This morning I dreamed a sarcastic radio commentator was berating all of us here at Stripcreator. The only sentence I remember verbatim is: "And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

That would have been a bullseye, except that Wirthling (not to mention the rest of you, even Crabby) is infinitely funnier than all the printed strips put together. Pulp a week's worth of funnies and try to extract the raw wit, and all you'll get is a giant sucking sound.

This can't be a coincidence. I don't think a bunch of random geeks on the internet could be that much smarter than Garry Trudeau or Mort Walker. I think it's the print medium itself that forces them to be unfunny, because they have to avoid offending a bunch of octogenarians who only read the funnies so they don't have to read the obituaries first.

So in a way, it's a compliment to point out that we couldn't get in print. Except there's no money in this.

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There's a joke somewhere in there about pissing off the big syndicates and waking up with a donkey's head in bed next to you.

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I have a new slogan.

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

I need to sell some green furniture:

(More like this at James Lileks's site.)

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I'll give you $10 for the antelope.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

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This can't be a coincidence. I don't think a bunch of random geeks on the internet could be that much smarter than Garry Trudeau or Mort Walker. I think it's the print medium itself that forces them to be unfunny, because they have to avoid offending a bunch of octogenarians who only read the funnies so they don't have to read the obituaries first.
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You know you derive a lot of inspiration in your life from something if it seeps into your dreams. It's kind of cool, actually.

I don't know as I'm funnier or more insightful than the paper strippers, but I do know that what I'm doing is a hell of a lot of fun and as long as it remains that way I will continue to do it. I do know for a fact though, that paper *really* limits their ability to be truly humorsome.

As you might guess from my "The Far Side" strip that I did for comic cup II, I was a huge fan of it and I've read a lot of instances where Larson wanted to do something that would get him fired... those were usually his best ones IMO.

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I don't know as I'm funnier or more insightful than the paper strippers[/quote]

You certainly are, but that's a lot like saying you're more attractive than Ernest Borgnine.

By the way, I'm more attractive than Ernest Borgnine.

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By the way, I'm more attractive than Ernest Borgnine.[/quote]

What a coincidence, so am I.

wirthling, on the other hand.... Let's just say there's a reason for all the donkey sodomy.

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What in the hell happened to the good old days when wirthling made fun of me, and I made fun of him and everyone else minded their own god damned business? Now everyone wants a piece of the pie.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

I don't know about everyone, but you gave me explicit directions to insult wirthling. And you said it was okay if I turned those directions against you.

Just doin' what I'm told, boss.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I dunno... I wasn't here for those days. Now shut up and get back to trying to seduce your man. You're gonna lose him to that donkey.