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Tzoq writes "User Friendly has hit the mainstream! The National Post, a new national newspaper in Canada, has become the first paper to carry User Friendly daily. According to an article in today's Post (not online yet) entitled "Move over Dilbert, her come the nerds of User Friendly", the Post will be featuring the best of User Friendly's first year, then introducing the current comics. Maybe
Conrad Black has a sense of humour after all... "
Update: 01/11 02:39 by CT : Kyt sent us
a link to the
National Post Story which is now
online.
the owner of the National Post (Conrad Black) owns over 40% of all major newspapers in Canada; he has the power to manufacture consent and minds. It is sad that he is at the right of the political scale : he expressed a lot of racist toughts towards black people and french canandians. He is also an homophobic, and it shows in is newspapers...
The national post is an opinionated piece of trash (I know, most papers are). Not to mention the irritating as hell "Pre...Post!" commercials being run round the clock.
Still, I'm glad for Illiad...this is good news indeed for him (and it couldn't happen to a nicer guy, too).
I think The Fifth Wave is probably the greatest comic dealing with technology out there right now. If you haven't ever read it before, you can find it at:
http://www.uexpress.com/ups/comics/fw
i am a québécois (french canadian) and i can say that he`s just a big fascist.
but anyway, i`ve seen a copy this morning, and i was quite surprised to see the dust puppy on the frontpage. congratulations!
This is for those of you who havn't heard of the National Post. It's basically a new national newspaper here in Canada (national like USA today) and as far as political views it is a very conservative newspaper.
What surprises me is that the national post is that most of the readers of the national post are readers of the Financial post which used to be a seperate newspaper but was merged with this one when it was released. This looks more like a move to attract a younger crowd to the paper. Would you pay 50 cents (Canadian) to read User Friendly?
I've generally found Kevin & Kell to be funnier than User Friendly.
Of course, K&K is somewhat uneven at times.
HAVE ADVENTURES!!!
This paper is completely free of news and information.
I love National Post because of my right-wing views, but NOT any racist or homophobic views whatsoever. I don't know when racism any kind of discrimination became associated with the right-wing ideal of freedom.
Maybe it's the confusion between being libertarian or being social conservative. Libertarians like me do not accept discrimination, and are simply seeking to uphold the ideal of freedom as the most important pillar of a working society. With freedom, life means nothing. On the other end, you get social conservatives such as Pat Buchanan who end up smearing the right-wing image for everybody.
Posted by OGL:
I still don't think it's very funny.
-W.W.
I just wrote a letter to the San Jose Mercury News asking them to replace "PC & Pixel", the most idiotic technology-related strip I've ever seen, with "User Friendly" on their print comics page. If other Merc readers feel the same way, I urge you to write as well.
I wasn't sure who to write to, so I just wrote to the reader rep. Make your own choice. Their feedback page is at http://www.mercurycenter.com/resources/feedback/
Later,
Adam
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
I get this paper, I'm getting User Friendly in print now, sweet!
Way cool! Here's hoping this is just the first of many.
I just spend a day beeing very productive at work, reading all User Friendly in the archive. It's nice to see such a good serie beeing given some more attention.
This is great and everything, but I hope that Illiad doesn't enter into any agreements that make him take the strip of the internet. That would be no good.
Who cares what the guys opinions are? I'm sure if Bill Gates was a tree-hugging hippy we would still think he's a monopolistic bastard :)
I sometimes wonder.
Of course, the Grope and Flail is even more mediocre. Why can't we have an intelligent, left-leaning but libertarian paper? Call it the Co-operative Commonwealth, perhaps.
Agreed -- I won't read the Post, User Friendly or not. When I call Black "The Rupert Murdoch of Canada", it's not to compliment his astute businesss sense! :)
Nonetheless, getting into even the Post is a great opportunity for Illiad, and I think we should all wish him well with this!
-- Meet the Residents -- http://www.residents.com/
The article in the Post says that they will be showing strips from the past year, then "graudually" bringing in the current ones. It implies that this means that it will continue online concurrently. There are some details about the Post deal in the news section on the User Friendly site.
-- Meet the Residents -- http://www.residents.com/