# Favorite currently running comic strips. **URL:** \ **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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/41 "2019-08-08T21:59:22Z")
Chronos: > [@](#): > > As for Mutts, occasionally they have a joke that’s funny… the first time. But after they tell the same joke again five more times over the course of the week, it gets kind of old. Or when they have a whole week of nothing but quotes from dead poets, or a whole week of “You should adopt me because I’m cute”. Good Lord, yes. And I should add that the cat’s speech impediment drove me nuts (when I was reading the strip). ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/42 "2019-08-09T16:06:23Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > 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 I knew I would forget (at least) one: _Non Sequitur_ > [@silenus](#): > > Those are the GOOD ones! 😛 [Okay, there’s an occasional good one…](https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/10/19) ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/43 "2019-08-19T01:22:23Z")
This innocuous little strip gets a lot of vitriol online…but so help me, I like Fred Basset. Fight me. I know it gets slammed for being unfunny, but I don’t think it’s meant to be laugh-out-loud funny…just gently whimsical, the kind that brings a smile, the kind of gentle whimsy the British are often good at. I’m both an Anglophile and a dog-lover, so it wins points with me. I like the English-country-village-ness of it. I like to imagine that this is how the pets we love would think, if they had inner lives of their own. I like the endearing facial expressions on the dogs. I like the occasional cute meta-humor. I like Fred’s parents, who seem like the kind of people I’d like to know…no kids of their own except Fred, but warm and welcoming to the local children, active in their close-knit village but willing to try out new experiences. And I like Fred’s pals Jock and Yorky since they’re roughly the same size as my furnephews. The closest comparison I can think of to Fred Basset is the webtoon Simon’s Cat (which, as well as the webtoon, has had some books of wordless panel strips)…pet-based humor from the UK, which features some really lovely, detailed drawing of the surrounding country. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/44 "2019-08-19T01:57:27Z")
**Scary Gary** has also been in reruns for a long time now, but I enjoy rereading them. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/45 "2019-08-19T01:59:22Z")
BTW, everyone here knows about The Comics Curmudgeon, right? Best comic strip commentary on the web, and the funniest. [https://joshreads.com/2019/08/the-lowest-form-of-humor/#comment-2469035](https://joshreads.com/2019/08/the-lowest-form-of-humor/#comment-2469035) ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/46 "2019-08-19T02:28:51Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > BTW, everyone here knows about The Comics Curmudgeon, right? Best comic strip commentary on the web, and the funniest. > > [The lowest form of humor – The Comics Curmudgeon](https://joshreads.com/2019/08/the-lowest-form-of-humor/#comment-2469035) Correction: the saddest. Ten years and counting of demonstrating that _Rex Morgan_ and _Pluggers_ are lame. Over and over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/47 "2019-08-19T02:46:21Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Correction: the saddest. Ten years and counting of demonstrating that _Rex Morgan_ and _Pluggers_ are lame. Over and over and over. Your mileage varies, my friend. But please do guide us to better witty comics commentary; I would be delighted to find even more amusing stuff. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/48 "2019-08-19T06:49:00Z")
last time i read a newspaper comic was someone posted a luann link becuase they didnt understand it i read the following webcomics questionable content, something positive, dumbing of age, least i could do, how baby (and it’s once a week sister motherlover) most of them were found through jeph jacques and r.k Millholland’s suggestions i read sluggy freelance until it killed 90 percent of the original characters off … and girls with slingshots that ended once the author illustration career took off ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/49 "2019-08-19T15:27:25Z")
