Letters to the Editor
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I think I'm starting to get it...
This strip is sort of performance art...a satire of all the conventions of comics and detective stories and stuff. Am I right?
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How cute...
...SALON snuck this in on Monday instead of Tuesday. Nice try at avoiding the (most-likely inevitable) rotten eggs...:)
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Alternatives
Deering, don't forget our ritual! And thanks for Sinfest!
WANT TO READ SOMETHING QUALITY THAT SHOULD BE HERE INSTEAD OF THIS?
http://www.transmission-x.com
- my favorites,in no order (updated!):
- Kukuburi
- Sin Titulo
- Paper Cuts
but they're *all* good works.
Please do yourself a favor and check them out.
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It took me a while...
...to catch up with the dedicated KO'F letter-writers of the past several weeks. With this week's entry, though, I'm finally on board. We are being fucked with.
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Ugh
I've given up on plotting and characterization, but is it too much to ask for basic grammar and spelling?
Hi creators! Ellipses are three dots; after a complete sentence, use a period and then three dots, for a total of four dots.
Also, "brainwashed" should be one word, and it's "asylum," not "asylym."
Or wait—"asylym" is a joke! And I'm too unsophisticated to get it! Good one! The joke sure is on me!
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You don't get it because...
...understanding sophisticated irony is hard for you since that time you were brain warshed in the jyngyl...
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Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret ...?
what was the question again?
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it's all making sense to me!
This is performance art.. and reader letters are a part of the performance. Toni Schlesinger is a literary version of Henry Rousseau: self-taught and persistently innocent... the vague, rambling style of the story is done in unselfconscious spoken word with lack of polish: a comic composed by instant messaging. If the presentation is upsetting it's interesting to ask yourself why.
That the strip is shown by Salon makes sense. Salon is meant to ruffle. Berke Breathed's brilliance matches Salon's philosophy, elegance and wit.. and the rest of the strips are entertaining. Think of KOF as something written by a teenager.. and enjoy the splash of it.
How did KOF get published? Salon co-founder Laura Miller probably helped create her and bring her in. Laura's a promoter of contemporary authors; Toni writes a quirky column for the Voice. Last few years have seen some mingling: Toni and Tom Bachtell collaborated on a play in 2002; Toni and Laura published articles in the NYT in Sept 2003 (Toni's was a wide-eyed account of a cruise her aunt treated her to).
So there it is. A feathery wisp not trying to live up to anyone's expectations. Isn't that refreshing?
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No Respect
What does it take? Weeks and weeks of overwhelmingly negative reviews and the editors refuse to shut this thing down. I read it ever week - the way I look at roadkill, and still it sucks.
Why do they do this? Where is the respect for readers?
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Skoal, Machete! :), Or... What SALON Should Be Running Instead of KOF...
Shooting War
http://shootingwar.com
Get Your War On by David Rees
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war69.html
Bad Reporter by Don Asmussen
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/11/14/DDASMUSSENBR.DTL
SinFest
http://www.sinfest.net
Cat and Girl
http://www.catandgirl.com/
Dinosaur Comics
http://www.qwantz.com/
Cyanide and Happiness
http://www.explosm.net/comics/761/
Megaton Man
ttp://www.worldfamouscomics.com/megatonman/
8-Bit Theater
http://www.nuklearpower.com/latest.php
Apartment 3-D
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/apt3g/aboutMaina.php
Mary Worth
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mary.asp?date=20071125
Migraine Boy
http://www.gregfiering.com/migraineboy/Book/009.html
XKCD
http://xkcd.com/
Freefall
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01499.htm
Gunerkrigg Court
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=7
Pibgorn
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2007/11/07/?uc_full_date=&campid=0&
Order of the Stick
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0506.html
Goblins
http://www.goblinscomic.com/
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"And you say they're just her friends?!?! Awwwaaooo, baby..." :)
>Toni Schlesinger is a literary version of Henry Rousseau: self-taught and persistently innocent... the vague, rambling style of the story is done in unselfconscious spoken word with lack of polish: a comic composed by instant messaging.<
Oh, no--it's the dread "It's art--therefore it can be incompetent as crap and that's cool" excuse. Um..._real_ art is when a creator knows the rules enough to break them in interesting ways. Anything else is pretentious wanking...and a waste of time and space.
>Think of KOF as something written by a teenager.. and enjoy the splash of it.<
Given that at any given time online there are at least five teenagers doing stuff better than this, you've got a lot of nerve saying this.
>How did KOF get published? Salon co-founder Laura Miller probably helped create her and bring her in. Laura's a promoter of contemporary authors; Toni writes a quirky column for the Voice. Last few years have seen some mingling: Toni and Tom Bachtell collaborated on a play in 2002; Toni and Laura published articles in the NYT in Sept 2003 (Toni's was a wide-eyed account of a cruise her aunt treated her to).<
Well, we've got the "who, what, where," and "how." Now, we need the "why." Schlesinger has no feel for this material and only seems to care about the genre to the extent that she can steal from it. If she's doing this as a satire, she's missing the abovementioned components. And the stuff isn't funny. If she's doing this as a straight story, she's really missed the mark. So, what's her purpose? The only thing this is good for is to give some 21st-century Mark Twain ample material to do an updated "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses."
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings_fenimore.html
And, as Twain so aptly noted:
"A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence, or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are–oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language.
Counting these out, what is left is Art. I think we must all admit that."
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I hate to see it...
But there has been a sharp decline in the quality of funny disses on this awful comic. Come on people, the only reason I even come here is to savor the mordant spite!
p.s. the only thing as bad as Kansas O'Flaherty, is Opus.