Do you read the newspaper comics?

[NJmaverick]

If so, which one is your favorite? What was your all time favorite (if your favorite has since stopped publishing).

[Heidi]

1. Not anymore, but newspaper comics are how I learned to read.

Before I was adopted, I used to sit on my biological grandpa's lap and he'd teach me how to sound out words in the comics. :)

[NJmaverick]

3. ahh.... That sounds like such a nice memory

:hi:

[Heidi]

4. He was a good guy and loved me like crazy.

Unfortunately, he was in his 70s when I was little and wasn't healthy enough and didn't have the financial resources to raise my sister and me. I was just lucky that he and my maternal biological grandmother remained part of my life after I was adopted. :)

[NJmaverick]

8. Sounds like it.

[HopeHoops]

2. All Time Favorite: Calvin & Hobbes

I read the comics every day. Long ago, when Zits first came out, I said it was like Calvin at 15. Apparently I wasn't the only one to make the connection, as a few years later Jeremy shrank to Calvin size in a clothing store. I took that as a sign that the cartoonist was aware of the connection.

[Auggie]

6. I can't think of any strip better than Calvin & Hobbes

It was brilliant, beautiful, inventive, and funny day after day. Bloom County and Doonesbury come close.

Yep, I read them.

[HopeHoops]

7. My absolute all-time favorite was Calvin hammering nails into the coffee table.

Mom runs in screaming "CALVIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?"

Calving looks down at the coffee table, then looks up and asks, "Is this a trick question?"

[Auggie]

21. LOL

That's so perfect. Bill Watterson is a genius.

The Wiki link to him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson

[sakabatou]

30. Here you go

[Patiod]

23. My favorite was negotiating with Susie about eating worms

Calvin: Ok, give me the nickel and I'll eat the worms
Susie: No, you eat the worms and THEN I'll give you the nickel
Calvin: How about two cents up front and the rest upon completing the job?
Susie: Sorry! You on't get paid until you do the work
Calvin: Man, you'd think the gguy eating the worms would be calling the shots!
Susie: Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.

That's my current motto for my life: "If you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms."

[Auggie]

27. My favorite was when he answered a ringing phone and ordered a pizza.

"I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal."

And I loved the snowmen he built.

[sakabatou]

29. You don't like my "Snowman House of Horror," do you?

[Patiod]

40. Those snowmen still make me laugh

As does the pizza call.

[NJmaverick]

10. I hadn't heard that before

I will have to start checking out that strip.

[Roon]

5. Before the internet

I read the paper every single day.including the comics...I think my favorite was 'for better or for worse'..I phased out of the paper for the internet but I do miss the comics. I know I could get the comics on the web,I am just not interested.

[NJmaverick]

9. Really? I still enjoy spreading out the morning paper

as I eat my breakfast. I know the news is old (and usually second rate), but I can't inagine not reading while having breakfast.

[Roon]

25. That's another thing I don't miss about the paper

is the mess it made. I hear you though. I had an old buddy visit a couple of years ago and he was shocked that I didn't wake him up with the fluffing of the newspaper..lol

[SacredCow]

11. I used to love them, but truly- I think they're a dying art form.

Hard to pick an all-time favorite- in the heyday, there were so many good ones. I'll just say that it wasn't B.C. or Family Circus. :P

[NJmaverick]

12. With newspapers dying, I have to think it would be a poor career choice

these days. So I doubt there will be any new and exciting strips. Sad, I really enjoy the morning paper and comics. When I was a kid I had a book of the early BC comics. It was actually a funny strip when it first started out. Like so many comics it went on well past it's natural life cycle.

[SacredCow]

14. It really is kind of sad....

Yeah, there are lots of webcomics popping up, but it's not the same as sitting on the sofa in your pj's or robe with a cup of coffee and flipping through a print newspaper. There's something about the smell of newsprint and coffee mingling that is strangely soothing...

[NJmaverick]

15. Agreed coffee and newspapers

perfect together.

[NJmaverick]

13. With newspapers dying, I have to think it would be a poor career choice

these days. So I doubt there will be any new and exciting strips. Sad, I really enjoy the morning paper and comics. When I was a kid I had a book of the early BC comics. It was actually a funny strip when it first started out. Like so many comics it went on well past it's natural life cycle.

[Auggie]

22. As I recall it was one of the reasons Berkeley Breathed ended Opus

The distribution just wasn't there.

