This is the place to share and talk about comic strips (distinct from comic books). One panel, three panel, full-sized Sunday, yonkoma. If it could fit in the back of a newspaper, it belongs here (should webcomics count? Open to discussion)
I love Heathcliff. Heathcliff is just ideas, usually not fully formed, and that’s what makes it great. Peter Gallagher can just do whatever he wants. You don’t have to justify it because the world of Heathcliff just has stuff in it.
I diligently read the newspaper comics for as long as we got a newspaper growing up. Sometime in my teenage years my parents only opted for the Sunday paper. I think I was like 17 before I decided I no longer needed to read Prince Valiant as a completionist because it was not fun. Once I went to college I didn’t really have a newspaper around anymore so that was that. I started reading webcomics instead.
Those full color Calvin and Hobbes Sunday spreads sure were good.
It’s funny because I remember “new” comics that came to our paper like Mutts, Get Fuzzy and Frazz that are all like 20 years or older now.
Liberty Meadows was an insane one. A comic that was constantly censored for the newspaper, had an artist who’s skill was far outside the scope of a 4 panel strip, was wildly hilarious but is also pretty outdated and sometimes offensive relying on relevant pop culture and stereotypes. That was quite the ride.
Also Family Circus is so bad. So unbelievably bad. I remember liking it when I was real young, and then reading just stinker after stinker after stinker for so many years.
Wallace the Brave is delightful. The first several years have been collected in books and my family has been buying them as they come out. The art is gorgeous and it isn’t done justice on a phone-size screen.
I appreciate its whimsy and its inclusive positivity. Amelia is my favorite character.
A few years back, there was a Twitter account that posted edits of Garfield comics where the strips end with him being thrown out the window. Arguably the best way to experience Garfield.
