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Komix Kase Klosed, Klass Dismissed

Three or four hundred words later (a rough count, and not including Monday’s setup), John finally get to whatever point he’s been trying to make. Said point being, I dunno, if you’ve always called them “comics”, then you will continue to ignorantly do so.

Damn Your Hide

Well! Who’s sounding like a “pedantic schoolmarm from a bitter hollow” today? I’m sure all you “hidebound literalists” in the audience, as well as all you beady-eyed nitpickers, feel duly chastised for dismissing Serious Storytelling Art as mere “comic strips”!

Epicus Doomus
November 8, 2012 at 11:03 am
…Is all of this some sort of attempt to justify the continued existence of comic strips or something?

Nope, just more of Tom Batiuk railing against us Philistines…

Is There a Point Coming?

Again with the “lumping”. Yesterday, Skunkhead was proclaiming that the public “lumped” the “comic weeklies” in with Pulitzer’s “Sunday supplements”; today the crude, clueless, uncultured masses have “lumped” together those supplements with the nascent art form of “comic strips”. Because back in the 1880’s, and in fact right up until this day, the great unwashed craved mere amusement, and could never be expected to appreciate the difference between mere “comic strips” and art. Are you with me so far? Cody’s not. So desperate is he to get away from John’s blather that he’s using homework as an excuse.

"Comics", Weakly

Leave it to a Tom Batiuk character to take a topic like “comics” and present it as a history lesson, complete with arched eyebrows and finger-pointing pontification. Way to connect with a teenager who despises school. The part of John in panel 2 is being played by Marvin Kaplan.

Prize Putz

Professor John Howard of the Kollege of Komix Book Knowledge goes back, back into komix history, even beyond Action Detective Comics #1, across the pond and all the way to the late 19th century. Cody brightens at the mention of a name he vaguely recognizes. TB’s heard of Joseph Pulitzer and his prizes too, having come thisclose to claiming one for himself.

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