Including both the comic books and the series in newspapers. Which were your favorites? I remember reading Superman, the Justice League of America, The Flash, Mad Magazine. I gave up on comics early. In the newspaper comics, I enjoyed Doonesbury, Calvin & Hobbs, the Far Side, Life in Hell. I love cynicism and would still read any of these. Of course the old playboy comics were fun, too.
I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes. It was a sad day in my house when the artist retired. Also, Garfield, and Beetle Bailey. Didn't read too many comic books, however. Maybe once in a while I'd pick up an X-Men, but not very often at all.
When I was a kid in the fifties an early sixties my older neighbor collected comics and Mads. His father had a big old block garage that he worked on cars in and also stored a few. Had those old single pane metal frame windows, dirt floor, and big old coal stove to heat it. I can remember goin in there and walking on all kinda tools and old hood ornaments ground into the floor. Back by the old 40s era Cadilac, under the tarp, was a big ole pile of comic books. Musta been three feet high. Stacks and stacks and this big pile in the middle. I'd lay on that pile all day and read those old dark Batman Adventure comics, Superman, Sgt. Rock, etc...remember the original BlackHawks? 10 cents an issue. So, when I was in college it dawned on me that this guy had a million dollars worth of old comics. So I bopped on over there and he told me that he had just hauled them out to the field and burned them all three days before I showed up..... How bout Lil' Abner?
doonsberry, and before that pogo the possum. there was also mutt and jeff. and i think it was baby huey or something like that, this huge fat guy that just wore a diaper and peddled arround on this bicycle like thing that had a camper that looked like an out house on the back. and of course mr mcgoo. mads were cool too. probably still are. for a while mad had several immitators or also were's inspired by mad, like cracked, and a couple of others who'se name i forgot. ah and then there was vampirella. there's still nothing hotter in women's fassions then the design of that thing she wore oh and then there was the phantom. that two tone purple guy. and green lantern. just cause i liked the collor green. a major relief from all the red and blue. or was it the green hornet. come to think of it i think there was both. a green lantern AND a green hornet. much more recently of course there was the pioneering mr ultra-goth, beatlejuce beatlejuce beatlejuce! adams family and or munsters were also a cartoon, usualy single fraime, sometimes political that appeared in magazenes like argosy, before either of them became live acted series on tv. =^^= .../\...
Hey themnax.....Baby Huey was a big duck in a diaper as far as newsprint comics...Dick Tracy,Andy Capps,Henry(The Bald-headed Kid) and can't forget about Marmaduke I can't remmber the name of the comic...but one of the main characters was Opus the penguin....it took the place of Doonesberry...at one point in time as far as the comic books go.....I got out of them early...after finding the world of Robert Crumbb and the underground comix.....boy that went over real well with my dad at the time
Calvin and Hobbes, man. I love Calvin and Hobbes. My brother was obsessed growing up, and I would "borrow" his Calvin and Hobbes books when he wasn't home. I never loved them as much as he did, but I did love them.
Spiderman was my comic of choice. Anyone remember the Fabulous Furry Freak Bros? Can't recall the name of the strip in the paper, but there was a family of bears. The father bear burped and scratched in public, and he loved road kill.
freek brothers? robert crumb WAS the 60s/70s. mr natural, funkey foote, fat freddie's cat! remember buyin one accross the street from the induction center in oakland. he may be where the feds and heads board game came from. =^^= .../\...
remember when they had the comics with the lil old gray woman with the saggy boobs,,,they took her out of playboy years ago,,,her comics were funny, maybe someday they will bring her back. Does anyone remember the wacky packs made by Topps, they were comic stickers of products,,,like instead of crest, they would calll it crust, and draw it up just like the crest toothpaste bottle with the label crust on it,,,but did it tooo all sorts of products.
Mad magazine used to be the shit! Now it's pretty lame though, and last time I looked it was all in color!
