Chip Sansum still going strong with his dads old strip Born Loser fifty years in paper

Arnold Buckley
   The Born Loser by Chip Sansum pretty much covers the born losers ahhh one comes across in suburbia and middle-aged middle America. The strip revolves around some balding old dude and his tall and misshaped ugly wife and I am amazed how real these people are to many I have come across in Middle America. Comic Strip artist Chip Sansum really nails it down with your typical suburban sprawl middle-class slaps in cul-de-sac areas and big box America.  The couple in this strip are boring and basically this strip is pretty boring as well as it is too realistic and indicative of boring America. The man is a couch potatoes and the woman is just some debt-spending old sea hag which pretty much exemplifies much of debt-ridden Middle America and old people in general long accustomed to certain expectations and requirements that often involves money not in their hands. this comic strip has been going on for fifty years now and hasn't lost a lick as Chip Sansum took over from his dad Art after his dad croaked in 1981

 The strip often revolves around the dudes dull job at work as well and often has the feel of a Dilbert strip. In addition the sassy lead man character goes to many greasy spoons and has often smart eleck reactions to daily uninteresting encounters one would come ahh across the wide streets of opioid rural backwater America and the vast parking lot centricities of suburbia.  The Born Loser began in 1965 as a strip with no central characters that revolved around the loser theme. Gradually, it developed into the comic we see today, starring lovable loser Brutus Thornapple, his wife Gladys, mother-in-law Ramona Gargle, boss Rancid Veeblefester, dim-witted son Wilberforce and the mischievous neighbor Hurricane Hattie O'Hara. This family guy is boring but the strip can be entertaining at ties for a few good chuckles