lo@harvard.UUCP (04/29/86)
Does anyone know anything about this strip or its author, Michael Fry? How wide is the distribution for Cheeverwood? Cheeverwood first came to the Boston Globe as part of a pack of anonymous strips when the Boston Herald stole Sally Forth and some others. At first, it seemed like crap, much like Bloom County did when it first hit the San Francisco Chronicle, but now I like Cheeverwood more than Doonesbury (too old) and Bloom County (too "hip"). |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||| Bert S.F. Lo ||| ----------------------------------------------------- ||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) (04/30/86)
In article <904@harvard.UUCP> lo@harvard.UUCP (Bert S.F. Lo) writes: >Does anyone know anything about this strip or its author, Michael Fry? How >wide is the distribution for Cheeverwood? > >Cheeverwood first came to the Boston Globe as part of a pack of anonymous >strips when the Boston Herald stole Sally Forth and some others. At first, >it seemed like crap, much like Bloom County did when it first hit the San >Francisco Chronicle, but now I like Cheeverwood more than Doonesbury (too >old) and Bloom County (too "hip"). >||| Bert S.F. Lo ||| ----------------------------------------------------- ||| We got stuck with Cheeverwood in the Washington Post during Bloom County's absence. If you look closely, you'll notice that Cheeverwood is also syndicated by the Wash. Post Writers' Group (or something like that). Alas, it simply is not enough to save this strip. I thought it was terrible when it was new, and just before we axed it (and got Bloom County back) I still thought it was terrible. The artwork, the ideas, the characterizations, even their names; it's all a crock. In my opinion, probably the worst comic strip the Post ever put on their front page. Come on, it's all cliched from other comic strips. The preacher isn't half as funny as Kudzu's Rev. Will B. Dunn, the yuppies are so grossly overinflated (with air, that is) that they aren't funny anymore (compare Sally Forth, or On The Fastrack) and the rest of it looks and feels like a Bloom County knock-off. Honestly, flamingos? You wonder about a comic strip when its syndicators drop it. -dave -- David Hsu (301)454-1433 || -8798 <insert fashionable disclaimer here> Communication & Signal Processing Lab / Engineering Computer Facility The University of Maryland -~- College Park, MD 20742 ARPA:hsu@eneevax.umd.edu UUCP:[seismo,allegra,rlgvax]!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "I must hurry; For there they go; And I am their leader" -unknown