VOICES |
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following is a selection of various opinions of The
Quigmans garnered from sources across the 'net. Enjoy. |
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Gocomics.com
1-29-2010: Pluck you,
Buddy Hickerson - rainman5353 |
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joshreads.com
10-28-09: Dont forget Quigmans!
Stupid jokes and sucktastic art? It’s one I keep an eye
on just to see if it can maintain its worst-comic-on-chron.com
status. I’m proud to say I hated Hickerson’s art
the first time I saw it, and every time since. And the writing.
- sugarpie
Quigmans: Good lord, how did my newspaper fail to put that atrocity
in. After all, we do have “Fusco Brothers.” I especially
love how Hickerson gets reamed by someone using the Quigmans
domain name! That speaks for the substantial dubloons
of the blog owner and the inability of creators.com to protect
their talent. - Lou Shumaker
...nonetheless, the Quigmans are also a pain in the eyeball (again,
made even worse by the writing). - Muffaroo |
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Comicsstrips.info
1-16-2010: I ran the Quigmans
as a Far Side replacement at our paper, but I was told
to get rid of it after three months. (Fortuately a little strip
called Non Sequitur had the good sense to offer itself in strip
or panel form at just the same time, so I switched to a Sequi-panel.)
-Admin |
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Comicscommunity.com
12-9-09 - Along with THE QUIGMANS, I think this(Minimum Security)
is one of the ugliest-looking comic strips extant. - Bob Ingersoll |
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Zirconia3.com
The Family Circus
is a blight upon the newspaper comics page comparable to
Garfield or The Quigmans - Paul Riddell |
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10-18-09 - "There
are those who think the worst comic strip ever is Uncle
Funny Bunny and Chumpy. Others think
it
is the Family Circus. My personal choice for years has been
The Quigmans, a strip notorious for repeating its material. Buddy
Hickerson is just old-fashioned lazy."
http://howtheduck.blogspot.com/2009/10/redo-reprinted.html |
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Daily News of
Los Angeles
QUIGMANS: WAS IT SOMETHING NIGEL VAPID SAID?
I'd like to say a few words about your daily cartoon the Quigmans.
Namely, to wit, it is senseless, brainless, idiotic, simple, shallow,
imprudent, witless, irrational, inane, ridiculous, mindless, ludicrous,
muddled, absurd, scatterbrained, crackbrained, wild, injudicious,
imbecile, addleheaded, lunatic, insane, mad, crazy, moronic, freakish,
incoherent, senile, preposterous, asinine, cuckoo, goofy, half-baked
and harebrained. - Bob Hutton Burbank |
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Austin American-Statesman
In the last survey of readers of the Austin American-Statesman comics
page, thousands of readers ranked The Quigmans among the five least
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The Philiadelphia
Enquirer
WELCOME TO THE FAR SIDE OK, all you Quigmans fans (all two of you),
I hope you noticed that The Far Side appeared in yesterday's funnies.
That should make up for whatever lack of weirdness you may have noticed
since the demise (read cancellation) of The Quigmans, a quirky comic
featuring balloon-headed characters whose only fault was that it
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San Antonio
Express-News
6-13-2000:I was sitting here thinking about what I wanted to say
to the Express-News when I read the letter from Alan Boedeker ("Cartoon
sick, not funny," June 6).
Thank goodness I didn't see the cartoon he spoke of.
That same morning, I opened the S.A. Life section to the puzzle
page and saw the stupid "Quigmans" comic with the sexual
innuendoes right in the middle of my puzzles.
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6-20-2000: How delightful to get to the comics/advice/puzzles pages
in S.A. Life and find no "Quigman's." Had there been
another one this morning, this would have been an e-mail to suggest
a place for "Quigman's" - the nearest incinerator. (I
hesitate to call it a "cartoon" since I've not found
a funny one yet.)
I'm so pleased you have taken it out....
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 There's
currently a site on the net called comicsremixed.com.
What is does is take a variety lame comics (Dennis
the Menace, Heathcliff, Wizard of ID, The Quigmans)
and swap the punchlines between them. The results are
bizarre and often hilarious. Much funnier than the
original cartoon. Go see for yourself.
On the day the Quigman comic on your left appeared, 1-29-09, the
site hosted the cartoon but puposely left it free of any caption.
