In the old Pogo comic, the hound dog Beauregard made his initial entrance standing on his own ear. Writer/artist Walt Kelly commented later that many folks made their final appearance that way, but not their first...

Sorry to underestimate you, I should have known better. Because I have always been isolated from other fans, with only me and my brother crazy for comics, there are times when I feel like the only fan in the world. I never liked Pogo growing up. It was not the politics, but it was never ha ha funny. For the same reason I got tired of Lil Abner, not the politics (which I was too young to understand) but how dense and hard to read it was. In both cases the artwork was over the top. I never liked Jules Fieffer or Mort Walker or Broom Hilda. The New Yorker, which I get, has almost never been funny for the last 40 years. It is like they claim pointless humor is sophisticated, a long way away from when they were cutting edge. I. E.- http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMuDihPPy.....640/Arno02.jpg
Arno's Father was a New York Supreme Court justice and he disowned Peter over this stuff. Arno had a super swinging lifestyle and is very funny. Fuck you, dad. This cartoon put this phrase into the English, or at least American language. And then there is this guy-

http://art.cafimg.com/images/Catego.....4141814411.jpg Bobby London, an original Air Pirate.


http://www.shaenon.com/drought3.jpg Shary Flenniken.

But I will leave you with this- https://youtu.be/ZMcYKebvSaQ

Actually, it was my Dad who got us turned onto Kelly's Pogo. He had a couple of the books (1951's eponymous Pogo and the 1955 Pogo Peek-A-Book). Like Capp, Kelly wrote for several levels. We, being ignorant, innocent children, took them to be funny-animal books the sort of thing which Kelly had created earlier in his career. Pogo didn't run in our daily paper. We took the Courant; Pogo ran in the Times, a Republican paper run by an Insurance company. Having no other recourse, the four of us read the two Pogo books quite literally to pieces. I have since replaced them and supplemented them with almost every word and line that came from Kelly's pen. I don't always agree with him politically, but he was the best for pointing out the bad guys and ridiculing the rubes and boobs.

I tried to like Al Capp and Li'l Abner, but it never really stuck. I loathed Chester Gould and his ultraviolent Dick Tracy. Meting out hard-nosed justice with a snub-nosed .357 -- some sort of totalitarian wet dream.

Shary Flenniken!! The ultra-sweet Bonnie and her snarky mutt Trots. I loved both Shary and Bonnie after meeting them in the pages of the National Lampoon in Junior High.

I followed the misadventures of the Air Pirates, but for a time I was a particular fan of their founder Dan O'Neill and his Odd Bodkins. All of us need a trip to Magic Cookie Land once in a while.

Gilbert Shelton nailed Gould with Tricky Prick Ears, the deaf, blind cop. I did like the Spirit even in re-run.
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You may have noticed that newspaper comics are abysmal, hard to read and generally pointless and un-funny. Mutts is well drawn and clever. Peanuts is in eternal rerun. It seems that most that I bother to read are designed to appeal to something in someone's life, not to make them laugh. Newspapers are dying now and it shows. Oddly, most if not all of the papers in Texas are very liberal in bias, because they are a community rally point. One can get all the news off AM radio and the net. The bias of the two big one's in South Texas, the Corpus Christie Caller Times and the San Antonio Express-News, is pro illegal immigrant and financial handouts. I understand this, that is their constituency, but even here it is a minority viewpoint. Hispanic Americans are hard working and upwardly mobile and do not support unrestricted immigration. I don't want any bias in my news, or opinion, just state the who and how and I will decide why. This is why I read so many diverse sites on the web. If I wanted to live around a bunch of people that thought the same thing I did I would have stayed in the Marines. When I was doing theater in Austin I used to catch criticism about my alleged viewpoints all of the time, not that I once ever said anything. The difference between me and such people is that I have doubts and I can always be wrong. I was being judged by the length of my hair!
I seem to have strayed off my topic. The Born Loser is still going, Mother Goose and Grimm is brilliant, but I cannot name many others. I see Fred Basset is still going, and it sucked forty years ago. Basta, Paul, enough! Get a soapbox!