Beetle Bailey should retire

1. Far Side
2. Calvin & Hobbes
3. Close to Home (pretty much a rip-off of Far Side, but the best thing since then)

Everything else is tied for last, including Tank McNamara.

 

I get the daily Calvin and Hobbes on Facebook. Gawd, what a great comic. Recently, there was a series when Calvin tried to trick Susie so he could get her with water balloons. Of course, Susie was too smart for it.

 

My top 5 among CURRENT comic strips (and yeah, I'm younger than 75, too):

1. Get Fuzzy — A much hipper, funnier "Garfield," although I notice a lot of reruns lately. Is Darby Conley getting burned out?

2. This Modern World — still runs in a few alternative papers, but I usually read it online: http://thismodernworld.com/

3. Brevity — A Far Side-inspired, single-panel strip that makes me laugh at least half the time. http://www.gocomics.com/brevity

4. Frazz — Funny strip from a Michigan artist that I first discovered in the Freep; don't see it much out west. Website: http://www.gocomics.com/frazz

5. Doonesbury — What can I say ... I grew up reading it, even though I'm not in Trudeau's generation. Tough to find it in print in my neck of the woods.

 

Thanks to my lovely job, I'm on the email list for the publicist for Guy Gilchrist, who writes Nancy; in fact, I just received a release from him this week. Spoiler Alert: During the Grand Ole Opry's anniversary this October something, Sluggo will wear a T-shirt that "honors" country "star" Steve Wariner. Now you know.

 

The brilliant, post-modern take on Peanuts:

http://3eanuts.com/

 

Who posted the site Peanuts combined with Smiths/Morrissey lyrics?
That was genius.

 

Peanuts, Garfield and Family Circus are three comics that I liked as a very young kid and I look at them now and I just shake my head.

Calvin and Hobbes was hilarious. I liked Bloom County a lot. Fox Trot was very well done. Boondocks is pretty funny. Non-Sequitur is good.

 

That's probably because you're not, you know, <i>seven years old</i> any more.