# Your worst comic in the newspaper. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125 "2016-03-06T16:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/41 "2016-03-07T14:24:03Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Nancy. The strip simply isn’t as well drawn as it was in the old Bushmiller days, the strip reeks of being far outdated. And \*\*maybe \*\*it’s my liberal bias, but I find the concept of Sluggo as being offensive. He’s poor and he’s lazy, reinforcing the right wing belief that people are poor because of their moral inferiority. MAYBE??? You have just given more thought to the political implications of \*\*\*Nancy \*\*\*than the rest of the world has given them in 50 years!!! God, you must be a blast to hang out with. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/42 "2016-03-07T14:36:13Z")
Our newspaper still has “Judge Parker.” The continuity strip has been dead for decades, and this zombie is duller than if the entire strip was left blank. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/43 "2016-03-07T14:48:02Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > MAYBE??? > You have just given more thought to the political implications of \*\*\*Nancy \*\*\*than the rest of the world has given them in 50 years!!! > > God, you must be a blast to hang out with. Overreact much? Is there another reason why Sluggo is portrayed as chronically lazy and dirt poor? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/44 "2016-03-07T15:37:45Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > aw man - just remembered Sluggo > > Beetle Bailey didn’t exactly rock my world Mort Walker is getting old… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/45 "2016-03-07T16:16:39Z")
I adore Get Fuzzy, Mutts, Luann, Curtis, For Better or For Worse, 9 Chickweed Lane, and Baby Blues. I have several compilation books of the strips. Some of the early strips were brilliant, and I like the artwork. I always read these first. As for the others, meh, I read them anyway, sometimes ‘hate-read’. Like the melonheads in Family Circus, bumbling about their malopropish lives, and all of a sudden they’re experts on smart phones and computers. (I suppose to make clueless grandparents chuckle and tape a strip to the refrigerator, ‘oh, those smart little kids today’!) Oh, and Mary Worth is just hilarious! The arcs go on and on and on, and the faces are so badly drawn! I often make a remark on the Malllard Fillmore comment board, and OMG THE BUTT-HURT RESPONSES! The hate and lies oozing out of that strip have so many fervant agreers and admirers, and when you point out they are hateful liars, they get just furious! It’s like they stand in manure and when you ask ‘what smells’ they get mad! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/46 "2016-03-07T19:11:16Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I adore Get Fuzzy, Mutts, Luann, Curtis, For Better or For Worse, 9 Chickweed Lane, and Baby Blues. I have several compilation books of the strips. Some of the early strips were brilliant, and I like the artwork. I always read these first. > > As for the others, meh, I read them anyway, sometimes ‘hate-read’. Like the melonheads in Family Circus, bumbling about their malopropish lives, and all of a sudden they’re experts on smart phones and computers. (I suppose to make clueless grandparents chuckle and tape a strip to the refrigerator, ‘oh, those smart little kids today’!) Oh, and Mary Worth is just hilarious! The arcs go on and on and on, and the faces are so badly drawn! > I often make a remark on the Malllard Fillmore comment board, and OMG THE BUTT-HURT RESPONSES! The hate and lies oozing out of that strip have so many fervant agreers and admirers, and when you point out they are hateful liars, they get just furious! It’s like they stand in manure and when you ask ‘what smells’ they get mad! Bruce Tinsley is a great caricaturist who’s right on most of the issues. Problem is, he’s NEVER funny. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/47 "2016-03-07T19:33:03Z")
For all the heat that the played-out legacy strips and rerun classics get, by far the worst comics in the San Francisco Chronicle are the freshest: Wumo and Carpe Diem. Both are European single-panel strips, featuring wretched preschool-level artwork (especially Carpe Diem) and gags that range from not particularly funny to utterly incoherent. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/48 "2016-03-07T19:38:23Z")
Animal Crackers. Horrible art and never, ever funny. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/49 "2016-03-07T19:49:17Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Sally Forth is terrible. The current author of SF is pretty funny though in his other work. And less family friendly. [Medium Large](http://www.medium-large.com/). > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > That’s pretty much how I see every issue of Get Fuzzy For me, it’s cool if you don’t like it and consider it one of your least favorites. I just don’t get how you can put it below **all** the other dreck in this thread. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/50 "2016-03-07T19:55:58Z")
