Letters to the Editor
jasonChicken
Published Letters: 29
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My North Beach buds and I are having a drink tonight...
[Read the article: The stone is cast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]celebrating Fallwell's one way trip to Hell.
Bottoms up!
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um... is this a joke?
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty...Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is this an actual graphic serial adventure, or an early April Fool's joke?
What artist could introduce his lovely new heroine by literally cutting & pasting her entire head from frame 1 to frame 3?
Is the flat, unfunny, cramped font supposed to somehow make fun of comic artists that take the time to hand-letter? And is the tick-mark "dumb-quote" in the title part of the gag?
I can count several bits of overt humor on the page... but the text is dominated by what seem like inside jokes.
The final panel was the creators' last chance to let us in on the intent of this comic (is it making fun of anything? Does it has a quirky heart beneath the blathering text? Does it conceal a deep snarky self-hatred of liberals? A wink to a particular sub-culture?)... but instead we get an empty non-sequitur. And not only that, but the fact that we are told "To be continued..." implies that this is not literally a page from a multi-page story like a comic book (which assumes you are going to turn the page and doesn't need to tell you), but that this page is intended to stand on its own, at least for a while. In that case the loose pacing and lack of credible setup of a premise mark this page as either an attempt to make fun of me the audience, or perhaps a half-assed amateurish creative failure.
There are many legitimate comic artists out here trying to do good work. Yucky choice Salon.
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I think the editors are in a tight spot on this one!
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty...Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We're up to 44 letters of a very cogent conversation without one "Editor's Choice."
I think it's safe to say this new comic has been hopelessly dashed upon the rocks of informed public opinion, and I hope we never see its ugly head again... how about having a "hot or not" content, like a battle of the bands to let the readers choose the next Salon comic?
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whoops
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty...Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I meant "contest" not "content"...
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well anyway...
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I dunno how Ms. Lay does it, but she consistently comes up with story ideas that embody huge concepts in completely original ways... hats off.
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I'm intrigued by the speculative history angle raised by tangerine!
[Read the article: One part old-time religion, one part chutzpah]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if we had just let the South go and skipped the civil war? What would have happened to them in the lead up to WWI? Would they have allied with Hitler in the 30's? Would they have been a huge 3rd front for us in WWII (sapping our resources like the USSR did to Germany)?
Maybe our national strength wouldn't be as simple as tangerine assumed...
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I never keep a job longer than a couple of months...
[Read the article: I think I'm addicted to quitting my job!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they call it freelancing, and it's great for people like us.
It's not offices that are stifling -- it's the people. It's just like being in elementary school or prison. Folks who work in the same job for years develop attitudes for surviving such an unnatural situation -- keeping their head down, maintaining cordiality with incompatible individuals, withholding deep opinions, trying to make their way through to some far-off promise of betterment (promotion? retirement? And then what? By then you've bent and perverted your personality.)
I haven't had "a job" in more than 14 years, but when I drive through downtown San Francisco I see literally dozens of buildings where I've showed up, met my co-workers, rolled up my sleeves, and got some work done.
There are benefits to always being the new guy... Probably the best thing is you get to raise your rates much more often than your office-bound peers (with me it's been close to 20% per year). You also get to try out new career avenues, keep up on best-practices and skills, etc.
Anyway, the best thing I ever did for myself was to quit school and start working! And I keep that feeling going every time I finish a project! Quitters of the word unite!
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Nice stuff Keef
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That pose is great (in 3rd panel, with you floating there). And I haven't said anything, but your layouts are lookiin' awesome lately. It seems like you're carving out some white space (between all that lettering).
Keep it up! Someday you can open a snorkeling rink in Santa Rosa...
yer pal,
JasonC
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Just get the heck out, or die trying.
[Read the article: Help! I'm a prisoner in a big suburban house!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How can you live a life you dislike so much? Money can be replaced, but your integrity and personality can't once you allow them to erode (it's kinda like topsoil).
Think about it! You've got opportunities, resources, use em! What else are you gonna do? Sit around, drink, get depressed, and fade away? You're still alive, still young, and you're realizing you've made some mistakes.
Get out now while you can still make authentic decisions... or suck it up, drink the kool aid, and accept your future as a soulless suburban drone.
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Are you crazy? I think it's even better to watch the men wriggle and fall...
[Read the article: Are we sexist in our schadenfreude?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What about Barry Bonds? I'm sitting here in a state of breathless glee waiting for him to get convicted.
What about OJ? What about Roger Clemens? What about Michael Vick? What about that doper Lance Armstrong? David Hasselhoff?
I could go on all day long!
I think the thesis that we all prefer to see women tumble is completely off base, and for every Heath Ledger and Owen Wilson there's a Mel Gibson and a Michael Jackson.
Big shots, celebutards, hypocrites, backbiters and attention-hos of all sexes, colors, ages, heights, etc. have got it comin'!
We humans like to witness retribution just as much as we like to help each other and huddle together -- we're wonderfully programmed to feel the pain of others.