Do you still read the comic strips in the newspaper? (Did you ever?)

I read the comics loyally. Big Nate, Baby Blues, Dilbert, etc. When Calvin and Hobbes ended I was sad.

I do! I rarely get a paper anymore, but when I do, it’s a Sunday paper and the comics are in their full-color glory. Irresistible!

Dinosaur confession: I read 5 newspapers a day. While they still have them. Online papers suck.

Sure, and like the paper, I just moved online with it. Thank you Go Comics and Arcamax.

I always used to as a kid. On Saturdays we had the special comics section that was its own few pages long, which had a lot of classics; Fox Trot, Beetle Bailey, Garfield, The Far Side, lots more. It’s also where I first discovered Calvin and Hobbes, one of my favorite comics. I kept it up for years, saw The Far Side disappear, the arrival of Non Sequitur, etc.

I don’t do it now, since I myself never buy the paper, that was back when I was a kid/teen and someone else always bought it…but if there’s a paper handy somewhere and I happen to read it, I always check out the comics first. Unfortunately this is Québec, where most comics are translated in French, (and they’re half a page, no special weekend edition like I had in Winnipeg) which doesn’t sit much with me. I don’t enjoy translations much…but it’s still good to see Hagar the Horrible still kickin’. also I totally hated The Family Circus…yet I couldn’t stop readin em

If I get a paper and the chance, I only read the ones that are acutally comical. I don’t follow the ones that tell a story through many days. I can’t follow up and I prefer a laugh. From what comes to my mind, I remember always liking Zits and Hagar the Horrible. Never understood Dilbert. I’m only going back a few years, not decades or anything.

I read several newspapers online, and I enjoy reading the comics there when they have them and on other sites devoted to comics. My current favorites are Doonesbury, Ballard Street, Non Sequitur, and The New Adventures of Queen Victoria. I read them here most often.

It’s pretty much the only reason I still keep a subscription. The rest of the news is available faster and usually better and in more detail elsewhere (except for the most local news), but the Hartford Courant has a two-page comics section in the Monday-Saturday edition, and a 4-page color section on Sunday. On the weekday / Saturday paper, I read everything else first and then dawdle over the comics, finishing with Sudoku and Jumble®, and on Sunday I usually start with the comics.

The only comic I avoid with extreme regularity is Zippy (formerly Zippy the Pinhead), which, oddly enough, is drawn by a Connecticut artist.

I read the comics in the paper when I was a kid; I grew up on Peanuts and The Wizard of Id and B.C. and so many others, and eventually became a huge fan of Doonesbury, Bloom County, and The Far Side. But then… there were always newspapers in my house when I was growing up. Do people still have newspapers delivered?

All of my favourite comics stopped being printed (except Doonesbury, which I admit I’ve lost track of), and I never found good newspaper comics to replace them. I find that like lots of my university colleagues, I now follow online comics, like xkcd and Hyperbole and a Half.

I used to read them yes. I don’t get print newspapers now so I don’t anymore. My husband and I have talked about“Hagar the Horrible”“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4gar_the_Horrible quite often. I even subscribed to the online site for a while. My husband has Viking roots.

I read the comics on a daily basis. Luann(comic_strip) is my favorite. It’s about a young woman, still in high school who has to deal with all of the usual stuff, but it also often takes on a very serious tone, and has discussed homosexuality, death and depression. They even made a musical play out of Luann and it was one of the best plays I’ve ever seen! It’s interesting to see the artistic transfomation of Luann as a fat ugly pre-teen, to a lovely young woman (Mr. Evans completely changed his artistic style as the years have passed).

I used to read For Better or Worse, by Lynn Johnson, until she retired. Her story lines were about a typical, happy North Amerian (from Canada) family and the trials and triubulations of modern life. It floored me to find out that she was retiring in part because her husband was divorcing her for another woman, something the father in the strip would never have done. There was a dog called Marley, in the earlier days of the strip. I guess the dog was based upon Ms. Johnson’s real family dog. When Marley died in the strip, I wept un-controllably. I’m actually tearing up now, just thinking about it. : (

I also like Baby Blues, Zits, Non Sequitur and Bizarro.

Old favorites include Blondie, Hagar the Horrible and Beetle Bailey.

I get my paper online now, and I no longer read the comics.

Only one, Horace the gormless cowboy from a popular red-top.

I get the paper a red the comics daily. Pickles, Dilbert, For better of for worse, Blondie, Garfield, Hagar, Doonsebury, BC, Wizard of Id, Jump Start, Rubes, .
I stopped reading Rex Morgan MD when I realized it moves at 1/120 of real time. Slower than molasses on Mary Worthless.
Even though the paper is getting smaller and printing fewer pages, I still consider it one of life’s little pleasures.

I only buy the Sunday paper, but I always look forward to Doonesbury. They had a repeat this Sunday of one of my favourites ever! (regarding schools in Louisiana being forced to teach creationism)

For a couple of decades I used to literally get my news from Doonesbury. I quit watching TV a long time ago, and I don’t (didn’t) look at the newspaper every day. But if I tracked Doonesbury, I was pretty well caught up on what was coming out of the White House and other political fronts and what was going on culturally. That strip will be a rich vein for historians to mine.

@Jeruba That niche seems to be filled by The Daily Show now.

Sorry, @glacial, I don’t get it.

Really, @Jeruba? Oh, if you don’t get that, then maybe you just don’t watch The Daily Show? I don’t watch it often because I just don’t watch a lot of television, but Jon Stewart is good.

It’s snarky, funny, intelligent criticism of hypocrisy, puncturing the hot air balloons inside of stuffed shirts, exposing idiocy and power grabs: It’s Doonesbury with a human as Doonesbury.

@LuckyGuy, the grandpa in Pickles is my Dad! My Mom is always cutting them out and showing them to me LOL.

@CWOTUS, as I wrote just above @glacial‘s post, I quit watching TV a long time ago. It was shortly after STNG went off the air. I don’t know the current shows or the personalities at all.

I don’t have TV at home either. If I could buy cable a’la’ carte, I would totally do it. BBCAmerica and Comedy Central, MLB channel so the hubs can watch baseball, and PBS, and I’d be set.

As it is, I watch The Daily Show on my lunch break at work, while I’m Fluthering.

@Seek_Kolinahr I forgot to wish you a kind welcome, well not really welcome ‘cause you’ve been around for awhile, but a big fat congratulations on your new position as a Mod!

The needs of the many are greater than the needs of one. Live long and prosper : )

Thanks, @Kardamom I appreciate it! It’s good to be home, and the new job is quite an honour

I do still read the comics, but I’m kind of a humor junkie, so I’ll read ANYTHING that hints at the potential to make me laugh. :)

Yep, I still do, but most of the great strips have since passed on to the great Newspaper Morgue in the Sky. When I was little, strips like “Prince Valiant”, “Wee Pals,” “Miss Peach,” “Gordo,” “Peanuts,” “Doonesbury,” and “Pogo” were strips I remember and enjoyed. Later, “The Far Side”, “For Better or For Worse,” and “Calvin and Hobbes” were my go-to strips. These days, I enjoy “Sally Forth”; I’ll read the others, but it’s not quite the same since Bill Watterson up and quit.

However, as I got older, I discovered strips from before my time, such as “Dick Tracy” (it was still around when I was young, but its best period was the 1930’s and early 1940’s), “Little Orphan Annie” (extremely conservative politics, but great storylines in the 1930’s), “Moon Mullins”, “Buster Brown”, and other gems.

I agree the heyday of comic strips, its Golden Age, has passed, but the art form is still with us, and I enjoy it for what it’s worth.