# So what newspaper comic strips do you read/follow regularly? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 22, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314 "2015-11-22T22:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/1 "2015-11-22T22:55:36Z")
[This topic (about Luann)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=767722) got me thinking… I used to love Luann and I read it every day as a kid and teen. From 1989 (when I was 9) to about 2000 (when I was 20), I read it damn near every day. But then I moved out of the house, got my own place, and never ordered the newspaper nor did I ever keep up with the strip online. Ever since then I’ve only read it once in a blue moon, maybe a couple strips a year. I know it’s on [gocomics.com](http://gocomics.com), though, and that it has quite the long archive there, so I may take a long weekend off sometime and catch up on two or three years worth. Anyway, what comic strips (found in newspapers, not webcomics) do you follow and what were some of your favorite arcs and story lines of those that have continuation? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/2 "2015-11-22T23:14:49Z")
I’ve read (and still read) almost all the comics in all the newspapers that I’ve read for the last 50 years. It would be easier to tell you the ones I just gave up on completely. Prince Valiant. 9 Chickweed Lane. (?) Something like that. Everything else I’ve followed with some degree of interest. Even Mary Worth! Mind you, stuff like Peanuts, Bloom County, The Far Side, and Pearls Before Swine pegs the interest meter, while Mary Worth just nudges it, but still. . . Oh, and the one about high school kids having tragedies that has morphed into adults having tragedies. I hate that one! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/3 "2015-11-22T23:48:32Z")
I always read every comic in my newspaper, which is the San Francisco Chronicle. It helps that they run humor strips only, no soap opera stuff, which I probably would skip over. They did run Prince Valiant on Sundays years ago, and I did skip that. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/4 "2015-11-23T00:02:31Z")
A plug for Dick Tracy, which is actually pretty damn clever these days. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/5 "2015-11-23T00:35:06Z")
My personal favorites are Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine, and Bizarro, although it’s not nearly as funny as it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/6 "2015-11-23T00:38:35Z")
I like the same ones **Guinastasia** mentioned and I also like Pickles a lot, and Zits. I do read all the ones that are in the Austin paper, though; I’m OCD that way. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/7 "2015-11-23T01:06:44Z")
I read a wide variety, mostly on GoComics with a handful on Arcamax because Go doesn’t have them. My favorites, in no particular order (except for the first) Pearls Before Swine Adam @Home Zits Non-Sequitur Foxtrot (including the daily repeats) Working Daze Overboard I’ve read every Peanuts multiple times, but no longer follow the repeats. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/8 "2015-11-23T01:43:15Z")
_Dilbert_ and _Doonesbur_y are the ones I tell people I read. _Luann_ and _9 Chickwood Lane_ are guilty pleasures. _Tom the Dancing Bug_ and _Super Fun-Pak Comics_ are the ones I love that nobody else seems aware of. _Lio, Pearls Before Swine_ and _Get Fuzzy_ are the ones I keep meaning to follow but forget to for some reason. I haven’t followed _Apartment 3-G_ in decades–it just today got cancelled–apparently it got unintentionally surreal in its declining years. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/9 "2015-11-23T01:53:16Z")
Bizarro, Rhymes With Orange, Pearls, and - god help me - Garfield. The local paper stuck some godawful strip about a unicorn in place of In The Bleachers, so I’m down one on Sundays. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/10 "2015-11-23T02:22:49Z")
Peanuts (fantastic movie, btw) Alley Oop Sally Forth Blondie ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/11 "2015-11-23T02:32:38Z")
I read just about every one in the paper - except for Peanuts. I liked it in the 60s and 70s, but not so much after that. My favorites are: Dinette Set Zits Fox Trot Beetle Bailey Hi and Lois Blonde Garfield Shoe Well, just about every one in my paper and in the Chicago Tribune. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/12 "2015-11-23T15:54:55Z")
I read almost everything in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, though I usually skip over _Judge Parker_ and _Mary Worth_. There are some that I wouldn’t bother reading, except that reading them is just as quick as skipping over them: Notably, _Mutts_ (which has one joke a week repeated six times, and which is only occasionally funny even once) and _Prickly City_, (starring a liberal who thinks she’s conservative and an idiot who thinks he’s liberal, by an author whom I’m still not convinced isn’t Poe’s Lawing us). ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/13 "2015-11-23T18:17:55Z")
Pooch Café Pearls before Swine Luann Sally Forth Arlo & Janis Dilbert Red & Rover Duplex ETA - Don’t have a favorite story line per se, but my favorite of the above is Red & Rover. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/14 "2015-11-23T20:54:01Z")
Pearls Before Swine Arlo & Janis Baby Blues Big Nate Zits Speed Bump once in a while: Lio, Frazz ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/15 "2015-11-23T21:21:45Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > I haven’t followed _Apartment 3-G_ in decades–it just today got cancelled–apparently it got unintentionally surreal in its declining years. I think I jumped the gun. I’d read that it was cancelled, but there’s still new ones coming out. It is in pretty bad shape, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/16 "2015-11-23T21:32:30Z")
I do read them all, but I make sure to read: The aforementioned Luann Non Sequiter Dilbert The Phantom (don’t know why, it’s a slow-paced, stupid comic, but…) Get Fuzzy Funky Winkerbean For Better or For Worse (just to get back to where I started reading it…) ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/17 "2015-11-23T21:46:41Z")
Peanuts Pearls Before Swine Zits Blondie Hagar the Horrible The Flying McCoys Pickles Garfield Dilbert Baby Blues Close to Home Agnes Beetle Bailey ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/18 "2015-11-23T23:20:47Z")
Currently, the only newspaper comics I follow (online) are \*Luann \*and _Frazz_. I used to read \*Sally Forth \*and _Rose is Rose_, but I kinda got out of the habit and never got back. I also used to read \*Dilbert \*until I found out what a misogynist twit Scott Adams is. I like \*Bloom County 2015 \*and read that regularly, but it’s no longer a newspaper comic. (Makes me feel good that I’m not the only one who admits to liking _Luann_. (I’ve met Greg Evans a couple of times at Comic Con, BTW–he’s a nice guy.)) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/19 "2015-11-24T00:29:03Z")
I still get an actual dead-tree newspaper, and I regularly read some of the comics contained therein: Zits Pearls Before Swine Pickles Dilbert Blondie Luann Fox Trot (on Sundays) Willy ‘n’ Ethel (Sundays) Bizarro Baby Blues and sometimes, if I have time and my eye happens to fall on them: The Family Circus Beetle Bailey Hi and Lois Dennis the Menace Get Fuzzy The Born Loser …but I wouldn’t mourn the loss of any of these. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314/20 "2015-11-24T06:02:16Z")
I work as a page designer at a newspaper, so I kind of have to look at the comics page. None of them really interest me all that much anymore, but there are a couple that I suppose you could say that I hate-read. _The Born Loser_ mystifies me with its continued existence. _Snuffy Smith_ is another one that appears to linger thanks only to the inertia that plagues most comics pages, endlessly spinning the same, tired jokes like clockwork. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-newspaper-comic-strips-do-you-read-follow-regularly/738314.md?page=2)