where comic strips go to die

[avi]

my local paper the Olympian.

I swear - my paper has the worst selection: Peanuts, For Better or For Worse, Shoe, Cathy, Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, The Wizard of Id, Ziggy, Dennis the Menace, Sally Forth, Blondie, B.C., Prince Valiant, Garfield, Beetle Bailey, Frank and Ernest, and the Born Loser. The good ones? Maybe Doonsbury I guess, but that's about it. No fun.

 

[The Dope]

You pretty much named the only ones I ever see, plus a few I don't. I figured that selection was pretty typical of all papers.

 

[0sm0se]

Some papers, particularly in western NY have spiderman, I am envious of them.

 

[avi]

it just makes me miss the SF Chron that much more.

 

[avi]

I don't feel like starting a new thread, so here's a video of my dog Samosa acting crazy with a piece of newspaper stuck to his lip

 

[gekko]

Some papers, particularly in western NY have spiderman, I am envious of them.

My paper in Winston-Salem gets spider-man. Personal favorite comics in my paper: Zits, Dilbert, Non-Sequitor, Get Fuzzy, but I also get all the ones named earlier and some other ones too. Seriously though, nothing will ever touch Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, why must the good ones burn out quick while Peanuts went on for 40 years?

 

[gekko]

I think a lot of people on this board would really like Non-sequitor if none of you have ever seen it.

 

[avi]

Get Fuzzy luckily runs in the daily here, but not the sunday. My wife says that she likes Non-sequitor, but I don't remember it.

 

[xfer]

peanuts used to be damn good

 

[xfer]

i've seen non sequitur. it's okay, the writing's not as good as the art. never made me laugh aloud but i read it.

 

[avi]

some days peanuts hits me just right

 

[xfer]

the later shaky-handed strips aren't so good. pretty much everything after they introduced wacky newish stuff to keep new readers (decades ago) was lesser than the original ones.

 

[The Dope]

I enjoy Mallard Fillmore every now and then.

 

[xfer]

except that it's written by one of the most insufferable neocon party-line stooges on earth.

 

[xfer]

heh:

In the 2004 book America (The Book), written by the staff of The Daily Show, a parody of Mallard Fillmore appears in a section about political cartoons:

* Panel 1 - Mallard: Liberals want to tie the hands of industry with more environmental legislation.
* Panel 2 - Mallard: Why must we punish our most productive citizens with an income tax?
* Panel 3 - Mallard: Ooops! I forgot to tell a joke!

"Mallard Fillmore" readers who failed to get the joke alerted Tinsley, who responded in kind. Tinsley decided the above satire was not merely a spoof, but a forgery meant to sow confusion. In the strip's July 5, 2005 edition, and continuing through the July 6, July 7, and July 8 strips, Tinsley lashed back at the America (The Book) parody.

links to the "I missed the joke" Tinsley strips are on the wikipedia site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard_Fillmore

 

[gekko]

Wow a less funny comeback has never been seen

 

[The Dope]

Yeah, I loved that part in America: The Book, because it's so true of the comic so frequently. I should clarify that that's the reason I enjoy it from time to time.

 

[azal]

red meat should be printed in all newspapers.

Also "Cathy" justifies rape IMO.