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Title: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on January 7, 2004, 09:42 AM
I was just wondering if any of you check out the daily comics (funnies, cartoons, whatever you might call them).  Growing up, I always read them in the newspaper (especially on Sundays, which in Nebraska is the only day of the week that the comics were in color!).  My Dad, brother and I would read them together...some sort of a tradition...probably sounds silly.  Since I work online all the time, I take a moment each day to visit Ucomics.com, to check out some of my favorites.  I always enjoy the classics...Calvin and Hobbes reprints (I wish this comic was still going), Peanuts, Garfield, Dilbert (from time to time)...and I think my favorite anymore is Fox Trot.  I guess I just find this comic funny, plus there are often mentions of Star Wars, LOTR, and other "geeky" stuff :).  Do you have any other favorites that you might recommend?  Or do you read comics at all?

UComics.com (http://www.ucomics.com/)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Mikey D on January 7, 2004, 10:14 AM
Thanks for that link, Brian.  I bookmarked it and will definitely check it out.

The Boston Globe's comics suck ass.  The only three I read are Foxtrot (the best comic out there right now), For Better or For Worse and out of habit, Garfield.  I miss the classics I grew up reading - Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey, etc.  Of course, none of those can hold a candle to Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, which along with the above mentioned Foxtrot, are probably my top three comics of all time.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Ben on January 7, 2004, 10:22 AM
I read Fox Trot, Dilbert, and PvP daily. Everything else is pretty lame.

I too wish Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side were still being made. They didn't follow the Garfield path of going even when you're not funny anymore.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: apokolips on January 7, 2004, 10:35 AM
My Dad, brother and I would read them together...some sort of a tradition...probably sounds silly.

Not silly at all!  This was how my dad helped teach me how to read.  We read the comic strips every day together.

Maybe reading comic books has skewed my view, but I haven't found newspaper comic strips funny or entertaining AT ALL in a good long while.  The funniest strips ever, in my opinion, would have to be Calvin & Hobbes, Robotman, and The Far Side.

Ever check out any of the web strips?  My favorite I read daily (when posted daily) is www.somethingpositive.net .  It's way more "adult" than the newspaper comics, definitely not for minors.  There's an archive going back a few years.  I suggest you go to the very beginning and start there.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Darth Paul on January 7, 2004, 02:56 PM
I haven't read the comics since "Calvin and Hobbes" and "The Far Side" died.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: jokabofe on January 7, 2004, 06:40 PM
the only comic i read religiously - and i do mean religiously, every day - is get fuzzy. since i don't read the newspaper, i just get it online everyday. well, actually, i get it sent to my mailbox every day, since comics.com has an email service where they will send you comics everyday, except sunday for some reason.

get fuzzy (http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html)

get fuzzy also has mentions of star wars and other pop culture icons from time to time, and i think that one of the star wars themed cartoons is actually what got me hooked. check it out, it never fails to make me laugh - or at least smile  ;D

www.comics.com (http://www.comics.com)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: jadesfire on January 8, 2004, 07:33 PM
I have the Garfield comic strip delivered daily to my email box...other than that, I don't read any unless someone posts one here.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Matt on January 8, 2004, 08:04 PM
I'm like a lot of you--my interest in the comics died with The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes.  They all suck now, and I might take a glance at the comics page every couple of months, if that.  (BTW, our paper here in Oklahoma is reported to be one of the few papers that run their daily comics in full color.  Anyone else have full color daily comics, or is it black and white?)

Anyway, if you guys like The Far Side, I want to recommend that you check out my buddy Roger's website, where he's archived his old comic, Pulp, for all to see.  Here's a sample:

(http://rogerdisney.com/pulp/images/012.jpg)

Sure, it's a little (okay, a lot) derived from Gary Larson, but please know that he was doing these over a decade ago, when he was in his late teens, and when The Far Side was still going strong.  He hasn't done any in probably seven or eight years, unfortunately, but at the time, it was pretty cool.  Even ran in a couple of local papers here in Oklahoma, too.  

http://rogerdisney.com/pulp/
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on July 19, 2004, 02:59 PM
This was posted a few days ago, but speaking of daily comics...THIS (http://www.starwars.com/hyperspace/about/news/news20040715.html) might be kind of neat.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: SPIDERLEGS on July 20, 2004, 12:53 PM
I used to love the comics page, but they seldom make me laugh any more. Opus is funny. Non Sequiter is funny sometimes. Ballard Street is so wierd most of the time that I laugh at it. Doonesbury is funny every once in a while (I'm not hip to some of the greybeard, parent with grown up kids humor Trudeau has been employing lately). Dilbert is good for a laugh 50% of the time. Boondocks ROCKS. Get Fuzzy can be cool sometimes. I can relate to The Norm. Bizarro is real hit & miss.

