Several months ago I paddled into dangerous waters by suggesting that our comic strips are long overdue for an overhaul. I even went so far as to ask whether “Pearls Before Swine” — a strip about a pig and a rat — would be more up-to-date than “Cathy,” formerly a strip on the frustrations of being single and female, but now about a newly married woman who still has the same hang-ups.
Take the comics survey now.
Threatening to rid the newspaper of reruns or “Peanuts,” whose creator is long dead, or “Alley Oop,” whose following is mostly dead, was greeted as...
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