The intent wasn't entirely clear but I'm guessing that
(A) the cartoon is so bad it could only be improved by the removal
of the punchline, or
(B) No punchline could possibly make it amusing.
Either way... <big grin>.
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From forums.timerift.net:
[various complaints about obscure comic strips] Oh, and let's not
forget the same 5 strips they keep recycling in The Quigmans. That
guy needs some new material. - Tygre |
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From misetings.com:
Speaking of garfield, comics that should die:
Garfield
Family Circus
Quigmans
Adam @ home
Cathy
PC and Pixel
If your newspaper is kind enough not to publish some of these, implying
that you don't know what they are, trust me. They suck. - avatarofdumb |
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From comicscommunity.com on
the 12-29-08 Quigmans:
"Not only is this strip ugly in its drawings, not frequently funny, but
Buddy Hickerson couldn't even make the effort to complete (syndicate) this panel
last week, when it was topical!" - Bob Ingersoll |
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A response,
on toplessrobots.com,
to a an opinion about comics which
are too crummy to continue:
"One of the strips worthy of inclusion that I was actually glad to see wasn't
on the list, The Quigmans, gives me hope. It means that so few papers even bother
to run that piece of garbage, and thereby let Buddy Hickerson get away with recycling
the same gags over and over (quite literally, as the reason why he hasn't put
out a Quigmans collection since 1991 is because then fans would realize how often
he reuses previously published strips), that it'll fall into limbo just out of
a lack of papers willing to keep it on the comics pages. Maybe then, Hickerson
will go back to a career more suited for his abilities, such as sucking farts
out of dead cats.
Naw, I kid. No matter how bad his artwork, or how condescending his "jokes",
he can always rest assured that he'll get commissions from the Dallas
Observer, and support from the frumpy fiftysomethings running the
used bookstores he frequents in search of attention. So long as he
can convince idiot editors that he's "edgy", he'll always
have a place alongside other zombie weekly newspaper comics such
as This Modern World (rapidly approaching Millard Fillmore levels
of humorless preachiness), The City, and the absolutely pointless
Tom the Dancing Bug." -Texas Triffid Ranch |
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From newsgroups.derkeiler.com:
"Quigmans - grotesque and unfunny, a bad combination. Often this looks like
Easter Island Comix." -JGM |
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From aperfectworld.blogspot.com:
"When I feel bad about my drawing skills, I read the Quigmans and feel much
better." - toonhead |
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7-20-08: The
boys at somethingawful.com are
getting into the Quigmans-dissing act. Here's the original
Quigmans cartoon they found worthy of their attentions
and how they reacted:
"The joke is stupid,
but what's the point of the K-Mart t-shirt? And what
the hell is wrong with his pants?" - Mister Kingdom
"K-Mart was the stereotypical store of the ignorant, impoverished underclass
-- in the 1970's. This cartoonist shows that not only is he perpetuating false
stereotypes (poor and uneducated does not equal stupid), he's also three decades
behind the times." - Dr. M
"That joke is poo poo. 'I'm holding it. I'm not holding it but I can hold
it.'
OK, so you're not holding it." - davidspackage
"The Quigmans has been around since the early to mid '80s, and this "cartoonist" (who
rarely writes or draws his own jokes) is known for reusing old comics from decades
past over and over again. So in all likelihood, this comic was drawn in the 1980s. (Actually,
it was from 2003. =mike=)" - Deep Hurting
And finally, just to prove Buddy doesn't have a monopoly on misogyny:
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From newsgoups.derkelier.com
Looks like Buddy Hickerson's "The Quigmans", which has
been around since March 1985,
has changed syndicates. I think it started with the L.A. Times syndicate
and then became part of the Tribune Media Services group when they
bought out The L.A.Times in
2000.
Personally I get more enjoyment not from the panel, but from this
guy who detests all things Hickerson: http://www.quigmans.com/quigblog.html
D.D.Degg
and
Wow. Fascinating stuff. He really has a hate on for the strip, doesn't
he? I haven't seen that level of snark since ... well, since the
last time I visited the Foobiverse!
nancy13g |
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From Howard
Bunt's Blog:
I find these days, as I open my comic strip page in my local paper,
in comparison to other strips on the page, For Better or For Worse
is really struggling. Even The Quigmans, which
I have often thought was the poorest, written and drawn series in
my local paper, is starting to compare favourably to For Better
or For Worse. The strips that surround it in the paper are filled
with the work of artists who appear to be actually trying to make
someone laugh, or to tell a story, even though they are often not
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Somethingawful.com
(Note: These excellent rants refer to this Quigmans cartoon, from
12-1-07:
Caption: "I'm sorry, dear. You love snacks and you needed a
purse, so I naturally assumed you'd love the Hot Pocket-Book."
