Me, I'm wishing for the return of Calvin and Hobbes
FoxTrot, a comic strip we've been publishing for four or five years, is being cut back to Sunday only beginning Dec. 31.
"After spending close to half of my life writing and drawing FoxTrot cartoons, I think it's time I got out of the house and tried some new things," creator Bill Amend said. "I love cartooning and I absolutely want to continue doing the strip, just not at the current all-consuming pace."
Yeah, me too. But anyway, that means, gulp, we have the opportunity to add a new strip. Newspaper readers love their comics and editors mess with them at their own peril.
Want to make suggestions? Here are some options to spur your thinking.
Thursday update: OK, you pikers, Bob Gabordi of the Tallahassee Democrat asked his readers for the same advice yesterday and now has 97 comments. 97!
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I miss Calvin and Hobbes too, but Pearls Before Swine is the best choice out there right now, I think. I look it up online everyday.
http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/index.html
Posted on December 6, 2006 2:10 PM
Calvin and Hobbes was probably the best commentary on contemporary life and learning experiences ever in print.
Posted on December 6, 2006 2:12 PM
I love Frazz! I think it's Bill Watterson doing Calvin as a grown-up. Even the look of the comic is the same!
http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/index.html
Posted on December 6, 2006 7:29 PM
My mischievous side says we ought to do the Boondocks if Aaron McGruder ever comes back from sabbatical. Short of that, my two cents would be Get Fuzzy, which is oddly funny in an edgey way, or Mutts, which is sweet, if we don’t already run them.
Posted on December 7, 2006 3:09 PM
I'm imformed we already run Fuzzy (I never see the comics page anymore out here in lala land).
Posted on December 7, 2006 3:19 PM
I like Off the Mark and Lola. I still miss the Farside!
Posted on December 10, 2006 7:04 PM
Put me down for Pearls Before Swine. At its best, it's funnier than just about everything on the comics page right now.
Posted on December 12, 2006 3:15 AM
I vote for Pearls before Swine or Rose is Rose.
Posted on December 15, 2006 2:35 PM
WheneverI'm traveling and cannot get the N&R, I enjoy the Charlotte Observer's posting of Peanuts. Those strips never grow old.
Posted on December 18, 2006 1:25 PM