Comics I HATE and never read: Peanuts (Schulz is dead, let the strip RIP), Love Is...(I think she's dead, too. What's up with dead strip artists and immortality?), Family Circus (BLECH!), BC (too much preachy crap), Snuffy Smith (???), Garfield (Jim Davis has lost it completely), Curtis (can't relate), Funky Winkerbean (it's like a sitcom that tries to be serious. Cancer doesn't belong in the funny pages), Crankshaft (ditto for Alzheimers), Luann (teenage girl comes of age), any of the soap opera comic strips like Mary Worth, Judge Parker, et al (what is the point of this?!?!), The Wizard of Id ( I've never laughed at it), Hagar the Horrible (ditto), Beatle Bailey (3rd no laugh strip in a row).

I am indifferent to any strips I didn't mention. If I blasted your favorite comic strip, my apologies. This thread is timely for me because I was just complaining to a friend of mine how badly the comics pages suck these days.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Rob on July 20, 2004, 12:55 PM
I completely stopped looking once the far side and calvin and hobbes ended.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: SPIDERLEGS on July 20, 2004, 12:56 PM
Zod, you would probably dig The Boondocks.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: CorranHorn on July 20, 2004, 07:54 PM
Reading the comics in the Chicago Sun-Times is about 80% of the time the only thing I'll actually read in the newspaper unless there's some good stuff in the Tech section. The local/national/global news is just too depressing or disgusting to read and the sports section is nothing I already don't know from watching TV or listening to the radio. So comics is the place to be, some fine stuff in the Sun-Times like Garfield, Curtis, Wizard of ID, Lucky Cow, Family Circus, etc...

I've also been drawn to several online comics over the last couple years...

PvP Online (http://www.pvponline.com)
Little-Gamers (http://www.little-gamers.com)
Ctrl-Alt-Del (http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com)

All are gaming comics, though they've each branched off into other genres, with Star Wars specifically catching my eye.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Jedi Idej on July 20, 2004, 07:55 PM
The Boondocks has been a pretty good read the past year. Foxtrot is endearing. Get Fuzzy is a decent read. Dilbert is a regular for me.

The local paper picked up Pearls before Swine about a month ago. Though the latest arc has been fluffy, there was a stretch where it made fun of some other strips.

Garfield is being done by an automaton, but I gotta give Davis his due for a recent strip that took a veiled knock at the current events... or more precisely, what lead to it.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Dark_Kanos on July 20, 2004, 08:05 PM
 :D ~Dk~ likes Foxtrot,zits and whizid of id
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Keldor on July 25, 2004, 10:30 PM
I read Dilebert, but he's not in my local paper so I read the Dilbert Book;s: one of my favorites is where PHB hides the emergency flashlights so no one can play with them, to which Wally says "who plays with flashlights that's the dumbeset thing I heard" and then it shows PHB holding one begind the door and he says "The short Jedi will die first"  :D You gotta love Star Wars  references
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on August 13, 2004, 02:24 PM
One of my favorites, Fox Trot, had a Star Wars reference today...thought I would share (courtesy of Ucomics.com):
Fox Trot (http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2004/08/13/)

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2004/ft040813.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Thomas Grey on August 13, 2004, 02:53 PM
I read them every so often. I like the art for a few more than the story lines (Spiderman, Rex Morgan MD, Prince Valiant) but the Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News decided to take them out and post them on their website instead. For me that defeats the whole purpose. I like the Sunday paper and comics and if it comes to reading it online someday, I will be very upset. I also think Dilbert and Doonsberry can be funny from time-to-time, but for me that's about it. Everything I read the comics for is gone (Bloom County, Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes). Peanuts is good too and I'm glad another artist did not take over for Charles.

