Dear Mr. Fillmore,
You are a right-wing, jingoistic, red-state, absolutist, knuckle-dragging fathead!
Sincerely,
Lee Cooper,
Lawrence, Kansas
[He replies.]
Dear Ms. Cooper,
I am not a fathead.
Sincerely,
Mallard.
I read Boondocks. I understand why conservatives might need a comparable strip on their side of the fence. But, the duck does get my goat from time to time.
There was a letter to the editor the other day from a person mortally offended by the hatred towards the President in Boondocks. I wanted to write back about how mortally offended I am about the awful caricatures of liberalism that's found in Mallard Fillmore, or the vapidity of Family Circus, or the annoying annoyingness of Funky Winkerbean, and point out that I occasionally read them with masochistic glee to remind myself how bad they are, like poking sore gums with a toothpick. Most of the time, I, an adult who usually makes responsible choices, don't read them.
ReplyDeleteBut I knew how pointless it was.
Hint about Garfield: only read the first two panels of a three-panel strip, or the first half of a larger Sunday edition. It's called Zen Garfield, which I learned from a commenter on another site, and is sometimes amusing.