Sunday, August 10, 2008
Sunday comics
Posted by Kevin Allman on Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:17 PM
When I was a kid, I lived for Sunday mornings and the funny pages. Not any more. They've got a lot of problems -- they're stale, they require a Hubble telescope to read them -- but the biggest problem is that the funny pages are no longer funny. (I'm looking at you, Cathy.)
Gambit runs two regular comics -- the brilliant Suspect Device and This Modern World -- but two comics are not enough. So I've come up with a couple of Sunday-morning solutions...
The Houston Chronicle has a web app that allows you to build your own personalized comics page. Most of the comics are the same lamers that appear in the daily, but there are a few good ones in there too. Go here to pick the comics you like -- then bookmark the page and you'll have your own personalized comics section.
My other bookmark is Cartoonists With Attitude, which is a loose consortium of "alternative" toon jockeys who have banded together on the Web. From there I can read some cartoons that actually make me laugh, including Jen Sorensen's Slowpoke, Brian McFadden's Big Fat Whale, and Keith Knight's K Chronicles, among others. (Disclosure: Matt Bors, who's one of the brightest young political cartoonists on the scene, is a friend, and I love his strip Idiot Box.)
It's not the same as spreading out on the rug with a mug of Quik and the old funny pages, of course...but it's better than Hi and Lois.
I'm always looking to read more. What are your favorite cartoons?
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The comics are like any other newspapeer feature. You have to please a lot of different tastes in one channel. I have to admit a soft spot for Wizard of Id and B.C. But I'm an old fart. And I'm damn glad to be back in a town that runs Prince Valiant. If one's old enough to have had a powerful crush on the twins, you'll understand.
dem girls bitching to old mary worth got me thru many an adolescent night an that dondi kid used to really freak me out.
