comics poll

[rone]

The San Jose Mercury News had a poll in yesterday's paper, asking voters to cross out no more than six comics and circle no more than six comics. My choices:

Keep `em

• Boondocks
• Doonesbury
• Pickles
• Pretzel Logic
• Rhymes With Orange
• Sherman's Lagoon

Kill `em

• Cathy
• Dennis the Menace
• Fusco Brothers
• Garfield
• Mallard Fillmore
• Rose is Rose

I'm also gonna drop a note with my ballot asking them to pick up Get Fuzzy and Ballard Street. I didn't vote for obvious stuff, like Foxtrot or Dilbert, because i wanted to see if Pretzel Logic is picked up on an everyday, rather than everyotherday, basis. And, yes, Family Circus just couldn't sneak into my bottom 6 comic strips. That's just the way it goes sometimes.

Also, i must sadly note that Opus, so far, sucks.

Comments

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Well, of course! How could you drop the Family Circus? Gosh!

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

What, no Look What I Brought Home (http://www.lookwhatibroughthome.com/)?

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Do you find Boondocks funny, or just entertaining somehow?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The early stuff is just brilliant and inspired. It's been flagging over the last year or so.

[jwgh]

The Funny Paper guys had some recommendations when the Baltimore Sun recently had a similar survey.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I'll take your word for it. Since I don't read the paper, I only ever see it when some or other right-wing blogger is criticizing it for spreading some or other lefty myth about Bush et al.

Along different lines, you might enjoy reading http://www.citypaper.com/archives/funny.html "Funny Paper," a column in the Baltimore Sun which reviews the comix page of that newspaper. I thought of it because when I read it for the first time, it was last week's column in which the author was taking to task the Sun's choices of comics for the reader-selected chopping block.

Also, I'm very much Pro-"Get Fuzzy," which I read online using an aggressive ad-blocker. I'd never seen it in a paper, but came across it in the books-of-comics section of Barnes & Noble and thought it was pure genius. Still do.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Funny Paper is a good column, but WAY too infrequent lately. Maybe they'll start actually writing it regularly again now, though.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Next time you're in the comics section of B&N, pick up the first Boondocks collection and start leafing through the first few pages.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

y u h8in on Fusco Brothers? they're GENIUS i tell you.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

Opus does suck. Badly. I've not seen most of your choices, since they don't run in the LA Times, but I checked them out and liked them. But I agree with your kills. And...do you not have Mutts up there?

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Boondocks was gold until a few months after 9/11, when it became the Huey & Caesar Tinfoil Show. Sigh. I miss that strip.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Mutts is Sunday-only in the Merc. None of the Sunday-only strips are on the ballot (Opus, Bizarro, Baldo). I'd definitely put it on the kill list if it were daily and i had the space.

I find it ironic, given his early decrying of the shrinking of comic strips, that Breathed's demand of a half-page for Opus has led to the shrinking of other strips.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

On the rare occasion that my eye falls on the Fusco Brothers and manage to digest the 'joke', i want to burn my paper. It's stone stupid.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I dub it "not funny".

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Also, i must sadly note that Opus, so far, sucks.

Poopy. I was afraid of that.

-- Schwa ---

[coldsleep.livejournal.com]

Garfield over Family Circus? Or perhaps that should be under? So very sad.

I mean, not that Garfield has been good in, like...uh...when was Garfield good?

But much like Jello, there's always room for Family Circus (to kill).

I weep for you.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

I approve of your lists.

I have been enjoying RSS feeds of comics lately.

Sorry to hear about Opus, which I haven't seen yet, because it's not online. And if it's not online, it doesn't exist. Have you a word for that?

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I will do that.