About This Blog
I grew up during the 1980’s – a golden age of newspaper comics when readers enjoyed new installments of Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, and Bloom County on a daily basis. And while those strips have gone gently into that good night, the comics page remains a vibrant place with a large number of good strips to enjoy.
The goal of this blog is to find one worthwhile, interesting strip per day and post it for general enjoyment – with a few observations from me. Hopefully it can be a place for casual comics fans to enjoy good strips without having to wade through Dick Tracy and Mary Worth.
As a side note, these strips are taken from the comics pages of the “Chicago Tribune” and the “Chicago Sun-Times,” with a handful of Comics.com strips to fill in the gaps. For a complete list of strips I read on a daily basis, check the “Google Searches Gone Bad” sidebar on the home page.
November 13, 2008 at 6:38 pm |
I am looking for a comic that used to run daily in the Chicago Tribune.
I was usually only 1 square (not an entire strip)
The one I remember most was called
‘Mayonnaise goes bad”
It was the inside of a refrigerator with a jar of mayonnaise
holding a gun to the other condiments in the refrigerator.
Can you tell me how to find it?
Thanks, Pam
July 30, 2009 at 4:12 am |
I too am looking for that cartoon. It was from a Far Side daily calendar.
Have any luck finding it?
July 31, 2009 at 9:31 am
Check out the comment below. It contains a link to the Far Side strip in question.
November 13, 2008 at 10:49 pm |
I wouldn’t normally respond to a request like this as it’s hard to remember individual strips that I don’t archive. However, the description here struck me as something out of The Far Side and a quick Google search confirmed that the “potato salad goes bad” strip was penned by the brilliant Gary Larson:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6707/2727/400/PotatoSalad.jpg
For those looking to delve a little more deeply into The Far Side, there is a terrific book called “The Prehistory of the Far Side” with a number of essays, unpublished strips and greatest hits (according to Larson). Check it out here:
http://www.amazon.com/PreHistory-Far-Side-Anniversary-Exhibit/dp/0836218515
March 8, 2009 at 11:11 am |
You should include ‘Moderately Confused’ in your daily reads from comics.com
March 8, 2009 at 9:43 pm |
Thanks for the tip. I’ll add the strip for a two-week trial to see how it wears.