Editor,
I am writing this letter to protest the printing of the comic strip Lakewood.
Other than hardly ever being funny, Lakewood’s style of humor insults the student body.
See, the thing is that Lakewood relies on quick one-liners that have no real intelligence behind them. These jokes are fit for young children, not adults.
As a whole, animation and comic strips have tried appealing to younger, immature audiences the last 50 years. Lakewood is no exception.
Dilbert defies this trend and is more humorous to an adult audience, especially to engineering students such as myself, and deserves its place in a college newspaper. Lakewood does not.
There are so many animators on campus, and I’m sure that the Daily Lobo could hire more cartoonists if it’s looking for a UNM student to put together a comic strip.
Heck, Mal and Chad was fine and wasn’t completely sophomoric and uninteresting like Lakewood.
Stop treating us like kids, Daily Lobo!
Philip Lafreniere
UNM student
Editor’s Note: If any of you think you can write a comic strip that is better than Lakewood, send the Daily Lobo five samples of your strip to editorinchief@dailylobo.com.
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