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Carol Stark: Taking your laughs seriously And Louise Stover says:
“I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad you are taking ‘Lio’ off the comic page. I was considering discontinuing my subscription just because he was in the comics. It was just a little too much and creepy.” Many of the responses I received were similar. However “Lio” does have some fans out there and I heard from 10 or 11 of them. Rick Campbell opines: “My dear madam, this is an outrage! What shock and dismay swept across my very soul when I turned to your comic page Monday morning to find ‘Lio’ had suddenly gone missing.” I think Rick was having some fun with me, but there are a few serious ‘Lio’ fans out there, and I’m sorry I can’t always make all of our readers happy. I don’t know all the ages of those who responded, but I think it was probably a pretty good cross-section. Hands down the four strips mentioned most as favorites were “Beetle Bailey,” “Blondie,” “For Better or Worse” and “Stone Soup.” Hey, look at that. We have bipartisan readers here. They chose from the left and the right sides of the comic aisles. I predicted “Beetle Bailey.” Afterall, “Beetle Bailey,” created by Mort Walker, was based on his experiences at Camp Crowder in Neosho. Yes, Camp Swampy is our own Camp Crowder. Then, I remembered a little tidbit I had read in Wally Kennedy’s column. It’s possible that “Blondie” also has ties to our area. Wally reported that according to “Angling in the Archives,” a book by former Globe editor Charles Gibbons, Joplin is cited as the hometown of the comic-strip family in a story that appeared in the Globe in August 1946. The revelation was made in an article by Bob Considine in the July 1946 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine about the artist, Chic Young, whose comic strip at that time appeared daily in the Joplin News Herald. Considine quoted Young as saying he “believes the Bumsteads live in the suburbs of Joplin.” Who knew? Except for “Lio,” it was more difficult to see a clear pattern on what readers don’t like. “Non Sequitur” and “Cathy” received a considerable number of thumbs down. But a big thumbs down was directed at us because we use a portion of the Sunday funnies pages for a house ad. That’s something I can fix. Give me a few weeks for some study and we’ll replace that house ad with at least two more Sunday strips. “Doonesbury” was most frequently listed as a strip people said they wanted. 
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