This one is a blatant rip-off of a (much funnier) Calvin & Hobbes strip.
I’ve seen much worse. The Family Circle, for example. Some of those cartoons got a smile out of me.
The Chicago Tribune runs several that I find particularly awful, but someone undoubtedly likes them:
The Lockhorns – to me, this sort of humor stopped being funny around 1978. It revolves around the same half-dozen jokes, told again and again:
- The husband drinks too much
- The husband likes to flirt with pretty young women
- The husband is lazy
- The wife cannot cook
- The wife spends too much
- The wife cannot sing
A few years ago, I wrote a letter to the Tribune, commenting on some of their comic strips (and calling this one out by name as needing to be put out to pasture). An old woman, who read my letter in the Trib, wrote back to me, personally, saying that she loved The Lockhorns, and telling me that my own sense of humor wasn’t funny (I’d commented on missing discontinued strips like The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes).
Thankfully, The Lockhorns only runs on Sundays now, so it’s easier to ignore. 
Raising Hector I’m absolutely positive that this strip runs because the Trib decided they needed a Hispanic comic strip. But, lordy, there must be a better option out there than this dog. The art is terrible, and the jokes were dated when The Lockhorns were still funny!
Cathy Just doesn’t entertain me in the least, but then, I’m not a middle-aged woman. Maybe I’d like it more then.
Peanuts made me very sad in the last few years that Charles Schultz was alive; it clearly just wasn’t funny anymore, but no one had the heart to get Schultz to hang it up. Now that they’re running old strips from the 60s, at least we can enjoy what made that strip so special.
Looks geared for young kids maybe.
The sharks collided because one of them can’t figure out which way to circle the victim. I think that’s hillarious.
It’s like a bad ripoff of Baldo.
I can’t remember the last time any comic made me even crack a smile. Part of me questions why they still even exist, yet part of me is reminded they must churn out a new one daily and the sheer monotony would even prevent me from being consistently funny.
Yikes. I love humor. At first I was like: 
Then I was like:
All comics mentioned here are still better than “Mallard Fillmore”.
Or feeling well-rested or maintaining a reasonable blood pressure.
To the OP: It’s not that there aren’t funny ideas, it’s that the artist doesn’t know how to write a punchline. Nearly all of them would be improved considerably by better writing.
For instance, this one would be better as “Eats like a bird? Ha!” It would also work better if it showed the restaurant out of food.
And few things beat the utter badness that is Cats with Hands
The rest of us can’t see it, unfortunately. But it sounds funny, yes.
Check out Right Left Center. It’s a Mallard Fillmore wannabe that’s dumber than the original.
Oh, yeah…I never thought I’d say it, but that IS dumber than MF.
Incidentally, I love my partner. But if he went on a killing rampage, broke into all the other homes in the neighborhood, and held the neighbors in a “Funny Games” style torture/murder scenario, I’d probably want to warn people away from him. And try to reason with him to stop it.
Loving your country doesn’t mean that you shut up about anything it does. Loving your country means trying to make sure it doesn’t do wrong, and making up for it if it does.
I faithfully read comics for many years when I still got a newspaper. Many (most, all?) published comics started out great and then faded badly. Wizard of Id and BC come to mind.
But the one the was too far before my time and I never got was Blondie. Never made me crack a smile once, reading it was just a habit.
Easy! Cathy…the most offensively stereotypical female comic strip.
I could swear I’ve seen a Far Side that used the same gag but I wouldn’t know where to start looking.
Doesn’t ring a bell, and I’ve got a shelf full of Gary Larson here next to me. Could be, though.
This one made me LOL out loud. It was just a bit unexpected in light of the other cartoons.
