Best strip around (no offense, Keith).

I hope Salon runs "Cathy" next.

Because there are sites (joshreads.com) entirely dedicated to the idea of this strip.

...brings out the Comics Curmudgeon in so many of us each week.

I'm probably spoiling the surprise, but this is a part of group comic protest, about how all strips with black or even mixed-casts are typecast as black strips. Other participating strips include Candorville, Cafe Con Leche, Housebroken and a few others I can't think of right off the bat. Except for the weekly ones which might run early, they're going to run on Sunday.

...to complain about it.

Apartment 3-G and Mary Worth are still alive in the Dullest Boring Snooze [Dallas Morning News], last time I checked. I dropped my delivery years ago, and now find my news online at age 67.

that Gus Arriola died this week?

At the risk of sounding like the old fogey in the strip, I do think he has a point. I remember in the early 1960s, sitting on my dad's lap, especially on a sunday, and having him read the comics section to me. Lil Abner, Dick Tracy, Terry and the Pirates, Prince Valiant, Rick O'Shay and funny strips, too, like Alley Oop, Gordo (as someone noted, Gus Arriola just died) and Pogo.

There were lots of others, too. The comics section back then was several more pages than they are today. Today's funny pages just simply don't compare on any level. Sorry, but they don't. Lil Abner and Pogo had the social commentary and satire, Dick Tracy and Terry and the Pirates provided adventure, and Prince Valiant, at that time, was often just flat out beautiful to look at.

I look at the comics section now, and can't imagine reading it to my kid. The section is thin, and most of the comics are lame, and most of the jokes are aimed at adults, and the art doesn't compare to comics back then.

I think Keith is great, but I don't think yearning for the old days necessarily makes one just a cranky old man.

Keith Knight is attune with the era we now have inherited.

It's a read like a multi-wave oscillator. There is a high voltage a'etheric field and can be an introduction to a potentially "dangerous" mind/soul/body frequency. Beware trolls.

The cellular level of the natural body gets intense detoxification anywhere (here) which is so rapid a gop-ilk may become worse-ill. If not a GOP-ilk, IMO, the read of nature and comic strips can be rejuvenation.

There should be a Caution Warning:

Thank you for reading The K Chronicles. Eat a hearty breakfast. Drink raw milk. *Enjoy nutrient dense food.

Live a way of Life that has a quality connection to the Land.

Look into free insights wherever @About= etc., concerning minerals, bacteria, biology, and respect wholesome meals and friends as true medicine. The real riches. Don't be fooled.

~

P.S. When healing, restoring, and practicing a form of rejuvenation...I is critical...Be alert.

Especially in times like 'our' insidious Bush Corp.

O, the Ceo greed proves a fake-dead-end pursuit...

IT BE Prudent. I Mean Mighty Wise to plan ahead and protect those you care about and Love. Start Today. Begin. Survive,

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And to protect ones family (we are a universal family, so-to- speak) and be relieved from angst, dismay, and unnecessary inflicted pain...distant Self from the war-soaked creeps!

O, vibrate back to the earlier children's comic era.

Become attune to the original frequency of 'our' youth.

O, but the rugged individualist bush-troll is prone to discombobulate because the mind/soul/body reject LIES.

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I love comic strips and agree that the Dennis the Menace

had its moment. Ya's can't beat Zippy the Pinhead, Cathy, Pickles, and I say all of them 'speak' to who/where/what we are about...*The decent, wholesome comic strips are still around. The dirty-creepy-neocon, fake neoconservative times, are here side-by-side too. It's time to Mock 'um like Tom Tomorrow, or there will be no tomorrow?

Keith Knight.

That was a thanks.

Ya's can't take anything for granted,

in a damn creepy neocon demented era.

Say hey to Ivan Stang.

Seriously, what was the deal with those two? Also, how come Mary Worth knew so many fucked up people with so many problems? And why did Mandrake the Magician ALWAYS wear a cape and tophat? Other magicians took off their costumes when they left the stage, why not Mandrake? Was he OCD or something? Also, wasn't the whole concept of "Melrose Place" just a ripoff of Apartment 3G? Also is it me, or does Mark Trail look like it's still being faxed (or maybe telegraphed) in from the 1950s? Finally, am I the only one who wants to slap the stupid outta those obnoxious Family Circus kids? These the are Comix questions that bedevil me late at night...

Crappiness and the loons it drives out into the open, does.

For a brief, fleeting second I had a fear that the first panel (Man, I hate this comic!) was going to lead us into some kind of comment about KOF.

I thought, oh no, it's infected the Keefe! But then, whew.

Apparently, it's about the Boondocks.

... don't forget violent spousal abuse as well - Mrs. Andy Capp wasn't using her rolling pin for making cookies!

I grew up reading Alley Oop, Gordo, Gasoline Alley, Mary Worth, Prince Valiant, and Andy Capp on my dad's lap too. And I say good riddance. I didn't get them most of the time, and when they were funny it was in this weird Archie Bunker kinda way. They were of a certain place and time and they haven't aged well.

This Sunday's "Pearls Before Swine" was not a comic; it was a prose/joke story in panels. Sometimes it makes me laugh, but any satisfying complex character development is a almost nonexistent.

"Mutts" and "Frazz", same thing. Too strange, no depth, silly writing, can't relate.

OTOH, a lot of classic comics I used to love are outre and hopelessly outdated. "Blondie" and "Hi and Lois," former favorites of mine, both need to die; "Beetle Bailey" and "Hagar" are on life support, but are still good for the occasional chuckle, more than I can say for the modern ones I have a problem with.

"Funky Winkerbean" is trying to remain relevant, and is still interesting to me. The comics that came of age in the last twenty years such as "Sally Forth," "For Better Or Worse," "Rose Is Rose," "Foxtrot," et al, are still worth checking, daily. "Dilbert," "Zits," "Non-Sequitur," "Grimm," and even "Garfield" are heads and shoulders above other comics in terms of humor, wit and biting commentary on current events.

And of course "Doonesbury" is in a class by itself, both for writing, character and editorial comment. It never fails, something that seems impossible, but it's true.

We ARE talking about newspaper syndicate cartoons, and not the world full of alternatives to them, so...