Comic Strips

Do you remember comics when you were younger? Man oh man, they were great, weren't they? And, there were plenty of them too. I can remember that Dagwood was usually the first strip, or sometimes it was peanuts. I'll be honest with you, I usually skipped over the Phantom and Mary Worth,not because they were poorly written, but because they took so long to unfold. And there was always a lady crying into a handkerchief at some point, wasn't there? But the funny ones made my day. Calvin and Hobbes is a treasure, and I would give anything for it to be back in print again. There were about a dozen of those strips that made me laugh out loud, especially when Calvin was having his picture taken for a card, or when he gave himself a haircut. Garfield is great, also, plus many others I could mention. I found a site on Yahoo that lets me keep current on all of the best comic strips. Frankly, I can't wait to see what happens on 9 Chickweed Lane. Talk about a great story! Why did papers get away from having such wonderful strips? I know that part of it is the money side. I also know that the Internet is slowly killing off the newspapers that are still around. Why would you buy it when you can download the thing for free? Here in this town, there is a small locally owned paper that is not what I would call topnotch. The most popular thing that I have noticed in it is the police blotter. Everyone that I know looks there first to see who has been arrested for something, and what that something was. It doesn't take much to make some folks feel better about themselves. Maybe if the newspapers made the paper good again, say with comic strips, and local stories vs. whatever got pulled off the AP people might invest in them again. If they do, you can thank me later.