How much would you pay to see newspaper comic strip creators kick the crap out of each other?
Wait, don't answer yet.
What if one was Aaron McGruder, creator of the militant and cynical Boondocks...
...and the other was Bil Keane, creator of the saccharine kiddie strip Family Circus?
"I don't go to the cartoonist conventions," McGruder said. "I went once, to the Reuben Awards"?the Oscars of cartooning?"and I didn't feel very welcome. I felt a palpable sense of resentment. Bil Keane was the m.c., and he opened doing more than one joke that was clearly aimed at me. It was raw?just some fucked-up shit. O.K., and yet, if I get out of my chair right now and beat the shit out of you, then I'm the bad guy?"
Fellow Americans, this fight must happen. And it must be televised.
If we can show Who Wants To Marry A Dwarf? on primetime network TV, then, by God, there must be room for a McGruder-Keane fight, if only on pay-per-view.
"Who's kicking your ass, punk? NOT ME!"
Aaron McGruder and Frank Cho are the best things to come out of the University of Maryland since "Midnight Madness" (Lefty invented it) and my girlfriend.
Which comic strip is more of an embarrasment: Family Circle or Garfield?
Oh, Family Circle, DEFINITELY. It's painful. I don't care how bad the Garfield movie is. It's like, oh, little PJ misused the word "sidewalk" while Grampa was watching from heaven, and fucking Billy drew this one because his dad's a damned hack.
...sorry. Comic strips make me so angry. Peanuts, Cathy, freakin' Marmaduke...I hate them all more than I can express.
I would definently shell out $ for a McGruder-Keane fight. So would millions of ther Americans! I'm 30 now and tired of seeing those fat-faced-fucks in Family Circle. I liked FC when I was kid,(the crazy mazes) but really, it just doesn't work any more.
Peace,Love, Pixi Straws,
~J