`Cathy' comic strip ending after 34 years

Associated Press ^ | 8-11-10 | MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER

[chopperman]

If the papers really wanted to improve sales, they’d rerun Far Side and Calvin & Hobbs like they do Peanuts.

[Tijeras_Slim]

She should just sell the franchise to R. Crumb.

[Ev Reeman]

Obviously an aberration for Gary Trudeau. Maybe he ran out of Koolaid the day he penned that one.

[stuartcr]

Now that is a cartoonist.

[HerrBlucher]

Bingo, Calvin and Hobbes was the best, I was truly sad to see that one go.

[Lurking Libertarian]

It appeared to me as an inner dialog of an unhappy, overweight, unmarriageable woman, or maybe even an unhappy, overweight, unmarriageable gay man.

The character actually got married several years ago. The strip hasn't gotten any funnier, though.

[kidd]

The Golden Age of Comic Strips (1985-1989):

Bloom County (1980-1989)
Calvin and Hobbes (1985-1995)
Peanuts (1950-2000)
Far Side (1980-1995)

[SJSAMPLE]

It should, ideally, end in a double suicide of both the character and the creater.

[livius]

I’d forgotten that. I actually used to read Doonesbury once upon a time and then Trudeau started getting more and more leftwing and I never read the strip now. But you’re right, he was different early on.

[Huskrrrr]

Yeah, that’s a good one.

[Lx]

Now there’s a comic that was absolutely horrible.
No loss.
I don’t know how it lasted. It was never funny, I could care less about Cathy’s mental issues and it was worse drawn that South Park.

[Slings and Arrows]

Let’s give her a big round of indifference, shall we?

[Interesting Times]

34 years of nothing to say...

[Slings and Arrows]

Sweet baby Cthulhu, I would pay to see that!

[OldMissileer]

Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side were my favorites.

I used to read Doonesbury before the hiatus. After he came back I read the first week of Doonesbury and stopped, never to have read another. Pedantic is one definition of his current work.

[andy58-in-nh]

Don’t laugh - I have a feeling that Depression Comics are about to make a big comeback...

[Abin Sur]

I like Dilbert, but I truly miss The Far Side.

There haven't been any great strips for some time now. Once The Far Side, Bloom County, and Calvin and Hobbs disappeared, what was left? There are still some fairly amusing strips around today (Monty, Get Fuzzy, Zits), but nothing like the strips of old.

Of course, there are some webcomics that are pretty good. Girl Genius, PvPonline, and Something Positive come to mind.

[Boxsford]

The Far Side. Now that was sad ending.

[Andonius_99]

Dilbert’s only funny because it’s a documentary... ;-)

[DBrow]

I liked Downstown, now gone, and Jump Start by Robb Anderson, I think he’s still working.