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-by Deep Hurting
Speaking of hideous facial expressions...
The first time I saw this was on the student wire service that runs
many of my topical cartoons. I thought for sure that it had to be
the work of a student, instead of a professional.
But no, a quick Google search shows that this is in fact a professionally
drawn strip, which the author has been drawing since 1986.
1986. He's been drawing it for over 20 years. Supposedly after working
on-staff as an illustrator for the Denver Post, and while contributing
to the National Lampoon.
After all that time, this is what the drawing looks like. That also
means that, for a period of close to 30 years, editors have looked
at artwork that looked like this, or even worse, and have repeatedly
said, "Yes, I would like to pay you to produce more of this,
and then litter it throughout the pages of my newspaper/magazine/periodical."
Look at the shading on those pants. Look at the lettering. This was
done by a well-established professional, not an obvious amateur.
WTF is this bullshit, anyway!?
And while we're on the subject, how can ANYONE stand to draw a comic
that's NOTHING but a blatant rip of the Far Side, with even worse
artwork, day in and day out, for DECADES?! Much less several people,
apparently? Dan Piraro and Wiley Miller brought their own thing to
the formula, and also happen to be pretty good illustrators. But
the same cannot be said for the vast majority of Gary Larson's clones.
You know, I used to think anyone could learn to draw, with enough
time and practice, and innate talent didn't necessarily have to be
a requirement. But comics like Cathy and this [Quigmans] cause me
to question my belief–even someone who's the worst artist in
the world should be able to become fairly skilled after a period
of constantly drawing for twenty years, if that were true. No, the
frequent and short deadlines on a comic are not an excuse, either.
Not after that long.
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- by jidohanbaiki
As soon as I learned how to read, I read this strip everyday in the
comics pages. Even as I five year old, I was always fascinated with
how crappy and creepy all the characters looked and was always dumbfounded
by it's humor. I thought maybe it was just something you had to be
an adult to get. My feelings were pretty much the same about "Sylvia."
It's been about ten years since I've seen the Quigmans, and it looks
like the style has changed but it still looks like it was drawn in
about five minutes with a goopy dried out ball point pen. This is
what my art looks like when I just don't care and I'm drawing while
on the phone checking my bank balance.
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- by Nausicaa
The extra galling part is that yes, people SHOULD improve over time
if they work hard enough, but it's the fact that they're ACCEPTED
while they're still at the poo poo stage that's extra annoying.
I know I wouldn't want to see my stuff published that I didn't think
was a respectable level of skill. Even a trained, skilled cartoonist
will evolve and change over time - except they usually don't get
WORSE.
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KillerJunglist
Oh come on... This guy isn't even trying! Is that Zippy the Pinhead
in the background? What the ever loving gently caress is up with
Ms. Coulter's mouth? And I'm actually offended by the lettering and
choice of "word".
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davidkamp.com
"Whereas the current legion of Far Side rip-offs—The Quigmans, Bizarro
and The Fusco Brothers, to name but three—are transparently, desperately
self-conscious, straining fruitlessly to re-create Gary Larson’s skewed,
bovine freakiness. They’re also dated; like faded wine-cooler posters in
a liquor store, they seem the last sorry embers of a trend begun in 1986."
-David Kamp, 9-06
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rockwoodcomic.com
"I notice your continuous dislike of Family Circus. Well, I support you
wholeheartedly in that respect. I'd like you to make a petiton to ban it. While
you're at it, how about Beetle Bailey, Marmaduke, Mark Trail, Hi & Lois,
the Quigmans, and many others? You could start a revolution: "Keep our funny
pages funny!"
--Hannah Orlove, 3-10-03
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wired.com
Reader Paul Riddel commenting on the shutdown of the Dysfunctional
Family Circus web site back in 1999.
