Not everybody I know is a fan of Bill Griffith’s Zippy, but I am, and Griffith has a point in today’s April Fool strip. It appears to have been drawn with Griffy’s left hand, which happens to be my drawing hand.
Being a fatalist, I would go even further than Griffy, and say that editors have thrown in the towel on comic strips all together. Although a recent kerfuffle in the Boston Globe showed that it’s still too early to cut the comics page too deeply.
I admire everyone who has found a place in what’s left of syndicated cartooning, but that doesn’t mean I admire all of their work. Some cartoonists simply can’t draw. This post includes a couple of quickie cartoons that appeared in the Comic’s Buyer’s Guide so very long ago, when I was struggling to re-learn how to draw.
