I was thinking the other day, no I try not to do that every day; it hurts, about comics strips and what changes attitudes towards them. As an example I used to devour certain cartoon strips like Fred Bassett, BC, The Wizard of Id, even the Perishers, but at a certain point something changed. I still occasionally check them out, and even still raise a chuckle or two but it's more nostalgia than anything else. Yet there are some which still retain their grip on my somewhat limited mentality, Andy Capp for one, and of course Beau Peep, both of which have seemed like lifetime friends at times.
So what changes...is it the readers maturity, or lack of it, the every day grind of human endurance, the cartoons themselves perhaps, do they have a certain "shelf" life?
And why the exceptions, other than there are always exceptions, which I am assuming vary amongst individuals. I should stop thinking...