I have a collection of old comics pages dating back to 1913 so I appreciate them and their history and what they did for comic books. The art in Flash Gordon, Terry and the Pirates, Tarzan, Dick Tracy and when Frazetta was doing Lil' Abner are so damn good. I also like the more obscure stuff like the Little King, Henry, the older Orphen Annie and others. The comics that don't need words to tell the gag are great in my opinion. There were some amazing artists back in the day doing the dailies. I have quite a few books of collected strips that I love reading and studying. To tell a gag or story in 4 panels or less is pretty tough. Especially if it is a serial. They had to find a dramatic conclusion and intro to the next days strip and usually were able to develop and maintain the readers interest.

The majority of the dailies today are just so bland and poorly drawn (save the Boondocks and I will admit Fox Trot can be clever at times). The standards have gone down and it's all about artists (if you can call them that) that meet deadlines.

Did anyone mourn the end of Ziggy?

The strips that have kept going through the years deserve some respect for the integrity and ingenuity of the artists/writers. It must be hard to keep coming up with good story lines and also keep track of everything for consistency purposes. Alley Oop, Blondie, Beetle Bailey have all been around for a long time. The one that impresses me most is Gasoline Alley because all the characters have aged with the comic. Most stay the same.

I will rejoice when Family Circus ends it's run. It seems that it's always the comics I like or enjoy that get the ax.

I just hope the tradition of the comics pages continues and doesn't go to a purely digital format. I assume most are submitted that way now. I often see comics that are bitmapped because of a glitch in the translation. I also hope that we see a rebirth of quality and good humor gracing the pages. Gary Larson & Bill Waterson are sorely missed. I do like John Callahan, but he is a bit offensive for a daily strip and because he is a quadrapolegic, his output is a slow process.

Okay, I'm done. Good thread!
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: SPIDERLEGS on August 14, 2004, 12:45 PM
Quote
I will rejoice when Family Circus ends it's run. It seems that it's always the comics I like or enjoy that get the ax.

Unfortunately, I think it will receive the "Peanuts"/"Love is..." treatment and run long after its artist kicks it.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Famine on August 28, 2004, 12:12 PM
I saw this and figured I needed to pass it along to you all:

(http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2004081525328.gif)


:)

Kevin
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Ben on August 28, 2004, 12:19 PM
Heh. Funny. :D
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Bob Crane on August 28, 2004, 12:21 PM
(http://www.pnhp.org/img/cartoons/rex2.jpg)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: jokabofe on August 28, 2004, 11:57 PM
I saw this and figured I needed to pass it along to you all:

(http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2004081525328.gif)


:)

Kevin

yeah, that was a good one... but you forgot to add the day before that one too:

(http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2004018304827.gif)

get fuzzy is my favorite daily comic... just keeps getting funnier and funnier, and star wars references are quite common  ;D
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Famine on September 4, 2004, 10:36 AM
(http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2004091355904.gif)


Awwww.
 :D
Kevin
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on September 7, 2004, 01:33 PM
(http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2813550040906.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Famine on September 7, 2004, 02:21 PM
Hahahaha.


Maaaad funny.


Kevin


Yo.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on September 30, 2004, 03:20 PM
Thought this was pretty funny:

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2004/ft040926.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on November 1, 2004, 03:44 PM
From yesterday's edition of Fox Trot:

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2004/ft041031.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Famine on November 1, 2004, 05:30 PM
You beat me to it, mosnab.

Funny one.


Kevin
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on January 3, 2005, 02:14 PM
Another Star Wars-esque comic from the world of Fox Trot:

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050102.gif)

Fox Trot 01/02/05 (http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2005/01/02/)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: SPIDERLEGS on January 3, 2005, 07:40 PM
I knew someone would post that here. That cracked me up!
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: DSJ™ on January 4, 2005, 01:13 AM
Ha, ha. Good one.  ;D
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Ben on January 6, 2005, 02:49 AM
Now if every paper in the world followed suit, maybe the comics section wouldn't suck so hard. (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000746277)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: BillCable on January 6, 2005, 09:16 AM
My paper still carries Marmaduke.  That strip is about a thousand times more lame than Garfield.  The real tragedy is they replaced Marmaduke with Non Sequitur for a few weeks, only to switch back (not sure if that was due to complaints or due to new management being hired at that time).  Non Sequitur is my favorite daily comic.  So I just check it on-line.

http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/

I also read the Boondocks on-line... http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Xentrix on January 6, 2005, 04:54 PM
I see you mentioned John Calahan. I remember reading one of his book some years ago. Very funny!! Is he still putting out material??

