The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes
are two of the last beacons of the monoculture, when everybody pretty
much watched and consumed the same things and had all the same reference
points. These days, the world of comic strips is more diverse in both
storytelling and form, but something's been lost all the same.
from Vox
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This is True Not Just of Comic Strips
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J. Michael Robertson directs the journalism program in the Department of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco. He was an editor/staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, 1980-1991, and Atlanta Magazine, 1976-1980. He received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Duke University in 1972.
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