Funnies and comics - are they funny and comical?
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17797)
United States
April 16, 2008 9:44pm CST
Since a kid, I could never "get" the Sunday funnies. My dad and onler brother loved them and laughed and had their favorties, but just couldn't find the funny in them. Family Circle was the only one I found humor in (isn't it oddd that those 3 little kids have never "aged"!!!)
But anyway, FC and an occassional Peanuts - but other than that nothing. I tried Beatle Baily, and all the others, but just wasn't there. I even tried Apartment 3-G for the "adventure and the "life of a single woman", but still, just couldn't get the point of it all!
Well, 30-40 years later, Today, as I was waiting for the school bell to ring, so I picked up the sunday funnies that my Grand daughter had brought with her this morning - she grabbed it out of my hands as I was throwing it away and insisted she be allowed to take the funnies. Yes, she read them all the way to school! But anyway, I picked them up, totally open minded - totally optimistic, looking for something new and all those things.....read it front to back and other than a slight smile from Family Circle, not a single giggle, laugh, smile, nice feeling...not a single emotion could I muster! It just wasn't funny!
How much funny do you find in the sunday comics? Which is your favorite and why?
3 responses
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
17 Apr 08
I know what you mean. I guess it just comes from their names I suppose. When you name something "funnies" or "comics" it's somehow expected that they are funny.
I guess with me things were different because I wasn't expecting anything funny. In Portuguese they are called "banda desenhada" - basically drawn strip - they don't have to be funny. They can be, but the name does not bring with it that specific expectation.
Some of them were more to think about. Some were more about informative... that they could be funny was a bonus :)
I don't really look for them here.
Back home we had one about "Ze Povinho" which is .. I don't know maybe the opposite of "Uncle Sam" that I loved, and , of course my ever favorite "Mafalda" from Quino.Neither one was necessary to be funny, although often they were. Ze Povinho had a political content that was for many years implicit only because of the censorship. So the ways they used to find to transmit what they wanted was sometimes hilarious. As for Mafalda... it actually started as a campaign for appliances in Argentina. But Mafalda soon turned into so much more. The little girl that contested everything.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
17 Apr 08
The only time I can even find a bit of humor in them is when they pun or poke fun at "real life" issues. Especially if I agree with them! I don't like the political ones and usually athey are so true it is sad to think that a comic funny strip can get peoples attention about how stupid something is, but the actual candidate or law or whatever, can't get peoples attention!
@Liasonfan (1702)
• Canada
17 Apr 08
Yep I hear ya! My dad and older brother also used to howl over the Sunday funnies. I was like you...sometimes I would see the humor in Family Circle or Peanuts. Good for your granddaughter, for reading them and getting some humor. Sometimes, I find more humor in 'Letters to the Editor' or funny pictures that they sometimes post than in the actual 'funny section'. Is this sad, or what?!
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
17 Apr 08
Just goes to show sometimes real life is funnier I guess!
@chrislotz (8136)
• Canada
20 Apr 08
I used to read the funnies in our newspapers but lately I find they are not very humourous. I guess they just don't write them funny anymore. I have not read a good funny comic for quite some time, now that I think of it. I do like to read Archie comics but that is about all that I find funny anymore. Today's funnies in the newspaper doesn't interest me at all anymore and half the time that I do read them, I don;t get the joke anyways, so why bother. I miss the funny ones they used to print.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
21 Apr 08
I remember Archie! I wanted to be Veronica or Ricky..wasn't the the other girls name?
@chrislotz (8136)
• Canada
21 Apr 08
The other girl's name is Betty. I still buy the little comic books they have out every month.
