Who reads the funnies here?

[KayLR]

Do you read the comics daily? Which ones? Have you always read comics?

When I was a kid I read Mad Magazine. I remember reading it during music class, inserting it into my music book.

Now I enjoy reading some of the dailies...Baby Blues is a favorite. I read them online. I also like The Argyle Sweater, In The Bleachers, Bizarro and Non Sequitor. I read a couple serial ones like Luann, and used to read For Better or Worse until the artist retired.

[Blackdog Lin]

I used to read them all daily, and lived for the Sunday paper with the longer ones.

But I never got over the retirement of Calvin and Hobbes. It literally put me into a depression. I try not to think about it even now, as when I think about its loss I get depressed all over again. I LOVED that strip. And I don't think there will ever be another to equal it.

[Mrs. Hermit]

I read them daily. In my world they are called "the intellectuals". I read Zits, Shoe, Baby Blues, and Rhymes With Orange.

[Spartana]

Do you read the comics daily? Which ones? Have you always read comics?

When I was a kid I read Mad Magazine. I remember reading it during music class, inserting it into my music book.

Now I enjoy reading some of the dailies...Baby Blues is a favorite. I read them online. I also like The Argyle Sweater, In The Bleachers, Bizarro and Non Sequitor. I read a couple serial ones like Luann, and used to read For Better or Worse until the artist retired.I am a lover of all things "Mad magazine" and wish it were still around. It was the only thing that got me thru endless months at sea year after year in the days before videos, DVD's, cell phones, or the internet (the Dinosaur Days!). No connection to ther outside world except Mad Magazine! I don't read the newspaper or the comics anymore but liked the old Doonsbury, the one with the Penquin (Far Side?), Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, and several others. Mad is still my all time favorite though. "What, me worry?" http://www.simplelivingforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1090&d=1357938782

[KayLR]

Oh, Lin! ITA with you on Calvin & Hobbes...LOVED them! And The Far Side by Gary Larson. Still mourn that one, too.

[rosarugosa]

Spartana: I always refer to MAD Magazine as my third parent. I started reading it at age 7 and it had a profound effect in shaping my character - for better or for worse!
Alfred E. Newman for President!

[Mighty Frugal]

I read MAD mag as well as a pre-teen and young teen. But for me, my all time favourite was the Archie comic book series. Primarily Betty & Veronica. As a child I received $1.00 allowance. I would buy 2 35 cent comics and an apple turnover from the bakery. Then I would sit under a tree, eat my turnover and read my magazines

I loved (almost obsessively) B&V and read them all the time. I probably knew more about the characters than anyone else (before internet). I had thousands of them.

As I grew I thought at one point I would stop reading them-perhaps when I reached their age (17) but 17 came and went and on I read. In my 20s I would loudly proclaim I was picking them up for my young nieces (to no one in particular). In my 30s I didn't care who saw me buy them-let them wonder!!!

And now, at 46 I STILL read them daily. Just a story or two while I have my morning coffee..I am now as old as B&V's parents...sigh....my eternally young pals!

When I meet other young people that find out I love them I always gift them a half dozen or dozen digests. I gave all of my actual comics to my cousin's son who loved them as a teen too. I still have a few boxes of digests that I read over and over again (memory fading can be a good thing-haha)

[Florence]

I used to read them all daily, and lived for the Sunday paper with the longer ones.

But I never got over the retirement of Calvin and Hobbes. It literally put me into a depression. I try not to think about it even now, as when I think about its loss I get depressed all over again. I LOVED that strip. And I don't think there will ever be another to equal it.

Loved Calvin &Hobbs and does anybody remember Bloom County? Loved that one too.

[SteveinMN]

Bloom County was the one with the penguin (Opus). I did like that strip.

Dilbert is a favorite of mine for having lived through many of the strip's situations. Otherwise, I've been enjoying the snarky reviews of comics on a blog called "Comics Curmudgeon (http://joshreads.com/)", where they poke fun at story lines, characters, animation errors, and the like. I used to read far more comics, but since I quit reading paper newspapers, they've been harder to come by (not by a lot, but more difficult) and it turns out I don't miss most of them.

[Wildflower]

No funnies now, but back in the day I loved Peanuts, Marmaduke, and Brenda Starr. :)

[CathyA]

I think I have a great sense of humor. But I never found the funnies funny. Go figure.

[Lainey]

I remember learning to read while sitting on my dad's lap as he read the comics to me - yes back in the days of daily newspapers. So naturally that habit stuck.
Love Doonesbury, Bizarro and Tom Tomorrow. http://thismodernworld.com