"Wizard of Id" cartoonist Brant Parker dies...

[Richardo]

...co-drew strip with: Johnny Hart, who died last week. Weird, huh?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003572154

[Westegg]

1. Amazing, really...

...that it took two men to do that one strip. I'd have thought that one man, with half a mind, might have done the both of those strips. In his spare time. Hungover. Several limbs pinioned behind his back. No disrespect to Johnny Hart or Brant Parker but... Oh, okay. Maybe a little disrespect. But that's how we cutting-edge comics are these days: We just go right to the edge. We dare to be controversial. We don't care who we offend.

The world's a little smaller now without Johnny Hart and Brant Parker. But not so's you'd notice.

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. i never "got" the wizard of id

maybe it's just me, never found the humor in that or B.C.

Always like Calvin and Hobbs, Non Sequitor, Pickles, Boondocks, The Far Side, ect.

[Kurovski]

3. Is the Wizard of id the strip where the king hates his wife

and always tosses the jester and many others into the dungeon?

Pretty cutting edge for 1322 AD.