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?

A newspaper can be much more convenient than on-line news, including for the very reason that Herbie notices. Too many articles I want to read require starting a subscription to that organization, and I usually don’t expect that I’ll ever be reading another article in a newspaper from, say, Des Moines or Rochester. Subscriptions can really get out of hand: my wife has about 10 to different entertainment streaming services, such as Netflix, Disney, etc. – Cable was actually a lot easier, and maybe cheaper too (there was a “Pearls Before Swine” installment about this very thing some time back).

My big gripe however is with phone books! It used to be that when you stayed in another city, the hotel room had a handy phone book available. Now, you have to go on-line to find a specific local directory, then you have to wade through the different ones, trying to find one that is “free” or at least more complete, or one that has yellow pages, etc. Whether it is “better” or not, there is no question that on-line takes a lot more time, with the attendant increase in frustration!

Oh, the marvel of it all!

With that news paper, you don’t have to worry about WI fi or battery.

I think I lol’d too hard at the headline.

Everything old is new again.