More Golf Gags

I read a lot of cartoons and I've got to agree with the sentiment of this one. There are more golf gags, bad boss gags, henpecked husband gags, etc. than gags relating to modern life. Part of it is these strips are syndicated strips that have been around through several artists so there is this lame attempt to keep them "the same." The problem with that method of ruining the comics page is that most of these cartoons were a bit risque and edgy when they were new. I found a comics page from the 1950's while working on a house (it was sandwiched between the floorboards) and Dagwood was trying to sneak behind Blondie's back to go smoke cigars and play poker. Now all Dagwood does is knock down the postman, nap, eat big sandwiches, and piss off his boss. I think his telephone still has a rotary dial on it. Perhaps one benefit of the death of the newspaper as we know it will be the end of Blondie, Wizard of Id, Beetle Bailey, Garfield and the like. They outlived their relevance and humor decades ago.