"What's really pathetic is not just the fact that so many people over the
past five years responded to the idea of tormenting Bil Keane's dopey characters
-- seeing as how The Family Circus is a blight upon the newspaper comics page
comparable to Garfield or The Quigmans -- but that King Features Syndicate let
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comicscurmudgeon.com
"Quigmans: Eeww!" - gh |
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subgenius.com
"A few years ago the LA Daily News used to have the Quigman's. Then they
ran a readers survey to determine which comics they would axe. Quigman's came
in as the number one most hated comic strip of all. So, I wrote a letter to the
paper defending the comic. They ran the letter, but axed the Quigman's. Bastards."-
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http://www.websnark.com
"I don't know about how many Far Side webcomics are out there, but there
are a surfeit of syndicated gag panels. My newspaper right now has Non-Sequitur,
Pluggers, and Bizarro, and at one point had the Quigmans (until it was thrown
out because nobody liked it)" - Chaomancer Omega, 12/30/2005 |
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101reasonstostopwriting.blogspot.com
In regards to a proposed new strip:
"Good Elvis Almighty, those cartoons are painful, and not in a good way.
And what's scary is that I could see him getting a syndication gig for newspaper
comic pages wishing to replace The Quigmans or Mallard Fillmore with something
slightly more likely to engage a chuckle instead of the gag reflex." - Paul
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From joshreads.com -
in reaction to the Quigmans comic of 1-9-07
"Well, the joke in Quigmans is lame, so maybe John Kerry drew the panel." -
mibbitmaker
"Ugh, haven’t seen this one before. Horrible artwork. That woman looks
like Joe Lieberman in a wig and a skirt." - Squawk
"The really sad thing about the Quigmans is that I remember when Hickerson’s
stuff was in the National Lampoon. It was just as crudely drawn but it was a
LOT funnier. Some of the best ones were multi-panel efforts, and of course he
wasn’t putting ‘em out once a day… So I guess frequency and
format have a lot to do with it, but it’s always sad when somone who used
to make me laugh out loud can barely elicit a grimace now…I mean, really,
this is just typical Lockhorns shite…" - Donald the Anarchist
"The Quigmans would do better if it just switched into some sort of German
depress-o-vision. They need to toss off the pretense of a more white trash Lockhorns
and embrace the sheer dullness and black and whiteness of it." - Clouseau
"Is that a tranvestite hooker in Lockhorns Quigmans or just some
really, really bad art?" - Prehumous
And my favorite:
"To see a former Quigmans contributor obsess over whether the head Quigmans
guy is stealing from him, go to quigmans.com. It gets to the point where he googles
himself and the writer and because he has more hits he concludes that he’s
more popular and relevant. Unfortunately, since he once contributed to Quigmans
he will forever be known as a no-talent ass-clown." - reader-who-posts
That's me, the no-talent ass-clown. I'm so proud.
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http://www.rottontomatoes.com
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http://web.archive.org/web/20010725124647/www.hpoo.com
(Story about a cartoon exhibition)
The weakest work, strangely enough, comes from two Dallasites. Dan
Piraro contributes covers to his famed "Bizarro"collections--good
enough for some, but hopelessly inadequate for presenting his talent
when his strips for the now-defunct "Wahoo Reader" would
have made a better choice. "Quigmans" creator Buddy Hickerson's
work elicits a curled lip instead of a chuckle: his drawings resemble
those of a baboon on Prozac. One exception works because of its obviousness: "Classic
Rock" portrays a skeletal, spiderweb-enshrouded deejay (presumably
based on Q102's Redbeard) surrounded by Eagles, Foghat, and Rush
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http://www.thesunlink.com
From the Bremerton, Washington Sun editorials page
"Comics are sadistic"
To the Editor:
I've been a longtime subscriber to The Sun and enjoy reading the
comic sections of papers. The majority of your comic selections are
humorous or entertaining and are acceptable reading for children.
The Sun has one comic that is neither acceptable to children or adults.
It is neither funny nor entertaining, but is disgusting and sadistic.
At other times it's stupid, gross and demeaning to people.
This comic, "The Quigmans," needs an R or an X rating to
be acceptable for a family paper. I feel sorry for The Sun and our
community if there are readers of The Sun who find "The Quigmans" funny
or entertaining. I've felt this comic unacceptable for a family paper
for some time.
