The Simpsons Comic Strip...

is it me, or is it just not the same? springfield doesn't translate to print well.

WTF are you talking about?!

"Sarcastress" wrote in message news:[email]...

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"kaanchtoofan" wrote in message news:6%x6a.33772$[email]...

The Simpson's Syndicated comic strip,... It's in Periodicals, I think just weekend comics. It's not that common. I'm not sure who syndicates it, but it's no different then "Peanuts" or "Funky Winkerbean" or whatever. Don't forget that "Life In Hell" started the Simpsons, and that is still a popular little underground comic strip by Mr. Groening, so the Simpson's lineage is the periodical comic strip.

It's terrible. They just don't have the same writers that they have for the series, and it doesn't translate at all well to printed media.

Here's an example,.. It's really bad.

WHy in the name of jebus does Apu have bleached blonde hair?

Sarcastress wrote:

I assume you are talking about the comic books (although there was a weekly Simpsons comic strip that ran Sundays a few years ago; one week, it ran a spoof of a movie ad that got people thinking that there was going to be a Simpsons movie later that year).

I can think of two reasons why it would seem different; one, the writers aren't the ones who write for the show; two, the comic books are aimed at a younger crowd, so the stories don't have to be as believeable (for example, the giant Homer in Simpsons Comics #1).

not the comic books, the comic strip. i get it every sunday in the paper and it's horrible.

Sarcastress wrote:

I wasn't aware that was still being drawn. (Another reply pointed to an online image, but that one was from 2000.) For all I know, they're just rerunning older strips - it doesn't hurt Dilbert or Peanuts any.

In article , Don Del Grande wrote:

I know sometimes "Dilbert" seems repetitive, but the ones appearing in the newspaper are new (except during the few weeks a year when Scott Adams gets to take a vacation).

The source I have (the Summer 2002 issue of a comics fanzine called "Hogan's Alley") says the "Simpsons" comic strip was published in its original full tabloid page or three-quarter broadsheet page from November 1999 to September 2000, and was then relaunched in a regular comic strip size in January 2002. It's distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, but it's not available on their web site (ucomics.com).

Don Del Grande wrote in message news:[email]...

I don't write the comic strip but I'm the writer for the Simpsons comic book and though I'm glad kids dig the book I'm not aiming for a younger crowd. There is a book Bongo Comics publishes called Bart Simpson Comics and Stories that is aimed at that audience.

Ian Boothby