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R79 Since: Aug, 2014
#1: Dec 2nd 2014 at 6:41:18 AM

What are some (no longer running) comic strips that you really liked but seem to have been lost to time? Arnold by Kevin Mc Cormick comes to mind. Here's a platypus comix article on it:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/arnold.html

Aldo930 Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon from Quahog, R.I. Since: Aug, 2013
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#2: Dec 2nd 2014 at 1:36:00 PM

Most comic strips that aren't still running and are not The Far Side, Peanuts, Calvin And Hobbes or Bloom County, really.

That includes stuff like Krazy Kat, Pogo, Little Nemo, Lil Abner, Segar's Popeye...

But among those that don't get much attention from the comic strip critics, I enjoy Billy DeBeck's Barney Google - he of the goo-goo-googly eyes - and Rudolph Dirks and Harold Knerr's Katzenjammer Kids, with the wonderful cod-Deutsch dialect...

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#3: Dec 14th 2014 at 3:26:15 PM

I recall once, years ago, when I was a clerk at a retail bookstore, I helped and older gentleman (this fellow must have been in his 70's) find a few For Better of For Worse collections. He said it was one of his favorite strips, one of the best out there at the time (this was when it was still being produced, not just in reruns). Turns out he was a big fan of comic strips, as was I, and we got to talking a bit, and I astounded him by knowing about an old strip called Toonerville Folks, He said he hadn't seen it since he had been a young man and had never met anyone else who'd even heard of it. I pointed him to our local library, which had an old collection of Toonerville strips called, I think, Toonerville Follies, and he left as happy as a clam. It's too bad I never ran into him again, as I've since discovered that there are some really old Toonerville animated cartoons, which are frequently included on public domain cartoon sets. Ah well.

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#4: Jan 13th 2015 at 4:00:19 PM

I think that U.S. Acres needs more love. It's amazing how strongly that one was hit with Adaptation Displacement thanks to the Garfield and Friends segments. I remember buying a US Acres book from the school book fair in 4th grade and reading it so much that it fell apart.

While it's still an active strip, Close to Home is in my opinion, one of the better examples of the Far Side formula of having only one panel and no recurring cast (right up there with Bizarro and The Argyle Sweater), but I don't see a lot of reaction to it either way.

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