Seeing all these Bloom County images again brings up some good old feelings. I loved Bloom County back in the day, along with Calvin and Hobbes. Peanuts, Garfield and BC were also on my list of must read strips.
Nowadays I settle for the on-line variety since I don't pick up a newspaper anymore. And I get my daily dose of Fox Trot and Get Fuzzy.
So what do you like?
Posted by Kid Prime on :
I miss Calvin and Hobbes DEARLY. There's Bloom County images posted? I must go exploring and find these treasures!!!
I loved Bloom County too, but I felt that it got a good sendoff. Worthy of the strip.
And of course Peanuts is gone too. Honestly, I don't have much connection with any of the strips these days.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
You'll find them here KP.
Posted by Poverty Lad on :
Though technically I don't read it as a newspaper strip, Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows is collected on a regular basis by Image. I love this book! Took me off for a sec when I realized the staples run across the "top" of the book-- it opens and reads like the Calvin & Hobbes collected editions-- but WOW!! Humor, adult themes, hot babes, anthropomorphic animals... Liberty Meadows is a blast!! Check it out if you're not already doing so!
As far as the stuff I read daily, Rose is Rose is my hands-down favorite. Their kitty cat RULES! Posted by Lightning Lad on :
And a couple of more here in Portfolio Lad's Political poll.
[ August 11, 2003, 09:29 AM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Omni Craig on :
The comics pages sure ain't what they used to be...
No one will ever match the brilliance that has gone before: Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, Far Side, etc.
I still enjoy Dilbert, which I only started following 8 years ago when I started my current job. Suddenly I could relate...
Other strips I currently enjoy are: Foxtrot, Get Fuzzy, Overboard, Marvin, Family Circus (I got small ones, so I can relate and FC is funnier now that Bil Keane's son Jeff is also involved in producing the strip), and Grand Avenue which my local paper dropped after only a couple months so I have to read it online!
Posted by Suddenly Seymor on :
Losing Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts were two great blows to the funny pages.
These days, I'm still enjoying "For Better for Worse" (Liz is taking a gay friend of Michael's gay friend from school to her old boyfriend's wedding!), "Heart of the City," "Fox Trot," "Jump Start," "Frazz," "One Big Happy," "Grand Avenue (I can relate to the boy)," "Buckles," "Rose is Rose" and "The Big Top."
Eric
Posted by matlock on :
One of my favorites that hasn't been mentioned yet is "Mutts." It has the same type of gentle humor that I loved in "Peanuts" and "Calvin & Hobbes."
Posted by Poverty Lad on :
That's the one with the lithping kittycat, right? I love that one, too! Posted by Blockade Boy on :
Curtis, For better or Worse, Dilbert
Back in the day I liked: Pogo, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes
[ August 11, 2003, 12:55 PM: Message edited by: Blockade Boy ]
Posted by matlock on :
quote:Originally posted by Poverty Lad: That's the one with the lithping kittycat, right? I love that one, too!
Yesh.
Posted by DrakeB3003 on :
"Calvin & Hobbes", "Bloom County" and "The Farside" -- laugh out loud funny. Everything else just kinda rates a little chuckle once in a while for me.
Posted by Caleb on :
Calvin and Hobbes Mother Goose and Grimm Garfield Dilbert -when it includes Catbert or Dogbert
Posted by Stu on :
I love Liberty Meadows and Mutts.
I'm also quite fond of Family Circus. Who could not love "Ida Know" and "Not Me"?
Posted by icefire on :
The Peanuts!!!!!
Posted by Poverty Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by matlock:
quote:Originally posted by Poverty Lad: That's the one with the lithping kittycat, right? I love that one, too!
Yesh.
"Pink shock, pink shock!" Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
quote:Originally posted by matlock: One of my favorites that hasn't been mentioned yet is "Mutts."
I love this one, too. It has an understated charm, like something from decades past.
I also love the things the artist slips into the Sunday pages, like tributes to obscure works of art or rock bands.
Posted by MLLASH on :
I guess my favorite comic strips would be the ones I've bought collections of...
***YOUNGER DAYS:
PEANUTS I had zillions of these books... I wish I still had 'em... charming stuff. Good grief!
FAMILY CIRCUS Had zillions of these too, but I don't miss 'em really.
GARFIELD I bought every book as it was released for YEARS...! There's just something about a cat who loves lasagna that I like!
***COLLEGE YEARS
BLOOM COUNTY was it on a stick. I try to reread the collections every few years.
OUTLAND was good too!
***POST-COLLEGE
THE FAR SIDE Who doesn't love this?
CALVIN & HOBBES I have all the collections and reread them at least every year or two.
DILBERT My most recent purchase (and even THAT was a couple years ago). May be time for a new one!
[ August 11, 2003, 10:58 PM: Message edited by: MLLASH ]
Posted by Suddenly Seymor on :
Mutts is adorable. How could I forget that one? I especially love the Sunday strips. Our paper prints that intro panel that usually gets cut off. This week's was the Hulk.
Eric
Posted by MLLASH on :
I forgot I also have several of Matt Groening's LIFE IN HELL collections. Those are great!!!
Posted by Greybird on :
At the moment it's "9 Chickweed Lane," by Brooke McEldowney. Yes, I'd never heard of it, either, until I moved out here and started reading the Los Angeles Times. You can check out its Website, with the past 30 days' strips, here.
The sexy college-professor mother and high-school daughter at the core of it have rich fantasy lives -- as a female Tarzan and as Stupendous Girl, respectively -- and are wry, witty, and almost painfully observant of the human comedy around them.
It also has an omnipresent cat, shown off in wordless and hilarious vignettes about "Hallmarks of Felinity." (The title of two book collections McEldowney has made of his cat-focused episodes.)
Here's a sample ...
Posted by Greybird on :
Well, I seem to have zonked this topic cold ...
I have to wonder, anyway: Would this now be presumed to be off-topic? The forum is now no longer about "general comic books" (one could assume, all such sequential storytelling art) but specifically about "more action/adventure comic books."
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
I like Boondocks, Get Fuzzy, For Better or For Worse, and Foxtrot. I get an occassional chuckle out of Doonesbury.
I also have gotten into Funky Winkerbean. Did you know that John Byrne filled in as artist for a bit? (It is back to Tom Batiuk. Byrne filled in when Batiuk was ill. Apparently they are friends)
Fond nostalgia for Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes
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