“But it was still totally my own decision to end the strip! That’s how much I love writing! I definitely wasn’t canceled by the syndicate, nosiree, I ended it myself because I love writing it!”
Yeah, Dorothy Parker did say that. She also said, according to Barry Day (editor of P.G. Wodehouse) that she’d “prefer to clean out ferry boats, peddle fish or e a Broadway chorus boy”. Instead, according to Day, she said she was “only a hardworking woman who writes for a living and hates writing more than anything else in the world.” I don’t know; seems like a strange comparison. Why not pick Charles Schultz?
Mopey Pete hates writing too. Why else would he abandon a lucrative writing career at Atomik Komix to reopen a failed enterprise?
Where are Mope and Mindy anyway? It’s not like Batyuk to miss an opportunity to feature them. Is Monotoni’s now operating self-serve on the honor system?
My favorite Dorothy Parker quote, most apropos for the devoted daily posters on Luann: “There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Having gone through the process of writing a book, shopping it around, getting it published and watching it sell a disappointing number of copies (the fate of 99.9% of all new books), I take Parker’s words as meaning she disliked the process of writing but was pleased with the ultimate product. Batton’s reversal of that tells us a lot about his creator, and it’s consistent with his strips about AtomiK KomiX and Starsuck Jones, in which he shows us the Boys In The Bullpen but never more than a poster or cover of the actual result. Batty loves the act of writing, but couldn’t give a rat’s patootie about the end result. Yeah, and that shows in the finished strips, doesn’t it?
Ever since I was a kid, I think the attraction to comics was a kind of an imagining or a wish that you were there in the story, with the allure of the background, the characters, the action. This reminds me of the feeling, in that you’re glad you’re not there or any part of this.
To paraphrase from Mrs. Parker, who must be doing 360s in her urns right now, “And it is that point that marks the first place at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”
wherescrankshaft about 2 months ago
I hate having written… but please, please, please buy my books.
Bill Thompson about 2 months ago
This strip has Pulitzer Prize written all over it—in invisible ink.
Brian Perler Premium Member about 2 months ago
“But it was still totally my own decision to end the strip! That’s how much I love writing! I definitely wasn’t canceled by the syndicate, nosiree, I ended it myself because I love writing it!”
Argythree about 2 months ago
Yeah, Dorothy Parker did say that. She also said, according to Barry Day (editor of P.G. Wodehouse) that she’d “prefer to clean out ferry boats, peddle fish or e a Broadway chorus boy”. Instead, according to Day, she said she was “only a hardworking woman who writes for a living and hates writing more than anything else in the world.” I don’t know; seems like a strange comparison. Why not pick Charles Schultz?
seismic-2 Premium Member about 2 months ago
We, too, hate that you ever wrote.
grandvitara about 2 months ago
How comes nobody today asked WHERE he is?
sueb1863 about 2 months ago
Wasn’t this supposed to be an interview for the paper? Why isn’t Skip writing anything down?
Gent about 2 months ago
Well after all its called writing and its called having written!
Gent about 2 months ago
Do he miss doing “3 Oh Clock High”? Gee. Why else does ya theenks he is turning his “Wrinkles” into his “3 Oh Clock High”?
Son of Stuck Funky about 2 months ago
Now he’s comparing himself to Dorothy Parker. Sheesh.
FassEddie about 2 months ago
I just saw Crankshaft going into the Happy Panda Massage parlor. I guess he’s finally getting that groin pull worked on?
French Persons Premium Member about 2 months ago
This is even worse than those ROMEOS who hang out at Dale Evans a few times a week…
Irish53 about 2 months ago
I love reading comics but hate having read FW
rockyridge1977 about 2 months ago
She died in 1967………..long term influence??
Surly Squirrel Premium Member about 2 months ago
Mopey Pete hates writing too. Why else would he abandon a lucrative writing career at Atomik Komix to reopen a failed enterprise?
Where are Mope and Mindy anyway? It’s not like Batyuk to miss an opportunity to feature them. Is Monotoni’s now operating self-serve on the honor system?
lemonbaskt about 2 months ago
crankshaft trying to get that ring off pierre s collar always up to no good
lemonbaskt about 2 months ago
crankshaft and pizza box monster at cleveland horror and comic expo
lanainutahdesert about 2 months ago
What is this comic book thing about?! Enough, already.
mountainclimber about 2 months ago
My favorite Dorothy Parker quote, most apropos for the devoted daily posters on Luann: “There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
tcayer about 2 months ago
We hate his having written too!
puddleglum1066 about 2 months ago
Having gone through the process of writing a book, shopping it around, getting it published and watching it sell a disappointing number of copies (the fate of 99.9% of all new books), I take Parker’s words as meaning she disliked the process of writing but was pleased with the ultimate product. Batton’s reversal of that tells us a lot about his creator, and it’s consistent with his strips about AtomiK KomiX and Starsuck Jones, in which he shows us the Boys In The Bullpen but never more than a poster or cover of the actual result. Batty loves the act of writing, but couldn’t give a rat’s patootie about the end result. Yeah, and that shows in the finished strips, doesn’t it?
GojusJoe about 2 months ago
This is so NOT Crankshaft.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 2 months ago
And read the brand new comic strip, MURRAY WORTHLESS
Out of the Past about 2 months ago
Ever since I was a kid, I think the attraction to comics was a kind of an imagining or a wish that you were there in the story, with the allure of the background, the characters, the action. This reminds me of the feeling, in that you’re glad you’re not there or any part of this.
J.J. O'Malley about 2 months ago
To paraphrase from Mrs. Parker, who must be doing 360s in her urns right now, “And it is that point that marks the first place at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”
apb1952 Premium Member about 2 months ago
Hey you two…you’re getting off track again! I come here to read Crankshaft not these discussions that aren’t funny and don’t include Mr. C!
Surly Squirrel Premium Member about 2 months ago
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” – Dorothy Parker
“I’d rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front of me.” – Tom Batiuk
CsRoberto2854 about 2 months ago
Cs: At this point I feel bad for Batiuk
WilliamVollmer about 2 months ago
What the everloving is Patton saying? It sounds profound, which means exactly what in this strip.
Mopman about 2 months ago
So he’s saying he loves to write but he hates what he produced?
Strawberry King about 2 months ago
What’s Three O’ Clock High about? The comic strip, not the movie.