Wednesday, September 18, 2024

That darn Edith Pritchett, comics journalism, and Pearls Before Swine in the WaPo
















Sorry, we've already outsourced all editing to the Google Pixel camera. (Edith Pritchett/The Washington Post)

I have a dream

I have a solution for The Post's woes: Enlist retired baby boomers as volunteer editors for a day! We have decades of experience as print readers. My first improvement would be to relocate Edith Pritchett's clever New Yorker-style comic from the Opinions pages to the Style section, where it belongs. Then I would bundle a combination of conservative and liberal editorial cartoons in the space now allotted to Pritchett, as you used to do. This would have the associated benefit of sparing The Post from having to place conservative cartoons on the editorial page during the week, a practice that leads print readers to wonder how far The Post might be slipping into darkness.

Stuart Ragland, Columbia



Urban climate-adaptation designer Kristina Hill explains one of her ideas. (Maya Scarpa for The Washington Post)

Waterloo

I've come to expect more from The Post than conveying articles in comic book form. The illustrations add nothing, unless you're trying to appeal to a low-attention-span audience. The waterborne hot dog stands, pools and luxury housing floated in Beatrix Lockwood's Sept. 3 Tuesday Opinion piece, "The rising waters, the floating hot dog stand," were rendered even more ridiculous when seen in illustrated form.

Enough precious space has already been sacrificed to large photo spreads. Please spare us; two pages a day of comics is enough.

Eric Greene, Annapolis



(Stephan Pastis/Andrews McMeel Syndication for UFS)

Lay all your love on me

What a wonderful surprise to find in the Aug. 25 "Pearls Before Swine" such a tender response to the death of a loved one. It so happened that I had lost a beloved niece the day before, and it helped me accept her loss. And it made me wonder what was going on in cartoonist Stephan Pastis's life. Thank you, Pig.

Page B. Hawk, Washington


Readers critique The Post: Should we get rid of anonymous comments? [in print as Free for All]
By Letters to the Editor
September 14, 2024: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/13/anonymous-comments-cancer-ageism-abba/

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