Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 23, 2003

Transcript:

"So how did the funnies become unfunny?" "Well, you have some strips where creators died or retired and handed the strips off to relatives or hired artists." "Another problem is cartoonists who create strips merely to target a demographic, be it baby boomers, teenage girls or a specific ethnicity." "What if you just want to do something that's funny?" "You write for 'The Simpsons.'"