# Does anyone actually find newspaper cartoons, you know....funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994 "2008-05-12T04:05:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/21 "2008-05-12T13:11:09Z")
I usually just go to [overzealous.com](http://overzealous.com) for my morning comics fix. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/22 "2008-05-12T14:05:10Z")
If you are talking about Newspaper comics, I find them stuck in a period about 20 years ago, except for an occasional one… One which are worth it: Dilbert Were worth it: Bloom County Should be worth it (might be somewhere in US, never seen in UK papers): Get Fuzzy Luann Ones which deserve to be in newspapers but never will: Achewood Wigu ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/23 "2008-05-12T16:35:23Z")
All I know is that [the](http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/14/4/225) [Fusco](http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=20017) [Brothers](http://lambiek.net/artists/d/duffy_jc.htm) remain widely, and sadly, underrated. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/24 "2008-05-12T16:49:28Z")
Pooch Cafe and Pearls Before Swine are my two current favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/25 "2008-05-12T18:38:30Z")
Must reads every day: Pearls Before Swine Get Fuzzy Candorville Sherman’s Lagoon Blondie (hah! just seeing if you were paying attention…) Bizarro Lio But yeah, most of them are crap nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/26 "2008-05-12T19:20:59Z")
Count my votes for Pearls Before Swine, Sherman’s Lagoon, Dilbert, and Get Fuzzy. In fact, [Get Fuzzy](http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20080511.html) had me in stitches Sunday morning: And then there was the [Dilbert](http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-03-03/) that epitomized my workplace so succintly that I thought seriously about putting a copy in the administrator’s mailbox (I thought better of it). ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/27 "2008-05-12T19:50:39Z")
Bizzaro is funny. I clipped one out the other day to show to the stripper who turned me down when I asked her out: Two guys are standing behind a woman sitting at a bar. One guy turns to the other and says “Go ahead, ask her out, what is the worse that can happen?” What they don’t see is that the woman has a chain saw on her lap. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/28 "2008-05-12T20:02:02Z")
No…I like webcomics, though. Questionable Content, [xkcd.com](http://xkcd.com) to a degree, and of course, Perry Bible Fellowship (will he EVER update, though?). ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/29 "2008-05-12T20:14:23Z")
Not since Bloom County originally went on hiatus. For web cartoons User Friendly was good for a couple years. ---
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/30 "2008-05-12T21:04:33Z")
I have been wondering this for years. I used to like Calvin and Hobbes and Dilbert and Garfield. But all the others are all terrible. I cannot believe the strip- makers get paid for the rubbish they produce. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/31 "2008-05-12T21:13:30Z")
Often enough that I keep reading them, but I get why you are asking. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/32 "2008-05-12T21:24:28Z")
This side of the pond, there’s Beau Peep (still chucklesome) and George and Lynne on the other end of the scale; George and Lynne is the primary reason terrorists hate the west. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/33 "2008-05-12T21:58:36Z")
I still laugh at “Foxtrot” some times, although it is now only on Sundays. And also “Get Fuzzy” ---
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/34 "2008-05-12T23:19:00Z")
I know. Because all the comedy moved to the front page! /obvious //nyuk nyuk nyuk ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/35 "2008-05-12T23:44:53Z")
Frazz, Get Fuzzy, and Brewster Rockit are pretty funny. **Risha** , I love the Fusco Brothers , but the L.A. Times doesn’t carry it. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/36 "2008-05-13T00:34:55Z")
It had to be posted: Ray Smuckles prank calling [Marmaduke](http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05202003), [Garfield](http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05222003) and [Cathy.](http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05232003) Language is NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/37 "2008-05-13T01:22:41Z")
There was a [recent](http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20080430/cx_prc_uc/prc20080430) Prickly City cartoon that made me laugh. It’s only about once every six months that a cartoon is funny, and this instance was recent enough for me to remember. I dutifully read the cartoons, and just about every day I ask myself why. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/38 "2008-05-13T01:30:48Z")
[QUOTE=HeyHomie] [Get Fuzzy](http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20080511.html) had me in stitches Sunday morning: [/QUOTE] Oh, lord, yes! **“ABRA CADORKY! BUNGLE DUM WHOPPER FUNK! SPORK SPOOKY OLE!”** Both **Get Fuzzy** and **Pearls Before Swine** are real funny more often than not (especially when the imbecile crocodiles show up with yet another plot to murder their poor put-upon neighbor Zebra). They’re my favorites. **Lio** nearly always gets at least a grin out of me, and **Sherman’s Lagoon** is sometimes a riot-- often enough that I read it whenever I get access to the daily paper, anyhow. **The Fusco Brothers** is often worth a smirk or a snicker. I read **Luann** because the continuing stories hold my interest and I actually like some of the characters. The main reason I read \*\* Zits\*\* is in the hope of seeing one of the parents finally haul off and belt that nasty damned smart-ass kid in the mouth real hard, and then do it again as many more times as it takes to teach the little bastard some manners and how to act like a human being. The dinosaur strips all stink like the old mackerel they are, IMNAAHO. And I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone finds **For Better Or For Worst** to be the least bit humorous, interesting, or even tolerable ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/39 "2008-05-13T01:37:09Z")
**Does anyone actually find newspaper cartoons, you know…funny?** How can you even ask? Didn’t you see Cathy yesterday? She went shopping to buy a dress. But she was too fat! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! (Courtesy of Alcatraz.) (Or maybe that was last week. Or the week before.) And Garfield. Didn’t you see? He’s a cat. And he likes to eat lasagna!!! (Or maybe that was last week. Or last month. Or last year.) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994/40 "2008-05-13T02:03:40Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] For web cartoons User Friendly was good for a couple years. [/QUOTE] Heretic! UF has always been awesome! Personally, I don’t tend to read newspaper comics, since I don’t get a newspaper that has very many. Mostly I read webcomics: Schlock Mercenary User Friendly Questionable Content Ctrl-Alt-Delete Something Positive Kevin and Kell Real Life [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-find-newspaper-cartoons-you-know-funny/448994.md?page=3)