Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for February 11, 2025

Hee hee, like the headline…

I’d say the lousy new feature was Melvin. Or maybe Jimmy?

Wait, that headline! Does this mean we’ll be seeing a “Plutonium Blonde” comic strip?

But, hey, when I tap on the comics they don’t zoom up in size so I can read them!

“But how do I leave comments in the comics section?”

Three generations of newspaper men in my family: grandfather, father and me. My son, fortunately, broke the cycle.

manifold alive ?

I don’t think he’ll be able to survive the shock.

I miss the daily Plain Dealer…..somehow “on line” doesn’t cut it for me!!!

(On a somewhat serious note, it is interesting to look at newspapers from various points in time throughout the 19th and first-half-of-20th century to see the evolution of how the news was presented. Newspapers from, say, the Civil War era are virtually unrecognizable, being super-heavy dense with text, and only occasional scattered illustrations. Printing technology that allowed for the use of photographs and cartoons didn’t truly emerge until the 1880s. The sports section as we know it is an invention of roughly 1900, not long after comics pages emerged. Even, though, well into the 1930s, newspaper front pages, tabloids excepted, tended to be dense. And some may forget just how revolutionary in design USA TODAY was when it debuted in the 1980s.)

I think he needs a quad espresso.

What next? Maybe someone will print out a bunch of articles like those on Wikipedia, and bundle them into books?