Nice cane......
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: C on January 6, 2005, 06:11 PM


I also read the Boondocks on-line... http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/

i'm surprised you can stomach that - macgruder's politics could hardly be further from your own.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: BillCable on January 6, 2005, 10:06 PM
I love Doonesbury, too.  You don't have to agree with something politically to appreciate its artistic merit or humor.  Plus I love all the black in-jokes in the Boondocks.  And Aaron Mcgruder is a huge Star Wars buff.   ;D
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Thomas Grey on January 7, 2005, 07:51 PM
Callahan just release his 5th or 6th book of cartoons. He was contracted to do a Saturday morning cartoon about a kid confined to a wheel chair and I am not sure whether it flew or not. I saw one episode on an obscure Nickolodeon channel and the eyes of the characters made it worth watching. It's a bit risky, but still geared for kids...
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: John C on January 11, 2005, 11:06 PM
Get Fuzzy, Fox Trot and The Norm are some of my favorites.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: SPIDERLEGS on January 12, 2005, 11:20 AM
Ballard Street is pretty funny. Opus is good and I'm a huge Non Sequitur fan. Boondocks isn't carried on our comics page, but on our horoscope page because Belo doesn't like it. Doonsbury is carried on the editorial page for the same reason.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: DSJ™ on April 17, 2005, 12:12 PM
Foxtrot for today.  ;D

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050417.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: JesseVader08 on April 17, 2005, 12:57 PM
Ha!  I know Jar Jar would turn me to the dark side!

 :D
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: DSJ™ on May 10, 2005, 12:43 PM
From yesterday.

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050509.gif)

Todays.

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050510.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: JesseVader08 on May 10, 2005, 01:06 PM
"This is CNN".   :D

I love Foxtrot's Star Wars toons!  Do you think maybe he's a fan too?   ;)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: DSJ™ on May 11, 2005, 10:52 AM
(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050511.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: DSJ™ on May 13, 2005, 08:42 AM
From yesterday.

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050512.gif)

Todays.

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050513.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: DSJ™ on May 15, 2005, 03:32 AM
(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050514.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Famine on May 15, 2005, 05:58 PM
That would have been my reaction, too!

I cant wait to have kids so I can get them into Star Wars!

Kevin
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Imperial Outpost on May 18, 2005, 05:57 PM
Ha! That last one is brilliant!
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on June 20, 2005, 09:28 AM
I enjoyed this one, yesterday's Fox Trot:

Fox Trot 6/19 (http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2005/06/19/)

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2005/ft050619.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Famine on June 21, 2005, 05:36 PM
I laughed my butt off at that, yesterday!

Kevin
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: JesseVader08 on June 24, 2005, 12:32 AM
From shortpacked.com:

(http://www.jedidefender.com/jwall/pics/Shortpacked-20050601a.gif)

 ;D
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: CorranHorn on June 25, 2005, 02:42 AM
I just read all of shortpacked, hilarious comic and it speaks to the heart of us sw toy collectors :) it's now on my list of comics to read, thanks for posting it!
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Famine on June 25, 2005, 10:38 AM
(http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20050622a.gif)

Good.

Very good.

Kevin
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Bob Crane on August 16, 2005, 01:46 PM
(http://arflovers.com/arfimages/tour13_rubino2.jpg)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Nathan on August 17, 2005, 12:21 AM
Hah. I love Shortpacked.

(http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20050803five.gif)

;D Anybody else remember that 80s movie, Short Circuit?
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Bob Crane on August 17, 2005, 10:05 AM
Thanks for the reminder.
(http://www.soultracks.com/debarge.jpg)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Darth_Anton on August 18, 2005, 01:20 PM
My buddy Joe, who is a SW collector as well, has been doing his own comic for years. He's at comic-con every year and apparently has a bit of a following. I dig the comic and I think some of you will too:

Piratecove (http://www.piratecovecomic.com)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Ben on November 2, 2005, 03:41 AM
Questionable Content (http://www.questionablecontent.net/)

(http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/11.png)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on January 17, 2006, 04:10 PM
Today's FoxTrot:

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2006/ft060117.gif)

FoxTrot - 01/17/06 (http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2006/ft060117.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on March 24, 2006, 04:33 PM
Fox Trot - 03/24/06 (http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2006/ft060324.gif)

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2006/ft060324.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: name on March 26, 2006, 01:34 AM
It's not a daily, but if you're not reading Dr. McNinja (http://www.drmcninja.com), then you suck.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: name on March 27, 2006, 12:59 PM
Anybody reading Shortpacked?

