The Sunday Funnies

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Sunday morning. You linger in bed for a bit, drifting in and out of sleep. When you've had enough, you get out of bed, and walk to the kitchen, where a steaming hot mug of coffee and the Sunday paper are waiting. You leaf through the paper as you sip your java, skipping all the boring politics, and come to the Comic Section. You open it to your favourite strip...

So, which strip do you like the most? Which one do you read first? It can be an existing one, or one that has been put to rest, either with its author or by its author...

My favourite strip by far was Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson. I liked The Far Side by Gary Larson too, but not as much as the adventures of a boy and his tiger!
 
My all-time favourite newspaper comic strip has to be The Perishers, originally by Maurice Dodd and Dennis Collins (but now written by Dodd and Bill Mevin) from The Daily Mirror, which seems to have been going forever. It's about three kids, and their friends and family, and can be very funny but it probably doesn't translate well across the Atlantic...

In another life, I used to really enjoy reading The Far Side, Doonesbury and Bloom County - oh, and Steve Bell's If strip in The Guardian
 
The paper makes me sick. I mean, the paper the newspaper is made of.. makes me sick. (You English people and your confusing words.. lol.) I watch TV instead. Ok, I sometimes read this (I think it's) Norweigan strip called "Nemi".
 
I usually go for the ads if there is a paper around... I am a shop-a-holic and I can't wait to see what's on sale.
 
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Cordelia
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Newpaper has a weird smell...

I like Garfield, if fact, I subscribed to an internet Garfield. It sends me daily Garfield comics. :tongue:
 
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eponinethen
It has hasn't it? (A weird smell..)
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OneEyedXander
i like that smell. its half the reason i read the paper
The Sunday funnies just aren't the same these days, since the departures of Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes, among others. But I do still get a chuckle now and again from Rose Is Rose and Mother Goose & Grimm.
 
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Soulgasm
man...i gotta say oldie...your avatar is cool as hell!!
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Xander
And I've gotta say, great sig!
SlayerShel said:
I usually go for the ads if there is a paper around... I am a shop-a-holic and I can't wait to see what's on sale.
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You stole my post! 🙂

It's my Sunday morning ritual to sit down with all the circulars, a cup of coffee (preferably cinnamon hazelnut) and my breakfast and scope out the deals...
 
OMG you two are just like my hubby..he goes RIGHT for the flyers, in particular all the electronic stores/computer stores lol.

Me, I grew up with For Better or For Worse by Lynne Johnston. My mom, my sis and I have all her books. The characters - who have the unique characteristics of actually aging and growing up - are pretty much my age and thus went through all the same things I did at the same times.

At Christmas, she had a new BIG book out..and was signing autographs here in Ottawa. Well hubby and I wanted to get that for my mom for Christmas. So we waited in line for 2 and a half hours and got her autograph and a sketch of Elly inside my mom's book.
 
killerdwarf said:
Sunday morning. You linger in bed for a bit, drifting in and out of sleep. When you've had enough, you get out of bed, and walk to the kitchen, where a steaming hot mug of coffee and the Sunday paper are waiting. You leaf through the paper as you sip your java, skipping all the boring politics, and come to the Comic Section. You open it to your favourite strip...
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You lucky SOB, I get up, go to work, come home and zonk out. Don't read any funnies though. On the way to college there is a free paper on the bus, the Metro. Has a comic strip of a young girl (early 20s at a guess) called Nemi. Can be funny at times. Only one I read.
 
Weel, I left out some stuff that happens Chez Dwarf...dwarflets squwaking at each other, "Sam" the parrotlet screaming, ringing phone, blaring tv...my scenario was very much how I really wished it was at home...

That being said, I still like to read Non Sequiter by Wiley...he's very funny!
 
I like 'Calvin and Hobbes' but my faves are 'Our Wullie' and 'The Broons'. I even buy the yearly annuals.
 
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