>>34
I always liked Zits and Baby Blues, it's funny think everyone experience with newspaper Comics is different because it all depends on what your paper had, mine another one I remember having was For Better or Worse which had a cartoon in Canada cause it was Canadian but never aired here, so I think that's odd.

slylock from last monday

>>37
nevermind that is from 2022

>>37
This what I mean, my paper didn't carry this at all.

>>39
we only had Hägar the Horrible back when the sundaypaper were still a thing, i learned of slylock many many years through the internet. i kind of miss real newspaper

>>40
We had some oddballs mixed with usual stuff like that and I remember for some weird reason my 5th and 6th grade school laid out newspaper to look at while you wait for class and my parents also give me the comics when they got the paper. I remember we had the Rugrats newspaper comic in ours for a few years too which had a few strips drawn by Vince Giarrano who one of those I do any style artists.

>>41
One of the strips we had was Todd The Dinosaur which might be one of the lamest comic strips to exist and I remember hating it lol.

>>42
The most oddball thing I remember seeing in a newspaper was Leviathan. If I didn't have hard evidence that it was a real strip I would have thought that it was some sort of fever dream.

older comic stips tend to have some clever, witty writing, and are very in touch with reality;grounded like op said…and they're able to do it in a way that doesn't sacrifice any of the imagination, they're super stimulating to read! something about them always pull me out of my own awful funks. Nothing quite like them
i likes em' lots
my personal favorites are pogo, calvin and hobbes, and moomin..they're all pretty similar in tone..peanuts is one i've been meaning to read as well, it's right up my alley, maybe tonight's the night

>>298
this is the best

how does everyone here go about finding new comic strips these days? newpapers? collections? libraries?

>>379
For what it is worth, I found Peanuts because of a volume at my local library. The libraries where I am are severely lacking in comics, but I know it's not like that everywhere. It's probably worth a check. I don't know how you find out about anything strip-wise that hasn't already cemented itself though, which is what I personally am focusing on right now. I used to have a comics encyclopedia, but I let a friend of mine's dad have that. It might be worth finding one of those. I think you just have to be lucky, ultimately. I'm sure posts like this one help too. I've been introduced to a lot from all the replies here. I never really like them, but I should probably keep up with my own local newspaper comics more, heh.

>>380
if you've exhausted the adult section of the library, sometimes youth and teen sections have some newspaper comics collections as well. also utilizing an interloan system can be a great way to find new ones too if that's something your local library offers. the organization, and expanse of the catalogs can vary greatly from my experience living in different places.
Oh you've reminded me about the world encyclopedia of comics! something comprehensive and curated like that would probably be the best resource for finding decent established material
and if anything else there's always wikipedia's list of newspaper comics, there's so much on the list that sifting through it is a little daunting though

OP coming back around. I came around to Calvin & Hobbes. First, I'm a bit shocked at how 1980's the strip is. I guess I should have seen that coming, but it's still odd to read a comic strip that so immerses itself in its era. It's different than just various cultural or current references, it's in the underlying foundations of the comic itself. It's like how the Simpsons is very 1990's; it's more than just the topical jokes, it's a part of what it is fundamentally. It's also interesting how "postmodern," for lack of a better word, the strip is. A lot of the jokes boil down to doing cartoony stuff but ending them with realistic outcomes. For example, one Sunday is of Calvin attempting to paraglide off of the back of his red wagon with an umbrella. He is dragged across the ground, runs into a tree, and falls into a lake. Cartoons are the area where stuff like that should be able to happen, but C&H is having none of it. It works very well. The science fiction stuff struck me as quite off color at first, but I've come around to it now. The joys of childhood. I was also surprised that the comic is so open about Hobbes not being real.

I'm pretty early on, and I know the comic changes up a lot as it goes, so I'm pretty excited for it.

>>381
Thank you for introducing me to that encyclopedia, by the way. To be honest, I usually go straight to the children's section in most libraries because that's where they like to put the Japanese comics, haha. Maybe this year I should focus on trying to have more comic books put in libraries.