What Comic Strips do you read (online and newspaper)? (1 Viewer)

[ZacharyTait]

It's been almost a year, so I decided to bump this thread to see if anyone wants to add anything.

 

[mylan]

I read several but my favorite now is "Pearls Before Swine". Funny, it used to be the worst one but now I get the humor.

 

[Adam_S]

Online:
Ctrl-Alt-Del (the best!)
Overdue Media
Sinfest
Machall (best art, just slow on the updates, only one or two a month of late)
Penny Arcade

Paper:
Boondocks
For Better or For Worse
Frazz
Zits
Get Fuzzy
Baby Blues
Foxtrot
Crankshaft
Blondie
Doonsbury
Mallard Fillmore
Bizarro

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Just Penny Arcade now. I read Boondocks when I'm in Albany, but I get USA Today here, which doesn't have comics.

 

[RobLe]

Get Fuzzy
Frazz
Fox Trot
Non Sequitor
And my absolute favorite: Pearls Before Swine

 

[David Williams]

The running subplots featuring the Crocodiles ("Hullo, Zeeba Neighbah!") and the Killer Whale are funnier than most of the 'A' plots, though I loved the killer Sea Anemone storyline.

 

[Steve Felix]

www.achewood.com

I haven't seen a current comic to touch that one. He's in the middle of his most popular story line ever ("The Great Outdoor Fight"). I doubt it can be appreciated without getting to know the characters, so here's number one. It will take a while to catch up but it's worth it.

I also read Penny Arcade. It just seems like an internet requirement.

 

[McPaul]

I have a firefox bookmark filled with comics that I open them all up at once in tabs and click each to close, really easy, all based on what I read here last year.

http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/
http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/
http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/ (not as good as I remembered it to be from the papers.. not sure if I'm going to keep it bookmarked)
http://www.ucomics.com/garfield/
http://www.ucomics.com/poochcafe/
http://www.ucomics.com/ziggy/
http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/
http://www.ucomics.com/bc/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic
http://www.gucomics.com/ (not into this as much lately either)
http://www.userfriendly.org/
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php
http://www.kevinandkell.com/
http://www.choppingblock.org/

anyone got anything new?

I noticed Farside isn't on the net anywhere. Why is that?

or is it that I'm just too dumb to find it?

HTanks!

 

[Bob McLaughlin]

I used to never read the "serious" comics (Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, Prince Valiant, etc.) but oddly in the last year I have started reading them. Must be old age. They move at a frustratingly slow pace but I find myself unable to skip them any more.

 

[Brook K]

I read Mary Worth for a little while back when The Simpsons used to do jokes about it, but I couldn't stick with it.

I need to check out some of these internet strips. I like what was posted above.

I gave up on Pearls Before Swine - didn't think the alligator plot was funny at all and I got irritated by how the writer often crams the frame full of small, blocky text that is hard to read.

I'm a newspaper subscriber so read the "funnies" daily.

The Boondocks
Doonesbury
Get Fuzzy
Brewster Rockit: Space Guy
Ink Pen
Fox Trot
For Better or For Worse
Crankshaft
Baby Blues (that's pretty much what my son is like)
Luann
Peanuts (newspaper runs reprints)
Rose is Rose
Prickly City (not sure why I read this since it has never once been funny, rips off Bill Watterson style, and I'm usually at the opposite spectrum of its politics)

Then there's the "old faithful" classics where every strip is a variation on the same 4-5 ideas but I love 'em anyway:

Blondie
Beetle Bailey
Hagar the Horrible

When I'm visiting my parents in Missouri they have a few different comics in the paper so I read:

B.C.
Funky Winkerbean
Drabble

 

[ZacharyTait]

Bumping up for the news that Foxtrot will become a Sunday-only strip in the new year. :frowning:

http://gocomics.typepad.com/laughtra...t_goes_su.html

 

[Micah Cohen]

Toothpaste For Dinner.

MC

 

[ZacharyTait]

I'm bumping this thread since my new local newspaper, the Muskegon Chronicle, just started publishing their comics page in color, allowing me to reduce the # of links in my original post.

