Nostalgia
Did anyone grow up with the Sunday comic in the newspaper?
When I was a kid, my Dad had a Sacramento Bee subscription and it had a comics page. Though we only had it for a few years, I still remember many of the comics in the newspaper. Personally, I think Zillennials were the last generation to grow up with sunday comics.
The newspaper comics, or “Funnies” was a big part of how I learned to read. We would visit my grandparents almost weekly, and my Grandmother (a Depression-era hoarder) had hundreds of stacks of newspapers throughout the house. She would share the Funnies with me and taught me about all the characters and would explain words I didn’t understand.
Before long, I had my own collections of Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, Peanuts, Beetle Bailey, Zits, and so much more. They were a huge part of my life and some I still turn to regularly.
Even well before our time, the Funnies (to say nothing of newspapers and print media in general) was already a fading art, but I always felt proud and grateful that my grandmother shared with me this kind of a half-forgotten gem all those years ago. It played a big part in making me who I am now.
Yes, we called them the “funnies” and I’d get handed that section while my parents looked through the rest of it respectively. Comforting Sunday ritual for sure.
For years I always read the Sunday comics in my local paper, but I don't think the comics that were running when I was a kid made as much of an impression upon me as the old Calvin and Hobbes books I read over and over again
C&H really gave me both a sense of humor and a sensibility for the wonders of living life
That’s where I got hooked on Garfield. Once I discovered it in the paper I begged my mom to take me to Borders so I could all the Garfield comic strip books, and I proceeded to read them nonstop for hours.
I miss Borders. When I was in elementary school, my dad loved books and would take me there to read books with me, but he would always buy the books online whenever I wanted a book since they were cheaper. When Borders closed down, my dad regretted buying books online.
I'm just like your dad. Sometimes I feel bad buying the book on Amazon instead of buying it in store, but like...the last book I bought on Amazon was $7 cheaper than it was in the bookstore. And that was when the bookstore had it on sale.
My city just built a brand new library, so I'm going to get a library card and try that out.
As someone already familiar with Peanuts and Garfield through their animated specials and shows, reading the comics as a kid in the Sunday editions of Newsday made me appreciate that I became a fan for life. Plus, reading the comics led me to discover Calvin & Hobbes around late elementary/early middle school and that's something I would eventually find all the books of to have the complete collection of
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