when did the sunday comics...get boring?
 

all the good funnies are gone...

you guys still reading them?

Garfield hasn't been funny for many years. Gary Larson retired a while ago, so no more Far Side. I agree, comics suck nowadays.

No longer read newspapers...

JR

and Family Circus won't seem to ****ing die.

thats a sad but true cartoon. i love calvin and hobes. but thats the way society is going nothing is fun or funny anymore. if it is then it must be a disease and muse be treated or "fixed"

Theres also no good cartoons on t.v anymore. my favorite was teenage mutant ninja turtles or the real ghost busters.

December 31, 1995

"The Far Side" ceased publication 1/1/95...

"politically correct" removed a lot of fun in life...

I kinda like this one...

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Unfortunately, our Sunday paper doesn't carry "Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles"...

http://www.mangaitalia.com/redazione...mg/wiggles.jpg

Last day for Calvin and Hobbes.

Bad day...

The LA Times had great Sunday comics. Calvin and Hobbes, the Far Side, BC and Crock, Andy Capp. Doonesbury is still around, and people still whore out Peanuts even though Schultz has been dead a while (he died New Years Eve -- the last day the final Peanuts was to run, IIRC).

I think the problem is fewer news companies syndicate that much anymore, which is how these artist-writers make their bread and butter.

And the PC crap that today's media outlets let seep into their craft doesn't help either.

Doonesbury has been pulled several times for its socio-political insensitivities, and Andy Capp was stopped entirely because the main character (Andy) was a boozing, womanizing, snooker-playing, chain smoking oaf on the British Dole -- a perfect character for today, IMO. Problem is that's another comic where the artist died right alongside the strip.

Mother Goose is still pretty good.

I defy anyone to find one single Peanuts cartoon that is funny. Most overrated strip in history. Charles Schulz was an a-hole. 50 years he made Charlie Brown a loser at EVERYTHING because he thought that was funnier than having him win at something.

I still like Dilbert (except Wally).

I loved the Calvin and Hobbes series, mostly the funny ones. This one is terribly sad, but really well done.

That's not an actual "Calvin and Hobbes" strip, of course.

"Dilbert" and "Pearls Before Swine" are okay.

I stopped reading years ago. Far Side was outstanding. Dilbert had a good run but has been in decline for years. I can't tell you the names of any other comics currently running. I read xkcd online. I used to read PVP too, but I got frustrated after too many convoluted stories that ended up going nowhere.

As for cartoons, watch "Adult Swim" on cartoon network. These are cartoons geared towards adults. Some suck, like Squidbillies, Drinky Crow, and Family Guy, but there are some real gems, like Robot Chicken, Venture Brothers, and Harvey Birdman.

Cartoons - the kids and I like "Spongebob", find it hilariously stupid, like "Ren and Stimpy". "Avatar" was really good, still being re-run.

I read old Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County strips on the Web, and I still read Dilbert, Pearls Before Swine, and Monty. It is rare that I actually laugh, but every once in a while, there is a good one.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1251207131.gif

Honestly, I find more humor from random stuff on the 'net than comics.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1251207385.jpg
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Dave and Buster's restaurant chain advertises that "Everyone has a Fun." A "Fun" being something like an inner self that doesn't take life so serious.

I don't get to go to Dave and Buster's.

My Fun was tied up, shot twice in the back of the head, and dumped in a swamp somewhere in New Jersey around 9 years ago.



In case you don't have a D&B in your area, this is what I am referring to:

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Beetle Bailey has been about af un-funny as Peanuts. Both are total waste of space. Dilbert is the only one that ever has anything funny anymore.

Far Side and Calvin & Hobbs, pretty much the pinnacle of comics. Except for Dilbert, the rest are total crap.

i like the shark one...sherman's lagoon. good stuff.

someone needs to step it up.

All can be found here... including Andy Capp.

http://www.gocomics.com/features

Great find! Thank you! SmileWavy

When were Sunday comics not boring?

Died with C&H and the Far Side.

On the last day of Calvin and Hobbes, I was driving Seattle to southern Oregon and dictated a poem into a tape recorder I had to carry everywhere..
I don't remember most of it, but here's how it started.


Today we lose a boy and beast
Who, upon our laughter, did feast
More important than Emperor Nero,
No ordinary newspaper Comic Strip hero...

I don't remember the rest of it though. Sure wish I could. :(