Goodbye Cathy the whining cartoon

[Dan Hickling]

Used to read the strips all the time (Even Dondi and Gil Thorp) ... now I can't remember the last one I read ... a few years ago, I reckon

 

[Mystery Meat II]

For the first time in ages, I read every comic in my paper yesterday.

Maybe, maybe, one of them was funny and/or interesting on its own merit. And maybe an additional two were funny if I attached my own lewd version of their story.

That's sad.

Legacy comics, baby. I'd be willing to wager that at least half of the strips in your paper are no longer penned by their original artist, but they remain in all their mediocre-by-today's-standards glory. Finding a parcel of space on the funny pages amidst the Blondies and Dennis the Menaces and Hagar the Horribles is tantamount to getting a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan.

 

[RickStain]

The ability for comics artists to self-publish on the web has proven what a joke syndicated comics are. There's a ton of good stuff out there. Great, even. But you won't find it in the newspaper.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I hope they answer all the questions in the end, like why can't Cathy get pregnant?

 

[Buck]

Is "Shoe' still around?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Is "Shoe' still around?

Yes, though no longer drawn by its originator.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Some of you people know waaaaaaaay too much about this comic strip.

. . . including the fact that the basic artistry's so horrifying, it makes Doonesbury look like Van Gogh?

 

[BYH]

Used to read the strips all the time (Even Dondi and Gil Thorp) ... now I can't remember the last one I read ... a few years ago, I reckon

Dondi was one hard-luck kid.