See you in the funny paper.

                                   

  Bucky Kat 

 

Hammy Squirrel                             

Bucky’s trapping tasty animals this morning.  He calls it the ‘Tasty Animal Trap 5000.’  I love Bucky Kat but I seriously   couldn’t live with him and if I did have a cat like that, well, let’s just say he’d be getting intensive therapy.  But if I were picking a life-time partner from the comic strip world, I think I’d have to choose Hammy Squirrel, the most adorable, naive, innocent, more-than-slightly-off-center animal in the comic animal kingdom.  Heck, I’d even vote for him for president; the world would truly be a better place.

But no politics, please!

Every morning I read the comics while I have my coffee and blueberry bagel.  Have done faithfully since even before I could read.  One of my earliest memories is sitting in the floor with the Charleston, South Carolina News and Courier spread out in the floor in front of me looking at the pictures and wondering what the squiggles (words) meant.  I looked at the funnies and when I learned to read, I began to read the funnies and still do.  I  read Nancy and Sluggo, Little Orphan Annie, Blondie of course, Steve Canyon, and Brenda Starr.  There were others, but those are the ones that come immediately to mind.

Now I mostly read them online, but still check them out in the newspaper and still look at the Sunday funnies to catch the ones I don’t read online.  But the yin and yang of my funnies has to be Bucky and Hammy, devil vs. angel, grumpy vs. sunny disposition, innocence vs. evil, cat vs. squirrel, hairball vs. furball.  I love them both.  And I love me some funnies.