Before there was the comic book, there was the comic STRIP!
This is a thread to discuss what's fly and what's not in the newspapers.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)
My dailies:
read at gocomics.com Baldo Candorville Doonesbury For Better of For Worse (oh GOD...) Heart of the City Lio Non Sequitur Pooch Cafe
read at comics.com Chickweed Lane Get Fuzzy Jump Start Lil Abner Classics Luann (I can't defend this even on the Foob level) Peanuts Classics Pearls Before Swine
read at seattlepi.com (basically, King Features strips, since the King Features site sucksola) Bizarro Edge City (yay Terry Laban!) Mutts My Cage (new as of May, I think) Zippy the Pinhead
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)
weeklies I read:
Salon: This Modern World Story Minute K Chronicles Tom the Dancing Bug
Elsewhere: Ernie Pook's Comeek (th)ink
occassionals: Red Meat Life in Hell Bitter Yeti in the City Get Your War On Trouble Town Too Much Coffee Man
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)
I just read the strips in the local newspaper, in this order, more or less:
For Better or For Worse That recent Liz/Anthony arc was interminable and awful -- but the strip seems to have recovered its glory since!
Rhymes With Orange I swear this was funny once.
Classic Peanuts I don't get it.
Sherman's Lagoon I know it's just warmed over sitcom-style lol menz r so stoopid, womenz love shoes!!! But, with SHARKS.
Doonesbury
Has Non Sequitur stopped being overbearingly smug?
I really should start reading Tom D-Bug again, if only for the occasional adventures of God-Man.
― Leee, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)
> Has Non Sequitur stopped being overbearingly smug?
No.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)
Oh, Sam Hurt has revived Eyebeam in the local alt-weekly, so I read that, too.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)
Dailies: Doonesbury, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy Weeklies (Now Monthlies, apparently): Dykes to Watch Out For
― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)
Is there a web home to read DtWOF?
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)
Also, I know that the strip is a dying medium, but am I seriously the only ilcer who reads double digit strips every day?
On the other hand, there is virtually no webcomic that I have ever found acceptable in terms of either art or writing, so maybe there's some form of balance here.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)
I mean, seriously, ACHEWOOD? Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?
http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/
― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)
but the strip seems to have recovered its glory since!
You know it's ending this week?
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)
It's just a reboot, but I thought it was last week.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)
My mistake...yesterday was the first day of the reboot
http://www.fborfw.com/news/
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)
peanuts is the only good thing mentioned in this thread.
― J.D., Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)
I read a bunch of strips and webcomics every day, as well as joshreads.com which provides me with more than enough Mary Worth and Apartment 3G exposure.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)
I wouldn't go that far, JD, but it is clearly head and shoulders over the rest of the mess I cited
I like comics curmudgeon, too. The guest bloggers this week kinda suck, tho.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)
Actually I guess I see very few of the ones you list!
Recently I finally sat down and read through all of Achewood. I got a better sense of what the point was and what the guy who makes the strip is interested in, and I decided I liked it after all.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)
There's only been one guest blogger, who is always the guest blogger, who is in the unrewarding task of trying to write in someone else's style. So yeah, it has been a bit derivative, but that's fine. I'd rather have it be derivative for a week than miss out on a week.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)
> Recently I finally sat down and read through all of Achewood.
Isn't that like, ten years of strips at this point?
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 6 September 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)
I think it's more like five, but yes. I spent a good weekend reading it.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)
Achewood is the best comic strip alive.
― energy flash gordon, Friday, 7 September 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)
Daily
comics.com Arlo & Janis Big Nate Cow & Boy (but not for long) Diesel Sweeties (print syndicate version) Dilbert Get Fuzzy Luann
gocomics.com Doonesbury For Better or For Worse
sfgate.com All Over Coffee (sunday only, not a comic strip, amazing anyway) Baby Blues Bizarro Mutts Pirahna Club Zits Zippy the Pinhead
Weekday webcomics Overcompensating Achewood Scary Go Round Diesel Sweeties (webcomic version) Goats
Less Frequent Webcomics Wondermark Maakies Perry Bible Fellowship
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 8 September 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)
I wish that the words on All Over Coffee weren't as bad as the art is good.
― Casuistry, Sunday, 9 September 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)
Does anyone else find For Better Or For Worse a little more depressing nowadays because all the characters have grown up?
Lately, I like boondocks and mutts best. I would like Big Nate and Monty to be in the newspapers over here.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 9 September 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)
I totally forgot about The Norm also....
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 9 September 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)
i guess i exaggerated a bit. red meat is funny (i interviewed the creator once, maybe the best interview i've ever done besides kristin hersh), this modern world is funny, doonesbury is drab post-1980, get fuzzy isn't as good as pre-1980 garfield, FBOFW is like drinking lukewarm milk on an excruciating summer afternoon, life in hell was once one of the best comics ever but feels like groening's writing it in his sleep now, mutts is nice but i've never felt the need to actually read it every day, l'il abner classics i'd probably enjoy, pirahna club is funny (good drawing too), zippy i go back and forth on. the rest: eh.
― J.D., Sunday, 9 September 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)
Totally OTM.
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 9 September 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)