Here is the closed GQ thread
I did get permission from mod Colibri to open a thread in CS on the same subject.
When I was younger, I did look forward to the Sunday paper so I could read the comic strips. Now, as an adult, I do read them, but it is often an afterthought. I don’t read webcomics because I haven’t found any that are consistently good.
I don’t subscribe to, buy, or deliberately seek out newspapers, however, when one falls into my hands, I read every comic strip in it, even the crappy ones. I read two webcomics* consistently, and a few others occasionally.
*College Roomies From Hell and Shortpacked
If there is a paper at hand, i will read the comics. I’ll read every one, and some of them twice. I know that many of them are not good but I really cannot resist. I have a large collection of comics collections that I peruse regularly. I suppose I am in love with the medium.
Should you wonder, I think that Bloom County was the best.
You can read your own selection of daily strips online here:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/byocp.mpl
I read the comics, even though my local paper has a particularly weak line up. The Albany paper, though, has some very good strips, but I prefer the local one for news.
As often as I can I buy the L. A. Times on my way to work (graveyard shift at the Postal Service processing plant), so I can read it during my breaks.
The funnies is always what I go for first. Well, actually what I go for first are the sports, business and classified sections, so I can throw them away. Talk about a waste of paper. Why do they even bother printing those sections? It’s not like I’m ever going to read them.
Except Dilbert. Sometimes I look up Dilbert, if it’s not too much trouble.
I seek out Pearls Before Swine, and will usually read the entire selection of comics in a paper that comes my way. (One nice thing about school is the selection of free papers…)
If I’m armed with a fine-tipped marker and/or some typo correction fluid, I seek out Family Circus, Ziggy, and Marmaduke, so I can “improve” them for the next reader.
I read, at the minimum, the editorial page and the comics section of the Dallas Morning News every day. If I have more time, then I’ll read the whole A section, and most of the rest of the paper. Except the sports pages. If I pick up another paper (I subscribe to the DMN, even though I live in Fort Worth), then I must read the editorial page and comics.
I DON’T read Judge Parker or Mark Trail. I usually just glance at what I consider the stale comics. Charles Schulz is DEAD, we should let Peanuts rest in peace.
I read several webcomics.
I didn’t have a chance to respond to the closed thread - it was a legitimate factual question, even if phrased oddly - so let me throw in a link or two here.
Newpaper comics pages are mainly read by adults, not by kids. That’s the problem. Newspaper readership is rapidly aging. Kids don’t get into the habit of reading newspapers at all.
Newspaper Comics - Soon Extinct?
I read all the “funny” comics on the page. It’s a tic that I can’t control. They’re so incredibly awful that they serve as examples of how not to be funny. But I have to wade through them to get to Doonesbury. Who’s a genius.
I used to read the comics, but now most of the time I skip them. Too much chaff, not enough wheat.