Friday Fun is a group post from the writers of the NHWN blog. Each week, we’ll pose and answer a different, get-to-know-us question. We hope you’ll join in by providing your answer in the comments.
QUESTION: What is your favorite comic strip (online or in print) and why? It can be in existence or from the past.
Deborah Lee Luskin: I’m a late-comer to comics, but Zits does it for me.
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Lisa J. Jackson: I’ve always enjoyed Garfield for his wit.. and probably because he’s a cat who owns a human. 
Dilbert was fun to read and relate to when I worked in a cube farm. There’s an online cartoon, Simon’s Cat, that features, surprise! a cat and all the mischief he gets into. It plays like a short movie with just cat sounds instead of a 1-dimensional readable comic strip. Lots of hilarious antics.
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Jamie Wallace: I’m going to have to go with the Peanuts. I still have a “treasury” of Peanuts comic strips that someone gave me back in the 70s. I adore the animated specials (The Great Pumpkin will be on soon!), and what’s not to love about the writers’ patron saint – Snoopy himself with the ever-popular, “It was a dark and storm night…” opening. I swoon just seeing that typewriter on top of the dog house!
Susan Nye: Can I have a three-way tie? I love the political jabs in Doonesbury, the kid-ly naughtiness and philosophy of Calvin and Hobbs and the irreverence of Dilbert. (Although I must say I found Dilbert funnier and more timely when I worked in a cubicle.)
I’m with Susan Nye – love those both!
I’ve always enjoyed “The Far Side” by Gary Larson because it pokes fun at so much of our quirky social behavior!
I love For better or For worse and Snoopy!
I usually find “Dilbert” and “Drabble” to be quite funny. An old favorite from many years ago was “Gummer Street”.
I second “The Far Side” for print, but for webcomics, I’ll have to go with XKCD. ( <– http://xkcd.com )
I like The Flintstones very much.Though it was set in the Stone Age the characters behave like modern day people. They make us laugh at our mistakes and it gives a glimpse into the human relationships and vices at the same time.The story is cleverly crafted so we are made to believe that the things they use in the stone age really exist.
I always felt a kinship with Beetle Bailey, nothing more than a lost ball in the all weeds.
Snoopy and the Peanuts gang forever!
Thanks for bringing back happy memories of the comic strip days! For me it was Cathy. She always seemed to say what I (and most women) were thinking–especially about our body image. I looked her up because of this post and came across a cartoon of her sitting there looking befuddled, with a caption that read, “Wake me up when I am a size 5!” I wish she was still around.
rhymes with orange, wierd and funny