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RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

sclingerman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:23:25 GMT

How could I have not mentioned Calvin & Hobbes when I have two of the collection books?
Brilliant - JUST BRILLIANT - comic strip.

(I have a 9 year-old son... except for NOT having a pet tiger - I should have named him Calvin!)

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

Shadow — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:50:30 GMT

[quote][b]sclingerman (11/11/2009)[/b][hr][quote]Bloom County was one of the all time best newspaper strips.[/quote]

It was better as Bloom County than as Outland.
And let us not forget Far Side.

WHY exactly do ones like those two leave us... while Rex Morgan MD and Family Circus just WILL NOT DIE?[/quote]

:hmmmm:

Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes, Far Side...all creations of fiercly independant artists...who insist on doing the majority of the work themselves...
Which means when they decide NOT to do it anymore, it's over and done.

Strips like Rex Morgan MD, Prince Valiant, and others...are often done by a succession of artists and writers and continue on and on...

Dennis the Menace and Peanuts...while produced primarily by one person...have so many decades of material...that you can rerun them for years and years and never run out of new readers or readers who don't remember the original time a strip was published...

;)

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

sclingerman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:17:28 GMT

[quote]Bloom County was one of the all time best newspaper strips.[/quote]

It was better as Bloom County than as Outland.
And let us not forget Far Side.

WHY exactly do ones like those two leave us... while Rex Morgan MD and Family Circus just WILL NOT DIE?

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

Robbie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:54:08 GMT

[quote][b]doelion (11/10/2009)[/b][hr]I've some old clipped Bloom County packed in the shed. Once in a great while I'll find something modern to clip. Last week I clipped the 3 Love Isn't strips on Zits. -A Zits version of the 1970s Love Is comic.

Peace,

Doe[/quote]Bloom County was one of the all time best newspaper strips.
I've got lots of those clipped out, too :)

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

doelion — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:16:05 GMT

I've some old clipped Bloom County packed in the shed. Once in a great while I'll find something modern to clip. Last week I clipped the 3 Love Isn't strips on Zits. -A Zits version of the 1970s Love Is comic.

Peace,

Doe

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

oxbladder — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:13:50 GMT

No I don't but I have been pondering collecting the Winnipeg Tribune comics. It will be hard to finish the run of them though.

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

Robbie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:42:55 GMT

[quote][b]awillis (3/2/2009)[/b][hr][quote][b]Robbie (3/1/2009)[/b][hr]I have lots from the early 80s, and just a couple 100 strips older than that. I'd like to get more Howard the Duck & Star Wars strips.

Never have figured out a good way to store them.[/quote]

Originals or newspaper prints?

I was reading somewhere that most syndicates just pitched them years back.[/quote]

Clipped from the paper. :)

I have one Howard the Duck daily original, Val M art (also have several of his original pages from Fear #19), it's got Santa and a gun toting elf, but no Duck.

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

awillis — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:36:50 GMT

[quote][b]Robbie (3/1/2009)[/b][hr]I have lots from the early 80s, and just a couple 100 strips older than that. I'd like to get more Howard the Duck & Star Wars strips.

Never have figured out a good way to store them.[/quote]

Originals or newspaper prints?

I was reading somewhere that most syndicates just pitched them years back.

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

Robbie — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:05:38 GMT

I have lots from the early 80s, and just a couple 100 strips older than that. I'd like to get more Howard the Duck & Star Wars strips.

Never have figured out a good way to store them.

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

imatonkatoo — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:00:18 GMT

Loved Hagar The Horrible as a kid http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hagar/about.htm

Andy Capp too http://comics.com/andy_capp/

alas I don't read papers anymore too much full of she height

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

Shadow — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:32:35 GMT

I've got a dozen shoeboxes in storage that I clipped of dailies back in the mid-1970s and early 1980s...I still set the Sundays aside...

I've got dozens of compilations on the shelf, from Ken Pierce, and Nostalgia and others...

The nicest one's I've seen lately come from the Pacific Comic Club/Tony Raiola...

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

firebirdta — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:31:08 GMT

I used to collect them as a kid/pre-teen. And I still have most of them.

One of my friends used to work at a local newspaper and got me a HUGE stack of Syndicate proofs for a few years. Those are pretty cool! (circa mid to late 1980's)

And I found quite a few "VINTAGE Late 1950's" strips and sunday sections up in my Great Uncle's attic YEARS "mid- 1980's" ago!

So... I guess you could say that I HAVE A COLLECTION of Newspaper Strips , but I don't "Currently" collect any.

-FBTA

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

wpbooks — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:20:09 GMT

I collect collections of newspaper strips, especially old ones like the Krazy Kat, Popeye and Peanuts strips put out by Fantagraphics. There was a company in the 80's, Blackthorne or Ken Pierce that put out a collection of Smokey Stover, with an intro by Harvey Kurtzman, promising future volumes, but alas that never came to be. They also did some other strip collections, But the SS one is the one I keep going back to. Other favorites are Nostalgia Press' Volume of Secret Agent X-9 written by Dashiell Hammett and drawn by Alex Raymond, and the Barnaby books by Crockett Johnson published in the 1940's. But cutting them out of the paper never appealed to me much, because in my lifetime there haven't been that many strips I really want to revisit...at least they are not like the works of art that used to be on the comics page.

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

awillis — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:54:51 GMT

I used to cut out strips and save them, when I was a kid. Threw most of them away. Now I save the whole comics page without reading them. Since I am doing a strip, I do not want to have anything current influence my writing, but would like to read them all, someday. I do have an original "Laredo" strip

Laredo (1957-1967) by Bob Schoenke

from the late '60's that I ended up with from the old Des Moines Register Syndicate. I wonder where all the original art is from all the strips that have been syndicated over the years. Schultz, alone, has done over 10,000 strips.:w00t:

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

Set 0ne — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:54:20 GMT

I used to as a child....I loved the end of the day because it was when I was allowed to cut up the newspaper and stick it in my book. I don't do this anymore.

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

Earl Davis — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:37:52 GMT

Love em. Rupert, Prince Valiant, Jane, Garth, Axa, Modesty Blaise and Peanuts are amongst my faves

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

Aphelion — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:27:14 GMT

Not really. I've cut out a few of my favorites over the years. I save them, but don't collect them.

defiant1

RE: Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

batfan — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:15:49 GMT

Does anyone collect Newspaper comic strips?

comicfangirl — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:28:56 GMT

I really don't collect them, but I do have two. They are both from the forties, one is Flash Gordon, I can't remember what the other one is.