You forgot to end it like every other Cathy strip…it must end with “munch munch munch”.
Oh, come now. Dick Tracy hasn’t ruled since about 1954.
Chester Gould in his prime WAS damn amazing…the stuff from the late thirties through the early fifties was wonderful.
Bringing in all that “moon” nonsense pretty much destroyed the strip in the sixties, and then he retired in the mid-to-late '70s and let Max Allan Collins (the mystery novelist) take it over.
Max did a pretty good job (killed off Moon Maid and brought back some primo villains, like Pruneface and Mumbles), but the Tribune took it away from him around 1990, and since then it has sucked the big one.
Although I once hated Frank and Ernest, I thought it was the funniest comic I saw today.
“World Population Passes 6 000 000 000!”
“Would you like to sign a petition for Zero Population Growth?”
“No thanks, the population has enough zeroes in it as it is!”
LOLed!!!
I have this vague recollection from my pre-youth that Dick Tracy was shot in the head by one of several truly bizarre bad guys. Part of his brain was blown away, but fortunately it was an unimportant part of his brain.
I grew up reading my father’s Columbus Dispatch, a real Republican rag, and my Grandfather’s Chicago Tribune (not much different). What I distinctly remember is that the Tribune had really bad funnies. What was the point of Moon Mullins? The Dispatch had some great old comics and a color Sunday funnies. Needless to say, it did not carry POGO, but it did have that archetypical big-eyed orphan waif DONDIE (I’ll bet any amount that Dondie was a Republican, and a supply sider to boot).
There’s this comic in the Daily News. It’s a one panel deal. It’s named FLIGHT DECK. It sucks.
You’re thinking of Fearless Fosdick.
Or possibly President Gerald Ford.
Fearless Fosdick. Yes. Thank you, Ike. Just like Pres. Ford, the satire has become more real that the reality.
I admit to being old enough to remember when Doonesbury was both funny and relevant. I believe it was during the Ford administration.
Actually, there’s a simple formula for creating your own “Cathy” strip:
Frame 1: Cathy is presented with a decision which, while trivial, is beyond her capacity for decision-making. Extra points if the choice in question is which swimsuit to buy.
Frame 2: “aaaaaaack!”
Frame 3: Picture of Cathy eating ice cream.
-Ben
Red And Rover is most definitely in the top ten worst. Completely insipid and cliche. A young boy and a pet that only he can talk too (cough, couch, Calvin and, weeze weeze, Hobbes) and the same jokes every week, almost plagarizing Calvin and Hobbes except that Calvin and Hobbes was FUNNY. I yearn for the return of something like Bloom County and the Far Side.
One more rant; at the Washington Post they thought it would be funny if they replaced Close to Home (one of the few remaining constantly funny strips) three days a week with something called “That’s Life” a comic strip that constantly recycles old jokes in an unfunny, badly drawn manner.
Sorry, but you’re completely insane. There is no comparison between the two; it’s like saying Jim Carrey is nowhere NEAR as good as Babe Ruth was. In case you missed it, the dog does not talk back to Red, like Hobbes always did. Calvin always thought of Hobbes as a real person, his real best friend. Red treats Rover as (surprise!) his dog. Calvin and Hobbes tackled all kinds of sociopolitical issues, while the whole point of Red and Rover is the simple love of a dog by a young boy.
I have just about given up on the comics in the paper, not much in the local one here anyway (watertown NY). I mostly read online comics like Sluggy Freelance (www.sluggy.com), Bruno the Bandit (www.brunothebandit.com), Sinfest (www.sinfest.net), Kevin and Kell (www.kevinandkell.com), Down to Earth (www.downtoearthcomic.com) and others. most of those sights have links to other online only comics. The best part of them being online is the artists not bowing to the lowest (easaly offended) group.
I kinda’ miss Agnes.
I totally forgot how bad the comics could possible get.
It wasn’t drawn that well either.
