For example, today the Dilbert Zone shows strips up Sep.9, not 17.
However, these days the NY Times is sticking “classic Dilbert” at their site: http://www2.uclick.com/client/nyt/dt/
I give up.Take your coice.
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/cal-32.html DZ
Andy Capp: Still not funny.May have something to do with soccer/rugby, to get more out of it…
How come after 55+ years Archie Andrews and friends are still in high school? Moose I can understand why he still is.
Andy Capp is pretty feeble. I remember reading it as a kid, during the 60’s when the “British Invasion” made anything English very cool. I didn’t like it much then, either.
I am still mourning the passing of Gary Larson’s The Far Side.
BTW, a nifty little strip called Zits (by Borgmann, former political cartoonist) did a great piece on missing favorite cartoons. It is much better read in the original but the set up is:
Father and bored teenage son are sharing the newspaper.
Father sighs and says it just hasn’t been the same since Calvin and Hobbes stopped.
Teenaged son goes into a theatrical rant, that since Calvin and Hobbes stopped, life has lost all meaning, all color is gone from the world, etc. etc.
Final panel: while father looks bemused, son says, “It stopped five years ago. I was ten. I got over it”.
Funny, clever stuff.
Andy Capp was one of those things like Beetle Bailey, Garfield, The Family Circus, that never intruded enough into my noggin for me to care about one way or the other. None of them are funny, but I can’t get all het-up enough to get offended by them, either. Though, yes, sometime when I read The Family Circus by accident, I do feel my breakfast requesting a comeback.
Ike, I checked my Milt Gross books this weekend (nothing else to do; no phone service, still!). I have original hardback editions of Nize Baby, Dunt Esk! (or is is Dear Dollink?), De Night in Front from Chreesmas, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, and I Should Ate the Eclair. I wound up sitting on the floor reading Nize Baby to myself (“de fable from the fullish frock”). My mother raised me on Hiawatta, so when I heard the actual poem in school, I had to be sent from the room . . .
Flora, I just trotted over to Amazon to see if any Gross was still in print (Hah!)…then to ABE Booksearch to find out what’s available from our friendly used book dealers. (To their credit, Dover and Abbeville DID do reprints of a few Gross titles in the 1970s and 80s). It looks like you are in possession of the man’s entire book output, for which I salute you!
I agree with you about ANDY CAPP and FAMILY CIRCUS – ignore them whenever you can – but there’s plenty to be offended by in BEETLE BAILEY. Haven’t you noticed the “Miss Buxley” character?
Hope your phones come back soon. I keep reading about the tribulations of New Jersey in the TIMES, and looking for your photo, clutching buoyant wreckage as you drift by on your way to the sea, dark hair streaming behind like a lorelei…
Uke
The local St. Louis paper pulled Citizen Dog a couple of months ago. It has been replaced with something called Sherman’s Lagoon, which has had about one funny strip so far. I’m still annoyed about this.
Miss Buxley? I’m as big a feminist as the next gal (presuming the next gal isn’t Camille Paglia, that is), but I just can’t get all upset over Miss Buxley.
Yeah, I was the gal on News Channel 4, on the ice floe headed for the waterfall . . .
Jeremy Duncan, the kid in Zits, is Calvin at fifteen.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
I must credit Andy Capp with one thing: the title is the first written pun I ever remember understanding. I was 6. Thought it was quite clever then.
If you don’t get it, keep in mind his accent and the fact that he never works.
I thought it was about horse race handicaps!But I don’t know enough about bets, so …
A late answer to an off-topic remark:
Satan,
Cockney is NOT the Brit equivalent of redneck. Cockney is spoken in London, is restricted to urban areas: the US equivalent would be the way people talk in Noo Yawk (how’s that for phonetic 
). For a Brit equivalent of Redneck, may I kindly suggest a firm Welsh accent ?
Coldfire
(sure, a Dutchman, this really DOES make sense 
)
“You know how complex women are”
All newspaper comics suck, Andy Capp no moreso than others.
Comics have gotten to the point where the only one I read on a regular basis anymore are Robotman, Fox Trot, and Mother Goose and Grimm.
Even Peanuts gets on my nerves, nowadays. The same tired jokes I remember from my long lost youth. It was funny at one time, but good lord, it’s the same crap over and over!
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
Oh, god, PEANUTS…that was officially designated Not Funny by the Comic Strip Readers of America back in 1969.
THE BOONDOCKS is good. Anybody else like THE BOONDOCKS? The grandfather dreaming about going fishing with Dorothy Dandridge brought a smile to my wan features this morning…
Uke
Rilchiam, do you know when those Foxtrot strips referencing Doonesbury were published? I keep hearing about them, but I don’t know when they were done, and can’t find them.
-Pix
Pixoid: They’re in the collection Welcome to Jasorassic Park, published in 1998. I believe they would also be in Camp Foxtrot, the current deluxe edition.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
The most annoying comic strip for me is “Cathy”. It’s like having to live with a neurotic who’s obsessed with three or four issues and can’t do anything but talk about them over and over. I want to grab her and scream at her, “Look, either marry one of your boyfriends or don’t, but quit ranting about it. Either lose weight or don’t, but quit bothering everybody about it. Either learn to limit your shopping or don’t, but quit complaining to us about it. Either learn to live with your mother’s interfering ways or quit talking to her, but quit worrying about it. Life is hard. Get used to it.”
Some of the other strips mentioned in this thread I don’t mind so much because they’re so obviously still set in previous decades, even when they try to use modern references. “Blondie” is still set in the '30’s, even with Blondie now working at her catering business. “Andy Capp” is like a time capsule of old-fashioned Northern English married life. “Peanuts” peaked for me in the early '60’s with the little red-haired girl strips. It’s still for me set in the '50’s and early '60’s.
“Doonesbury” peaked in the mid-70’s with the Joanie Caucus meeting Rick Redfern strips, but I think that it’s still reasonably good, because the characters actually age (although Trudeau doesn’t draw them any older) and they make reference to current events. I can see the main characters grow old with me, since the strip started in 1970 with Mike Doonesbury, B. D., and several of the other regulars entering college. So that makes them the same age as me.
Andy Capp
Peanuts
Beetle Baily
B.C.
& many others…
<font face=century gothic>All are comics that have outlived their purpose , & are no longer funny. Retiring comics, like Calvin & Hobbs, is a good idea.
I have hated Peanuts & little Sparky Shultz ever since those damn insurance ads started
I hope Snoopy & Met life got straight to…Podunk.</font>
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