Favorite Daily Newspaper Comic Strips or newspaper cartoons

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Mary Worth is a very good serialized daily comic strip. Today’s:

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I had no idea Mary Worth was still running.

I see they have modernized Mary. I kinda liked her better before, when she had a bun.
 
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“Bizarro” is a bit like “The Far Side”, I am not certain it has been in newspapers.

Comics have a long interesting history, many different ones.

Some popular comics take on new artists obviously, they have run so long, probably ones like “Blondie”, let alone many others, probably “Dennis the Menace”.

I read “Dondi” growing up, I didn’t know he was created as a war orphan though, I knew it was something like that.


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Oh my, Dondi! I haven’t thought of that comic in years!

I think it was right on the front page of the Sunday funnies section, right under Dick Tracy! 🙂
 
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I used to like Brenda Starr, Henry (the little boy who never spoke), Mary Worth, Gordo, Popeye, The Jackson Twins, Rex Morgan, M.D, Dennis the Menace, Peanuts, Blondie. The latter three are still in print today, as is Nancy.

Not crazy about many of the new ones, which I don’t find funny. The Far Side and Wizard of Id has some good ones, now and then.
 
I also liked Far Side very much. This was one of my favorites, because a cubicle mate of mine at work was named Carl so I copied it and framed it on my desk:

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Some other ones I remember from my childhood are Steve Roper/Mike Nomad, Judge Parker, The Katzenjammer Kids, Gasoline Alley. Our funny papers usually had a balance between the ongoing stories of the serial comics and the one-offs, that were different each week. Most of those earlier ones are no longer in existence, and I liked them better than many that are running today.
 
She was like the comic strip version of a red-haired Barbie doll, and quite the drama queen, at times.

I also enjoyed Dick Tracy (especially the moon maid series), Imogene (a little girl with the blackest hair I’ve every seen), and Little Orphan Annie (who never changed her dress) with her dog, Sandy and Daddy Warbucks.

The daily comics were always black-and white, but the Sunday funnies were in full color, and the serials were better on Sunday because there were more frames and you got more of the story.

Let’s not forget Bringing Up Father – that Irish couple who had struck it rich and the ugly wife, Maggie, was always trying to get Jiggs into high society, and he would just prefer to sit around in his undershirt in his easy chair and loaf.

A lot more imagination went into those earlier strips. Some of the ones today, I can’t even understand, they are so abstract and political.
 
Oh, yes, and Myrtle (also called Right Around Home). It ran until 1964.
 
Peanuts by Schulz has to be my all-time favorite. My brother and I had many of the little books that were compiled from the daily strip. Then Calvin and Hobbes by Watterson, which also appealed to my son. One quirky comic that I enjoyed during the 1970s was Henry, who never spoke. Henry paved the way for Lio, who continues the pantomime tradition.

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I always liked Henry, too – he always wore the same outfit, black shorts and a red T-shirt, and he never said a word, and he was usually whistling a tune.

Some of those old comics were really quite clever. Today’s fare, not so much.
 
Seeing “Moon” up there, struck a chord with me, there was a comic strip “Moon Mullins”, 1923-1991, so it was one of those strips that appeared rather antique too:


In that vein, so did “Bringing up Father”, 1913-2000. So, these are long runs. I remember reading it and the clothes and all were clearly dated but there it was still in print years later.


I was reading a strip the other day, “Todd the Dinosaur”, well, it was okay for a current strip. I haven’t read a lot of them.

There are still some good comics to read.

Just looking over one article, “Andy Capp”, yes, that one was good. “Broom-Hilda”, famous comic strip.

“Pogo”, well, that was a popular comic. As a newspaper strip, only 1948-1975. It seemed to be sort of political.


Ripley’s Believe it or not became a real franchise, I think the idea of the original cartoon always showing oddities was a brilliant idea.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! - Wikipedia.

I didn’t know it was so extensive.

It still runs but looking at it, I’m not sure if the oddities are as cool as in the past. They sold those in little books then, later on.

I think we once saw a “Ripley’s Truck” or something, traveling museum. Of course, there was a TV show too. Pretty amazing.

Hi and Lois, related I believe per artist to Hagar the Horrible, Hagar was or is, very popular The list goes on.
 
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Daily newspaper comics I try to keep up with (though I do so on line and weekly, typically on Sunday or Monday):
  • Dick Tracy
  • Arlo & Janis
  • Luann
  • 9 Chickweed Lane
  • Sally Forth
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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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Sad to say the gentleman eventually succumbed to the disease.
My recently discovered Calvin&Hobbes-CulDeSac-alike is the very delightful and imaginative Wallace the Brave
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The daily comics were always black-and white, but the Sunday funnies were in full color, and the serials were better on Sunday because there were more frames and you got more of the story.
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When I was a youth and my grandmother came from St Louis to live with us, she maintained a by-mail subscription to the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Naturally, it was always 2 or 3 days late, but it had a half-page of B&W comics and a full page of color comics daily! Was always a happy read!
 
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I used to like Brenda Starr, Henry (the little boy who never spoke), Mary Worth, Gordo, Popeye, The Jackson Twins, Rex Morgan, M.D, Dennis the Menace, Peanuts, Blondie. The latter three are still in print today, as is Nancy.
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My brother recently brought to my attention an infamous vulgar comic by Ernie Bushmiller, the creator of Nancy 🤯
The man himself is said to have called it “the only dirty thing I ever did.”

Scatological, not sexual – It involves a dog urinating.
Replace the spaces with periods to recreate the URL

www tcj com/a-brief-history-of-ernie-bushmillers-dirtiest-comic-strip/

I repeat: 🤯
Also: 😂
 
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