The particular comic that has given me the impetus to voice my opinion
to the editor is "The Quigmans" in the comic section on
Sept. 11. What can be found funny about somebody about to be run
over and killed be a semi-truck? How many in our community have had
a friend or relative killed in a auto-related accident?
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From the Bremerton, Washington Sun editorials page
"Sadistic cartoons"
To the Editor:
I readily concur with Christopher Olmstead in his evaluation of the
cartoons "The Quigmans". I also enjoy reading the "funnies" and
have since I was a child. He is right in calling [this cartoon] sadistic.
It is strange that [this] drawing is never upbeat - always degrading.
I had gotten in the habit of skipping it, but then thought better
of it, and started reading it again with the idea of making a fair
judgment. It was timely that Mr. Olmstead should bring this to your
attention. Political views should cover a broad range. Comics, on
the other hand, need to be acceptable for family reading. Among your
newer comics, "Pickles" and "Rose is Rose" are
excellent, both in drawing and content.
Iris M. Strehlow - Bremerton |
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Amish Tech
Support
"Scribble-crap. What the Hell? Okay, so the Far Side wasn't the Mona Lisa,
but some of this Quigmans crap is... well... crap. At least Dan Piraro of Bizarro
has some style and substance to his work, but there's a disturbingly large amount
of three-panel-crap out there."
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JEB- The Quigmans is a local one panel comic strip with terrible
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READERS' COMICS
SURVEY 2000: THE RESULTS
No joking: We'll consider your opinions
Brian Stallcop, Bremerton Washington Sun Editor
You love Pickles. You hate The Quigmans.
Those are the highlights of The Sun's most recent comics survey.
More than 2,800 readers responded to the survey, about half on
the
Internet and half with paper and pencil.
It's taken us several weeks just to log all of the paper votes
into a computer database. Now that we've sliced and diced the numbers
by age and gender, what does it all mean?
Just as we've done in the past, we're going to keep every comic
that makes at least one demographic group's top five list.
That means that we'll keep some comics that are popular for only
small groups of readers, like Dennis the Menace (females over 64)
or Robotman (males 22 and younger). Different readers have dramatically
different tastes, and our comics page seeks to have something for
everybody.
We'll also be dropping some comics that just don't scratch anybody's
itch, like Rugrats and The Quigmans.
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http://www.dallasobserver.com
10-17-96
"Bye-bye, Buddy"
The Morning News dumps a cartoonist for daring to make fun of politicians.
BY GLEN WARCHOL
(parentheticals courtesy of Mike Stanfill)
In The Dallas Morning News, politics is no joking matter. Dallas
cartoonist Buddy Hickerson learned that lesson the hard way when
his quirky, irreverent cartoon, The Quigmans, was exiled from the
comics page recently for daring to do what folks--at least those
outside certain Middle Eastern countries--do every day: poke fun
at national politicians.
"I knew the rules about the comic page," a doleful Hickerson says of
his clash with the News. "You're not supposed to do direct political assaults
in the comic page."
(Yeah, but he did it anyway. I guess being
quirky and irreverant, much less doleful, doesn't mean very much
when you break the rules.)
The News has received letters complaining about The Quigmans' absence,
Hickerson says, but "of course I don't know the numbers on that."
(This is a really peculiar statement.
I simply can't picture the comic editor saying..."Yeah,
we've gotten lots of letters about our decision to can your
crummy strip, but we're not gonna tell you how many! So THERE!
Nyahhhh!". You think Buddy might have fabricated this
statement in an attempt to gain sympathy? Nahhhhhhhh!)
The 35-year-old Dallas-based cartoonist and illustrator (Hickerson
has done illustrations for the Observer) says he tried to explain
to the News that it was personally important for him that The Quigmans
be seen in his own hometown. "He [Langer, editor for the Morning
News] isn't really convinced it's my town. He doesn't see any buildings
with my name on them," Hickerson says.
(Can you spot the raving egomaniac in
the previous paragraph? Speaking of egomania, Buddy was actually
39, not 35, at the time of the story. I've caught him lying
about his age on several occasions. Pathetic.)
Hickerson says it's unclear if the News will resume his cartoon when
the political campaign season is over, or continue to ban it from
the funny pages.
(They eventually brought it back for
a brief run and then unceremoniously dumped it shortly thereafter.)
He fears that the News will continue to buy the cartoon from his
syndicate and trash it, rather than allow any other paper to buy
the syndication rights and run it.
