Tuesday, June 27, 2006

He'll do crap every time

According to Al Scaduto's "About the Cartoonist," They'll Do It Every Time originated in 1929, and was syndicated starting in 1936. It's now carried in more than 100 papers, and "usually is a humorous look at human hypocrisy, inconsistencies or one of the quirky twists of fate that beleaguer us all."

I remember reading TDIET when I was younger; it appeared in the Sunday paper. Fortunately, my current local paper (The Washington Post) does not carry this "comic" strip, but thanks to The Comics Curmudgeon, I rediscovered it.

I went to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's website and started going through the archives. And I managed to find something objectionable in every single strip. I don't know who the people are sending things in, but they need to be stopped.

So I thought, as one does, that I would start a blog to point out the problems with each day's strip. Nothing personal against Mr. Scaduto...but the strip frightens me.

1 Comments:

At 11:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good luck with this noble endeavour. I too have been mesmerized by TDIET (also thanks to CC.) The baroque illustrations, the huge word count crammed into a tiny space, the complexity of the action, the insane syntax and, of course, the "... oh yeah!"s. Compare it to the thematically similar Pluggers, and you see just how weird this strip is. Godspeed, Barb.

 

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