The conventional wisdom is that nobody ever bought a newspaper for a comic strip, or switched subscriptions to follow a strip from one newspaper to another. While that’s certainly not universally true, it’s no doubt accurate as a general statement. Yet if that’s the case, why is the competition for new strips so fierce, why […]
Author Archives: C. Ferguson
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Bono saved from drowning
Just where does the Zoo TV Outside Broadcast Tour come from? Nothing U2 has ever done–nothing any rock group has ever done–prepares one for how gripping it is as music, how compelling it is as theater, how apropos it is as pop artifact, and how knowing it is about the culture. It takes all the […]