(http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20060324fanchoice.png)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Matt on December 12, 2006, 05:23 PM
FoxTrot to Cease Dailies (http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468)

Quote
Kansas City, MO  (12/05/2006)  Bill Amend’s popular FoxTrot comic strip will go to a Sunday-only publication schedule as of Dec. 31, 2006, announced Universal Press Syndicate today. The last daily will be Saturday, Dec. 30. Reruns of dailies will be available for Web usage.

“After spending close to half of my life writing and drawing FoxTrot cartoons, I think it’s time I got out of the house and tried some new things,” said Amend. “I love cartooning and I absolutely want to continue doing the strip, just not at the current all-consuming pace. I’ve been blessed over the years with a terrific syndicate, patient newspaper clients, and more support from readers than I probably deserve, and I want to assure them all that while I’ll be now a less-frequent participant on the comics pages, I’ll continue to treat my visits as the special privilege they are.”

Amend, who started the strip in April, 1988, and who has more than 1,000 client newspapers, is taking time to pursue other creative outlets. “In addition to Sunday newspapers, we may see FoxTrot entertaining us in other kinds of media platforms,” says Lee Salem, president and editor of Universal Press Syndicate.

Amend has more than 30 published FoxTrot comic collections and has licensed his characters for calendars and wallpapers for cell phones. He was nominated in 2006 as a finalist for cartoonist of the year by the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award.

'Better, Worse' creator ready for last laughs (http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grpress/index.ssf?/base/features-0/11633175419490.xml&coll=6)

Quote
Sunday, November 12, 2006
By Patti Eddington
The Grand Rapids Press

April Patterson will never make her mother, Elly, nervous by driving a motorcycle like her big sister, Elizabeth, or joyous by marrying and having children like her brother, Michael. She will never again own pets like Farley, who gave his life to save her from drowning, or his fuzzy faced successor Edgar.

These things will not happen because in the fall of 2007, after 28 years, April, Elly, John, Michael, Elizabeth and the rest of the beloved Patterson family will give their creator, Lynn Johnston, a much deserved rest.

And while they may be back, the "For Better or For Worse" clan won't get any older. Speaking from her office in Corbeil, Ont., Johnston said she considered finding someone to carry on the comic strip -- based on her own family, it appears daily in The Grand Rapids Press and 2,000 other papers in 22 countries -- but knew the scenario would never work; she would want to be involved.
   
"In my heart, I know I'd be over their shoulder all the time like, as my father used to say, 'a bad smell,' " she said, laughing. "I also thought about having someone take over the strip from Michael's (the oldest son) point of view. But, ultimately, I decided I would like to stop.

"My parents died young. I would like to jump out of an airplane again and bungee jump and see the Eiffel Tower ... from the top." Fans will be delighted to know that the strip will not end. Rather, it will continue as a still-being discussed hybrid of some earlier, little seen work along with some new material."

But, with the exception of a possible book to catch readers up on what happens to the Pattersons, the characters will not age beyond the day Johnston sets aside her India ink.

"I just can't see them growing older," she says.

The decision to leave the characters as they are will mean the youngest Patterson, April, will forever be frozen as a young woman on the cusp of becoming an adult. Created in 1991 to satisfy a desire Johnston had to have a third child, millions have watched April grow into her teens chronicled in the recent collection of strips "She's Turning Into One of Them" (Andrews McMeel, 136 pages, $10.95).

The book follows April as she deals with many of the same issues as her real life counterparts; snobby girls, sibling squabbles and playing in a band.

"She has made that transition from little girl to young adult," Johnston said. "When the strip concludes, she'll be getting ready to go to university, she'll be excited and scared. She'll still be hanging out with the band. She would definitely, eventually, be a veterinarian, because it's one of the things that always interested me and all of the characters are me."

Johnston says she knows many readers already mourn the loss of April as a child, with her bib overalls, pageboy haircut and Farley by her side. But she hopes they take heart in the fact that April will forever remain a delightful and happy young person.

