# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/21 "2000-01-18T17:23:00Z")
## Our local newspaper carries the regular comics on Sundays, but there also a section that includes some of the old ones. They have Betty Boop, Dick Tracy, and a bunch of others that I can’t remember. If this thread is still around next Sunday, I’ll list what other ones they have. Shadowfox “We are what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/22 "2000-01-19T06:11:00Z")
Bloom county-no walruses please. And the whole wedding thing between opus and the deadhead sculptress who got kicked out of her fanclub for shaving her legs and does anybody remember: Tumbleweeds? Laconic cowboy on THE most swaybacked horse. How about Rick O’Shay? Another cowboy story but an ongoing serial about a sheriff, his son, and his best friend the retired gunfighter (what was his name?) (1970’s) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/23 "2000-01-18T19:06:00Z")
Eyebeam. (I know, nobody’s ever heard of it.) ---
**Author:** ![yamo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecae2f/32.png) [@yamo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yamo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/24 "2000-01-18T19:13:00Z")
Dondi…for sentimental reasons. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/25 "2000-01-18T19:25:00Z")
Tumbleweeds is still around. Go to [http://www.kingfeatures.com/comics/index.htm](http://www.kingfeatures.com/comics/index.htm) My choices are: Krazy Kat Pogo Barnaby The Spirit Little Nemo in Slumberland Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend Of course, I wouldn’t want anyone but the original artist doing these. * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/26 "2000-01-18T19:36:00Z")
Ivick, you can find Tumbleweeds at [CToons](http://www.ctoons.com/), but it’s been sanitized for your protection. Limpin’ Lizard is now named Limpid Lizard, and Flaccid Fox is Flabby Fox. And that little itty bitty Indian feller who only wrote notes (the Flea) now speaks. I’m not sure what was politically incorrect about note writing, but someone musta complained. At least baby brudder Snookums hasn’t been renamed Endocrinologically-enhanced, chronologically-challenged non-female sibling. * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/27 "2000-01-18T20:43:00Z")
> [@](#): > > 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! Alley Oop was using the time machine during most of the seventies IIRC. I lost track of it after that but found it on the King Features site. * * * Come let us go, I’ve a cask of amontillado. ---
**Author:** ![TBone2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@TBone2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBone2)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/28 "2000-01-18T20:59:00Z")
Yamo, “Dondi” is right! What a cute kid! So few mentions of “Li’l Orphan Annie!” Folks today enjoy “Snuffy Smith,” but how many remember when it was “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith?” The ol’ mule ‘Spark Plug?’ And how about the rubber-stampish “Nancy?” Or the simplistic truths that “Henry” taught us? (Some of my mom’s early drawing lessons for me involved recreating Henry’s question-mark head.) ## Also, the Katzenjammer Kidz come to mind… I don’t know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free… T ---
**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, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/29 "2000-01-18T21:16:00Z")
TBone: Little Orphan Annie is still around. And Sparkplug was a racehorse. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/30 "2000-01-18T21:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, the Katzenjammer Kidz come to mind… Well, as said in another thread, the Katzenjammer Kidz are still around, probably for the sake of maintaining its record as the longest running strip. [King Features Syndicate](http://www.kingfeatures.com/comics/index.htm) carries the Kidz. * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/31 "2000-01-18T21:48:00Z")
Is Brenda Starr, my role model, still around? She slaved her life away as a journalist and chased after a man who avoided her with some cockamamie story about Black Orchids—mebbe I shoulda picked a better role model . . . ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/32 "2000-01-18T21:55:00Z")
Bloom County, no doubt. Actually, Bloom County before he made it into that spin-off comic, which sucked, IMHO. Loved the original though. Had all the books. ::sigh:: the good ol’ days. Does anyone know what Berkeley Breathed is doing now? Think I’ll go do a search… ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/33 "2000-01-18T21:57:00Z")
The best comic book character that’s no longer around is, of course, Tintin. [http://www.tintin.org/](http://www.tintin.org/) ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/34 "2000-01-18T22:21:00Z")
Brenda Starr must still be around. I remember a TV report last year that said they introduced a character called “Matt Sludge.” If any of you can get a Pogo book I’d suggest that. It has to be one of the greats. Unfortunately, I believe a lot of them are out of print. Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes can’t be mentioned enough. * * * **SterlingNorth** Mister Rogers—Anybody that happy all the time must be on crack! ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/35 "2000-01-18T22:45:00Z")
Oh man–Tintin was my childhood hero! For a few weeks, anyway. I’d totally forgotten about him… More recently, I miss Grandpa Zeke. Gramps was one sick bastard. -David ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/36 "2000-01-19T00:36:00Z")
Gr8kat, the “Tumbleweeds” character who didn’t speak was not Screaming Flea (who used to speak in flowery word balloons), but Lotsa Luck, who allegedly did not have vocal cords. “Tumbleweeds” has disappeared from the local newspaper, the South Bay _Daily Breeze_ (Los Angeles County, CA); I really don’t know why. My favorites among long-gone strips: Our Boarding House (Major Hoople) Alley Oop Nancy (by Ernie Bushmiller) The Ryatts The Berrys The Better Half Funky Winkerbean Kudzu Dick Tracy Moon Mullins Smokey Stover (“Foo”, “Chief Nozzle Nut,” “Scram Gravy Ain’t Wavy,” “Notary Sojac”) Mutt & Jeff ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/37 "2000-01-19T00:47:00Z")
Well, we in Washington DC still get Kudzu and Funky Winkerbean ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/38 "2000-01-19T01:38:00Z")
\Pogo.\ But The Spirit & Eyebeam were pretty cool , too. PS–there is an alternative Spirit comic book out (occasionally published; see your speciality comix shop for details) * * * “Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.”----Jung ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/39 "2000-01-19T15:01:00Z")
When _Bloom County_ officially went under, it had already been dead for years. To compare the glorious strips from 1981-82 with what Breathed was putting out in, say, 1987, shows just how far he fell. It’s still beyond me, how anyone who had been that amazingly good could have gotten so bad so fast. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883/40 "2000-01-19T23:44:00Z")
## \

\Bloom County\\ \

\Opus! Opus! Opus!\ \

That does have a double meaning here. \

\“Felix\ I’m only your wildest fear, from the corners of your darkest thoughts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-no-longer-published-comic-strips/12883.md?page=1)