICS! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Looks like socialism in action, huh righties?
aardvarkseyes about 15 years ago
I also read two newspapers a day, and only look online for comics that are not carried in either of them.
The Toronto Star recently added several comics to its weekend comics section, but it didn’t add any additional pages. Thus, many of the comics had to be reduced to a ridiculously small size. What can I say? There are always tradeoffs.
BlueRaven about 15 years ago
And if we all only take our comics for free, who gets paid to draw comics? Or are we talking top-down corporate welfare for newspapers? Since that’s the only welfare the right wing seems to think is justifiable…
yyyguy about 15 years ago
i’ve been told that if you read comics online, creators get paid according to the number of hits they get, because the sites sell advertising. sounds like it SHOULD be true, but i don’t really know.
3hourtour Premium Member about 15 years ago
..have you ever seen the adds on my tool bar after reading a couple of strips?….geez..I’ll pay when they add Moderately Confused…
clark1920 about 15 years ago
The best word to express this strip is “cogent”. And funny…