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They just don’t make the Sunday funnies the way they used to

August 16th, 2007
Author Chris Mautner

Compare and contrast

Over at Stripper’s Guide, Allan Holtz compares the Sunday comics sections of yesteryear with those of today. As you might expect, the end results are not pretty. Lots of cramped, mangled comics crammed onto a page to meet today’s market needs versus beautiful full-page layouts of the 1940s. ‘Tis sad.

 

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2 Responses to “They just don’t make the Sunday funnies the way they used to”
  1. jedifish Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Heck, they don’t even make them like the 80’s.

    Bloom County
    Calvin & Hobbes
    Far Side

    I haven’t been able to find one decent strip to replace those.

  2. CodeGuy Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    It is amazing that comics used to have half a page or a page. That’s so much more room than today’s comics. It’s easy to see how comic books developed out of compilations of those comic pages.

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