Newspaper comics pages have been a major letdown during the past few years. The return of “Opus” turned out to be a total bust (does anyone think the new strip is funny or relevant?), “Get Fuzzy” has totally jumped the shark and “Foxtrot” comes and goes. On the political front, “Boondocks” is consistently strange and outrageous (which is good), “Doonesbury” is tolerable, at best, and “Mallard Fillmor” just isn’t funny (how can you be lame when you’re lampooning liberals?)
But there is one bright spot …
The News Sentinel has started running Don Asmussen’s “Bad Reporter” on Sundays, and it’s pretty consistently hilarious. It’s probably more political cartoon than comic, but it definitely does the job.
So I Googled Asmussen to find out what else he’s up to and found this site. There is some hilarious stuff on there. I’ve watched only a few of them (“Fiona Apple” and “David Crosby’s Late Night Infomercial,” in the “Like, News” section, but I ended up laughing out loud. I’ll be checking out the rest of them soon.
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Don’s a regular presenter at SND events, and a former co-worker of one of my best design buddies, so I’ve had the pleasure of tipping adult beverages with him a few times. He’s just as hilarious in person.
Have you checked out the Boondock’s cartoon on Adult Swim? There’s a pretty cool interview with Aaron McGruder about it over at http://avclub.com/content/node/42840
I have seen it. I found it to be kinda uneven. There are moments where I’m laughing my ass off, but some where I’m sitting there waiting for the other foot to drop. I think part of the problem is that the Adult Swim version doesn’t attack current events the way the daily strip does. That takes a little of the venom out of it. I guess they’re producing the cartoons too far in advance to incorporate current events …