 

[Francois Caron]

Good timing in the thread bump. I stopped reading mainstream comics altogether a couple of years ago, and migrated to Webcomics.

Freefall
Girl Genius
Poisoned Minds (a.k.a. S.S.D.D.)

Those that are no longer releasing new strips or are on hiatus:

Ghastly's Ghastly Comic
Sexy Losers (regrettably offline for the last month)
Venus Envy

 

[TonyD]

garfield minus garfield

"Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb. "

brilliant imo

 

[DavidJ]

Ha, that's pretty good Tony. Thanks for pointing it out. As far as what I read-- Pearls Before Swine and occasionally Get Fuzzy.

 

[Clinton McClure]

Pearls Before Swine, Dilbert, (I loved The Far Side when it was in print) Strange Brew, Blondie, Lio, Beetle Bailey, Garfield, Dennis the Menace, The Wizard of Id and LuAnn.

 

[Radioman970]

(good. I needed something to do at work this morning. heh heh!)

Ones I read because I know they'll at least give me a chuckle:

Close to Home-funniest strip in the paper IMO.
Lio-unque and almost always hilarious
Skylock Fox-extremely clever idea...I look forward to it every time! Will it be a mystery to solve? Which drawings are the same? Find 6 differences? What will it be?!!! :up:
Jumble-fun!
Hagar the Horrible
Pickles-funniest of the "old people" strips? I think so.
Blondie-underrated?
Andy Capp
Zits
Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
Dilbert
Rhymes with Orange



Ones I read because I'm just waiting for them to get funny (or get funny again because they once were):

Get Fuzzy-never funny. Blah! I hate it! But I read it anyway.
Curtis-used to be okay. What happened? Last frame I'm usuallt stoned faced wondering if anybody laughs at these.
Mother Goose & Grimm - same here. What happened? It's approaching Get Fuzzy in unfunniness.


Ones I've loved in the past but my paper doesn't carry anymore :frowning: :

Shoe-reeeally miss this one :frowning:
BC-RIP to the artist
Born Loser
Calvin & Hobbes-the childhood Winnie the Pooh fan in me loves this classic. I've got to get that Complete C&H collection. I missed a lot and don't even remember any I saw.
For Better or for Worse-at least up until it turned teenibopper soapy
Frank and Ernest
Funky Winkerbean
Garfield
Heathcliff
Marmaduke-I really miss this one
Grin & Bare it
Kudzu
Lockhornes
Sylvia-well, I didn't "love" this chick-strip but I liked how it was drawn. Reminded me of Crumb stuff but tame for chicks.

9 chickweed Lane-another chick strip that was drawn well. Often it was flimsy though....
Wizard of ID
Beakman science strip
Prince Valiant

Ones I'm glad aren't in the paper anymore:

Pirahna Club-started well when I began reading it in the early 90s...but then tanked over most of its run. Nicely draw characters and animals...but never funny because the author seems to be on a different wavelength from me (and maybe many others).
Rubes-Far far faaaaaaaaaaar Side wannabe.

 

[Edwin-S]

I read which ever ones are in the particular paper that I have bought. I don't regularly follow any strip since I don't regularly read newspapers anymore. They are mostly a waste of money since the "funny" pages are given such poor treatment nowadays, meaning generally poor strips with postage stamp size drawing areas. Newspaper editors have nothing but contempt for the comics page(s) in their respective papers.

When I do read a paper I have found the most improved strip is"BC". May Johnny Hart RIP, but the new writer/artist on "BC" has breathed a little life back in to the strip. It is actually funny once in a while. Hart, in his latter years on the strip, basically turned "BC" into a religious platform and drained it dry of any humour. The new writer/artist has thankfully been able to at least inject a few new gags into the strip and gotten rid of all of the religious leanings.

Now if only something could be done with Jim Davis's GARFIELD. Maybe JD will be struck by a frozen chunk of poo from a passing airliner and a single new artist/writer will be able to rescue that strip from its abysmal doldrums. There is something seriously wrong when a strip actually appears to be funnier when the main character is written out of it ala that GARFIELD - GARFIELD book.

 

[Dave B Ferris]

I really like 'Mutts'. I think 'Mutts' is very funny, and also very sweet.