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Well, not quite, but am I the only one rejoicing at the news of the upcoming demise of the "Cathy" comic strip? That's had to be the most annoying strip of my life! How I have longed to fart in the face of Cathy Guisewite....

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orbital sander Enthusiast

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Beetle Bailey? I agree Family Circus and Cathy are worse but not by much.

 

Family Circus & Beetle Baily are still around? I have not read comics for years. RIP Cathy, one of the many pointless parts of the newspapers I no longer read

honcho Grand Master

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Dissenting Opinion -

 

I *enjoyed* reading Cathy (and family circus for that matter).

 

(I have to admit having stopped reading comics when I moved out of my ex's a few years, back being too stingy

to subscribe to the SF Chronicle, and too lazy or not motivated enough to follow them all online)

 

I could identify with Cathy's self-undermining behavior, and graceful humor in dealing with it all.

 

Does anybody remember the comic strip "Gordo"?

wayout Community Regular

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And here I was thinking I was the only one who absolutely hated the comic strip "Cathy". It was so long ago that I remember getting so fed up with it that I vowed never to read it again and for 15 plus years later I haven't. Rejoice, rejoice.

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I read the comics every day, and I must admit that "Cathy" is at times pretty tiresome, though I thought it actually got a bit better after Cathy got married. I was surprised to learn from David Michaelis's "Schultz and Peanuts" (an excellent biography, by the way) that Cathy Guisewite and Charles Schultz were very good friends.

AdamSmith Grand Master

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David Michaelis's "Schultz and Peanuts" (an excellent biography, by the way)

 

That was a really good book. Surprising the depths he could mine, without veering into schmaltz or pseudopsychology.

 

...Now, with 'Cathy' taken care of, could someone please relieve us of 'Garfield'?

Damascene Contributor

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Most comics strips are not that funny. I missed Classic Doonesbury and Bloom County. If you ever get a chance Lil Abner strips have been collected into books, get them. Some sharp satire that I may have missed if I read one strip a day.

orbital sander Enthusiast

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Most comics strips are not that funny. I missed Classic Doonesbury and Bloom County. If you ever get a chance Lil Abner strips have been collected into books, get them. Some sharp satire that I may have missed if I read one strip a day.

 

I really liked Bloom County, I was still in High School and I had all of the books and a stuffed Opus in my room...

ArVaGuy Veteran

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Count me in as one who will be glad to see "Cathy" come to a well deserved end. I'd also like to see Garfield meet it's demise.

 

I very much miss Calvin and Hobbes as well as Bloom County.

 

How many here remember Walt Kelly's Pogo? Now that was a comic strip. :)

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...Now, with 'Cathy' taken care of, could someone please relieve us of 'Garfield'?

 

How did Garfield ever get to be such a big thing? Has there ever been a funny Garfield strip? Ick.

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Am I also way out in left field in liking Bizarro and "Rhymes with Orange"?

 

Is RWO still around? I haven't seen it since I moved from SF five years ago. I always thought it was clever. Of course it didn't hurt that I went to school with the gal who writes it. (She mentioned to me that at least at that time she was also the ghost writer for some other strips, but I don't recall which.)

 

Kevin Slater

AdamSmith Grand Master

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I very much miss Calvin and Hobbes as well as Bloom County.

 

Yes!

 

How many here remember Walt Kelly's Pogo? Now that was a comic strip. :)

 

YES!

 

Also the immortal, & seminal, 'Krazy Kat.'

 

And, for my money, the most hilarious comic of all time: Winsor McCay's 'Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.'

 

http://www.indyworld.com/indy/spring_2004/karasik_interview/images/rarebit_fiend.gif

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I, too, had a stuffed Opus in High School...and a Penguin Crossing sign on my door. And Calvin and Hobbes is my all time fave.

AdamSmith...you are not old enough to remember Winsor MacKay...loved his Nemo in Slumberland series, but was introduced to them by my grandmother.

Looking for link, but Family Circus celebrated 50 years this winter and showed some of the original strips...funny back then.

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20100304&name=Family_Circus

My sister with teen boys has often raved about Zits which seems to be pretty funny whenever I've seen it.

And in college we started a no more Dondi button wearing campaign. I still have that button somewhere. No I am no a hoarder. (Much)

Fun thread!

purplekow Grand Master

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Wow that Dondi comment really started the synapses firing. Havent even thought of that big eyed, bowl haircut kid in decades. He was the first page of the comic section of the NY News or perhaps the second after Dick Tracy. I think the first comic I read faithfully was Nancy and the second was Mary Worth. Wow how stereotypically gay is that?

AdamSmith Grand Master

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I got "piping me", but what's "Tall Timbers" in this context? Thanks!

 

Who knows? Guessing from the context, "take to the tall timbers" must have been slang then for "going to bed." He drew that strip 1904-1913. One of the things I love about it is his use of argot of the time.

deej Grand Master

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Next we will be descending into the homoerotics of Johnny Quest and his beautiful friend Hadji. Never mind what may have gone on between Dr. Quest and Race Bannon. :)

 

If you're going there, let's not forget The Phantom. The title character himself was a model of testosterone but for several really enjoyable years he had a loinclothed teenaged sidekick who was just a little too gloriously anatomically correct.

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