Serious about their funnies

Over the years I have watched with disdain as the Sunday and weekday comics get “edited” by what looks more like the accounting department rather than real newspaper editors [“Comic Strips’ Plight Isn’t Funny,” by Alex Chun, April 27]. Instead of sitting back and relaxing with the Sunday comics like I used to do, I now breeze through them in about two minutes. To make matters worse, the overall creativity of the comic strip artists is not there anymore either.

How about this as a possible solution:

Publish a Sunday comic section that is huge. Make it as thick as section one: 20 to 30 pages if need be. Publish every comic strip you can, old favorites, new ones and maybe even some international ones. Print them normal size.

To make it more intriguing, publish the comics in a tabloid form.

I would subscribe to something like this in a heartbeat. I can think of nothing better than relaxing on a Sunday morning with hot coffee, some breakfast and about 20 solid pages of comics. I get to read all of my favorite strips, not something an accountant decides I may want to read.

DARRELL ROHMAN

Chino

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After 50 years of Times’ readership, my husband and I still fight over who gets the funnies first. We find truth and wisdom there. We get angry or pensive. We don’t always have the same favorites. We do agree on this: A paper rises to the level of its comics. My old favorites are “For Better or Worse” and “Doonesbury.”

My newer favorites are “Zits,” “Frazz,” “Jumpstart” and “Brewster Rockit.”

Far and away the one I admire most is Brooke McEldowney’s “9 Chickweed Lane” -- and The Times -- for continuing to run it in this time of mean-spirited and narrow views of life. I love that McEldowney tackles not just one, but a whole herd of elephants in the living room.

Please, L.A. Times, continue to rise to the level of your best comics.

BETTE M. ROSS

Newport Beach

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Just one more letter about comic strips: “Peanuts” should continue because I’m one person who thinks that it is still just as funny as it was during the ‘60s, when it was cool. Charles Schulz had a great sense of humor and he knew how to entertain. I miss Mell Lazarus’ “Momma.”

GRACE HAMPTON

Burbank