The Importance of Reading Comics on Sunday blog

One of the first sites I read every Sunday is comics.com, to read Get Fuzzy and all my favorite comics. I used to get newspapers all the time (of course) but stopped getting the LA Times and LA Daily News about 5-6 years ago. LOVED reading a Sunday paper, flipping through all the sections, catching up on news that I missed during the week. I'm not gonna say that I'm better off not reading the paper, but with internet news I do feel like I am missing some things I used to read.

But the choice of online comics is better. I like the usual comics, the popular ones (Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine, Doonesbury, Opus) but comics.com and gocomics.com have enabled me to find and enjoy comics that don't get printed in newspapers.

I only discovered LIO in the last 6 months, and now I love it unconditionally and try to read it everyday. Others I try to read daily: Grand Avenue, Brevity, Reality Check, Red and Rover, Foxtrot Classics, The FOOB, The Duplex, Loose Parts, Luann, Non Sequitor, The Norm, Rudy Park/Candorville and I guess I have to admit I read On A Claire Day.

I can't say I read it all week, but I enjoy 9 Chickweed Lane because the creator draws so well, and does exceptional work on Sundays. Frazz is similar- I don't read it often but sometimes it's well done. Sometimes I read Ripley's Believe it or not, but then I scratch my head and curse the idea that I still read something that was interesting to me when I was 7. Some others on my "sometimes" list- Red Meat, Slowpoke, State of the Union, The Argyle Sweater.

For Better Or For Worse is still the car wreck on the side of the road. I still can't look away. Perplexing how that comic has become more interesting as it gets more cliche and boring. The FOOBiverse is a site I found about 2 years ago, and it's a great site to check out. Oh, and Comics I just don't understand is a fun site too.


They still do repeat runs of Calvin and Hobbes and Boondocks online. I miss them both, as well as Citizen Dog, a comic that ended its run early as well. But then there are the "oldies" like Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, Family Circle etc where you wonder why they still take up space. But even these internet sites keep running crap like Ferd'nand, Nancy, Farcus, Fat Cats and Raising Duncan. Makes me wonder what kind of contracts these artists have to enable such junk to continue.

I think I'll always enjoy reading comics on Sunday, like I did this morning. I tried drawing a comic when I was in college, but I draw terribly and I was under the influence of Doonesbury far too much. When my roommate even couldn't generate interest to view my drawings, the writing was on the wall.