Favorite newspaper strips

[nakak]

Just wondering. What's your favorite newspaper strips?

Ones currently in papers -

Pearls Before Swine (so far the best)
Mutts
FoxTrot
Pickles
The Piranha Club
Broom Hilda (well, just the Sundays. The dailies arn't that good)
Opus (not as funny as Bloom County, but it's still cool)
Brewster Rockit - Space Guy! (this strip is drawn in soap opera style, but they're mostly silly humor strip)
Shoes (unfortunatly, got little stale after Jeff MacNelly's untimely death)
Heart of the City
Lucky Cow (maybe little repitive, but for a strip introduced last year, this has the best drawing)
CEO Dad (Has New Yorker type humor. Well, considering the artist used to draw for New Yorker)
Zits
For Better or For Worse
Ones that ended

Calvin and Hobbes (the best ever, next to Peanuts)
Far Side
Bloom County
Peanuts
Frumpy the Clown (another good one)
At the Zu
Pogo
Krazy Kat
Dick Tracy (okay, I know its still around, but after Chester Gould died, so should've the strip)
Mr. Lowe
Grandfather Clause
Eek and Meek (back when they were still mice)
There are more, but that's all I can think of.

[guinaevere]

Current:
Dilbert
Fox Trot
Zits
and I'm starting to like Prickly City.

Of ones that have ended:
Far Side
Calvin & Hobbes
Bloom County

[Bubblegum Girl]

Current Ones:
Foxtrot
Garfield
Zits
Spot the Frog
Dilbert

Ones that Ended:
Calvin & Hobbes
Far Side
Bloom County

[NeoSerenity]

Pearls Before Swine is my favorite!:D I love when Rat gets really angry, and the Anxieteers!:p

[Fone Bone]

Current:

The Boondocks

Opus

Doonesbury

Ended:

Calvin and Hobbes

Bloom County

Outland

I also want to read more of Peanuts if I can get my hands on some collections. I always enjoyed reading it in the rival local paper and I'd like to get a better feel for it over the years (although I have read some period specific collections.)

[Zach Williams]

I read:

Ziggy:D :D :D :D

Zits

Dilbert

The Boondocks

Peanuts

Garfield

Mutts

Pickles

Hagar the Horrible

Calvin & Hobbes

[uptonogood]

comics died when calvin & hobbes ended.

[nakak]

comics died when calvin & hobbes ended.you know, alot of people says they stopped reading comics when "Calvin" ended, but this is kinda odd.

Watterson ended "Calvin and Hobbes" because he was afraid the strip is going stale, and also wanted to give other cartoonists a chance to get syndicated. Basically, he ended the strip because he wanted more people to read the comics.

Don't get me wrong. I think "Calvin" was the greatest strip ever, but judging my reading last few "Calvin", I think Watterson ended the strip on time.

Oh, and BTW, you know Matt Groening's strip "Life in Hell"? Well, is that still around?

[Fone Bone]

you know, alot of people says they stopped reading comics when "Calvin" ended, but this is kinda odd.

Watterson ended "Calvin and Hobbes" because he was afraid the strip is going stale, and also wanted to give other cartoonists a chance to get syndicated. Basically, he ended the strip because he wanted more people to read the comics.

Don't get me wrong. I think "Calvin" was the greatest strip ever, but judging my reading last few "Calvin", I think Watterson ended the strip on time.

Oh, and BTW, you know Matt Groening's strip "Life in Hell"? Well, is that still around?
The dailies might've gotten stale but the Sunday strips were still awesome.

Fortunately Opus and The Boondocks have gotten me back into strips again since Calvin and Hobbes and Outland ended.

I have no clue if Groening is still doing Life in Hell. It's one of the most true to life strips ever and it uses talking rabbits!

[Anthonynotes]

Favorite comic strips (currently running):

For Better or For Worse

FoxTrot

Doonesbury

The Boondocks

Get Fuzzy

Dilbert

Dykes to Watch Out For (weekly strip about a bunch of mostly middle-aged characters, most of them lesbians, and their lives. Particularly like Mo---the easily agitated politically leftist one who complains a lot... )

This Modern World (weekly strip with a leftist bent and use of clip-art-style artwork. No running plots, unless you count the current strips having its one recurring character [a penguin] get beaned upside the head and turned Republican...)

