the sunday comics

[OTD]

The fact that they've turned Aunt Fritzi into a semi-Salma Hayek-looking hottie, ramps up the interest factor, from 0.00000001 on the Richter scale, all the way to 0.00000002.

This thread is nothing without pictures (I always wanted to say that).

 

[playthrough]

No surprise to see "Zits" get a lot of props...it's drawn by Jim Borgman, the kick-ass (and Pulitzer-winning) editorial cartoonist at the Cinci Enquirer. I love Borgman on the ed page or the funny page.

I think "Opus" is good too, I'm glad that guy brought the strip back in a different form. And I'll read Peanuts 'til the end of time.

 

[shecky]

Another strong vote for Get Fuzzy, followed by Non Sequitur and Zits.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

If Non Sequitur can generate a greater variety of gags in the future . . . well, it's built a solid base, and with
improvement, could emerge as one of the great cult strips . . . though it's already too sophisticated for many.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Borgman's handling of Zits' father character, alone, puts the strip at the modern forefront.

 

[kingcreole]

I too miss Calvin and Hobbes (and Calvin's comic book hero Captain Napalm, and his cereal Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs).

I read on a daily basis Beelte Bailey, Blondie, Zits, Fox Trot, For Better or for Worse, Dilbert, Peanuts, Garfield and Dennis the Menace. Very few make me laugh, but the ones that occasionally do are Fox Trot, Beetle Bailey and Zits.

 

[Perry White]

Pearls Before Swine and Frazz are highlights.

 

[sportsed]

People on here (I can't remember who ... sorry) have posted comics from the Internet that are 300x more funny that anything that runs in your typical daily. Get Fuzzy is the leader of the pack, with Fox Trot getting some votes. And you know what, I like Hi and Lois. It's not edgy but it's not maudlin or preachy either. It's just nice.

Zits is a piece of crap cut into thirds. Can't standing the drawing style, with the kid's gigantic backpack and tennis shoes. Why does the mom look like a white version of Cleveland's wife from the Family Guy? Awful strip.

 

[Outta Here]

Glad to see someone mentioned Pearls Before Swine. If you haven't seen it, give it a read for a week or two.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Fox Trot and Pearls Before Swine both are outstanding.

The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes were outstanding.

Dilbert and Zits are usually pretty good.

The so-called artists behind Family Circus and Brevity should have their drawing hands chopped off in a grand public ceremony. As a friend of mine once put it "Family Circus always sits there at the top of the page, waiting to ruin my morning. And I still always read it."

Edit: Oh yeah, Get Fuzzy sucks too.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Nancy is a must-read for anyone wanting to know how Borscht Belt comics got their early inspiration. And some of the Nancy jokes are so bad that I can't stop laughing at them. For Better or Worse will always be a winner with me. Doonesbury has been suckitude ever since Trudeau returned from hiatus. And I wish Bloom County would return.

 

[mediaguy]

Bring back Calvin & Hobbes and Bloom County in syndication and it'll beat half the tripe out there right now. Heck, half the stuff makes me long for "Hi and Lois."

 

[ARD]

I'm a Bloom County fan, but I find it has not aged all that well. And Opus is a mediocre substitute.

Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy have been slipping. Borrow or buy one of Pastis' first two collections and you'll see some brilliant dark humor. Now we get "zeeba neighbas" over and over. Not bad, but not nearly as biting as his early stuff. I liked the early Dilbert better, too, for that matter.

I'll be shocked if anything ever matches Calvin and Hobbes and/or The Far Side. Scott Adams' blog (which is a hoot) recommended Cow and Boy as a Calvin and Hobbes replacement (think Calvin and Hobbes, only Hobbes is a cow. Really.). Nowhere near the caliber of C&H.

 

[Starman]

The fact that they've turned Aunt Fritzi into a semi-Salma Hayek-looking hottie, ramps up the interest factor, from 0.00000001 on the Richter scale, all the way to 0.00000002.

This thread is nothing without pictures (I always wanted to say that).

OK, well I thought the Aunt-Fritzi-as-hottie thing:

was something new, but apparently not -- here's some old, OLD-school Aunt Fritzi, from 1948:

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Greatest cartoon ever, because I made it come true the next day when I asked my friend's 5-year-old cousin the exact same questions about his t-ball team and got the exact same answers!

 

[bigpern23]

Rhymes with Orange: I get this and Non Sequitur confused a lot.

Minor threadjack: I was playing a drinking game the other night and drew a card that started "Rhyme time." First person to **** up the rhyme has to drink. My friend's fiancee, who was sitting directly to my left, had been making me drink every chance she got. So what did I make the first line of my rhyme? "I love oranges." ;D

Back to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

[goalmouth]

Another vote for Nancy! My college pal and I used to laugh over that strip until we couldn't breathe, it was so inane. But then, so were our lives.

Gimme Peanuts, Andy Capp, Dennis the Menace, Hi & Lois, Tiger, Beetle Bailey, Mark Trail, Ziggy, Funky Winkerbean, Apt. 3-G, Brenda Starr, Hagar the Horrible, Bloom County/Outland, even Doonesbury before the Star-Ledger moved it to op-ed.

Also liked Boner's Ark. There, I said it.