David Harder: Bee has lots of good comics, but could still improve
When someone turns to the comics page in a newspaper, they are often met with comics more boring than funny. But that’s not true with The Bee. That is why one of the highlights of my days is when I read the comics. There are so many good ones such as Zits, Pearls Before Swine, Foxtrot, Baby Blues, Luann, Pickles, Peanuts, Get Fuzzy, Red and Rover and now Phoebe and her Unicorn.
Even among these jewels there are still comics that are simply not funny – Garfield, The Born Loser, Take it From the Tinkersons and Hagar the Horrible. These comics are visually uninteresting, with the exception of Hagar, but all are falling flat. These comics should be replaced with superior comics to improve the funny page. What would they be replaced with? Bring back Calvin and Hobbes! People still read it and it doesn’t get old. Consider other comics as well like Retail, Dick Tracy, Lio, and The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. If even a fraction of these changes were made, I’d dig through the trash for the comics page.
David Harder, Turlock
Editor’s note: Unfortunately, cartoonist Bill Watterson discontinued his extremely popular Calvin and Hobbes cartoon in December, 1995.
This story was originally published March 31, 2015 at 1:32 PM with the headline "David Harder: Bee has lots of good comics, but could still improve."