From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   In  Snidely  writes:   
      
   >Looking for recommendations for a daily comic.   
      
   >I'm thinking of rejoining Frazz; is that still getting new strips?   
   >What about Over The Hedge?  Frank and Ernest is okay, usually.  I   
   >burned out over Dilbert before the author became controversial, and I   
   >only miss Shoe occasionally.  Broomhilda?   
      
           Frazz, Over The Hedge, Frank and Ernest, Shoe, and Broom Hilda   
   are all in original production (Frank and Ernest and Shoe with people   
   who didn't create the strip, but, if you're amused is that important?)   
   Broom Hilda might be the current longevity champion for comic strip   
   artist/writer.   
      
      
   >What are your recommendations?   
      
           New comics I recommend on GoComics (since you only mentioned that   
   site) are:   
      
           - Breaking Cat News.  Pet-focused comic strip where the cats   
   narrate to the camera what's going on and their view of why, eg, 'It   
   turns out a nearby chair is actually a recliner!' or 'The Woman is   
   looking at macrame.  Again.'   
      
           - Crabgrass.  Comic strip about being kids in some vaguely   
   defined late-80s/early-90s time.  Has done some big flights of   
   fantasy including a recent multi-month storyline involving alternate   
   universes, timeline-protection-agencies, and a goblin impersonating   
   their substitute teacher.   
      
           - FurBabies.  Another pet-focused comic about the cats and dogs   
   of the Buffet family and animals they encounter, such as Little Finger   
   the raccoon and a couple of capybaras in the local zoo.   
      
           - Bliss.  Daily panel comic, often about a guy and his dog,   
   about people just holding on.  Extremely well drawn.  Occasionally   
   guest-written by banjo player Steve Martin.   
      
           - Rip Haywire.  Fast-paced, dense spoof adventure comic that's   
   also, necessarily, also an adventure comic.  There's maybe too much   
   backstory but it doesn't matter and it always comes back to Rip punching   
   villains.   
      
           - Molly and the Bear.  Kid brought home an extremely shy, anxious   
   bear; Bear drives her dad crazy but everyone else is cool with him.   
   Has very good artwork including a Walt Kelly-esque brush style, but it's   
   only last week I discovered it hadn't been in reruns for a couple months   
   now.  (You mentioned liking Phoebe and her Unicorn; this might scratch a   
   similar kid-with-weird-animal-companion vibe.)   
      
           - Wallace the Brave.  Very happy kid-focused comic strip about   
   Wallace and his friends, living in a seaside town, having a lot of   
   shenanigans.  _Fantastic_ artwork including many flights of fantasy   
   where the artist, who already does great expressive stuff packed as   
   full as a Mad Magazine page, *really* goes wild.   
      
      
           I can offer some recommendations for Comics Kingdom strips too,   
   if that's not plenty as it is.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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