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My Cage 'Classic" 08/11/2007

I get in trouble with my fellow classic comic strip fans because I'm a bigger fan of 'Bloom County' than 'Calvin and Hobbes' (even though I love both). 

Originally run August 11th 2007.

-Ed 

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My Cage 'Classic" 08/11/2007

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I'll have to check out "The Knights of the Dinner Table". Thanks.

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'Calvin and Hobbes', 'Bloom County' and 'Doonesbury' are my top three favorites in newspaper comics. If I had childhood memories of 'Cul de Sac' it would probably be right up there too. I learned a *lot* about recent American history reading 1960s and 1970s Doonesbury. (The 1980s run I found--and still find--entirely opaque and irritating.) I've been reading the Bloom County 'Snorklewacker' cartoons to my 6 year old, who is afraid of closet ghosts (he won't be convinced that this is not a thing). We also have a stuffed Opus and 'A Wish for Wings That Work' and 'The Last Basselope'. My also rans: I haven't picked them up in years, but in my early 20s I collected and read every 'For Better or For Worse. Probably in a couple years I'll introduce my kid to them. I have all the Cathy comics too, and those I find oddly soothing to reread (no, no one in my life is anything but put off by this, which I get. It's not something I can explain), as long as I keep in mind that she has an eating disorder and a shopping addiction. I think I have every "Get Fuzzy" collections; I reread those every few years. That comic burned out pretty quick but man, the first few years were great. I have several "Pearls Before Swine", and I broke my boycott of Amazon to buy "My Cage Year One", which I learned about from following The Comics Curmudgeon back in the day, just as it (MC) was ending. My most recent comics obsession has been The Knights of the Dinner Table, a long-running comic that for years was just a bunch of characters playing an RPG--talking heads that never left the table. It's charming and funny and super-nerdy and has heart, and it's been going for 30 years now. I gradually bought all the collected ones ("Bundle of Trouble"s and "Tales from the Vault"), which are released several years behind the monthly comic, and now I subscribe. It's been my easy-reading escape during the last administration.

FilloryCitrus

Well, "Bloom County" does have more talking animals. (I almost said "BC" for short before remembering that that's the full title of another comic.)

Stephen Gilberg


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