By: E&P Staff Michael Cavna?s ?Comic Riffs? blog at Washingtonpost.com tackles an issue that affects so many comics creators: Do ?legacy? comics -- those that are no longer done by their original creators, in most cases because said creators are deceased -- deserve to live on?
?The living cartoonist's lament is a common refrain. And the choir of complaint naturally tends to come from living-and-breathing cartoonists who have more than a little stake in whether ?corpse comics? themselves ever die (there's only so much space on the tightly packed ice floe),? he writes.
?It's a double-sided debate, if not a double-edged problem,? Cavna points out. ?Such strips as ?Blondie? and ?Dennis the Menace? are still carried by thousands of newspapers, in theory continuing to bring millions of readers to the ink-and-newsprint paper. But are these strips creatively lively enough that they foster new, younger audiences? (In particular, ?Dennis? often is cited as a ?gateway comic? that is accessible to younger kids.)?
The site today kicks off its Official "Zombie Comics" Chart, which registers what Cavna considers ?the creative lifeblood of various ?corpse comics? in The Post for a particular week.?
Check it out,
here.
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