I try to read my favorite funnies every day.<\/p>\n
Alas, the newspaper is not the best way to do this. Not only do the locals not carry everything I want, but the paper doesn’t always come before I leave for the office. Plus I can’t forward on the ones I like to my friends. Plus, of course, it costs money. <\/p>\n
So I read my comic strips online. The two best sources for this are UComics <\/a>and Comics.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n UComics, from Universal Press Syndicate, lets you build your own funny page of the comics online, updated daily, etc. Through them I read The Boondocks, Doonesbury, For Better or For Worse, FoxTrot, Heart of the City, Mother Goose & Grimm, Non Sequitur, Real Life Adventures, Calvin and Hobbes<\/i> (reprints), Liberty Meadows <\/i>(reprints), Tom the Dancing Bug, Baldo, Compu-toon, Adam@Home, <\/i>and Tom Toles (editorial).<\/p>\n The Comics.com is aligned with the United Media syndicate. It lets you have individual strips e-mailed to you on a daily basis. That’s a little less convenient, but it still works. Through them I read Rose is Rose, 9 Chickweed Lane,<\/i> and Get Fuzzy<\/i>.<\/p>\n Unfortunately (though understandably), distribution syndicate bounderies sometimes get in the way of all this convenience. A third big player is King Features Syndicate<\/a>. They keep their comics online, too, including some of my favorites. Unfortunately, they have a two week time lag, i.e., the most recent strips as of today are for Tuesday, 24 December.<\/p>\n Feh.<\/p>\n I work around this with some King strips. Baby Blues <\/i>I can read through the slow-loading but current pages of the Seattle Times<\/i><\/a>. And Funky Winkerbean <\/i>and Zits <\/i>I can catch at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/i><\/a>. The San Francisco Chronicle <\/i><\/a>also carries a number of comics on-line (though without archives).<\/p>\n (I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the “high tech” capitols of the US, Seattle and the Bay Area, carry such substantial on-line comic content. Most other newspapers simply have links to the syndicate pages.)<\/p>\n Alas, two of the comics I used to read via UComics — Bizarro <\/i>and Crankshaft<\/i> — are now no longer available there, sucked into King Features. Fortunately, the two Seattle papers carry them, so I’m okay, if a bit more inconvenienced.<\/p>\n There are also a few other comics I read on their own pages, including Dork Towers<\/i><\/a> and The Norm<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n Still, it would be nice if I could have it all<\/i>, on one <\/i>page, with no more price than the bandwidth and having to look past banner ads. Heck, I’d pay a subscription fee — a small one, at least — for that convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I try to read my favorite funnies every day. Alas, the newspaper is not the best way to do this. 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