N&O comics poll: The end of affirmative action for Mallard Fillmore?
Last year, the N&O ran a much-ballyhooed comics poll that seemed to go on forever, in multiple stages. After all the voting, the paper’s readers boldly ratified a new comics page consisting of Cathy, Family Circus, Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, Beetle Bailey, Sally Forth, Marmaduke and that edgy avatar from the Jazz Age, Blondie.
For some of us, the main focus of the poll was to see how new prospect Mallard Fillmore would fare in reader opinion. Mallard Fillmore is the daily excrement on the comics page, a reliable kick to the liberal groin that gets us into fighting form every morning. This is why it’s practically the only cartoon we read. Continue reading »
