Shadowfox
“We are what we pretend to be.”
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)
Eyebeam. (I know, nobody’s ever heard of it.)
Dondi…for sentimental reasons.
Tumbleweeds is still around. Go to 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
Ivick, you can find Tumbleweeds at CToons, 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
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.
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.)
I don’t know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free…
T
TBone:
Little Orphan Annie is still around. And Sparkplug was a racehorse.
Uke
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 carries the Kidz.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
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 . . .
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…
The best comic book character that’s no longer around is, of course, Tintin.
http://www.tintin.org/
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!
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
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
Well, we in Washington DC still get Kudzu and Funky Winkerbean
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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
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.
I’m only your wildest fear, from the corners of your darkest thoughts.
