Anybody here a fan of comics?

Comic strips, comic books, humor, satire, cute, or action, what's your poison in the pen and ink world of 1-dimensional characters?

I like most comic strips, Garfield, Peanuts, Nancy, Lola, Beetle Bailey, Family Circus, etc., comic books are a narrower field for me, I like Batman comics but I like them from the Golden Age to the Bronze Age which is 1930s through 1980s, anything past that I'm not into...I also have a few Twilight Zone comic books, a few from Fright Night, one or two Abbott and Costellos, a whole stack of Baby Hueys, I used to have the 3D Michael Jackson Captain EO and Moonwalker comics, don't know what happened to them.

And today I get in the mail an issue of the 1992 one and only comic adaptation of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat, which has been vastly changed: Cornelia Van Gorder has gone from a 60 year old spinster to a young, bitter, sexy, paranoid woman who will resort to murder to protect her fortune from the people closest to her, but the joke is on her as she thought the killer, the Bat, was their own invention to scare her, but it was very real and they used an ending that was not in Roberts' novel or any of the three movies done on it, they went with the evil twin story, I couldn't believe it. So, this one was kind of a bust but from what I could find it was a rare comic to come by, so I'm going to hang onto it regardless.

How about everyone else? When it comes to comics, what's your fancy?

We get a newspaper everyday and I read most of them. The Far Side was my favorite and I was bummed when Gary Larson stopped. I used to get a calendar for Christmas every year until he stopped those too.
Oh, and also Calvin and Hobbs! Sucked when Bill Watterson stopped that too.
I have several collections of each.
I read the editorial page everyday too. That's where Doonesbury is.

The only one I've ever read on a regular basis was The Boondocks. But nope, not a fan of comics. Could never get into them.

Shale wrote:One of my favorites cartoonists that fit my personality was Gahan Wilson. His full page cartoons ran monthly in Playboy most of my life. IDK if is a book collection but I may go looking for it. I collected a lot of his stuff when I got rid of my very large stack of Playboy magazines. [/size][/color]

Dang! Forgot about him too! I don't own any collections but I used to read them when I worked at the bookstore.
LOL, the question for him is why do you get your ideas, not where.

I used to read Freddy comics when I was a kid. I threw them away, but now wish I had kept them because they're long out of print.