Sheeesh, you guys think you got it bad???
My newspaper actually ADDED Prince Valiant…
(holds nose)
The two most imaginative strips I have ever seen were Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side.I sorely miss those…
Another forceful vote for Zippy the Pinhead . . . the worst ever . . .
There are plenty of old strips that need to go. But what about new ones?
Non-sequiter, Close to Home, Speed Bump, and all the other Far Side Rip-offs are so contrived and just plain dumb.
Boondocks is (supposedly) controversial, though I don’t see why. It’s poorly drawn and the writing is even worse.
I wish the guy who does Liberty Meadows would learn to write and stop ripping off Bloom County (right down to the title!), because his drwings are AMAZING, and good writing would make it my new favorite strip.
Snuffy Smith
Snuffy steals a chicken.
Snuffy cheats at poker.
Snuffy scratches his armpits.
This one needs to die…
I’ll have to strongly disagree here – after Doonesbury, The Boondocks is one of the most refreshingly intelligent strips in the newspapers today. It’s certainly not afraid of pulling its punches, whether in challenging mainstream views or pointing out the idiotcy of black entertainment. The characters are diverse enough and complex enough to hold ones interest, and the *anime-*inspired art style spanks 90% of the comics out there today.
White suburbanites might not get The Boondocks, but that’s exactly why I like it… 
I think Boondocks is pretty bad. It’s poorly drawn (as was said earlier) - do these characters have more than one facial expression? Huey there has a scowl, nothing more. And the themes seem to be repetitive, too. In short, to me, it’s just a big snorefest, and easily skipped.
Free Shyne!
I think the drawing is pretty good. The backgrounds on Sunday strips are excellent, almost Wattersonesque.
Stinkfish! Fortunatly for all, this one seems to be only in alternative newspapers. For some strange reason, the Washington City Paper decided to make this P. J. O’Ross creation it’s cover story a month ago. Must have been a slow news week.
“White suburbanites might not get The Boondocks, but that’s exactly why I like it…”
Hey! My Mom is a white suburbanite, and she loves Boondocks! Never pays to make vast generalizations . . . My Mom also likes The Powerpuff Girls and AbFab.
I have a Very Cool Mom.
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Bill Watterson never licensed his Calvin and Hobbes characters, which I admired. We’ve all seen the window stickers with Calvin urinating on some NASCAR number or pick-up truck manufacturer; BUT, the sticker with Calvin kneeling before a cross makes me wonder about people who proclaim their religion with theft.
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Get Fuzzy is my new favorite.
Foxtrot was my favorite.
Sometimes I read them first, sometimes last, depending upon my need for instant gratification.
Rhymes With Orange holds a special place in my heart because Hilary Price used my email to her (Cats don’t say meow, they say “menow.”) even if she did misspell my name. But she more than made up for it by sending a (corrected) print to me.
How d’ya misspell AcidKid? 
BTW, there’s a fine line between “cool” and “really freakin’ weird”.
Doonesbury.
Boy, do I hate that strip. Not funny, not interesting, nothing cool happens, at least in my opinion.
Politics. Bleah.
Belongs on the OP-ED page anyhow.
Again: blah. I guess I can see the part about pointing out idiocy in black entertainment. But I find the strip to be really unthreatening for a “controversial” comic. The idea is original, but the execution just isn’t very clever.
I admit I have not seen the Sunday strip, so I can’t talk about the art on it.
I don’t think it’s a black/white thing. Clever is clever. Boondocks ain’t clever.
By the way (this is not meant to be snide or adversarial, just FYI) to “pull a punch” means to deliberately WEAKEN your impact, not strengthen it. The phrase you want is “It certainly doesn’t pull its punches.”
Whatever…if you like it, keep reading. I’ll keep reading because I’m one of those sick bastards that loves to hate.
I like For Better / For Worse for the same reasons expressed elsewhere. Although what probably really bites about it is that we never see the bad side of the family.
Ellie never smacks April when she’s being a screaming bitch at the store. Jon’s never been tempted by one of his patients (and you would think he would at least once since Ellie’s gone into menopause). Mike’s a writer and not worrying about money AND getting married (and how realistic is that?). And the daughter (can’t think of her name now). She’s not getting hit on at her age? C’mon!
I’m not saying they should be evil, but no one’s THIS perfect.
Much as I hate to say it, but Garfield is not as bad as you think. Yeah, that’s one cat that should be put in the blender, but my son loves the strip, and I’d have to say the humor is aimed right at his age group.
My wife and I argue about Cathy. She was funny once, but not anymore.
B.C. and Peanuts should be retired instantly. Wizard of Id(iots) as well.
Blondie’s gotten better. Some of the strips are actually funny, and some seem to imply that they happened in this decade.
What’s especially depressing is just how many badly drawn strips are out there. Steve Roper & Mike Nomad looks like Matera and Saunders are drawing it with their feet. Looks like they’re tracing Steve Canyon strips. There are new artists on Mary Worth and Rex Morgan that are using thin lines and sharp details, but the characters have an odd, flattish look about them, like they had boards pressed onto their skulls as infants.
Fusco Brothers apes B.Kliban. Badly.
Those (from the Page of Flames) needed repeating. 
My votes are for Bound and Gagged and Mixed Media. Horribly unfunny. They use the same old puns that have been around for 900 years.
Close to Home was put in our newspaper in Indiana when Gary Larson retired. It almost made me cry. It was so horrible, trying to take the place of something so good.
Isn’t there some sort of test cartoonists need to pass before they get syndicated? Like actually making people laugh?
I really like Big Nate. (How long has he been stuck in junior high school? Ten years? I’d’ve gone batty!)
Doonesbury I simply don’t find funny. All right, Garry, you don’t like Republicans. I get it. Enough already!!
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Bill Watterson never licensed his Calvin and Hobbes characters, which I admired. We’ve all seen the window stickers with Calvin urinating on some NASCAR number or pick-up truck manufacturer; BUT, the sticker with Calvin kneeling before a cross makes me wonder about people who proclaim their religion with theft.
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I haven’t seen those, with the cross and the kneeling and the glavin and the hey hey hey (sorry, slipped into Frinkish). How…stupid. That’s the best I can do.
I join the multitudes in despising Family Circus, and I hate Zippy. But I am amazed that no one else has mentioned the nadir of comics, Nancy, the only comic in history which actual improved when its creator died.
Long live Bill the Cat. Pfffft.
I am suprised nobody has mentioned “Committed”, by local hack Michael Fry. He started off his dubious cartooning career with a couple of “Bloom County” ripoffs called “Scotty” and “Cheeverwood”.
Let’s get rid of The Phantom. Who writes this anyway? The guy who writes Dick and Jane books?
Calvin and Hobbes great? I don’t think so. The only funny strips were the snowman jokes.
Dick Tracy must be running somewhere it’s archived at http://www.comicspage.com. I’d like to ask everyone who reads this to start a letter writing campaign to bring this strip back to their local paper. DICK TRACY RULES!