[Groop]Re: comic strip genius

[Bruce J. Cole]

 ATTACHMENT part 3.8 message/rfc822 
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:27:21 -0600
> From: "bj.trapp" <bjtrapp@sasktel.net>
> To: groop@groo.com
> Subject: [Groop]comic strip genius
> 
> 
> CrazySketchbook@aol.com wrote:
> > 
> 
> >I don't think simplicity is a bad thing.  Charles
> > Schulz had some of> the simplist characters the comics page has ever
> > seen, and I> believe he is one of the three true geniuses of the
> > comic-strip> (among George Herriman and Bill Watterson).
> > 
> If we are making a list of comic strip genii, I would
> certainly like to expand it to include Jim Unger for
> "Herman" , Berkley Breathed for "Bloom County" and Walt
> Kelly for "Pogo".  Anyone else that should be included?
> 
> Bunny
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.18 message/rfc822 
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:33:12 -0500
> To: groop@groo.com
> From: Chris Schechner <schechnr@flash.net>
> Subject: Re: [Groop]comic strip genius
> 
> >If we are making a list of comic strip genii, I would
> >certainly like to expand it to include Jim Unger for
> >"Herman" , Berkley Breathed for "Bloom County" and Walt
> >Kelly for "Pogo".  Anyone else that should be included?
> >
> >Bunny
> 
> This could go on forever.
> 
> Classic cartoons... Winsor McKay for Little Nemo, Roy Crane for Wash 
> Tubs and Buz Sawyer, Milton Caniff for Terry and the Pirates and 
> Steve Canyon, Hal Foster for Tarzan and Prince Valient, Billy Debeck 
> for Barney Google...
> 
> Modern... a few of my favorites are Jean Giraud (Mobeus) for 
> Liutenant Blueberry, Gary Larson for Far Side (not technically a 
> "strip"), Russell Myers for Broomhilda, and Dan O'Neill for Odd 
> Bodkins.
> 
> And then there were two short-lived strips that I loved, that just 
> didn't seem to make it: Conchy by James Childress (he, sadly, 
> committed suicide) and The Circus of P.T. Bimbo by Howie Schneider (I 
> think he gave it up to concentrate on Eek and Meek).
> 
> Can you tell you struck on the area of cartooning that I love? But I 
> have to say, my ALL-TIME FAVORITE cartoonists are Sergio, Walt Kelly 
> and Rick Griffin. That's it, hands down.
> 
> Later,
> Chris
> 


E.C. Segar, Thimble Theater. creator of Popeye.
And Al Capp. If you don't know what he did, you don't know comics.

Bruce

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