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Post 'em. From the Peanuts to the Prince Valiant to Mickey Mouse to your local newspaper's comics. Post your favorite strips, if you like.
I'm still new to the scene, so I've only read Peanuts. I have quite a few of the Fantagraphics reprints (a good place to start if you've never read a newspaper comic before!) and I absolutely adore them. I love Charlie Brown so much. He's a good kid. He doesn't deserve what happens to him, even with his rougher beginnings. He's really my main draw to the series (though I hear it's like that for a lot of people,) but Snoopy is pretty funny and it's nice seeing what the other kids do when Charlie Brown isn't around. I like to read Peanuts when I feel down or when I have a good place to rest, so on. It is also really cool how the strips reflect the time they were written - October strips are in the fall, May strips are in the spring, so on. It's a very intelligent comic, and not in the snobby political sense. It's a grounded, very real story (even though they're all eight year olds, if that,) and that's my favorite kind of story. It manages to keep up with time and keep going through time without feeling surreal. If you like depressing stories with comedic intervals and a good deal of tomfoolery, you should read Peanuts.
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older comic stips tend to have some clever, witty writing, and are very in touch with reality;grounded like op said…and they're able to do it in a way that doesn't sacrifice any of the imagination, they're super stimulating to read! something about them always pull me out of my own awful funks. Nothing quite like them
i likes em' lots
my personal favorites are pogo, calvin and hobbes, and moomin..they're all pretty similar in tone..peanuts is one i've been meaning to read as well, it's right up my alley, maybe tonight's the night
>>298this is the best
how does everyone here go about finding new comic strips these days? newpapers? collections? libraries?
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>>380if you've exhausted the adult section of the library, sometimes youth and teen sections have some newspaper comics collections as well. also utilizing an interloan system can be a great way to find new ones too if that's something your local library offers. the organization, and expanse of the catalogs can vary greatly from my experience living in different places.
Oh you've reminded me about the world encyclopedia of comics! something comprehensive and curated like that would probably be the best resource for finding decent established material
and if anything else there's always wikipedia's list of newspaper comics, there's so much on the list that sifting through it is a little daunting though