My Cage 'Classic" 08/11/2007
Added 2021-02-06 05:00:01 +0000 UTCI 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.
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Comments
I'll have to check out "The Knights of the Dinner Table". Thanks.
My Cage
2021-02-09 13:32:35 +0000 UTC'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
2021-02-06 06:40:57 +0000 UTCWell, "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
2021-02-06 05:04:21 +0000 UTC
