Newspaper comic strips, any good ones left?

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I usually get the daily Baltimore Sun paper, and the Sunday Sun paper, but the comics in there leave a lot to be desired. Lately, they have been sliding downhill. Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine are the only ones that are entertaining, and even they are going downhill (why oh why did Calvin and Hobbes and Liberty Meadows leave?).

Even though they aren't published in my local paper, I sometimes read Crankshaft and Shermans Lagoon online, which while not as entertaining as Get Fuzzy or Pearls, are better than a lot of the stuff out there. Tell me, what am I missing out there? I've been searching lots of comic strip websites, and haven't really found anything I like. Any ideas?

I also sometimes get the Washington Times, Washington Post and York Daily Record, but I'm primarily looking for strips that are available online.
 
Check out www.comics.com

Excellent selection of comics, and an even better selection of political satire. (which I find funnier than the regular comics anyway)
 
Precious few. Zits can be good (of course, I'm a student, enough said), and Get Fuzzy can be worth a read.

Speaking of comics, why the heck are Mary Worth, Gil Thorp and Apt. 3G still around? What's the point?
 
I am not that fond of "Get Fuzzy" as I find it a bit too nasty. I do like "Zits", "Baldo", "Red and Rover" (nowhere near as funny as "Calvin & Hobbes"), "Sherman's Lagoon", "Broomhilda"(How can you not love a 1000-year-old green witch?), and, of course, "Prince Valiant"(the last of the adventure strips, AFAIK). Finally, I LOVE "Opus".
 
:barf: Ooh, that Ziggy is a real hoot :rolleyes: Not for the faint of heart, though! You never know what could happen with Ziggy.
 
FullerH said:
"Prince Valiant"(the last of the adventure strips, AFAIK). Finally, I LOVE "Opus".
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What?! Is The Phantom no longer around? Say it ain't so...
 
I remember "Terry and the Pirates" comics in the 1950s as well as Caniff's "Steve Canyon" strip. I liked both of them. There was also a "Steve Canyon" TV show in the early 1960's I think. I remember that he was the commander of an airbase somewhere in theStates and, in one show, the townspeople were giving the enlisted personnel from the base a hard time. Canyon arranged to have them paid in $2 bills so that their contributiion to the town's economy would be made most obvious and it worked to make the townspeople appreciate the Air Force a bit more.
 
How can you not get the animated hilarity that is Ziggy?

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GET IT? Because doctors often write prescriptions in a manner than patients and pharmacists may find difficult to read! HAHAHAHAHAHAH



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I rarely read a newspaper. Does anyone still publish Zippy The Pinhead? That one always left me scratching my head. I think you gotta do enough 'shrooms to appreciate it...:confused:
 
Ever since the Far Side went away, I've not opened the comics section in a newspaper. :( In my opinion, that was the funniest cartoon ever!
 
I'm a fan of The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, and Bloom County. I hated to see them disappear. Of the newer comics I like Mutts and Get Fuzzy.
 
This thread put a broad smile on my face. I recall a lot of them with fond memories.

Growing up over here, when I was a kid, the one's in the papers I read were the adventures of "Capt. Easy", the working family man stories of "Blondie's" Dagwood (who's the real character of the strip IMHO). Then there was the unfolding lives in "Gasoline Alley" and the impossibly unspankable "Dennis the Menace". After I've finished, it was dad's turn for the crosswords.

Then "Hagar the Horrible" came along. Gotta love a roving band of Viking pirates with his sidekick Fortuitous Eduardo (aka Lucky Eddie!) and the previously mentioned "Dilbert" and the just-too-weird-its- hillarious "The Far Side" that get to me.

Lastly, although not really bust-a-gut funny, there's something about "Mutts" that I can't put my finger on. Sometimes what or maybe HOW he writes has a certain "zen" quality to it.
 
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Goldtanker said:
Guess most of you guys are too young to remember "Terry and the Pirates".:D

http://www.otr.com/terry_pirate.shtml
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Dragon lady was my dream woman & the most sexy woman to appear in any comic strip at that time. Big Stoop was good in a supporting role.

Smilin' Jack & Dick Tracy were favorites along with the Katzenjammer Kids [ Hans & Fritz]

Remember the sweet ,polite Etta Kett ? Hell, I was grown before I & got smart enough to compress her name & realize she was teaching us manners.....

Uncle [ dayum , I'm old too ] Alan:)
 
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