Mutts. I love Mutts - some of the Japanese-esque artwork is beautiful. And it the sad adoption strips make some people adopt a pet, they are well worth it. Otherwise, every single day I start with my favorites: Pluggers, Pearls Before Swine, Peanuts, Luann, Jump Start, Daddy’s Home, Baby Blues, Cul de Sac, Curtis, Dennis the Menace, GET FUZZY, Momma, Mother Goose and Grimm, and Wallace. Some of these are re-runs. Some I ‘hate read’. Jump Start and Curtis feature black people and are often quite clever and thought provoking. The last couple of years I’ve begun following, if you can call it that, Mary Worth. (the reader comments underneath the strip every day are hilarious!) ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/50 "2019-08-20T16:45:22Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Your mileage varies, my friend. But please do guide us to better witty comics commentary; I would be delighted to find even more amusing stuff. Like you say, mileage. But I never found punching down to be sporting. I don’t know of any regular comics commentary, other than someone saying “did you see today’s _Rhymes with Orange_?”. I suppose _Zippy_ could be considered a sort of comics commentary, in comic strip form. I liked _Monty_, formerly _Robotman_, but the Globe dropped it. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/51 "2019-08-20T18:01:29Z")
A couple of people have mentioned _Dick Tracy_. I’m surprised it’s not more popular. It’s the only newspaper comic I still read. Online comics: I don’t think anyones mentioned _Grrl Power_ yet. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/52 "2019-08-20T18:48:09Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > A couple of people have mentioned _Dick Tracy_. I’m surprised it’s not more popular. It’s the only newspaper comic I still read. I know that _Dick Tracy_ was revitalized in 2011, when a new creative team started on the strip, and they re-introduced a lot of the classic characters and themes. That said, that change happened after several decades of decline for the strip (IMO), and I don’t know how successful they’ve been at attracting new (or returning) readers. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/53 "2019-08-20T19:08:20Z")
I love Bloom County (new and old). The only one I read every day is _Luann_. I’ve been reading it for years and it’s kind of embarrassing how invested I am in the lives of those characters, but hey…it keeps me off the streets. I’ve met Greg Evans several times at SDCC and he’s a nice guy. So is Berkeley Breathed. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/54 "2019-08-21T02:06:07Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > I liked _Monty_, formerly _Robotman_, but the Globe dropped it. **Monty** is on my GoComics feed. It’s not my favorite — God, that UGLY art — but it manages to be amusing about twice a week. Pretty good record for contemporary syndicated strips. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/55 "2019-08-22T01:15:19Z")
Re: Today’s “Pooch Cafe.” The phrase “worshipping the porcelain god” does not mean this. > **[Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for August 21, 2019 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/poochcafe/2019/08/21)** > > August 21, 2019 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@ebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ebb)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/56 "2019-08-22T14:37:43Z")
[Nancy](https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/) In 2018 Guy Gilchrist, who had authored this comic strip in whole or in part for over twenty years, retired from producing the comic. It went on hiatus for two months, then was restarted by Olivia Jaimes (a pseudonym), who is the first female author of the strip. She has been producing it daily since then, plus Sunday editions. It is crazily good. The main character is described by Jaimes as “the Nancy I know and love is a total jerk and also gluttonous and also has big feelings and voraciously consumes her world”. There are fourth-wall breaking jokes, art jokes, jokes that play around with the comic medium, jokes about modern technology that you haven’t heard a dozen times before. It’s really amazing what she’s done with the source material. Whether or not you ever liked the previous incarnation of the strip, this one is worth reading. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/57 "2019-08-22T15:45:27Z")
I’ve just discovered [Phoebe And Her Unicorn.](https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn) One thing I love about it is that it avoids the cliches of “only our heroine can see the magical creature”, “we have to keep the magical creature a secret”, and “grownups think heroine is just imagining the creature”. Those are nice, but they’ve been done to death. Instead, Phoebe’s family and friends can see and interact with Marigold and are totally chill with her existence. (Marigold later reveals she casts a “shield of boringness” that makes people think of her as perfectly normal.) Other magical creatures, like goblins and dragons, exist as well…and again, everyone’s completely cool with them. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283/58 "2019-08-22T15:52:28Z")
**Ess:** I agree that the new Olivia-generated **Nancy** blows the Gilchrist effort out of the water. But I found the two-month basketball story downright painful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/838283.md?page=2)