# Favorite currently running comic strips.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283 "2019-08-07T00:19:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CastletonSnob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/1 "2019-08-07T00:19:38Z")
Unfortunately, a lot of our all-time favorite comic strips (Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side, Bloom County) are no longer running.
So, what are your favorite daily comic strips that are still running? I like Baby Blues.
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/2 "2019-08-07T00:29:52Z")
Scary Gary and Pearls Before Swine are my favorites, if we’re talking about comics you would typically find in the newspaper.
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/3 "2019-08-07T00:37:02Z")
There are a lot that I follow (including Baby Blues), but I’d say my favorites are:
Dilbert
F Minus
Frazz
Monty
Pearls Before Swine
Sally Forth
Sherman’s Lagoon
If you include non-daily webcomics, I’m a big fan of Girl Genius and xkcd.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/4 "2019-08-07T01:00:59Z")
Dailies not named yet:
_Least I Could Do
Zits
Scenes From a Multiverse
In the Bleachers
Cleats
Tank McNamara_
Couple of times a week:
_Full Frontal Nerdity
Pixie Trix
Dork Tower_
Whenever:
_Order of the Stick_
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/5 "2019-08-07T01:25:51Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Whenever:
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> _Order of the Stick_
Are we including webcomics? If we’re including webcomics, then OOTS is my top pick as well, followed by Skin Horse.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/6 "2019-08-07T02:14:30Z")
I can’t be arsed to read dailies anymore since I had to stop my newspaper subscription\*, but I’m currently devouring _Pearls Before Swine_ in collection form.
\*No, I didn’t care for the GoComics subscription service. Can’t really say why; I just didn’t cotton to it.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/7 "2019-08-07T02:15:40Z")
I linked to a [bunch of my favorites](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21780559&postcount=214) in the July mini-rants thread. Three I didn’t include were:
[Sluggy Freelance](http://sluggy.com/)
[Kevin & Kell](https://kevinandkell.com/) (written by the same person who does On the Fastrack)
[Two Lumps](http://twolumps.net/)
Sluggy and K&K have been running for, literally, decades.
Sluggy’s ranges from every day (at the start) to 2 or 3 times a week, depending on how life and health are treating Pete Abrams.
Kevin and Kell has published a strip every day since 1995.
Two Lumps has been intermittent for a few years now since the two cats that inspired it both passed away, but they usually get out at least one strip a week.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/8 "2019-08-07T02:32:03Z")
> [@CastletonSnob](#):
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> Unfortunately, a lot of our all-time favorite comic strips (Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side, Bloom County) are no longer running.
Berke Breathed actually revived Bloom County a few years ago, though it’s online only (you can see it on Facebook, and on one of the syndicate sites). And, for me, it’s still a fun read.
The only still-in-the-newspaper comic strips I still enjoy is Pearls Before Swine.
There are a couple of webcomics which I read, both of which are very naughty (as well as being funny and very well-drawn), so links to them will be in spoiler boxes.
Oglaf (updates weekly, more or less):
[https://www.oglaf.com/](https://www.oglaf.com/)
I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love (updates every few weeks, though with a half-dozen or more pages at a time):
[https://irovedout.com/](https://irovedout.com/)
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/9 "2019-08-07T03:30:16Z")
For web comics, try [Schlock Mercenary](https://www.schlockmercenary.com/), which has run for 19 years without a miss, except when the author _melted the servers_. Even then he only missed a day or two.
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### Author:  [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/10 "2019-08-07T03:58:38Z")
For newspaper strips:
_Breaking Cat News_.
For webcomics:
_Girl Genius
Gunnerkrigg Court_
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/11 "2019-08-07T04:35:18Z")
Haven’t seen “Non Sequitur” yet. I can totally relate to Danae.
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### Author:  [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/12 "2019-08-07T16:16:11Z")
Even though the Washington Post has more comics in its dead tree version than most the only ones I read are:
Brewster Rockit
Zits
Frazz
Candorville
Barney & Clyde
Baby Blues
Pearls Before Swine
Dilbert
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/13 "2019-08-07T16:25:39Z")
[Buni](https://www.gocomics.com/buni/2019/07/31?ct=v&cti=2423620)
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/14 "2019-08-07T16:37:19Z")
[Bizaarro](https://www.comicskingdom.com/bizarro)
[Rhymes With Orange](https://www.comicskingdom.com/rhymes-with-orange)
_Pearls Before Swine_
_Carpe Diem_ has its moments.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/15 "2019-08-07T16:47:35Z")
Assuming we’re referring to newspaper strips, the ones in the Plain Dealer I particularly enjoy are:
Frazz
Pearls before Swine
Zits
Non Sequitur
Sally Forth
The Pajama Diaries
Note that the latter two of these are more story and character driven: It takes a while to become familiar with the characters and get into them.
Others that aren’t as high on my list, but still generally good:
Jump Start
Crankshaft
Pickles
Red and Rover
Flo and Friends
EDIT: Bizarro and Rhymes with Orange are inconsistent: Sometimes they’re great, but sometimes they just fall flat.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/16 "2019-08-07T16:55:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> EDIT: Bizarro and Rhymes with Orange are inconsistent: Sometimes they’re great, but sometimes they just fall flat.
Name a gag a day strip that doesn’t sometime fall flat. Apart from Calvin & Hobbes.
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### Author:  [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/17 "2019-08-07T17:34:22Z")
When I gave up my newspaper subscription, the only comic I continued to follow (online) was _Luann_. I have no idea why I enjoy it, but I do.
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/18 "2019-08-07T18:45:28Z")
Uh…_Bloom County_ is running, with new strips, albeit not daily.
My current favorite: _Lio_
Also on my “favorites” list, among those running new strips:
_FoxTrot_
_Eyebeam_ (yes, it still has new strips - well, panels, anyway)
_Too Much Coffee Man_
_9 Chickweed Lane_
_Pearls Before Swine_ (bad pun strips notwithstanding)
_Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!_
one with an asterisk: _Get Fuzzy_ - new strips are very few, and very far between
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/19 "2019-08-07T18:52:32Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> EDIT: Bizarro and Rhymes with Orange are inconsistent: Sometimes they’re great, but sometimes they just fall flat.
Bizarro is sometimes done by a guest artist, and some of those are clunkers. Today’s, however, done by a guest, was pretty funny. It took me a few seconds to get it, however.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/20 "2019-08-07T19:10:10Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> _Pearls Before Swine_ (bad pun strips notwithstanding)
Those are the GOOD ones! 😛
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