tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post8642029514709479744..comments2024-03-18T05:15:30.666-04:00Comments on Foma*: The Comics Listyellojkthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-20093867519968795112009-06-09T00:22:57.722-04:002009-06-09T00:22:57.722-04:00I did notice that Crankshaft is missing and I need...I did notice that Crankshaft is missing and I need to do something about that.<br /><br />I like Pooch Cafe and think it got lost in the WaPo shuffle. I'll have to hunt that down as well.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-32359009481232195382009-06-09T00:05:20.767-04:002009-06-09T00:05:20.767-04:00I'm surprised that since you read at least a c...I'm surprised that since you read at least a couple of them because Josh comments on them every so often that you don't have Crankshaft listed anywhere. It's certainly available at at least two of the spots you've listed.<br /><br />I'm also surprised you don't read Pooch Cafe, since many people (including me) feel that it's just about the most consistently amusing comic printed in the papers these days.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773146889646506710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-70628833199292834092009-06-04T19:38:48.648-04:002009-06-04T19:38:48.648-04:00Far Side sort of changed my whole concept of comic...Far Side sort of changed my whole concept of comics. I used to like the regular funnies but then I deplored Garfied (which hasn't been funny since the 70s) and just sort of stopped reading them after Far Side stopped.Ed & Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730956006290504616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-86785746085590083022009-06-02T01:43:36.651-04:002009-06-02T01:43:36.651-04:00I hadn't thought about comics as being another of ...I hadn't thought about comics as being another of the victims of the steady collapse of the newspapers. Shame really. I don't read many (comics) these days. They aren't so popular outside of the U.S.A Free Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01038930031019179647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-20902872942815863842009-06-01T06:28:50.234-04:002009-06-01T06:28:50.234-04:00Heart of the City (which got accidentally omitted ...Heart of the City (which got accidentally omitted from my list) and Phantom were both lost in the Post purge. WaPo carries a lot of comics on their webpage, but the navigation is awful because you have to click on each one individually. <br /><br />The lack of alphabeticalness is because GoComics sends me comics in the order added to the list.<br /><br />I boycott DailyInk because I hate that you can't get current strips straight from the King Syndicate site.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-81966571223475658772009-06-01T05:54:30.483-04:002009-06-01T05:54:30.483-04:00It's kind of hard to tell, since only some of your...It's kind of hard to tell, since only some of your lists are alphabetized, but I don't see <I>Heart of the City</I> (which is at GoComics) or <I>Over the Hedge</I> (Comics.com), both of which are far more worthy than a lot of the dreck you apparently read. I mean, I know you need to read some of it to be a proper cardinal and all, but some of it... yeesh! (Another weirdness: I get the Phantom at the WaPo website.)<br /><br />I'm really unhappy with the latest GoComics site redesign. They keep making it harder and harder to navigate. It was bad enough when the pop-up list of comics was divided into several pages, but now I have to keep the list page open and open the comics in another tab.<br /><br />I can't really comment on the decline in comic space. Our paper here offers a grand total of 4 badly translated comics (Fred Basset, Hagar, Garfield, and Zits) plus one page on Sundays for 2 German strips, Calvin and Hobbes, Red and Rover, and Sherman's Lagoon. Thank God for the Internet.DemetriosXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-29913747605640098752009-06-01T00:48:57.433-04:002009-06-01T00:48:57.433-04:00Gee...I thought I had a big comics load.
I don't...Gee...I thought I had a big comics load. <br /><br />I don't bother with the dead tree editions of any newspapers nowadays, so in addition to Comics.com and GoComics, I'm also subscribing to the King Features stuff via DailyInk.com. That still leaves me with a few that I have to go to the Chronicle for. <br /><br />I also tend to read Dilbert directly from dilbert.com to see what's in Scott Adams' blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-88849512406171587582009-05-31T23:05:34.925-04:002009-05-31T23:05:34.925-04:00Great post. Too many people don't understand h...Great post. Too many people don't understand how important comics are, especially for adults.<br /><br />As I type, I'm looking up and over to the left, where I have an original, framed, signed Dilbert lithograph (Scott's also added a little, pencilled Dogbert). It's the "nerdvana" one, no big surprise there. <br /><br />One of my regrets is we weren't allowed to ask Bill Waterson anything if we saw him on campus when I worked at his alma mater. Otherwise, I'd have loved to ask him to autograph one of my Calvin & Hobbes' books.dbGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-58771559902101263692009-05-31T15:56:16.406-04:002009-05-31T15:56:16.406-04:00spanghew,
That is a clever trick. I may do it as a...spanghew,<br />That is a clever trick. I may do it as a tab behind my iGoogle home page.<br /><br />sue,<br />The artwork is beautiful and the jokes are clever. Consider it added.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-50766090157379507762009-05-31T15:08:12.321-04:002009-05-31T15:08:12.321-04:00I love Bliss, which is available on gocomics.com.I love <A HREF="http://www.gocomics.com/bliss/" REL="nofollow">Bliss</A>, which is available on gocomics.com.Sue T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18178527899514406682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-25826155584611817452009-05-31T14:36:30.284-04:002009-05-31T14:36:30.284-04:00As for remembering to check the Chron's page: I ju...As for remembering to check the Chron's page: I just set my custom Chron comics page as my browser's home page, so it's the first thing I see in the morning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-5544500729419271912009-05-31T13:40:51.621-04:002009-05-31T13:40:51.621-04:00Right you are, Cedar. Preteena is reruns. It has b...Right you are, Cedar. Preteena is reruns. It has been on my list for several years and I guess GoComics just went with repeats when it quit publishing.<br /><br />Croc is often ridiculed by Josh, so I keep it there. The zombie strips B.C. and Wizard of Id don't get as much ridicule as Croc, so they don't make the cut.<br /><br />When the WaPo Comics blog <A HREF="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2009/05/frazzs_turn_what_to_put_on_kid.html" REL="nofollow">Comic Riffs</A> addressed the issue, there were dozens of strips mentioned as being more appropriate than Frazz. But the comics editor, who is neither Michael Cavna nor Gene Weingarten, is clearly tone deaf.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-26628361154814005932009-05-31T12:55:05.069-04:002009-05-31T12:55:05.069-04:00Frazz is on the kids' page?! I can't really imagin...Frazz is on the kids' page?! I can't really imagine a child legitimately enjoying the strip, which, altho it has child characters, tends to veer into the serious and adult (and, in my opinion, preachy) quite often.<br /><br />(Just out curiosity, why bother reading Crock, which is not funny, or interesting, or well-drawn? All the other comics I understand, even ones I don't like--like Edison Lee and Mallard Fillmore, but I can see why you'd chose to check them out--but Crock just doesn't seem to belong).<br /><br />I thought Preteena was no longer being published.<br /><br />I am also surprised at the appearance of so many one-panels. I should add, I love reading the funnies, and read probably about 80 regularly, but recently found that all the one panels were just sort of running together in my head, and limited it to just F-Minus (which is hit and miss, but when it's hit, it's really good).Cedarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828779727874213014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-21651832183198392192009-05-31T12:35:39.415-04:002009-05-31T12:35:39.415-04:00I had a life once. They're over-rated.
Life is al...I had a life once. They're over-rated.<br /><br />Life is all a matter of priorities. I have never even hinted that mine were not terribly misguided.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-26743398696515017872009-05-31T12:22:15.190-04:002009-05-31T12:22:15.190-04:00What are you missing?!? If you weren't so busy doi...What are you missing?!? If you weren't so busy doing a million other things, I would say a life - but clearly you pack way more in your day than I can imagine.<br /><br />seaseaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com