So do you still read...

16 years ago

the "funny papers"?

I sure used to everyday as a kid, but haven't done so in years. Now that's the first part of the newspaper my husband goes to every morning, with "The Business Section" the second. I'll often hear him laughing uproariously at something there, glance at it myself, and "eh'.

I'm always surprised when our local newspapers delete a comic strip and the annoyed Letters to the Editor that follow.

But I have been known to laugh heartily at a New Yorker "cartoon" that probably a lot of other people wouldn't "get".

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murraysmom Zone 6a OH
16 years ago
I just like a couple that run in our newspaper. I like "Speed Bump" and "Mutts" and sometimes "Red and Rover". "Speed Bump" is my favorite. It's pretty wacky.
vala55
16 years ago
I read the comics, the local news and do the crossword. The rest of it is a waste of money.
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wanda_va
16 years ago
By the time I read the news and business sections, I'm too depressed to be entertained by the comics....
patti43
16 years ago
Sure do. My life needs a little diversity, but then I'm not terribly sophisticated. Oh, I did get my "letter to the editor" published last week on my first try.
sheesh
16 years ago
Yes, we love the comics here. We have delivered and try to read both the local major daily and the New York Times every day, but it tends to get away from us.

My hub is a retired reporter for our major daily, so keep reading those papers!
dotmom
16 years ago
I read several most mornings. I like Family Circus, Crankshaft, and Mark Trail, and scan most of the others.

Patti43, I'm sorry if you posted about your letter to the editor and I missed it. What was it about? I have had a couple published in the MPLS tribune. Kinda fun.
socks
16 years ago
No, they are not funny.
Jodi_SoCal
16 years ago
Not since Gary Larson left the scene.
sue_va
16 years ago
Only one, and that is ZITS.

I have the weekend edition of the local newspaper delivered, and the weekdays I read on line, but only the local headlines and the Obits. All other news I get from radio and TV, and oh, yeah, the KT.

I don't have teenagers any more but for whatever reason, I love ZITS. I read it online first thing.

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Zits and others
hgl_gaylemarie
16 years ago
Gosh I haven't read them since I was 12.
williamsburgjane
16 years ago
Yes, there are some I read and some I skip.
patti43
16 years ago
Dotmom, I didn't post about my letter to the editor. Can't--it was political.
phyllis__mn
16 years ago
Oh, I do, and skip some.....I love Zits, Stone Soup, Crankshaft, Arlo and Janis
monica_pa Grieves
16 years ago
Yup, read them every day. Love Pickles.
On the same page, is the crossword and Suduku that I do every day.
After they're finished...I get up for the day.
Jasdip
16 years ago
Patti, Hubby and I fire off letters to the editor and they do get printed. We also like emailing the local talk-radio host and he reads them as well.
chisue
16 years ago
"Pickles" is rather new in our Chicago Tribune. I like it.

I also read "Frazz", "Doonesbury", "Mutts" and "The Argyle Sweater". (I have no idea why the latter is named that!)

It takes two minutes and the laughter makes a good 'chaser' after the Business section and World News.
nanny98
16 years ago
Pickles. DH usually gets a big kick out of it as well, although it sometimes misses the mark. Nanny
dotmom
16 years ago
Patti43....nuff said. So was mine.
bigack
16 years ago
DH and I always read the funnies every day. Just hated it when they cancelled Piranah Club.
soxxxx
16 years ago
I used to read Popeye, Little Nancy, L'il Abner, & Jiggs.
Where did they go?

Now I only read Zits. He reminds me of what living with my son as a teenager was like. Nothing changes.

I always do the crossword and read Thomas Sowell.
Marilyn Sue
16 years ago
No, I never read them growing up and we almost have never taken a newspaper.

Sue
cheryl_ok
16 years ago
The good ones are no longer there. Nope, I don't read or enjoy the funnies anymore
amyfiddler
16 years ago
I used to read every inch of news when I was a kid. No tv, and if course no net.

I'm a monthly columnist and so I read on occasion. Sometimes I wish I were a comic writer. It doesn't seem to require too much creativity, other than previously mentioned Gary Larson who was worth getting the paper for alone!
sable_ca
16 years ago
I love For Better Or For Worse and read it every day online. Also read some other comics in our weekend edition of the paper (we only get it Fri., Sat. and Sun.)
joyfulguy
16 years ago
I've enjoyed the comics, various topics, and really enjoyed "Pogo", ever since I was a kid ...

... or should that be, " ... as long as I've been a kid"?

ole joyful