{"id":433,"date":"2009-01-30T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/01\/comics-enriched-their-lives-11\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:47:00","slug":"comics-enriched-their-lives-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Comics Enriched Their Lives! #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more, by request:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CUT THE UNFUNNY COMICS, NOT \u2018SPIDERMAN\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t believe that you\u2019re cutting \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyink.com\/en-us\/content_offerings\/features.php\">Spiderman<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the only comic strip in the Globe, except for \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doonesbury.com\/\">Doonesbury<\/a>\u201d half the time, worth reading. Do think again in making way for what sounds like one more jejune set of unfunny panels pitched at the nonexistent (or at least nonreading) X-generation.<\/p>\n<p>And what ever happened to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdivot.com\/\">Mac Divot<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the most helpful set of golf tips I ever read?<\/p>\n<p>JOHN UPDIKE<br \/>Beverly Farms<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014From a 1994 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/outofline\/2009\/01\/updike_aspiring_cartoonist_1.html\">letter to the editor<\/a> of the Boston <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Globe<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The encounter, when all was said and done, had been no stranger than those in \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.krazy.com\/toc.htm\">Krazy Kat<\/a>,\u2019 which had given me my first idea of the American desert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014John Updike, in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/10\/20\/081020fa_fact_updike\">A Desert Encounter<\/a>,\u201d <br \/>from the October 20, 2008 issue of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The New Yorker<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p>I remember really enjoying reading the Spider-Man comic strip in the early &#8217;90s, but mostly in a kind of stupefied amazement at the lengths it took to stretch out a single plot point from Monday to Saturday (presumably so Sunday-only readers wouldn&#8217;t get lost). I wonder what Updike saw in it, assuming his letter wasn&#8217;t a put-on. I was just a stupid kid at the time, so maybe I was missing something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks, Jeet.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more, by request: CUT THE UNFUNNY COMICS, NOT \u2018SPIDERMAN\u2019 I can\u2019t believe that you\u2019re cutting \u201cSpiderman\u201d \u2014 the only comic strip in the Globe, except for \u201cDoonesbury\u201d half the time, worth reading. Do think again in making way for what sounds like one more jejune set of unfunny panels pitched at the nonexistent (or at least nonreading) X-generation. And what ever happened to \u201cMac Divot\u201d \u2014 the most helpful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[260,264,476,490,704,885,1219],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comic-strips","tag-comics-enriched-their-lives","tag-trudeau","tag-herriman","tag-updike","tag-mel-keefer","tag-spider-man"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}