Of course after six months of Cho running jokes into the ground in Liberty Meadows, he’s going back on my comics probation list. (The most annoying thing about Meadows is that it’s not consistantly good or bad. It will have flashes of inspiration, then it will start sucking incredibly for a while only to be great again. It’s like being with a manic-depressive on heroine!)
I’m going to have to add Curtis to my hit list, simple because I can now predict the punchline to every strip months in advance.
(And what was the point of the Washington City Paper’s P.J. O’Ross ‘feature’. There are grafitti artists in DC who could use that syndication money.)
One word:
SYLVIA!
SYLVIA!!
SYLVIA!!!
http://www.comicspage.com/sylvia/index.html
This “comic” would appear to have been drawn by a 5 year old during an epileptic seizure, and is about as funny.
(No offense to any 5 y.o. epileptics reading this.)
I guess that only the Cleveland Plain Dealer is goofy enough to run this crap since no one else mentioned it.
B.C.
I use to read it, even forgiving his lapses into religion, but I found it unbearable when he poked fun at the Dems in the last Presidential (s)election.
I haven’t read it since.
Spiderman
Would someone PLEASE tell Stan Lee to:
“Just say NO to drugs!”
He’s taken one of comic books’ greatest heroes and turned him into a weak, powerless, unemployed nobody. I’m a dedicated SpiderFan, (from the comic books) so I feel that I MUST read the comic page incarnation. I guess TPTB at Marvel Comics keep a tight leash on their properties since Spidey NEVER fights any of his classic foes. (In the comic strip he’s generally up against con-men, bruisers, and general no gooders.)
YAWN!
I guess my biggest beef is that for a lot of kids, this will be their only exposure to Spiderman. They’ll never get to see how great, intelligent, and powerful he is. Instead they’ll get this abomination
http://jmspoofe.tripod.com/
comical arseh**e
I’ll second the Nancy nomination. It used to be funny and then, something happened. The artist/writer(s)changed and it became woefully unfunny.
One of the reasons guys like Watterson and Breathed quit was because they got tired of constantly fighting for newspaper space. The papers want to ditch the comics because they’re hardly read any more (wonder why) and guys like Watterson and Breathed who do damn good work get squeezed out because the editors are too lazy to look around and find something that’s funny, but perhaps a little controversial. Hell, even Beetle Bailey used to be controversial. Editors were shocked to see Miss Buxley’s belly button and would censor it!
Another one I hate, but don’t know the name of, is a single panel cartoon of some little old lady complaining about something. Then there’s Rose is Rose or something like that, Momma, and all the rest that have been mentioned. 'Scuse me, but I think I’m going to be sick!
Yeah, there’s that one with the old lady from the Hallmark cards - Crabby Road. Same idea, right?
Yep, that’s it exactly. Shudder.
bizarro kicks ass
I will fight anyone who doesn’t like Boondocks. Not because it features African-Americans*, but because it is the most beautifully rendered and the most relevant newspaper comic that I’m aware of. There may be others that are well-rendered and relevant, but you’ll have to prove it to me, and the strip(s) would have to be super-fantastic for me to agree that it(they) was/were better than Boondocks.
*Not saying that Jump Start is for everyone, but if a person likes Better or Worse, I don’t see how they can dislike Jump Start.
Anyway, my favorite Boondocks strip was last fall, before the elections. Huey is at the computer, surfing the net, and Grandpa looms up behind him, saying “Boy…”
Huey: “Yeah Grandpa?”
Grandpa: “Is it too late to go back and vote for that basketball player? (meaning Bill Bradley)”
Huey: “'Fraid so.”
Grandpa: “Dang.”
And I heartily agree with pesch that April, in Better or Worse should have been smacked years ago. Not abusively, but does she get away with so much more than Michael and Elizabeth did at those ages, and infinitely much more than kids do IRL. Johnston said in one of her retrospectives that April “grew up considerably” after the sequence where the late Farley saved her spoiled ass from the river. I must have missed that one strip. AFAIC, she didn’t show any sign of maturity until she recently dialed 911 after her enemy was hit by a car.