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The all time best comic strip EVER was " They'll Do It Every Time". You had to experience what the characters go through and have a sense of humor with some cynicism. Just people running up against every day encounters with idiots and things that test your patience. The one I still remember is " Pot Roast." A wife asks her husband if he'd like pot roast for dinner. He enthusiastically says yes and spends the day hungrily waiting for pot roast for dinner. Has a brown bag light lunch. Keeps thinking about pot roast. Then when he gets home he sees left overs and asks where the pot roast is. His wife says her mother called and she didn't have time to go to the store. Another one was a guy is driving and the guy behind him honks his horn and yells at him that he doesn't know how to drive. Of course that guy is driving a beat up car full of dents.
I just noticed my once nationally known Sunday comics section( now a shadow of its once greatness since the paper was sold last year) has stopped running my favorite comic. Family Circus. Has The Family Circus stopped running or has my paper just cheaped out and stopped publishing it?
"The Family Circus" is the only one that can always make me smile. But my local newspaper got sold to a syndicate and they ran the Sunday comics into the ground( along with the whole newspaper) and no longer carry it. But " They'll Do It Every Time" is my all time favorite. I have to find a book with those old ones published.
I will always have a soft spot for Dilbert, mostly due to a situation at a past job where Dilbert would have felt right at home.
About 15 years ago I worked for a certain big-box retailer that was being run by absolute morons at the store level as well as corporate. My work space was the only one with a dedicated printer (that actually worked!), so others would often use my desk when/if I was not around. I had this "Daily Dilbert" calendar at home and when I was frustrated by a particularly obtuse decision by our manager or someone at corporate I would 'act out' by taping an appropriate Dilbert cartoon to the printer, using it as a proxy commentary on what went on at the store. It was quite telling that Dilbert often encountered the same types of idiocy we did...and I would change the cartoon out every week or so. After about three months of doing this, I noticed the cartoons being removed from the printer; I'd replace it and that would then disappear. Guess I struck a nerve. No one in charge ever told me to stop posting them, but I figured the speed with which they disappeared said that someone was offended. The only ones who could possibly be offended were the managers.
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