The stupid man's Ozy and Millie

[Tom Flapwell]

<!--QuoteBegin-Bocaj Claw+Jul 22 2005, 02:02 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ Jul 22 2005, 02:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> In my newspaper Non-Sequitor is smooshed in a vertical format along the top half of the right side. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Yes, I've noticed that NS is unusual for being malleable on the weekdays. I'm not sure if I'd prefer the square/vertical format to the long horizontal panel in my paper. Which, if any, reveals the most of the picture?

[Bocaj Claw]

I actually don't get it on the weekday. I get it only on Sunday. God bless the Orlando Sentinel for only giving me a funny comic once a week <!--emo&--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Richard K Niner]

I only get it on Saturday. If I'm actually able to grab the paper.

[DesertFoxCat]

Isn't this topic a tad old and out-dated to be sticky?

Discuss:

[Joe3210]

What is this here for anyway?

[Tum0spoo]

What is this here for anyway?

The information in the first post may be interesting to newer members who don't know much about DCS. I think that's why it's still stickied.

[Tavis]

Well, around when the topic first appeared, there was a bit of speculation on how O&M might end up if it were to ever become syndicated, and whether or not that would be a good thing for it as a whole. It had become quite a hot-button topic among the fans.

While it is disappointing that as a webcomic it doesn't get to reach as many people as it would through syndication, it seems worse to have O&M become stale through the same processes that have drained other long-lived comics that have been shared through newsprint.

Anyway, despite such a possibility, some of us were motivated to try to push for O&M to be published in newspapers in its present form. Anyone recall that slide show FoxChild prepared for his local paper? Since such lobbying can be a rather long, slow process, this was pinned to help fuel that purpose, and I couldn't simply unpin it without some really good reason.

[starwatcher-volvodriver]

I think this topic is still pertinent because, as Ozy and Millie fans, it would be cool to see the strip go mainstream. It would reach a lot more people and D.C. Simpson would become a well-known comic name.

But… if American Idol proves anything, its that the mainstream sucks.

I'm personally glad that O&M is underground still. I think being underground gives O&M the freedom to say whatever, without ever having to worry about financial censorship.
I think that this has provided for a much more spontaneous and over-all interesting cartoon, than if the strip had immediately gone mainstream and was required to fit into a normal plot structure to ensure the success of the cartoon.

I mean, Locke is Millie’s father!!!! (sorry to any members who don’t know about that yet, but read it stil,l its pretty funny) That totally upsets the original relationship structure of the cartoon! That sort of thing would never happen in Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson still kicks asses)! It would upset the readers too much and they might cancel their subscription to the newspaper, or stop buying the books. Formula breeds profit. So I think anonymity has allowed Ozy and Millie to become a more edgy and interesting carton (for those of use who enjoy that sort of thing), than it would have if it had profit margins to keep up.

The one unfortunate thing about O&M being underground is that only the fortunate few will ever find the strip. <shrugs> glad I’m lucky in this case.

[Rooster]

I mean, Locke is Millie’s father!!!! (sorry to any members who don’t know about that yet, but read it stil,l its pretty funny) That totally upsets the original relationship structure of the cartoon! That sort of thing would never happen in Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson still kicks asses)! It would upset the readers too much and they might cancel their subscription to the newspaper, or stop buying the books. Formula breeds profit.

Not always true, I mean Doonsbury, which I maintain is THE best comic ever drawn changes all the time and the plot is massivly weaving with multitudes of characters, but people read it and even 30 years on it rocks...I mean, who shed a tear when BD came home from Iraq minus one leg?

[Muninn]

I mean, who shed a tear when BD came home from Iraq minus one leg?

Not being a reader I didn't. But that's a brave move by Trudeau. Not many comic writers can make such drastic changes to one of their oldest characters.

[Dr. Doog]

but as an artist and one who likes to reach a certain audience as trudeau, I would prefer reaching people who accept that and understand that's the way life rolls than people who are too emotionally attached to a comic to accept something as mundane as that. (mundane to someone at war, I suppose. and that girl on the amusement park ride D:)