Wait, “current author”? “His”? Did FBoFW change authors? I guess that it’s not just what’s-her-name re-writing her old strips to rant about how rotten her ex was any more? And the Cleveland Plain Dealer started running WuMo a few weeks ago. I’m reserving judgement for now. So far, it hasn’t yet impressed me as particularly good or bad, but it seems like it might be the sort of thing that’s an acquired taste. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/51 "2016-03-07T19:59:02Z")
Close To Home. Worst drawing in the business. Terrible gags. They finally dropped it from the Washington Post, thank God. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/52 "2016-03-07T20:39:33Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, “current author”? “His”? Did FBoFW change authors? I guess that it’s not just what’s-her-name re-writing her old strips to rant about how rotten her ex was any more? See my edit, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/53 "2016-03-07T21:34:26Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Nancy. The strip simply isn’t as well drawn as it was in the old Bushmiller days . . . And the drawing wasn’t particularly good even then! Very “iconic” in style. Nancy’s figure and face could just as well have been rubber-stamped. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/54 "2016-03-07T21:36:02Z")
Ah, OK. When did Sally Forth change authors? I’m wondering if the change was noticeable, and whether I was just oblivious to it. On a tangentially-related note, has anyone ever noticed that Baby Blues and Zits have an author (or at least, co-author) in common? I like both, but never would have guessed it: They’re about as completely different as two family sitcom strips can get. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/55 "2016-03-07T22:03:15Z")
We have a Sunday strip that I’ve never seen referenced on any Hate/Love comic threads. [Lio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C5%8D). Every week, my only reaction is “Seriously…_what the fuck_?!?” I’m hip, I’m edgy…but most of the time I can only guess what’s going on. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/56 "2016-03-07T22:03:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Ah, OK. When did Sally Forth change authors? I’m wondering if the change was noticeable, and whether I was just oblivious to it. > > On a tangentially-related note, has anyone ever noticed that Baby Blues and Zits have an author (or at least, co-author) in common? I like both, but never would have guessed it: They’re about as completely different as two family sitcom strips can get. Greg Howard stopped writing in 1999 it looks like. He stopped drawing it in 1992, and the artist changed again in 2013. I cannot say “Sally Forth” without [lisping the last part as if my jaw fell off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMs2AhVhru8&t=1m40s). ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/57 "2016-03-07T22:38:08Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There’s some stupid unicorn comic strip that has suddenly appeared in the local paper. Actually most of the comics they run make we want to burn down the building. I just skimmed your entry about the unicorn because I’d never seen it, until this morning when I opened my paper to see it was there! I don’t know what it’s replacing, but I don’t like the unicorn comic! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/58 "2016-03-07T23:28:46Z")
Never mind. Late to the ball… ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/59 "2016-03-08T01:05:25Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Greg Howard stopped writing in 1999 it looks like. He stopped drawing it in 1992, and the artist changed again in 2013. “Sally Forth” used to be a wholesome and extremely irritating family strip about two working parents raising a daughter. When Francesco Marciuliano took over the writing he kept all the characters, just made them batshit insane. I’m really shocked by how few people noticed the switchover…kinda like the boss showing up in the office one day in a stovepipe hat, clown suit, and swim fins, and no one saying anything. F’rinstance, Ted, the husband, was ALWAYS drawn with delicate little wrists…just crappy art. However, under Marciuliano’s baton, the other characters often POINT OUT that Ted has delicate little wrists. Currently, Sally is anticipating spring so fervently that she has blotted out reality. Here’s a link to yesterday’s strip. The punchline amused the crap out of me, which doesn’t happen all that often in the contemporary funny pages. [http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Sally\_Forth/2016-03-06/](http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Sally_Forth/2016-03-06/) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125/60 "2016-03-08T01:29:11Z")
Yeah Sally Forth is really funny. I remembered it being a lame Hi and Lois-esque snooze but then noticed the change many years ago and now it is one of favorites. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-comic-in-the-newspaper/748125.md?page=4)