The Sun Times rightly boasts the best sports coverage in town. And with columnists like Steinberg and Hitchens, you've also got the market covered on idea-crackling bravado. But maybe you're taking your comics too much for granted. Most of us readers aren't.
Any good newspaper aficionado knows these three pages are a 75-cents-a-day entrance fee into more enduring little wisdoms about life than anywhere else this side of the Emerald City. Garfield, The Wizard of Id, Dennis the Menace, Real Life Adventures, Drabble and Family Circus are among those homiletic laughs that not only tickle your heart, but stir your head. So while the daily din of news fills your first 20 pages, your comics come just in time to make life seem worth living after all. At least till the next edition.
Cartoonists are among your least valued artists, but artists they are. With a few strokes of the pen, they not only get us to laugh, but to laugh at things worth laughing at. Put it this way. Crying over bad news doesn't contribute much to the world. Laughing over our ridiculous ways can sometimes remind us how to be just a little less ridiculous.
Keep us laughing....!
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