The other reason: "Breathed says it's the anger that led him to close the book on "Opus," that the increasingly nasty political climate has made it too difficult to keep his strip from drifting into darkness. Breathed has described his work as a hybrid of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz's gentle humor and Michael Moore's crusading social justice. Perhaps losing touch with his inner Charlie Brown, Breathed has said that "a mad penguin, like a mad cartoonist, isn't very lovable," and wants Opus to take his final bow before bitterness changes him forever."

LINK: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/10/18/opus/index.html

[graywarrior]

16. Yes, I read them out loud in bible class

[NJmaverick]

31. While you are a student?

Does the teacher mind?

[graywarrior]

45. Who Donald Duck?

No way, dude.

[Curtland1015]

17. My three all time favorite: Calvin & Hobbes, Farside, & Bloom County.

Current faves are Pearls Before Swine and Get Bucky.

[NJmaverick]

32. I would agree on all of them

I would add Farside to the list though

[femmocrat]

18. Not anymore. I just don't think they are very funny anymore.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

All-time faves: Peanuts, Garfield, Pogo, For Better or Worse.

[rurallib]

19. When I buy a aper which is getting less and less

Farside was an absolute must. Doonesbury, Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes come close. Bizarro World is the only one that comes close today.

[seemunkee]

20. Everyday for the last 45 years

I have a hard time starting the day without a cup of tea and the comics.
Favorites right now are Mutts, Baldo, Get Fuzzy, Frazz and of course Doonsbury

[Patiod]

24. Jump Start, Mutts, and Pearls Before Swine

I was at the local Kinkos looking for something I lost, and there in the Lost and Found Box (where they put stuff people leave in the copier) was an original Jump Start (Robb Anderson lives in my area)

I was SO tempted to take it but
a) it wasn't mine to take
b) it was one of his few completely un-funny ones

I did alert the staffer, who recognizes him, and told her to let him know it was there.

It was fun to see the pasted-over corrections, erasures and changes - sort of a window into the artist's process

[NJmaverick]

33. That is so cool

did you give your name so he might thank you?

[Patiod]

39. No - he probably never got it back

and as I said, it wasn't exactly a classic

but it WAS cool!

[TommyO]

26. I used to read them religiously, not so much anymore since there's very little worth reading

When I was growing up, there wasn't a Sunday morning that went by that I didn't read them. Bloom County, Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, there's nothing like that anymore.

Now I get my fix with Sunday LOLCats in the Lounge as presented by SalmonChantedEvening.

[sakabatou]

28. Doonesberry and This Modern World

My all-time favorite is "Calvin and Hobbes."

[Arkansas Granny]

34. My current favorite is Pearls Before Swine. My all time favorite was

The Far Side by Gary Larson. I just loved his sense of humor.

[NJmaverick]

42. I could see that

both have similar senses of humor

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

35. I read them every day

as I have for the last 50 years or so.
My favorite(s)- Doonesbury- He has my voice, I swear he's reading my mind at time
Calvin and Hobbes- a comic can be funny, thought provoking and ironic at the same time
The Far Side- a true trip to the absurd.....

[Gidney N Cloyd]

36. I can just barely read them.

The Trib shrinks them to incredibly tiny size, the color's all faded, and prints 'em on paper so cheap you can read both sides of the page at the same time.
I squint my way through Doonesbury, Mutts, Non-sequitur, Get Fuzzy, sometimes Dilbert and then I give up.

[Blue_Tires]

37. i still read them daily out of habit, more than anything else...

my faves are "The Far Side" and and so sue me, "Peanuts" (as a kid in the 80s, i used to devour the compilation books from the 60s and 70s) and as a result, Peanuts has had a shocking amount of influence on my childhood -- Peanuts made me want to get a dog, it first got me interested in baseball, the list goes on...

these days i confess the local comics page sucks, so i read a few other fav. dailies at comics.com...and while we're talking comics, i want to state for the record that "Luann" is pissing me off -- Brad has been messing around with Toni for the better part of a decade and he STILL hasn't gotten up in that ass yet??

[NJmaverick]

43. There was a time when Peanuts was both funny and relevant

so I see nothing wrong with liking it.

[SidneyCarton]

38. Pearls before Swine and Get Fuzzy.

[Patiod]

41. I forgot Get Fuzzy

Also very funney

[NJmaverick]

44. I think Get Fuzzy is one of those hit or miss things

sometimes it's hilarious, and other times it strikes out.

[yellowdogintexas]

46. YES: Doonesbury, 9 Chickweed, Pearls Before Swine, Rose is Rose and

LuAnn are my current favorites. Once in a while I will go out to Baby Blues website and read a month's worth.

I read them online

[applegrove]

47. I always loved the far side. I wanted that huge far side coffee table book but nobody would

get it for me for xmas.