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WEINGARTEN: People who 'critique comic strips are anuses'
"I have decided that people like me, who presume to critique comic strips, are anuses."
Such is the self-realization -- perhaps even the tongue-in-cheek epiphany with an, um, surprise end -- of Post Magazine humor columnist Gene Weingarten.
As he prepares to debut his Washington Post Writers Group comic strip "Barney & Clyde" on Monday, Weingarten peeks out from behind his twin Pulitzers to talk with Comic Riffs about how his cartoon came to be -- notably after years of critiquing other strips himself.
So look for Comic Riffs's Q&A with Weingarten on Friday morning right here, where we will discuss billionaires and bums. And yes, Gene apparently means "bums" in multiple senses of the word.
See you then.
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Michael Cavna
| June 3, 2010; 5:45 PM ET
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Interviews With Cartoonists, The Comic Strip
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Barney & Clyde, Gene Weingarten, Washington Post Writers Group
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Posted by: yellojkt | June 3, 2010 9:10 PM | Report abuse
Which would also explain his choice of Twitter avatar.
http://livebythefoma.blogspot.com/2009/06/weingarten-twit.html
Posted by: yellojkt | June 3, 2010 9:13 PM | Report abuse
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I've been comparing Gene Weingarten to a rectum for years.
http://livebythefoma.blogspot.com/2008/07/comic-strip-temporal-dynamics.html
Glad to see he has finally come over to my point of view.