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12-31-09:
Well, another year of laughing my ass off at the worst comic
strip in the syndicated business has skated quickly
past. (Actually, Garfield is worse, but
it worse on moral grounds. The Quigmans just plain
suck.)
This
is 14th year of this site's existence and a record year for Buddy's
sloth as he used almost 8 months of recycled Quigmans in 2009,
186 in all. I know I can expect more of the same in 2010. In
fact, I'm looking forward to it.... heh-heh-heh.
I can't let the year pass without once more reminding
everyone that a little over two years ago Buddy
phoned me, the first time
I'd
heard
his
voice
in
16 years,
to
tell me he was killing the strip. He, of course,
didn't. I mean, what else does he have?
See you next year, folks. |
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| 11-25-09:
I keep tabs on visitors to this web site. In particular, I keep
an eye peeled for Buddy's IP address. I've noticed
he doesn't come 'round here as often as he used
to. I'm guessing that he's working double shift's
down at the Taco Bell these days. |
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10-30-09:
I stopped by Buddy's Facebook page, just to see if he'd
bothered updating it, which he hadn't. But I found the
following sad little artifact:
This is buddy asking friends to wish him a happy Facebook
birthday. While they may have sent cards, letters or
even made a phone call, no one bothered to reply to
his Facebook request.
No one. |
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10-29-09:
To be honest I've never understood Buddy's artwork. Why
would anyone draw such ugly crap?
Then a very very very good friend gave me a book entitled
"Masters of American Comics". No, Buddy wasn't
in there but Gary
Panter was.
Mr. Panter was the progenitor of this naive style of
art, something he called"The Ratty Line", but his writing
was brilliant and his technique was skillful, two things
Buddy's work
has
always
lacked.
Over
the years Mr. Panter's work has grown and evolved. He
is revered for his work and is considered at the forefront
of Amrican undergound comics.
Buddy still does the Quigmans.
That's pretty mjuch all you need to
know. |
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9-24-09:
At the bottom of the home page of Quigmans.com
there's a little widget called Feedjit. What it does
is paint a map, using little American flags, of the
last 100 people to visit this web site. Here's what
the
map
showed
at
6:30PM
today:
Everyone,
and I mean EVERYONE visiting quigmans.com at that exact
moment were all centered around Connecticutt. I have
NO idea how that works but it was pretty damn cool! |
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9-2-09:
As some of you might have noticed I've been offline
as a Quigmans commentator for the past four months,
and there was a good reason... I had MUCH better things
to do.
Those good things are now well in hand so I'm back
to offer my editorial two cents about the lousiest
comic strip, apart from Mallard Fillmore, extant.
Nice to see you again, too.
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 1-29-09:
There's currently a site on the net called Comics Remixed.
(Note: The site was shuttered April 09) What it 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 this Quigmans comic debuted, 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... <evil grin>. |
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1-27-09:
Many people, after having briefly visited this web site, are
often of the opinion that I'm obsessed with Bucky Hinkerton.
I mean, he's a big "star" in the syndicated comics world
and I'm merely a blogger with an axe to grind. Well, take
a look at this screen capture:
See
that arrow pointing to Los Angeles? That's Bucky. This information
from my Feedjit feed indicates that he visits my web comic, The
Far Left Side, almost every day. Often twice
a day. So who's obsessed with who? |
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1-15-09:
See this picture of Barack Obama's daughters, all knocked
up like they just arrived fresh off the bus fromWasilla?
It was created by a very good friend of the former Buddy
Hickerson, a racist twit named David Drake.
He runs a racist blog so
vile and reprehensible that he makes this web site look like cuteoverload.com.
The site is populated with exactly the type of juvenile political commentary
and imagery one usually finds scrawled in excreta on the walls of 3rd-grade toilets.
This baboon is so proud of this garbage that he even slaps his URL across them,
just in case Newsweek.com comes calling with a fat royalty check.
Most revealing of all, in my opinion, is that he considers Buddy Hickerson a "friggin'
genius" of the comic world, gleefully pointing out that the first name in
his vast list of links is to Buddy's cartoons on yahoo.com. (I doubt he really
believes such nonsense about Buddy as he's just a moron, not a complete moron.
It's clear to me that he just decided there ought to be at least one site on
the entire internet that says nice things about the Quigs.)
Yeah, Buddy, you sure know how to pick 'em. |
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1-8-09:
Here's another charming example of Buddy's slime-bagginess
I just stumbled upon.
Back
in 1996 a book by James E. Combs and Dan D. Nimmo called
"The Comedy of Democracy" was published. In it
was a mention
of a cartoon by the "witty" Buddy Hickerson,
a retitling of "Snow White" to "Repressive
Celibate and the Seven Politically Height-Challenged Individuals".
I wrote that joke. It wasn't
the best gag in the world but it was mine. It appeared 6-25-93
and was re-syndicated later in 3-11-2000.
Now, this sort of thing requires permission when used in
books and when they contacted Buddy he obviously said "You're
right. I'm a witty son of a bitch, so go right ahead and
use it."
When the cartoon
itself appeared in the last published Quigmans collection
Buddy erased my name from the signature.
Mr. Combs has since passed on and there's no chance they're
going to reprint the book just for little old me, so this
is just for the record, okay?
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| 1-1-09:
Welcome to 2009. The final tally had Bucky-boy re-syndicating
almost 60% of his output for 2008. That 179 re-used cartoons
out a possible 314. The number of recycled cartoons really
began to spike about June of 2008 when 18 out of a possible
25 cartoons were resyndicated. The high for the years was
November when 22 out of 25 cartoons was re-used. |
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