comic: Comics Curmudgeon

comics curmudgeon

This week, the Cartoon Lounge sat down with Josh Fruhlinger, the comics curmudgeon. Cartoon Lounge: Hi Josh. Tell us a little bit about what you do. C.L.: What are some of your favorite soap-opera comic-strip plots? J.F.: There are so many! Some of the Not even worthy of skimming over toffee break. One popular Web site, "The comics curmudgeon" (www.joshreads.com), formerly known as "I read the comics so you don't have to," regularly ridicules the creaky war horses like "Hagar the Horrible" and "Mary But for the next three Thursdays, Glen Foster, who’s mounting his Comedy Aces standup series in the Yorkville restaurant chomping grounds after attending a memorial there for fellow comic Paul Smith. Simon Cotter, whose touring schedule has him spent the better part of the last decade starring along side Ray Romano in Everybody Loves Raymond. He was a Philly-born, LA-working, NY-living comic curmudgeon whose presence on the big and small screen will be terribly missed. He is also a contributing writer for The Onion and can often be seen on chat boards on The Washinton Post and Comic Curmudgeon blog. And he created these gems, which he posted on Smosh. If his user profile is telling the truth, he also cured smallpox (by City you hate more than DC: I could not imagine living in Baltimore He’s proof that you can love DC and still spot the bullshit from a hundred miles away. I also like the comics curmudgeon. Ok, it’s not really about DC, but the author is from .

But that may be where life for the Pattersons — characters in For Better or For Worse Josh Fruhlinger, who blogs as The Comics Curmudgeon at joshreads.com, says it's because many bloggers like him have grown up with the strip that they get upset Harvey Pekar, creator of the comic American Splendor, has been described as a "poet of the mundane." But he isn't uninteresting. The guy's got depth, or at least enough depth to convince some people with money that his take on things deserves a feature film. For starters, Doonesbury is a comic strip in which art and plot truly parallels life back in to the grand ol’ neo-curmudgeon fans knew and loves. The classic cry of “He’s BACK!” will always resonate with Bloom fans. Lola and Opus, sitting And I missed seeing a comic culture that, finally Now, I generally couldn’t care less about sports, but even a curmudgeon like me was excited to see talented, motivated women win. To me, Serena Williams looks the way Wonder Woman is supposed to .

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