I agree with you when you say that the comic strip as a medium is dying… everything looks stale - and since Calvin & Hobbes ended, the only strip that captured my heart was cul-de-sac, by Richard Thompson.
I am still a big comics fan, and I still believe in the potential of the medium. Probably comic strips in newspapers are dead (our local paper stoped carrying comic strips more than 10 years ago, I think).
However, I am a faithful followed of several webcomics: here I read Dick Tracy (ok, morbid pleasure, this one) Cul-de-sac & Brewster Rockit. Then I go to my favorite webcomics: sinfest, PHD, least I could do, pvp online % penny arcade. They are innovative, amusing and work pretty well in an online-only medium (even if I also bought the paper books with the compilation of the strips!).
I agree with you when you say that the comic strip as a medium is dying… everything looks stale - and since Calvin & Hobbes ended, the only strip that captured my heart was cul-de-sac, by Richard Thompson.
I am still a big comics fan, and I still believe in the potential of the medium. Probably comic strips in newspapers are dead (our local paper stoped carrying comic strips more than 10 years ago, I think).
However, I am a faithful followed of several webcomics: here I read Dick Tracy (ok, morbid pleasure, this one) Cul-de-sac & Brewster Rockit. Then I go to my favorite webcomics: sinfest, PHD, least I could do, pvp online % penny arcade. They are innovative, amusing and work pretty well in an online-only medium (even if I also bought the paper books with the compilation of the strips!).