Sunday Comics
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There's too many to list, but here's some of them: Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon, Krazy Kat, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Polly and Her Pals (especially the 1925-32 era), Little Nemo in Slumberland, Gasoline Alley, pre-70s Dick Tracy (especially the 1930s through the 1940s), Prince Valiant, E.C. Segar's Popeye, Secret Agent X-9, Lyonel Feininger's The Kin-Der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon (for the art and not the stories), Red Barry (a short lived, exceptionally well written, rugged drawn strip), Johnny Hazard, the early decades of Apartment 3-G, and among others, the two years of The Amazing Spider-Man Sundays I did.
I love family circus. Why because it is really fun to alter it and make it horrible. You know just a little horror added and hilarity ensues. I got three books I've corrected of Family Circus. The number of times they've murdered each other alone is hilarious.
I think some of the posts blur the line between newspaper strips and comic books in all their various formats. The OP is referring to the former, which I take to be content originally created for publication in daily and/or weekly newspapers (although in many cases it was subsequently reissued as a comic book, Big Little Book, or hardcover book).
To the growing list (increased significantly in every sense by Jim) I’d definitely add Hogarth’s Tarzan.
To the growing list (increased significantly in every sense by Jim) I’d definitely add Hogarth’s Tarzan.
Agree. Comic books are something else entirely from Sunday comics.
I think I've got pretty much every Asterix book in english; plus a few in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Turkish (I used to look out for them when travelling... ...although the Turkish one was a present from a girlfriend).
By the way, as an interesting tidbit well-known pipe collector & author Rick Newcombe was fortunate enough to know and be friends with Milt Caniff. As I recall the story Caniff played a pivotal role in encouraging Rick to establish his own business.
Many favorites mentioned here. Two of my favorites were Gary Larson’s Farside and Berkeley Breathed’s various incarnations of Bloom County, Outland and Opus.
How can anyone not appreciate that absurdist humor of Gary Larsen?
They'll Do It Every Time, Bringing up Father, Prince Valiant, The Phantom, Mandrake, Archie, Hägar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey... to name a few.
An Archie Sunday/Daily? Never saw that, which paper? I remember the Archie digest they’d sell at the newsstand though.
Local paper in the city where I sojourned many years. Not in the US.
I should have mentioned that one, but I could add another 10-15 to the list as well.
Here’s another: Hamlin’s Alley Oop. Not a personal favorite, but a classic by any standard.
I still do artwork for the various Archie digests. I also did some Archie dailies and Sundays towards the end of the run with original stories befor they went to reprints. The Archie strip started in the 1940s.
I remember Snuffy Smith, and Henry, and Lil' Abner, and that one about Maggie & Jiggs but don't remember the title.
Bringing Up Father.
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