Laughing at, not with, the comics, Troy Reimink, Grand Rapids Press: "The daily comic strip strikes me as such a moldy, arcane form of entertainment, based on tired jokes repeated ad nauseam until the end of time. We get it: Garfield likes lasagna. Marmaduke is big."
ARENTS AWARD WINNERSArchived November 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Syracuse University Magazine 1999: "The strip [...] now syndicated in more than 600 newspapers worldwide."
Garnet Fraser (February 3, 2008). "Web sites mocking comic strips gain following". The Toronto Star. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008.: "Marmaduke has arguably spent 50 years retelling the same two jokes – Marmaduke is a dog with some human qualities, and Marmaduke is gargantuan – but the Star's attempt to drop it in 1999 sparked a reader revolt."
ARENTS AWARD WINNERSArchived November 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Syracuse University Magazine 1999: "The strip [...] now syndicated in more than 600 newspapers worldwide."
Garnet Fraser (February 3, 2008). "Web sites mocking comic strips gain following". The Toronto Star. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008.: "Marmaduke has arguably spent 50 years retelling the same two jokes – Marmaduke is a dog with some human qualities, and Marmaduke is gargantuan – but the Star's attempt to drop it in 1999 sparked a reader revolt."