There are new Sunday strips, but the daily strips are on permanent rerun now, I think. I’m glad since I didn’t get a paper with them when they ran the first time, so I can see some of the continuity now.
I think you mean that nobody bats 0.0000 - but Tinsley comes close.
In a field littered with comic gold, Tinsley always picks up the rusted beer can.
Conservatives can be funny - early PJ, and National Review had a lot of funny stuff in the late '60s and early '70s when I subscribed. Tinsley just isn’t.
I still wonder why this Liberty Meadows comic has not been linked to yet:
Prince Valiant vs Hagar in an epic fight for quality comics against shoddy ones.
Get Fuzzy might seem repetitive because it’s been in reruns for years (except Sundays).
As for those who despise Marmaduke. (Refer to the blog archive for the guts of it.)
Anybody read Rubes? It’s the poor man’s homage to The Far Side, but is rarely memorable.
HtH? Shakespeare compared to The Lockhorns.
No, I mean what I said.
Regards,
Shodan
I finally put the work in to finish this idea I posted about years ago.
ETA: having the very deuce of a time getting the board to display the image directly, but you can see it here:
Has, sorry, had it’s moments, just took it off my list.
Dan
Scott Stantis was probably the only conservative cartoonist that both sides read with pleasure. When Trump slithered in Stantis rendered him as a skunk, and the real conservatives flipped out and jumped ship. I call Stantis fair and reasonable.
Plus the terrific art is reminiscent of Krazy Kat.
Dan
Nothing is worse than B.C. (not Bloom County, B.C.) anytime post-1990. Hart went full fundie and the comic just died on the vine.
OK, a side question. I’ve never understood exactly what I’m looking at with Hagar’s face. Is his face giant eyeballs with hair growing out of them (kind of like Muppets Animal), or is it his skin and he has beady dot eyes? You can’t really go by color images as they are inconsistent. Sometimes he has skin bordering his googly eyes, other times his eyes will be closed and they are little winky shapes just on his “eyes”.
(5 horrible years later).
Well of course–look what brain he had.
I’m fairly certain B.C. was always bad, going by me reading the older paperback collections when I was young.
I haven’t read it in years but Hagar was one I liked. I guess this changing of the guard explains the disconnect?
Also submitted for your disapproval: Nancy.
The relaunch of Nancy by a new artist (under a pseudonym) is pretty great.
(I know I am responding to a 5-year-old post) I am 63 and still read newspapers and thus newspaper comics. I think all of the strips that I read 50 years ago that are still published (generally with new writers) suck now. So it isn’t old people, it’s something else. Maybe the new creative (and funnier) artists are finding other venues for their work besides traditional newspaper syndication, which probably doesn’t pay as well as it used to.
I have heard that newspapers get more complaints about changes to the comics page than any other issue.
Oooops - posted in error
Back when I still had dead tree newspaper subscriptions, one of my biggest pet peeves was when a favorite strip would end for one reason or another, and the newspaper would have an article introducing the replacement strip, always with a comment like “We think it’s just as good if not better!” And the replacement was always some stupid dreck that usually didn’t even last six months before it got replaced. The worst example I can think of was when Cul De Sac ended due to Richard Thompson’s terminal illness, and they replaced it with some unfunny, horribly drawn strip called “WuMo”.