comic strips

 That is a really old joke.  I first remember hearing that in the halls of Old Gage Park High, told to me by Dan Looney and the island guys were Irish.

Calvin and Hobbes was one of the best.  You had to admire his world attitude.  I loved how the tiger was a real character to Calvin but when anybody else looked at him he was a stuffed toy.  Also the reactions with Suzy who the Calvin couldn't stand, but the tiger thought was hot.  

It's too bad that he is not writing anymore.  A writer of books or essays can write what he wants, but a newspaper comics writer has to have an idea every day, every fucking day for Chrissake.  Sometimes they just did those stock jokes, mother-in-law type things.  The odd thing was some comic strip I didn't like would do it, and I would frown, that's not funny, but when my favorite comic strip did it I would get a chuckle.  Well, you know, it's not the joke, it's how you tell it.

My sister reads the New York Times, and I've looked through it and it is well-written and has a lot of news, but it has no comics.  I can't get past that.  I get the comics in both the Trib and Sun-Times, and when I bought my tablet it came with a subscription to the Washington Post and I get their comics too.  They have my favorite comic strip,  Cul de Sac.

Just a bunch of kids in a neighborhood cul de sac, but you know it is not the joke it is how you tell it.

Sad story, the author got Parkinson's and he is no longer with it, but they repeat it over and over again, and there are so many that they all seem fresh.