The New York Daily News has a certain strength of character. While the Times maintains its stultifying dignity and the Post is wrapped up in its rabid conservatism, the Daily News isn't afraid to stand up for the man who wants his newspaper with, well, less news and more paper.
While the newspaper has won 10 Pulitzer Prizes and employed writers such as Jimmy Breslin, the papers in the Jim Smith Archive dating from late 1963 and early 1964 deserve anything but respect. And without further ado, the JSA presents its collection from the Daily News -- very good news for people who love bad newpapers.
Ah so, Ching Chow very grad to be stereotyped character in honorable newspaper. Ching Chow give advice rike ancient wise man on comics page.
Even I, jaded by my research, have to admit I was surprised by this strip. The exaggerated slant of the eyes, the singsong faux-Chinese name, the fatuous Oriental "wisdom"... it's comparable to the anti-Japanese propaganda of the '40s. But here it was in a major US paper from the 1960s. "Ching Chow," a strip created by Stanley J. Link, ran in the Daily News from the 1930s to summer 1990 (!).
Maybe if Chow had something worthwhile to say, he could redeem himself. But his advice is barely good enough for fortune cookies. No wonder this strip was buried back in the sports section.
