Local Funny Pages

[miles]

I'm pleased there are a few near-fans of Get Fuzzy here. My grandmother actually introduced me to it, and otherwise I haven't read print comics in years. I love that out of all the shitty comics she reads, she knows me well enough to know it's the only one I would like. I don't love it and only read it when I visit my grandparents and she hands it to me, but it's always enjoyable.

[Nabubrush]

I've had the first Peanuts strip on my office wall for several years:


As a kid, I read Crock, Wizard of Id, Born Loser, Shoe, BC, Garfield, Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible, etc. Jesus those are some insipid comics. Actually, way back when Wizard and BC weren't bad, but dude started pushing an agenda and the quality of the funny when directly and abruptly downhill. I think you can get away with shitty jokes more if your art is there. Later I read C&H, Bloom County, Doonesbury, etc - some stuff that stands up a little better. Peanuts has always been ok. Blondie and Beetle Bailey actually used to be ok, too.

[pmcd9]

Yeah, Wizard of Id and BC used to be pretty dang funny.

[Lister]

Say, Washingtonians, have you seen the horror that is Reply All?  It's like a horrible webcomic, but it's syndicated and looks even worse in print than it does online!  I don't know how this happened.

Oddly enough, the motherfuck*ng Phantom is really good.  It's an action comic, it's drawn well, it's got real story arcs, and it features the motherfuck*ng Phantom, who is awesome.  A story arc's wrapping up, wherein the motherfuck*ng Phantom (who is awesome) has just rescued his wife from being imprisoned after her death was faked, and is now about to go have a chat with Chatu, the guy who did all that.  It's about to get real.

Dick Tracy's just had an artist/writer transplant last week, and at the very least is competently drawn now.

Brewster Rockit: Space Guy is more hit than miss, I think.  It at least manages to be current without trying too hard.

Hear me out on this one - Sally Forth is kind of good now.  Francesco Marculiano has taken over as writer and it has a sneaky unexpectedness to it.

So yeah.  I don't get the newspaper.  I miss what comics were, and what they are isn't worth the time, money, or dead trees to me.

[wombat]

Say, Washingtonians, have you seen the horror that is Reply All?  It's like a horrible webcomic, but it's syndicated and looks even worse in print than it does online!  I don't know how this happened.

I just looked at this for only the second time since they started it and remembered why I never look at it.

Yeah, it's like one of those desperate old-media attempts to be "with-it" without getting what the web is about. It's not enough for the art to be bad, you know?

[CortJstr]

Is Cul de Sac syndicated nationally, or is it just a Washington thing.  It's good.

So why does the Post not seem to have it in their comics section? The hell?

[wombat]

It's on page 2 of Style with Doonesbury in the print edition, and in the magazine on Sundays. This is better placement than with the dreck on the comics pages.

[CortJstr]

It's on page 2 of Style with Doonesbury in the print edition, and in the magazine on Sundays. This is better placement than with the dreck on the comics pages.

I haven't seen a print edition of the post in 10 years so I'll take your word for it. Right now the Post seems to just be showing a Sunday strip from like 2 years ago.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I just subscribe to the Cul de Sac blog.  Once a week or so he'll link to all the previous week's strips, with commentary, and he'll post old "Richard's Poor Almanac" stuff.