# Favorite No Longer Published Comic Strips **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883 "2000-01-18T04:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/1 "2000-01-18T04:57:00Z")
What are some of your favorites. I mean ones not published for at least 10 years or more. (not Calvin & Hobbes) I recall one about a secretary called “Lolly”." It’d just crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![Uliginous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ed655f/32.png) [@Uliginous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uliginous)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/2 "2000-01-18T05:02:00Z")
Bloom County ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/3 "2000-01-18T05:13:00Z")
Ditto on Bloom County. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/4 "2000-01-18T05:23:00Z")
Well, since you disqualified Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County. ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/5 "2000-01-18T05:35:00Z")
Krazy Kat Little Nemo in Slumberland * * * Up, up and away! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/6 "2000-01-18T05:59:00Z")
I’ll have to go with Bloom County as well, or does The Far Side make the cut? * * * See those stars over there? That is the Little Dipper. I’d show you the Big Dipper, but my zipper is stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/7 "2000-01-18T06:26:00Z")
I’m breaking the rules because I have only two answers, and they’re both within the last 10 years: Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side. Bloom County is a distant third for me. There is no freakin’ reason to even read the comics anymore. _sigh_ * * * I used to think the world was against me. Now I know better: Some of the smaller countries are neutral. [Laura’s Stuff and Things](http://members.aol.com/lrconaway) ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/8 "2000-01-18T09:58:00Z")
sigh…so many teeny boppers, so few Pogo fans. ## And no mention of Al Capp? Heresy! JB Friday the 13th comes on a Thursday this month. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/9 "2000-01-18T12:01:00Z")
You mean Andy Capp? See the previous thread on him, do a search. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/10 "2000-01-18T12:27:00Z")
Bloom County. ::sigh:: * * * Some drink at the fountain of knowledge…others just gargle. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/11 "2000-01-18T12:47:00Z")
Gotta be Bloom County. And I agree with Ruffian, now that Charles Schultz is hanging up his pen, there’s no more joy in comic-ville. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/12 "2000-01-18T13:24:00Z")
I’m with you, JBENZ. Sigh. Walt Kelly and Al Capp… giants in the field, and much missed. Kitchen Sink Press is reprinting Li’l Abner dailies, there are around 25 volumes out now, approx one year to a volume. And Eclipse Press is reprinting Pogo dailies, they’re on volume 9 or so, but only about six months to a volume. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/13 "2000-01-18T13:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by sunbear: > **You mean Andy Capp? > See the previous thread on him, do a search.** Um, possible, I suppose, but one (well, _this_ one) assumes he means just what he said, Al Capp, creator of Li’l Abner. Whether Li’l Abner is worth mention is another debate, but let’s at least make sure we’re all talking the same strip. * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/14 "2000-01-18T13:45:00Z")
Opus and Bill I long for ye. Aack. * * * You are now leaving a “Smiley-free zone”! A public service message brought to you by G.R.O.S.S. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/15 "2000-01-18T16:01:00Z")
I go Pogo. ## Early 1980’s Bloom County. Remember when the main characters were **people**? Eventually it was nothing but animals… ☹ _It is too clear, and so it is hard to see._ ---
**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:** [January 18, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/16 "2000-01-18T16:07:00Z")
Buck Nix. King Aroo. Barnaby. Alley Oop. Hey, CKDexHavn! Isn’t Kitchen Sink Press out of business now? They managed to get Abner up to about 1961 before they folded. Is anyone else going to take over the L’il Abner project? I was really looking forward to getting up to Capp’s Great Political Conversion, plus the advent of miniskirts. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/17 "2000-01-18T16:47:00Z")
I vote for Will Eisner’s “The Spirit.” Incidentally, Ukelele Ike, Alley Oop is still in print; at least it was a couple of weeks ago. I saw the strip in one of our local newspapers, The Bloomfield (Ind.) Evening World. I think only a few papers carry Alley Oop, though. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/18 "2000-01-18T17:08:00Z")
Okay, let’s say I want to go back to the good ol’ days of 1940s ALLEY OOP, when he was goofing around with the time machine! See the reprint volumes that Kitchen Sink did a couple years back. ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/19 "2000-01-18T17:10:00Z")
Bloom County all the way! I miss Steve Dallas’s exploits! Far Side too if that not to recent! * * * -Frankie Lack of charisma can be fatal ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/20 "2000-01-18T17:13:00Z")
Bloom County and The Far Side. Too bad about your rules - I miss Calvin and Hobbes and I’m saying Calvin and Hobbes! Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes (getting annoying - ain’t it?) Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883.md?page=2)