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NEWS: Chibi Maruko-chan Newspaper Manga to End on December 31




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The Mad Manga Massacre



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:00 am Reply with quote
It had a good run.
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Apollo-kun



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:10 am Reply with quote
W-what? No more "Pi-chana"ing? NOOOOOOO-! *sobs*
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enurtsol



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Newspaper comic strips are going the way of the Dodo............ Laughing
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Apollo-kun



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:09 pm Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Newspaper comic strips are going the way of the Dodo............ Laughing
Yep, it's really funny that a medium that gave us Bill Watterson, Winsor McKay, Gary Trudeau and Aaron McGruber (to name a few), is a dying artform. Just a laugh and a half.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:22 pm Reply with quote
Apollo-kun wrote:
enurtsol wrote:
Newspaper comic strips are going the way of the Dodo............ Laughing
Yep, it's really funny that a medium that gave us Bill Watterson, Winsor McKay, Gary Trudeau and Aaron McGruber (to name a few), is a dying artform. Just a laugh and a half.


Who?

Last time I read a paper comic strip was when I was 14 eating breakfast one morning at my grandparents house.

They seem a little outdated in today's technology and generation. We have YouTube now.
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:27 am Reply with quote
TitanXL wrote:
Who?

...that's just sad.

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They seem a little outdated in today's technology and generation. We have YouTube now.

...how does YouTube have anything to do with comic strips?
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TitanXL



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Top Gun wrote:
...how does YouTube have anything to do with comic strips?


Same reason it has to do with any other media medium. New mediums and ways for the youth to find entertainment pop up. Now kids can watch stuff on their phone. Lots of old entertainment mediums in general are losing steam. There's a huge push for digital books and videos now, for example. Reading the funny papers isn't exactly as big as it once was.
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TitanXL wrote:
Top Gun wrote:
...how does YouTube have anything to do with comic strips?


Same reason it has to do with any other media medium. New mediums and ways for the youth to find entertainment pop up. Now kids can watch stuff on their phone. Lots of old entertainment mediums in general are losing steam. There's a huge push for digital books and videos now, for example. Reading the funny papers isn't exactly as big as it once was.


Wouldn't your point have been better made by using webcomics instead of youtube?
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enurtsol



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That's why manga circulations are down too. Instead of reading manga, J-commuters instead now busy themselves with their cellphones. Laughing
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ashleyjames222



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I have also long time to read Comic


Daily Kawish
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StudioToledo



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:59 pm Reply with quote
Apollo-kun wrote:
enurtsol wrote:
Newspaper comic strips are going the way of the Dodo............ Laughing
Yep, it's really funny that a medium that gave us Bill Watterson, Winsor McKay, Gary Trudeau and Aaron McGruber (to name a few), is a dying artform. Just a laugh and a half.

Of course in McCay's time, a Sunday strip would take up a whole page itself.



Much of the blame could be put on newspaper companies themselves for feeling they have to save every inch of newsprint for something else like ads in later years.

TitanXL wrote:
Top Gun wrote:
...how does YouTube have anything to do with comic strips?


Same reason it has to do with any other media medium. New mediums and ways for the youth to find entertainment pop up. Now kids can watch stuff on their phone. Lots of old entertainment mediums in general are losing steam. There's a huge push for digital books and videos now, for example. Reading the funny papers isn't exactly as big as it once was.

Today children are losers.
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Emisteve



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:54 pm Reply with quote
Lolx Nice job... Very Happy


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Doctorhauser



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:40 am Reply with quote
StudioToledo wrote:


Today children are losers.


Aaand that unbiased opinion is based on Anime hyper?

Now, seriously, this seems to be turning into a printed daily strips vs. Internet-based entertainment debate. Or a moaning of "the death of daily strips".

For starters, as it is been already mentioned, there're webcomics out there, of all kinds and without editorial control. They're strictly personal creations. That's marvelous. And if you think there's nothing artistic in them and that they all revolve around videogames or the like, you may be in for a surprise if you search hard enough among the myriad of titles.

Personally, I never thought that an art like comics/comic strips was only "legitimate" in paper form. Even if papers stop including comics at all, as long as there're webcomics the artform will never, ever, die.

I'd say that TitanXL just made the wrong comparison by putting YouTube as "the" alternative to newspaper's daily strips. There're many more, including, again, webcomics.


On the other hand, this topic is actually about the end of Chibi Maruko-chan... Considering that it seems to be quite popular yet in Japan, I take that it's due to the author just wanting to call it quits after so many years of work, kinda like Charles Schulz o Bill Watterson. If that's the case, I'm glad that the author was allowed to end it (or as much as an ending a comic strip can get, anyway).
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