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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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>>40We had some oddballs mixed with usual stuff like that and I remember for some weird reason my 5th and 6th grade school laid out newspaper to look at while you wait for class and my parents also give me the comics when they got the paper. I remember we had the Rugrats newspaper comic in ours for a few years too which had a few strips drawn by Vince Giarrano who one of those
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