{"id":103,"date":"2004-03-07T13:48:20","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/03\/07\/dilbert-big-fat-waste-of-space\/"},"modified":"2004-03-07T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2004-03-07T17:48:20","slug":"dilbert-big-fat-waste-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/03\/dilbert-big-fat-waste-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert = Big Fat Waste of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in college, a friend of mine who used to sketch “I, Argus Aardvark” for the Harvard Crimson<\/a>
\nfigured out why Dilbert’s Sunday strips suck harder than they do the
\nrest of the week: they’re basically a 4-panel strip with 4 filler
\npanels to get them into standard Sunday format.<\/p>\n

Try this sometime: Cut out every other panel from a Sunday Dilbert.
\nSame strip — better, in fact — for half the price. (In the case of today’s<\/a>, snip panels 1, 3, 6, and 7). Why can’t Adams
\ntake only what he needs, one row, the way Get Fuzzy<\/a> does? I guess Breathed wasn’t completely right about the future of the comics<\/a>: more page share = better marketing for the merchandising = more profits for the syndicate.<\/p>\n

Watterson was absolutely right in bucking the constraints of the
\nSunday pages. Today a handful (but sadly, only a handful) of strips
\nlike Zits<\/a> and Non Sequitur<\/a>
\nhave benefited from his rebellion. Too bad, on the flip side, we can’t
\nshove Dilbert back into the smaller amount of space he actually
\ndeserves. <\/p>\n

\n

Coincidence of the day:<\/span> Garfield<\/a> and Mother Goose & Grimm<\/a> have very different takes on the pet-owner question, “Do you love me?” Not to belabor my Garfield-bashing<\/a>,
\nbut Jim Davis, or whoever\/whatever’s responsible for that waste of
\ncolor ink, can’t even keep his characters in-character. (Perhaps not <\/span>a coincidence? A commentator here<\/a> identifies the inker for Garfield as the same as MG&G.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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