The Funnies

[Huggy]

Those filthy Family Circus parodies were far more entertaining than the real thing.

 

[outofplace]

Those filthy Family Circus parodies were far more entertaining than the real thing.

 

[UNCGrad]

Charles Schulz could always drop the hammer:

"That's a point in my favor, sweetie!"

(And those were EIGHT MONTHS before Aaron broke the record.)

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Tank MacNamara, Doonesbury and Mallard Fillmore provided me with a pretty well-rounded cartoon diet when I was just getting started in the papers.

 

[goalmouth]

Nancy.

In college we laughed so much at the sheer absurdity of it we'd practically pass out.

 

[OscarMadison]

Somewhere there has to be footage of Betty White admitting she dated Sluggo.

 

[User 149557]

Apropos of nothing, the Jim Davis/Garfield sketch in “I Think You Should Leave” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

Calvin and Hobbes is far and away my favorite comic.

 

[HanSenSE]

Tank McNamara's still around?
Loved Non Sequitor, but the local paper dropped it last year.
But, yeah, Peanuts, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, and while he's not as close to the news as when it was a daily strip, Doonesbury

 

[Huggy]

Love Calvin and Hobbes and I was a big fan of Sherman's Lagoon but have to admit I haven't looked at it in years. I was a big Bloom County fan but don't know if it has aged that well when I see old strips online or flip through some of the books I have here.

 

[maumann]

I have a soft spot for Bizarro. At least once a week he makes me laugh out loud.

 

[sgreenwell]

Good call on Get Fuzzy, folks - that did such a slow fade from my consciousness, but I loved it when it was coming out. It's still my user icon for Steam, and I would clip them from the paper and hang them on my dorm's door. Non Sequitur was also good, but it always felt like an homage to Far Side, and doing a B+ job at it.

When it comes to meta-comics discussion, by the way, The Comics Curmudgeon is required reading, if any of you folks haven't stumbled across it already.

 

[Huggy]

Good call on Get Fuzzy, folks - that did such a slow fade from my consciousness, but I loved it when it was coming out. It's still my user icon for Steam, and I would clip them from the paper and hang them on my dorm's door. Non Sequitur was also good, but it always felt like an homage to Far Side, and doing a B+ job at it.

When it comes to meta-comics discussion, by the way, The Comics Curmudgeon is required reading, if any of you folks haven't stumbled across it already.

First time I check that guy's site out and he is talking about Shoe, used to love that, had no idea it was still around.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

First time I check that guy's site out and he is talking about Shoe, used to love that, had no idea it was still around.

Wow. Same here. The guy who drew it died 20 years ago.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Good call on Get Fuzzy, folks - that did such a slow fade from my consciousness, but I loved it when it was coming out. It's still my user icon for Steam, and I would clip them from the paper and hang them on my dorm's door. Non Sequitur was also good, but it always felt like an homage to Far Side, and doing a B+ job at it.

When it comes to meta-comics discussion, by the way, The Comics Curmudgeon is required reading, if any of you folks haven't stumbled across it already.

I’ve had a print of a Get Fuzzy comic framed over my desk for years.

 

[sgreenwell]

This is my Steam avatar, and the beauty of Get Fuzzy a lot of the times was that all you needed was a single panel for the jokes to land:

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Calvin and Hobbes

Far Side, Pearls Before Swine
Snoopy-related Peanuts comics



Non-Snoopy Peanuts comics





Getting hit by a train








Dilbert

 

[User 150927]

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 27, 2021 | GoComics.com

 

[BTExpress]

Beginning Monday, all McClatchy papers going to standardized comics and puzzles pages as opposed to each product having its own vendor-supplied version.

No more Dilbert in Fort Worth. No more Gil Thorp in Columbia. As they ran separately from a main comics page (Dilbert on the biz page; Thorp in Sports). Reader outrage sure to follow, which is why they're posting three days of "Dear Readers" warnings.

Nancy.

In college we laughed so much at the sheer absurdity of it we'd practically pass out.

You just need to know "how" to read it.

Amazon product ASIN 1606993615

 

[OscarMadison]

I adored Bloom County, still have some of the books, and there are three stuffed Opii somewhere in my studio.

When Breathed returned to cartooning, it seemed like he was more regressive about women than I remembered. A handful of us tried to explain why we weren't crazy about a series of strips he did devoted to being "friend-zoned." I tried to be sympathetic about it and one of his web people responded that they'd seen my picture and it was no wonder I knew what that was like. So I may have taken that personally and should have stayed objective even though I was no longer reviewing funnies/comics by then. I never warmed up to the revived BC. Copping to that right now.

Thing is, I'm generally not likely to clutch my pearls over cartoonists who prefer that their women reflect cheesecake of days past. Pretty pictures are pretty pictures. My CIS-het self thought Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows was lovely even when most of my colleagues were screaming for his head.

This is my favorite Pastis strip. I appliqued Rat in the last frame on a sweatshirt.

 

[Kato]