Both series have been knocking me around. FW breaks my heart.
And I'm with you on FBoW, I don't care for the hybrid much. I know Ms. Johnston wants more free time, but I have an addiction to feed. Don't kill off Jim! Get rid of John, if someone's gotta go.

Damn it.

I was just reading the FAQs yesterday on the site and Lynn said that the Jim/Iris thing and the Liz/Anthony thing would both be worked out before they hang up the strip next year. I didn't think it'd be TODAY that they killed him off.

Can't they just let him have some amazing, unrealistic recovery and let us live in our fantasy world?

I can't understand half of the cartoons any more - guess I'm socially out of touch. However, I do let my eyes graze Baby Blues - and I do hardy har har over it....

I'm really irritated about FBOFW as well. It's just all messed-up now. I'm struggling to follow along and I'm not enjoying the old strips she's slipping in. Todays really caught me off guard too.

I still haven't forgiven For Better or Worse for killing off the family dog.

I had lost my link to Funky and the last I had read Lisa was doing well. This was hard to read it hits all to close to home right now.....

there was an article in the paper about the storyline in FW a few days ago explaining what and why. Tomorrow is the day. I just started reading it last month when we moved and started a new paper. I was floored by it. I lost my sister last year in a very similar way.

Wow, and I thought I was the only one that got "too worked up" over Farley. (Thanks Wacky Mommy)

I haven't read it (regularly... I have peeked a couple of times), since Farley's death.

I only read a few comics and don't even think about them now, although I do like the Far Side though. I do have to say one thing though......it has been a while since I had a chance to get on, but the blogs seem really long lately. :-)

I make up my own comic cartoons now, especially with the 2008 election coming up.

www.stushietoon.blogspot.com

I don't even get the paper anymore, although I keep up with FBorFW religiously online. I'm really trying to get used to the hybrid format. Funny thing is, I'm old enough to remember some of them from the first time around.
AND having been such a band nerd in high school, I was a HUGE Funky W fan (late 70s-early 80s) but haven't kept up with it in many years. This is really sad.

why did you have to go and make me cry?!

I had the same thoughts this morning about FBoW...why Jim? And don't leave us hanging like that! Ugh....

I lost a friend last night to cancer. I'm now bawling my eyes out over the Funky comic. I have to order that book now.

Doesn't seem much like a "CARTOON" at all. Way too depressing for me. I never read the comics as I think they all suck these days. I live in Katrinaville, I don't need any more depression added to my day. In fact, I cancelled the newspaper because of it. (all the depression, not the comic strip!) Someone in comic strip land needs to find a better outlet for ventingh their real life events.

Today marked the death of Lisa Moore in Funky Winkerbean. Should comic strips engage in real world issues or provide a safe haven from them.
better?

Vote Here!
http://www.snupped.com/Funky-Winkerbean

I've been following both strips (I'm a charter member of the Anybody But Anthony club in For Better or For Worse). I remember, though, when we used to laugh at the comics.

Things sure have changed.

I read FBoW before I have my first cup of coffee in the mornings....It is so much a part of me...I have lived in the area that part of the comic is set in,.and while I don't mind the hybrid idea that she is doing (it is better than not having any FBoW at all) I didn't need to start my morning the other day with tears, Iris's face in my mind all day.
I hope that she doesn't drag this out, and let's Jim go in peace. Being a caregiver myself, I have enjoyed the Iris/Jim story line...it lets me laugh at myself..something that is often hard to do (much easier to cry sometimes).
I don't know the Funky Winkerbean comic...but am off to take a look....

ps..I still can't read the Farley comics without crying....

I hate serious comics, but several years ago I got sucked into (Groovy looks around to make sure no one is looking and then whispers) Spiderman.

Please don't tell anyone.

I was nearly devastated when our local paper dropped the series. I wrote them several heart felt pleas, but they ignored me.

GOOD GRIEF! What happened to comic strips being about being funny? :(