Favorite Daily Newspaper Comic Strips or newspaper cartoons

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This topic has been brought up before but not recently. Does anyone have any comic strips or the like they read on a daily basis? I do but I won’t mention it for now, maybe later on.

Thank you for any responses. Again, I’m trying to limit it to that which we might read out of a newspaper and the like, not comic books.
 
I did, but they are from some years ago and have stopped running.
I was just thinking yesterday of Ernie Pook’s Comeek by Lynda Barry and how much it used to make me laugh. It ended in 2008. Another one was “Life in Hell”, Matt Groening’s pre-Simpsons comic, which I always enjoyed much more than “The Simpsons”. I know there were a couple more weekly “underground” comics like that which I enjoyed.

Most of the comics around today I don’t much like.
Occasionally I will read something enjoyable in “The Oatmeal”.
 
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I was a big fan of “Bloom County” back in the 80s, along with “Calvin and Hobbes”.

“Fox Trot” had a lot of fun nerd humor.

A few years ago I became a fan of “Cul De Sac” But sadly the creator developed early onset Parkinson’s and had to discontinue:

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It’s been a while. Life in Hell, which @Tis_Bearself mentioned, is memorable. Going way back, Peanuts, B.C., Dennis the Menace, and The Wizard of Id were childhood favorites, even though some of it was over my head.
 
As a kid I was always interested in “Doonesbury” because it made me feel grown up to read humor directed at people 10-20 years older than me.

I never got into “Bloom County” because it always seemed to me like a weird amalgam of Doonesbury and Peanuts, with the huge focus on Opus the Penguin that used to be on Snoopy. Of course, Opus was preferable to Garfield the Cat, who became super-popular later and who I actively hated.
 
Did you see it’s back? Gary Larson is going to put out some new work. I just read an article.
I especially liked his jokes with cows, bears, and scientists.
 
I did! Sorta? I was just on a website that had them. I don’t know if they are new or old.

Such a different way of looking at the world. 😁
 
This was always one of my favorites, I had clipped it out when it first ran, and I have to admit, the COVID-19 pandemic made me think of it again.

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Garfield is a strip that has aged well. With many, actual humorous scenes went by the wayside and it was supposed to still be funny merely because the characters were there (creators just “milking it”). I was given Garfield books as Christmas gifts, and they gave me many hours of laughter. At earlier ages I really enjoyed Dennis the Menace, reading it every night in bed, and then Beatle Bailey. The former IMO showed the most style and artistic talent (Hank Ketcham) anong the popular comics.
 
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I never got into “Bloom County” because it always seemed to me like a weird amalgam of Doonesbury and Peanuts,
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Berke Breathed admitted he was influenced by the art of Gary Trudeau, who was influenced by Jules Pfeiffer.
 
In Dilbert wasn’t there a Ph.D. garbage man character? I have thought that the idea was adapted from the philosophical gravedigger in The Wizard of Id.
 
Wizard of Id is good too!

I also like B.C. Every once in a while it would get a bit philosophical.
 
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I also like B.C. Every once in a while it would get a bit philosophical.
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The creator became a Born Again Christian during its run.
Bil Keane from Family Circus also had a spiritual awakening during his run. The earlier stuff was a lot more “secular”.
 
I did not know that about either of them. Very interesting!

I especially liked the ant conversations. 🐜🐜🐜🐜
 
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Old favorites…
Peanuts
Family Circus
Dennis the Menace
Wizard of Id
Zits

I no longer get the newspaper, sadly. It became rediculously expensive. Funny how when you cancel your subscription, they suddenly have low cost offers. That only made me more angry! After fifty years of being a subscriber, they don’t lower the price for loyalty, only for quitting!
 
I read Mark Trail as I did as a kid.

They are starting a new story right now, poachers going after Big Horn Rams in the Rocky Mountain areas I assume. It’s about the 3rd day of the new story tonight if anyone is interested.

But some of those other serialized comics were good too.

I read the Phantom for a spell.
 
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