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Every year I write a new essay about one of the worst comic strips ever published, the September 11, 2011 edition of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. If you want to catch up, it went “here’s a close analysis of the actual strip” in 2021, “here’s the larger cultural context of decline within the Ameri| Eruditorum Press
Scrape away the deconstructive close-reading, scrape away the history of decline, scrape away the entire wilfully absurd edifice of an annual blog series devoted to it and what you are left with is an unusually bathos-heavy bit of glurge. The word “glurge” was coined by Patricia Chapman on a mail| Eruditorum Press
Once again, we return. This is the fifth part of an annual blog series analyzing the worst comic strip ever made. Previous installments include Exegesis, The Devolution of the Funny Pages 1895-2022, The Only Thing that Stops a Bad Guy with an Emotion is a Good Guy with an Emotion, and, last year, th| Eruditorum Press
