Good News

In the old days, going to the movie at the Ritz Theatre was a treat. The best treat was always the cartoon. Cheers went up throughout the audience if there was a Roadrunner cartoon. Some folks think the theater’s name is the Martin. It isn’t, it’s the Ritz Theatre. 

Every morning the PC News-Herald arrives. The comics page is first, sometimes last and only. Changing the comics page is like unto changing The Book of Common Prayer: even the new comics introduced a year or two ago grew on me. 

Email arrives very day from list@myucomics.com. It’s not junk mail or spam, it’s my serious reading. 

Hyperlink http://www.gocomics.com/features makes available many comics not carried in the PC News-Herald. One may select a favorite and subscribe for free. Some favorites not carried locally are Get Fuzzy, Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury, Pooch Cafe. Doonesbury was always a favorite for political satire, still is sometimes. 

Funky Winkerbean was a long years favorite, used to be comic episodes at Westerville High but Tom Batiuk changed it over the years and it became a lifelike and often gloomy serial. Not many papers carry it but it can be found on line. Batiuk now writes Crankshaft about Ed, the grouchy old man that I sometimes feel like but refuse to become.

The Dark Side was a favorite for many years.

Most people can’t do anything about all the bad news that sells newspapers, TV and radio. Might as well skip it and turn to the happy page.

Calvin & Hobbes may still be all time tops for happiness.

TW+