A few Sundays ago (during my inexplicable blogging hiatus), Berke
Breathed ran an “I-dare-you-to-sue-me-for-copyright-infringement”
Sunday strip depicting just about every popular comic strip animal in
history and making the claim that there’s never been a major
female animal character in comic strip history (as “adjunct
girlfriends,” Daisy Duck et.al. don’t count). Message board pundits can
disagree, but I think he’s right (I recall an interview with Peter Molyneux about his breakthrough game Black and White
in which he explained why they dumped the idea of having female
Creatures because of, well, issues with making them look right).
Never one to allow injustice in the comic strip world, Hilary Price (a Massachusetts resident) has introduced, Monty-like, a new (disposable?) character. Bets on how long Ms. Catastrophe will last?
It’s kinda cool when comic strips communicate with each other, like
this past April Fool’s (also back in my blog hiatus) Get Fuzzy, Fox Trot, and Pearls Before Swine all ran the same strip. But the alarming thing is that Hilary reads Rose is Rose…