(These fears were unwarranted because
Bud's pals at the Dallas Observer quickly picked up the rights
for The Quigmans, but even THEY dumped it after running them
for about a year or so. Frankly, I think they acquired the
rights just to annoy their conservative competition.)
"It's my hometown paper, for God's sake," Hickerson says. "I'd
like to see it in the paper."
(Wrong! Buddy really just wants other people
to see his NAME in the paper. Shortly after the Morning News permanently
pulled The Quigmans Buddy moved to California where the cartoon is,
presumably, still printed.) |
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http://forums.timerift.net
And I also have to agree with Dink that I have an editorial they
can choke on if they print Duckbumps, Rogue Agent, and Pimp in Training
but not OMGs! Those three comics suck. Oh, and let's not forget the
same 5 strips they keep recycling in The Quigmans. That guy needs
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http://www.dailygamecock.com
'Quigmans' shows distasteful humor
This letter is in response to two distasteful caricatures by Buddy
Hickerson ("Quigmans") that appeared in The Gamecock on
Sept. 9 and Sept. 27 (2002).
Mr. Hickerson's sense of humor is far from funny and is very offensive.
To make fun of a person because of his size shows a lack of sensitivity.
About 8 million to 10 million women and 1 million men suffer from
eating disorders, and this is something that needs to be taken seriously.
Promoting, Educating and Encouraging Realistic Self-Image (PEERS)
is a student organization here at USC that strives to make students
aware of eating disorders. Therefore, we are asking that caricatures
of this nature not be published in the future.
Lindsay Trammell
and PEERS members
TRAMMELL IS PRESIDENT OF PEERS |
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http://acaseinpoint.blogspot.com/
January 9, 2004
There are a few truly offbeat cartoons which have made syndication,
but some are so poorly drawn as to refute my claim that good writing
carries bad art. Really bad art can keep people from reading at all.
Notable here would be the Quigmans, which is weird and sometimes
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http://www.millarworld.net/lofiversion/index.php/t48492.html
February 11, 2005
It was crap when someone here posted the preview and its still crap.
Granted I'm one of those guys who thinks Family Guy is only funny
because EVERYONE TELLS YOU its funny. . .but really American Dad
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Link
November 24, 2004
Ripleys Believe it or Not- a lot of people like it, but I think it's
boring
Garfield- not funny anymore
Prickly City- don't like it
Curtis- I never liked it
Lockhorns- It kind of says the same thing over
Quigmans- it's dumb
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http://www.ex-christian.net
I always hated one called "The Quigmans" and even worse
than that was this local Alaskan cartoon strip called "Muskeg
Heights". ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS!!! Blech! |
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http://joshreads.com/?p=503
(The host of this blog was inviting suggestions for comics he might
find mockable or ironicly non-humorous. The contributor, Micedwhale,
certainly knows his crummy comics.)
I am trying not to get busted by my boss so I did not check the Chronicle
or really the list on the right hand side. But my choices would be
The Quigmans, Speed Bump, Monty, Strange Brew, Brewster Rocket, Clear
Blue Water and the bizzare Ballard Street, as far as mockery Jane’s
World,Prickly City in all its poorly drawn madness, and I am on the
fence with Bob The Squirrel. Busted gotta go. |
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http://forums.comicbookresources.com
(The host of this forum was starting an online magazine and was asking
for suggestions from readers.)
Single framed cartoons would be great. Political cartoons are fine,
we expect to publish some of course, but non-politcal single frame
cartoons, i.e. the far side, would be absolutely amazing. Just stay
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http://www.reviewjournal.com
In December of 2005, the Las Vegas Review Journal held a poll asking
it's readers to name their five favorite comics. The top ten results
were:
Zits - 975
Pickles - 861
Blondie - 455
Mother Goose and Grimm - 415
Baby Blues - 406
Hagar the Horrible - 404
Drabble - 383
Buckles - 359
FoxTrot - 337
The Family Circus - 334
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http://sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com
I've known Mike Stanfill for about four years, thanks to his BuddyWatch
site (and considering the number of humorless weekly newspaper editors
who keep running the baboon-on-methadone "comic" The Quigmans
and thereby keep Buddy Hickerson off welfare, Mr. Stanfill's work
is a matter of public service)... |