As for herself, Johnston, who will be 60 next May, said she's ready to take a break from the lovable Pattersons.

"I feel I've done the best I can do for as long as I can do it," she said. "It's time."
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Mikey D on December 13, 2006, 07:33 AM
Sad to see both go, but at least the authors did it on their accord.  Foxtrot is my favorite current comic and after Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, probably my third favorite of all time.  I've always enjoyed FBOFW also, mainly due to the real time aspect.  I remember April being born and Michael going off to school and later getting married and then having kids (for the most part, parallelling my life).  Both comics will be missed.

Now when's crap like the Family Circus and Garfield going to fold up shop.  Way over due, they haven't been funny in years.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on December 13, 2006, 09:25 AM
I read that about FoxTrot the other day, and I'll be sad to see it go.  FoxTrot and Calvin and Hobbes have always been my favorites, and I look forward to reading the new FT every day.  It sounds like it will continue on Sundays, which is nice that there will still be a little something new on the way.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Sprry75 on December 13, 2006, 01:54 PM
The only half-decent comic left is Overboard, the one about the zany/dim-witted pirates.

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ob/2006/ob061211.gif)

(And it's hit and miss....)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Matt on February 26, 2008, 01:26 PM
Caught this on another message board:

Garfield Minus Garfield (http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/)

The premise is, if you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strip, the Garfield comic strip becomes inherently more funny.  (It also puts a whole new spin on the Jon Arbuckle character.)

Some examples:

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5mlngd9Q6u5XcrB_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5m18qgq2N4swDec_500.gif)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5l9t1gisQZ6l8DZ_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5e5s3uxsSZRK17t_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5e19ijbM9bamFJh_500.gif)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5e172npaV6L70kI_500.gif)

Thoughts?
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: jedi_master_sal on February 26, 2008, 01:51 PM
Actually some of those were quite funny in a pitifully sad and lonely sort of way....

At least with Garfield he has something to talk to...
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Reid on February 26, 2008, 09:59 PM
Caught this on another message board:

Garfield Minus Garfield (http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/)

The premise is, if you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strip, the Garfield comic strip becomes inherently more funny.  (It also puts a whole new spin on the Jon Arbuckle character.)

Thoughts?

I was on the floor laughing for the last five minutes, great stuff, and much funnier than the actual Garfield strip nowadays. Some of my favorites that you didn't post:

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5tbbjd5pSHr2xm8_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5r0femvwGOATDDY_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5v5is1v1viuKME7_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5tv6npt2fZ1rWwV_r1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: BillCable on February 26, 2008, 11:09 PM
God... I can't stop giggling.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: name on February 27, 2008, 03:48 PM
That is genuinely hilarious.

The one with the pants is gold.  So is this one.

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5kzq9b81gwhyv7n_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: ruiner on February 27, 2008, 03:55 PM
Wow, I would actually read this strip - and find it funny.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: iFett on February 27, 2008, 04:00 PM
Funny **** indeed!!   :)   Are there any other comics out there that can be photoshopped with such greatness?
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Carpeteria3000 on February 29, 2008, 03:55 PM
Marmaduke minus Marmaduke?
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Ben on June 2, 2008, 03:05 AM
So, I just found a comic called Savage Chickens. (http://www.savagechickens.com/index.html) I like it.  :)

(http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickentusken.jpg)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Matt_Fury on June 2, 2008, 07:17 PM
I'm still a big fan of Dilbert (http://www.dilbert.com).  They recently added animated cartoons to the site as well as a feature where you can modify the last panel of a comic.
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: evenflow on June 2, 2008, 07:41 PM
Those garfield ones without the garfield are really funny
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Brian on January 18, 2009, 01:03 PM
Fox Trot (http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2009/ft090118.gif) for Jan 18:

(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2009/ft090118.gif)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Matt_Fury on January 18, 2009, 07:03 PM
I saw that one today and laughed for a good while.   :D
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: BillCable on April 22, 2009, 02:59 PM
Hilariously offensive... (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/4/22/)
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: efranks on April 22, 2009, 08:37 PM
I laughed pretty hard at that.  Is that wrong?
Title: Re: Daily Comics
Post by: Phrubruh on October 31, 2010, 12:11 PM
For Halloween, Foxtrot had a very scary Star Wars related one.

(http://www.foxtrot.com/comics/2010-10-31-f4ddd8a1.gif)