Also liked reading the book collection of "Chelsea Boys" (another gay-oriented strip, though can tend toward being fairly "blue"/sexually frank... relevant to Toonzone, the writers/cartoonists of it did work for "Courage the Cowardly Dog" and various "Cartoon Network Presents" comics, explaining their art style), but since it's not published around here, can't really read it.

-B.

[FredNash]

Well, I get Dilbert in my email every day, and I always enjoy that. But about the only strip in our local paper I read is FoxTrot...

As for strips in general, my favorite right now is Liberty Meadows, even though it's sort of cancelled, it's still coming out in comic book form... Get Fuzzy is good too, but I have to go to comics.com to read it :shrug:

[Donald Duck 12]

Nothing has or ever will beat Peanuts. But in my newspaper I read: Baby Blues, Beetle Baily, Blondie, Garfield (even though it's going downhill), Dennis the Menace, and the Lockhorns. On Sunday's I read Donald Duck. When I have extra time I'll read Shoe, Hagar the Horrible, Dilbert, Gasoline Alley (not too often), and Mallard Fillmore.

[Lonestarr]

Mutts
Baby Blues
The Boondocks
Get Fuzzy
Funky Winkerbean
Pickles

[PaQ]

Current:
Get Fuzzy
Fox Trot
Adam
Dilbert

Ended:
Calvin & Hobbes
Far Side
Peanuts

[Aquadementia]

The only things I like now is Dilbert.
I look at Baby Blues and Doonesbury every now and again.
Call me crazy, but I actually think Cathy is a vary good comic strip. I don't read it much though, but I can see why people do.

Looking at the art work I would probably say Doonesbury is my favorite, but I pretty much lost interest in the characters years ago.
And I also like the style of Blondie, especially Dagwood with his hair and all.

In the past...
The strip that first drew me to the funny pages was Beetle Bailey. When I was a young kid doing my first comic type drawings, I pretty much was imitating a Beetle Bailey style humor and look, with the results you'd expect from a nearly average 6->7 year old.

My golden age of news-print.
Calvin and Hobbes,
Farside,
Bloom County/Outland,
plus I was vary into Doonesbury at the time. I always had to check the funny pages to catch every installment of these and usually read all the other comics too. This was a reason to have a subscription to a paper. It seems like lately I get about 4 or 5 papers a month.
Maybe if papers would start putting in strips that appeal to younger people, they would get more subscriptions.

[Peter Paltridge]

Get Fuzzy
Foxtrot
Opus

CANNED
Calvin & Hobbes
Bloom County/Outland

Bloom County is the greatest strip of all time. Immense and unheard-of creativity and just about everything that happened was a riot. No matter how hard anyone tries, they will never come close to Bloom County.

[TwoPossums]

Currently reading:

Frazz
Spooner
The Norm
Luann
Red & Rover
Rose is Rose
Non Sequitur
Baldo
9 Chickweed Lane

Canceled
Calvin and Hobbes
Bloom County
Citizen Dog

Online Strips
PVP
Sinfest
Butternutsquash

I don't even read the local paper. The comic page is so stale so I have to find all my stips online. Which can be good cause it allows me to search all the strips and pick my favs.

There are so many strips right now that are too old and should be retired. Cough Cough Peanuts cough cough. Here's a rule, the strip should be retired at least when the creater dies. I mean damn. Blondie was good when Chic Young did it but I believe his son or somebody does it now. Prince Valiant is also a family affair now. Hank Ketcham has passed and his assistant draw Dennis the Menace now. There are some classic strips that are great but make way for new guys and maybe they will find some new readers.

TwoPossums

[The Frog]

Dilbert
Doonesbury
The Boondocks
Cathy
Get Fuzzy
Brewster Rockit: Space Guy (My paper just got it, it's really good)
For Better or For Worse
Zits
Baby Blues (Though not as good as it used to be.)
Fox Trot
Mutts
Frazz
Non-Sequiter

I really like reading my comics...

[Mynd Hed]

Red Meat: the newspaper strip you won't find in your local newspaper.
It's sheer brilliance. Flagstaff's local free paper features it, because none of the big papers from Phoenix or Tucson will carry it. It's also in The Onion. It's better experienced than described, but if you put a gun to my head, I'd describe it this way: if Williams Street at their absolute best made a comic strip sans any interference from CN S&P, this would be it.