Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 20, 2009
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August 21, 2009
Transcript:
Holly: I wish we had a bigger place... Val: Yeah...I grew up in a place that was a LOT bigger. Gramma Evie: When I was your age our place was HUGE! Val: Do you miss the old neighborhood? Gramma Evie: DAILY.
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Aren’t you all being a bit rough? The week-long serial has long been a convention for comic strips, and cartoonists have been known to use them to make goofy editorials from time to time. Jan isn’t doing anything different than what her medium traditionally allows. A day-by-day elaboration of a theme or a point for one week has been comic strip gravy for decades, what’s wrong with using it to satirize a topic that’s important to the writer? Danged internet and its short attention span.