Worst comic strips, past or present

[BobLibDem]

I second Cathy. They had like 3 or 4 story lines that they just kept recycling. Plus the girl couldn’t draw to save her soul, you could count on your thumbs the number of times anyone was in anything but full front face view. On the rare times we saw Cathy in profile, it was evident why. She can’t draw for shit.

Nancy keeps plunging the depths. The new artist changes the look and feel of the strip too much. These comics should have died with WW II.

Wish the papers would get rid of some of the crapola and put in genuinely funny stuff like Pooch Café.

[Siam_Sam]

@Chronos

Prickly City is a political strip starring a liberal girl who for some reason thinks she’s a conservative, and her best friend, an idiot coyote who for some reason thinks he’s a liberal. To its credit, the author clearly despises Trump (he’s depicted in the comic as a skunk), and seems to be slowly coming to the realization that he’s the face of modern conservativism, and that the values he stands for have never really been supported by conservatives. If he ever finally gets that, the strip might be good, but for now, it’s just cringingly straw-man.

@kenobi_65

We had Prickly City in the Chicago Tribune when it first started out, fifteen or so years ago, but the paper dropped it within a year or two. However, a couple of years ago, the Tribune hired that strip’s writer / artist as their new political cartoonist, and so, the strip returned, as well. Every once in a while, it’s funny, but mostly, it’s just kind of strange.

I came in specifically to mention Prickly City. The Honolulu newspaper carries it on the Op-Ed pages. I’m a guy who even read and liked Mary Worth and Rex Morgan, M.D. as a lad. It takes a lot for me to despise a comic strip. But Prickly City sure does the trick. I even purposely avert my eyes from it, lest it burn a vision into my eyeballs.

I like Andy Capp, but this feels like a good place to mention this episode. We carried it at the Bangkok Post when I worked there. Then a decision was made to drop it, citing Capp being a poor role model. What an uproar that caused! We were flooded with mail, both regular and e-mail. But some of the writers had rather suspicious names. I particularly remember a Mr. Bud Weiser writing rather vociferously. The Thais didn’t know anything was up with some of these names. We staff farangs (Westerners) figured it was probably half a dozen Brits generating all the correspondence. The paper caved after a couple of weeks and reinstated Andy Capp with a front-page banner announcing the fact.