We don’t get Sally Forth, but it was in the Washington Post when I was in DC in 1987-88. There was a funny one then. I clipped it, but I don’t know what became of it. It went something like, an omniscient narrator saying “Only half the population gets cramps. It’s not fair, but can you imagine the complaining if the other half got them?” in the final panel, the husband is looking at his hands and saying something like “This hangnail just won’t quit hurting.”
I was 20, and I thought it was hilarious. I still think it’s kinda amusing.
I don’t think I was reading Sally Forth before the change (or at least, not long enough before it to get used to the old writing). And I agree that I like the characters’ particular form of insanity.
I can’t remember if it was generally funny in 87-88, or just got lucky that one time. Maybe they printed it next to Cathy, and it was the soul of wit by comparison.
So, interesting note. There’s “Sally Forth, a comic about a humorously deranged suburban family.” And there’s “Sally Forth, a comic primarily featuring women who don’t wear clothes.”
Something to keep in mind if this thread inspires you to do an image search.
True. It’s always weirded me out that the creator of the current “Sally Forth” had never heard of Wally Wood’s strip. Or that a friend didn’t tell him. Or that an editor didn’t point it out.
“Say, I’ve got a great idea for a new wholesome suburban family strip featuring a wise Mom, a goofy Dad, and a precocious child! I’m going to call it Deep Throat!”
All the comics in the Toronto Sun are a total waste of time. I read the Sun at the coffee shop last night and wanted my 15 seconds back from that page.
I have the eight Sally Forth Wally Wood comics I ordered from a publishing company in Seattle. Would THAT ever create a sensation as a newspaper comic strip! :eek:
Wow! I *knew *about the Wally Wood comic, but I am amazed at how overwhelmingly it dominates the search results, compared to a long-lived and well-liked mainstream strip.
In previous threads on this topic, I always stick with The Lockhorns. Egad, what a dated, horrible strip. Even the worst newspaper should be embarrassed to have that on its pages.
As long as we’re talking comics, can I ask what’s up with Dilbert lately.
The jokes are still fairly funny, but the art looks off, so I’m distracted from the humor. I never thought that art quality was its strength, but something seems very wrong.
I never look at it anymore, but I have a soft spot in my heart for Nancy & Sluggo and similar juvenile comics, remembering when I was very small and Nancy was the only one I understood. And there was this other one showing four panels of the same building and a wall of words. You’ve got to have comics for everyone.
I have noticed that – while they still do jokes about Leroy staggering home drunk and Loretta’s terrible cooking – the flirty eight-foot tall chicks with big hair and hot-pants have gradually disappeared.
I don’t know why pkbites is complaining. As far as I can tell, the Journal Sentinel isn’t publishing old issues of For Better or For Worse anymore, and the decision to not subject the good people of Milwaukee to the daily decades-old tirades of Screamy McFumington and family makes the MJS comics section about a gazillion times more tolerable than my local funnies.
I stopped reading the cartoon Pages years ago when I realized that they just weren’t really very funny. They’re a waste of time which I don’t have much of to waste.
I agree that newspapers are the wrong medium for comic strips, but I don’t think everything needs to be a comic book. The best way to read newspaper comics, especially the soap opera strips, is online where you can read the comments. Ever since the Comics Curmudgeon got started the comments on the strips are consistently better than the strips themselves. And some of the writers/artists, like James Allen who does Mark Trail, read those comments and offer fanservice to his loyal mockers. (Any time someone in MT mentions a boat blowing up it’s directed to us internet commenters. )
Back to the OP: *Marvin *needs to go. It’s nothing but an unending litany of poop jokes.
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