Open letter to James Campbell and Kyrie O’Connor : Lone Star Times

Open letter to James Campbell and Kyrie O’Connor

by Rorschach · 04/09/2006 7:07 pm

If the intent of the Chronicle is to keep the comics fresh, one must ask the question, why do you keep any of the following:

Beetle Bailey
Peanuts
Blondie
Marmaduke
Family Circus
Rex Morgan MD
Hi & Lois
or
Dennis the Menace

I am 40 years old and all of these strips were old when I was a kid and most aren’t even drawn by the original artists and in the case of Peanuts are re-runs anyway.

I demand you not only bring back Mallard Fillmore in the print edition, but when Chris Muir brings out Day By Day in self-syndication in May I demand you do a little "freshening" and replace one of the above with Day By Day as well. You will note I am not demanding you dump Doonesbury or Opus or any of the other overtly leftist propaganda that passes for comics, only that there be some balance, and what you have right now is unbalanced. You could dump the lion’s share of the above and save a whole lot of money and few people would care all that much.

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12 Responses to “Open letter to James Campbell and Kyrie O’Connor”

SC on April 9th, 2006 at 7:31 pm

I demand that they quit throwing a paper that I canceled long ago. I do recieve the paper at the office and read the comics in the “library”.I notice that there are now fewer strips. Maybe they can not afford to pay for the premium strips anymore.
Henley on April 9th, 2006 at 8:08 pm

Roschach, Just one question. When did they start letting you have daytime visits from the mental hospital in RUSK? You’re nuts! Keep the older comics. Sure some of the newer comics are more in step with modern times but, these modern times are really F***D Up! Why would you want that for your kids or anyone else?
Justin on April 9th, 2006 at 8:39 pm

Oh no, you just called out MeMo… If you don’t watch it she’ll come out with Keith Olbermann and do some redecorating.

I’m thinking hot pink and lime green with red shoes.
nztexas on April 9th, 2006 at 9:03 pm

I demand we have some comics in Spanish or else we won’t work!! I like the free paper - helps make pinatas I can sell in the markets - for cash only.
jimb on April 9th, 2006 at 9:51 pm

The comic strips in the paper have pretty much sucked forever. They’re either stuff I outgrew when I was 10, or overtly leftist propoganda, which bored me when I was a kid, and turns me off now. Just another reason to *not* subscribe to the Chron…
Al Williams on April 9th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

Calvin & Hobbes was really cool.

That’s the last great strip the Chron had.

(almost forgot Dilbert, but that doesn’t matter- i get that in my email box every morning)
golfer1 on April 10th, 2006 at 4:45 am

I’ve subscribed to some e-mail comic services, so I was unaware that Mallard Fillmore was not in the print edition. One more reason that I don’t take the Chron…Speaking of donations, I’ve donated to “Day by Day” recently (of course this is in addition to the recent LST Begathon)…
Rorschach on April 10th, 2006 at 9:29 am

#2, I sneak out by pretending to be one of the docs. As far as the relevence of the old ones goes, let’s take Beetle Bailey for instance. It was first drawn during WWII if memory serves. It depicts a sad sack draftee that refuses to do anything and instead skives off all the time. Which begs the question, is THAT what you want you son or daughter to grow up to be? Someone who, when called to serve thier country, instead skives off and sleeps all day? This is the person you want your kid to idolize?

#3, I’ve called Ms.(Don’t call me Kyrie) O’Connor out before. She ain’t got nothin I’m a skeerd of…=D

#6 I liked Calvin & Hobbs as well, but I believe the artist stopped drawing them, the ones online are re-runs too. Red and Rover is a cheap, and not quite as funny knockoff of it.
gmland on April 10th, 2006 at 10:30 am

Am I the only one that thought the last great comic was “Bloom County”?

I have all of the book collections too - Oh crap, I think I just called myself a goober!!!
Rorschach on April 10th, 2006 at 11:50 am

I always liked “Herman” myself….
Narly on April 10th, 2006 at 11:59 am

Gee, I didn’t even know the Chronicle had comics. When this start?
Rorschach on April 10th, 2006 at 5:30 pm

#11 Haven’t you heard us call it the Comical? You just thought we were talking about the words….=D

All joking aside, one thing that the Chronicle does have going for it, they have one of, if not the, largest “funny pages” of any daily paper. One of the (but not the only) things that has kept me as a subscriber. But that reason is quickly eroding away.