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Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 6:28:38 PM   
Vendaval


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Status: offline 		What are your favorite Sunday morning cartoons in the newspaper?
Do you like classics like Blondie or The Family Circus and Peanuts?
How about later ones like B.C. or Hagar the Horrible, The Far Side or Garfield ?
 
What do you appreciate about these cartoons is it the fond memories, humor, satire or social commentary?
 
I am a big fan of both The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes.
A couple of Calvin's quotes are listed below:
 
"I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?"

"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in and overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak."

"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles."
 
http://chris.ericbosken.net/pages/calvin.html


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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 7:44:09 PM   
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I used to love the Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. I'm not exaggerating a bit when I say my world hasn't been the same since Calvin and his tiger went away. There was really something magical, something enchanting about it. No cartooon has ever been quite the same.

Now, I only look forward to a couple of strips - Bizarro and F Minus. Both of them are usually clever and often very subtle, especially Bizarro. There've been times I've scowled at a Bizarro panel for a full minute, wondering "What the hell is this one supposed to be about", before it suddenly became hilariously evident, and it's never not been worth waiting for. Actually, come to think of it, I also like Arlo and Janis, but those are probably the only 3 that I really look forward to every time I open the paper.


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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 7:50:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		I love "Non Sequitur."
http://www.comicstriparchive.com/Non_Sequitur_pan/

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 7:51:14 PM   
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far side was great and so was calvin and hobbs.

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 8:20:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		I did love Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side.  I still love Ziggy, Foxtrot (I think it's only in the Sunday papers now.), Garfield, and Mallard Fillmore.


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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 9:31:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		I feel that I am in the majority in saying that life just hasn't been the same without Calvin and Hobbes... :(

Monty was a favorite, mostly because it, and the strip that spawned it, Robotman, had a weird "fandom" oriented humor. Science fictin concepts and classic movies of the genre got regular send ups in those panels.

But the two that I honestly love these days are Lio, and Pearls Before Swine. Lio, because it's an almost purely visual strip. There's hardly any dialouge at all. Also the humor in it is really of the macabre Charles Addams variety, which I appreciate. Pearls Before Swine is exactly the opposite. The characters are little better than stick figures, and the higher percentage of the panels are taken up with writing. But, Stephen Patsis is one wonderfully warped individual. I literally never know what I'll be confronted with when I open the paper to his imagination.




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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 10:22:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		      I loved Calvin, The Far Side and Bloom County.  These days, Mother Goose and Grimm gets a glance.

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 10:39:19 PM   
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ORIGINAL: slaveluci
I love "Non Sequitur."
http://www.comicstriparchive.com/Non_Sequitur_pan/


Yep. I get the yearly peel-off desk calendar as a Christmas gift every year. It's a riot.

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 2/28/2009 11:48:58 PM   
Vendaval


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Status: offline 		Thank you Panda.  Lots of great replies everyone.
 
My slave and I were discussing comics today and what they represent to us as we go through life.  Humor has a way of showing us insights that we otherwise miss.



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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 4:50:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Non Sequitor, Rose is Rose...

anybody remember Kliban?

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 5:26:52 AM   
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ORIGINAL: slaveluci
I love "Non Sequitur." 


That's my very favorite current comic strip.  There are a few others that I check out every day - Candorville, Get Fuzzy, Bizarro, Doonesbury, For Better or Worse, Zits, Pickles, ... 

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 5:29:22 AM   
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop
anybody remember Kliban?


Yup.  I think I have the Cat book around here somewhere.

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 5:31:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		"qat.. frequently mistaken for a meatloaf"

one of my old cats was nicknamed meatloaf because he resembled that picture when he curled up on the back of the sofa LOL

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 2:07:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't read the "funnies" anymore.  Just wondering if anyone else remembers as a kid listening to someone on the radio read the Sunday funnies to you.  That would of been in the late 1940's.

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 2:16:19 PM   
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ps, I enjoyed Calvin and Hobbes as well and miss Charles Schultz so much. 


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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 2:16:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Strange, I'm a long time OTR fan, and I don't recall that sort of thing.

Of course, I don't deny that it probably was pretty popular. I mean, one of the most popular shows on the radio at one time was a ventriloquist.... (Edgar Bergan and Charlie McCarthy)

Oh, and as far as strips go: Get fuzzy is another good one, although I think Bucky is taking over that strip, and it's beginning to annoy me to no end. "Over the Hedge" can sometimes fill the void left by Pogo and Calvin & Hobbes... but it's a little uneven at times.

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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 2:22:06 PM   
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RE: Sunday morning cartoons - 3/1/2009 7:39:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		My older relatives love sharing their memories about gathering around the radio in the living room and listening to shows together.  Now we have portable technology to carry on our persons for radio and TV and Net signals.  We have more portals but are we missing out on the shared experiences of yester years?

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