The Great Comic Strips
August 4th 2011 05:05
Sunday mornings were a time when you would scour the comic section of the paper and hone in on your favourite strips - in glorious black and white.
From Andy Capp through to the Charlie Brown, Dennis the Menace to Doonsbury, Fred Basset to Lil Abner and Ginger Meggs - they were all there.
Some you'd brush right past, others you'd read not once but two and three times - in your quest to quench the character thirst.
The world of newspaper comic strips is a gold mine for both the young and the young at heart, where strips that are built on even the shakiest of platforms have run for decades.
Starting in the early 1930s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in Popeye, Buck Rogers, Tarzan and The Adventures of Tintin.
Today however, their prominence has slipped from public favour for a number of reasons - not the least the decline in newspaper sales around the world and the subsequent tightening of contributor budgets.
Yet the hallowed strip survives - if only by the thinest of speech bubbles.
The popularity and accessibility of these line drawn legacies means - for the time being at least, there is still a place for them in the hearts and minds of tragics everywhere.
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