Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 11, 2010

There are worse things, Petey….. ;-)

Welcome to “OUR” little club Petey :-))

And you’ll find even more on line than you get in your local paper, Petey.

Yeah Petey, who wants to read comics online. Only losers do that….Hey wait a minute…… :O

Ouch. Until the free paper I’ve been getting on the porch for the past few weeks goes away, online is the only way I get my comics. RT is probably upset with ALL of us.

The wonderful world of the only colored section of the newspaper, the Sunday Funnies, I remember them well. And I too got ink all over my hands. (It was part of the ritual.)

I read the comics online and I have jelly stains left on me here too.

cleo, I never thought I’d be saying, “Everything you eat looks good on you” to you!

They finally took Doonsbury off the opinion section and put it back where it belongs. To do this, they put Ziggy on the business page . Why couldn’t they put Mary Worth and Rex Morgan on the society page and have room for Cul de Sac?

Eating breakfast at the keyboard while reading Gocomics is a time honored American tradition whose origins stretch back to Washington Irving’s “History of New Jersey” This rare edition can be obtained for $45.95 from soyouthinkyou’reagenius.com

Oh Petey, the HORROR!! reading online!!!

Thank you R.T. I think Im going to go and sit on the porch and read some TERRY AND THE PIRATES or some of my old POGOs!

I was a small town paperboy who lived for the Sunday funnies. This was the old days when the comics were big, colorful and plentiful—and the TVs were few, small, and black and white.

Now here I am, getting my online funnies-fix before turning on my 37” LCD TV for the day.

I miss being a paperboy.

getting the comics online isn’t so bad.. at least ya don’t have to wade through all the depressing news to get to em.

I’ll often pull out one of my collection books to read and have a laugh over breakfast if there isn’t a paper or keyboard nearby

Why’s he looking right at me when he says that?

grazer, there are no paperboys eith their wagons left - only adults using cars. This morning, I got the paper for the wrong city.

I still read the morning paper, and any strip that I CAN read there, I do. I use the online sites for those which I can’t read as ink on paper, the way God intended.

I’m rethinking that, though. Obviously, when I read the funnies on the funny pages, there aren’t comment threads. What do they talk about over at “Get Fuzzy” or “Pearls Before Swine”? I have no idea…

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What the h… are you talking about! and why?

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The slimeball spammer said “Echocardiography action ” FREE sHIPPING!!! ”

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I think this spam thing has been run through some sort of cheap translation program with predictably hilarious results ..lol

I read comics online because I can’t make out the tiny printed versions. Although I do get Sunday Cul de Sac with my Sun-Times.

I buy the newspaper, because that’s how most of the news gathering and syndicated features are paid for. When everyone stops buying papers, a lot of these strips aren’t going to be here.

Petey’s lucky. That stuff happens here every day.

Remember when the comics in the papers were big enough to read without a magnifying glass? If they get any smaller I will have to wear 3 pair of glasses:-P

Let’s see… The Cul de Sac Times carries strips featuring (at least on this day) a dog who looks like a squirrel, another with a cat, one with an ugly baby, one with a prominent sandwich, and one with alligators.

Assuming that what Alice takes for gators might in fact be crocs, I’d hazard a guess that “Pearls Before Swine” and “Blondie” are represented. Ugly babies and (uglier) cats are endemic, but since Alice can actually tell the difference between the two I’d eliminate “Marvin” and “Garfield”. And of course there are innumerable strips featuring dogs, but I can’t think of one that might be mistaken for a squirrel.

After you’re done shopping at etootoo, you all might enjoy the backstory to this- http://tinyurl.com/yyvrm8t

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Pssst, Richard…You spelled John’s name wrong. Don’t worry I won’t tell him.

Where I live, we only have a weekly paper… and they don’t have a decent funny section, so I always get my comic fix online.

RT, do you have any idea whether this project might also have inspired today’s “Fusco Brothers”?

What’s a “newspaper?”

I like Petey’s gaze out at us. lol

Dog that looks like a squirrel

Might be Mutts I think that one has a Cat and an ugly baby too

Oops, thanks, Garey- I’ll fix that…

And I can almost guarantee that the Fusco Brothers is referring to this very thing….

You should know better Petey!

It’s always been impossible to get JUST all my favorites on one paper (or even site) - Most of what I read on WaPo are from King Syndication (and 3 more on the local paper which are not on WaPo - Between Friends, Rhymes with Orange and Mother Goose.

ummmm…garfield, thatababy, pickles, pearls before swine?

and mutts. the first ones mutts

What a clever little joke aimed at us online readers!