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bearisgray 06-17-2011 10:55 AM

Some of my favorite ones are:

Pickles

LuAnn

For Better or Worse

Baby Blues


I miss Calvin and Hobbs


There are several that I look at, because I read every single strip when I do read the paper, but don't really "get" - and they have been running for YEARS.

kuseta 06-17-2011 11:04 AM

I miss Calvin and Hobbs too. My son loves the books of them. I also miss Peanuts. I love BroomHilda and Hagar the Horrible too.

magpiefeather 06-17-2011 11:25 AM

"Pickles" IS my favorite, and the teenager one "Zits" is pretty cute too! I used to like "Cathy" and I never get tired of "Dagwood"!

redkimba 06-17-2011 11:35 AM

If you go to http://www.gocomics.com/ - you can read your favorites for free.

My favorites are Frazz, For Better or For Worse, Heart of the City, MythTickle, Overboard, Pluggers, Stone Soup, Pibgorn, and 9 Chickweed Lane. I have others that I read (also on the gocomics.com website).

JanetM 06-17-2011 11:43 AM

My favorites are:

Pickles
Pooch Cafe
Baby Blues
Tundra (doesn't appear in our paper, My Dad sends them to me.)

Naturalmama 06-17-2011 11:44 AM

For Better or For Worse
I miss Calvin too - and definitely the Far Side

ptquilts 06-17-2011 11:44 AM

I miss

Miss Peach.

now that's going way back.

dogpursemaker 06-17-2011 12:28 PM

Gone, but definitely not forgotton-The Far Side!! Absolutely the best, even if my DH never understood a single one without explanation. That's a "laugh out loud", "cut it out to save/show others" comic. Bizarro is pretty good, but there's only one Far Side!

bearisgray 06-17-2011 12:34 PM

I'd forgotten about "The Far Side"

all those anthropomorphic animals!

Grammashel 06-17-2011 01:01 PM

I love the ones that see things we see and give it a little twist. Frazz, Pickles, Arlo and Janice, For Better or Worse.

tealady 06-17-2011 01:06 PM

I used to love Miss Peach!!

I read my favs on gocomics.com, too.

Wizard of Id, Stonesoup, Calvin, and Forbetterorforworse

emt2004 06-17-2011 01:08 PM

pickles is #1..........Michele

Ramona Byrd 06-17-2011 02:23 PM

You can get them sent to you every day by email. I get a lot of them every day..I'm having more fun in my second childhood than I did even in my first!!

I'll go to the other address and get the web site and share it here.

Ramona Byrd 06-17-2011 02:32 PM


Originally Posted by kuseta
I miss Calvin and Hobbs too. My son loves the books of them. I also miss Peanuts. I love BroomHilda and Hagar the Horrible too.

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Here it is, I get a lot of them every day. They have a lot of the old ones, and a lot of new ones. So far they've been free, as many as I want.

[email protected]

maryb119 06-17-2011 03:28 PM

I like "Zits". my youngest kid is a 16 year old boy. I could write that cartoon.....

MCH 06-17-2011 03:53 PM

Mallard
Zits
Pickles
Adam@home
LuAnn
...and when I can find it, Shoe
Non Sequitor (sometimes)

bearisgray 06-17-2011 05:34 PM

Anyone remember Terry and the Pirates?

dreamboat 06-17-2011 05:57 PM

Dagwood and blondie

Sunflower Girl 06-18-2011 04:09 AM

Don't read them now but when I was growing up loved "Brenda Starr". Anyone remember that one?

Midwestmary 06-18-2011 04:27 AM

Pearls Before Swine and Pickles

genafan201 06-18-2011 05:10 AM

"Buckles"...anybody who owns dogs should LOVE that one!

Glenda m 06-18-2011 11:21 AM

Love all of them. But I am still following Alley Opp!!

quiltmagnet 06-18-2011 11:24 AM

Family Circus. My husband & I laugh at most of them....reminder of when our children were young

Ramona Byrd 06-18-2011 12:50 PM

But I am still following Alley Opp!![/quote]
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Yes, that's one that is in the group I have sent to my email.

Ally and the other two are just coming out of Warp speed and are at Earth Two, the alternate earth that is on the other side of the sun and never seen from earth or even our space ships.

I'll bet there are people there who will refuse to let them drill for oil or gas!!!

dyer804 06-18-2011 03:00 PM

Zigs has to be my favorite! With two boys, now 21 & 25, I used to think the artist was watching us. In fact, some of my friends thought we should be getting royalties! I guess that's why it is so funny, very close to home.

Glenda m 06-18-2011 03:04 PM


Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
But I am still following Alley Opp!!

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Yes, that's one that is in the group I have sent to my email.

Ally and the other two are just coming out of Warp speed and are at Earth Two, the alternate earth that is on the other side of the sun and never seen from earth or even our space ships.

I'll bet there are people there who will refuse to let them drill for oil or gas!!![/quote]

But can we trust Oscar? LOL

vickimc 06-18-2011 04:00 PM

Zits..... if you have a teenage son, you can relate to it. We have and DS is 23 and still Zits hits home.

Rosie the "Ripper" 06-18-2011 09:08 PM

I like all the ones that a funny and also have large type. So many of them have bubbles with teeny tiny words in them that I can't make out what they are saying. I don't think it is my eyes. I think they have minimized them so they can get more comic strips on the page. Does anyone else feel that this is the case or am I imagining things????

b.zang 06-18-2011 09:12 PM


Originally Posted by quiltmagnet
Family Circus. My husband & I laugh at most of them....reminder of when our children were young

That comic WAS our family!!! :)

Ramona Byrd 06-18-2011 09:53 PM


Originally Posted by rosemary krupski
I like all the ones that a funny and also have large type. So many of them have bubbles with teeny tiny words in them that I can't make out what they are saying. I don't think it is my eyes. I think they have minimized them so they can get more comic strips on the page. Does anyone else feel that this is the case or am I imagining things????

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No, you're not imagining things. I keep a magnifying glass in my desk drawer, just for this one reason.

drgranny 07-07-2011 10:04 AM

No one has mentioned B.C. That is my all time favorite. Fat Broad and the snake give me lots of laughs. I liked L'il Abner, Joe Palooka, Dondi, Ally Oop, Smiling Jack and Denny Dimwit until they quit printing them in the papers around here. My mom used to buy the NewYork News Sunday paper and The Denver Post cause they had all the good comics.

Ramona Byrd 07-07-2011 10:24 AM


Originally Posted by redkimba
If you go to http://www.gocomics.com/ - you can read your favorites for free.

My favorites are Frazz, For Better or For Worse, Heart of the City, MythTickle, Overboard, Pluggers, Stone Soup, Pibgorn, and 9 Chickweed Lane. I have others that I read (also on the gocomics.com website).

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That's what I was going to suggest. I have a mass of them delivered to my mail box every day.
Alley Oop is now just landing on Earth 2, which is a duplicate of our earth but hidden from view by our sun.
Dick Tracy has a helper in solving crime, his daughter, Honeymoon.
Cathy is still obsessing over clothes not fitting.
Nancy is still alive and kicking.

I love comics!!!


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