For the past handful of years, the hardreading staff has diligently chronicled the Boston Globe’s chuckleheaded handling of its comics pages. Beset by a chronic case of schlimmbesserung (making something worse by trying to make it better), the Globeniks are forever replacing decent strips with inferior ones.
Representative reaction from us after a 2019 Globe reader survey led to wholesale changes in the comics lineup: “Seriously? Rose Is Rose instead of Get Fuzzy? Adam @ Home instead of Zippy? We’re sorry to say this, but Globe readers are idiots.”
Not to mention Globe editors.
On January 2 the Globe unceremoniously kicked Mother Goose and Grimm to the curb via this microscopic notice (actual size).
(To be sure graf goes here)
To be sure, no one has ever confused Mother Goose and Grimm with Calvin and Hobbes or The Boondocks, but Ma and Grimmy are like cartoon comfort food, which is more than you can say about Pardon My Planet, judging from its maiden voyage in the Globe on New Year’s Day.
Pardon my plaint, but that’s just not funny. More like grim.
UPDATE: Splendid reader Mark has informed the hardreading staff that “[a]pparently you’re not the only one who missed it. Mother Goose was back as of today.”
Indeed she was, complete with another microscopic notice.
Universal Hub’s redoubtable Adam Gaffin also weighed in.
Grimm situation at the Globe resolved
By adamg on Mon, 01/09/2023 – 8:36pm
John Carroll reports he could not believe his eyes the other day when the Globe replaced “Mother Goose and Grimm” with one of those depressing strips about 20somethings being depressing.
The Globe’s Kevin Slane, though, reports the venerable strip is back today.
All’s well that ends well, yeah? Let’s hope the Globe editors stop all their strip teasing for a good long while.
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