Crossposted from https://slrpnk.net/post/36314440

Adding to the other daily comic communities, is Foxtrot. The first strip will be posted this Friday, the 10th of April, on the 38th anniversary of the strip's syndication debut.

!foxtrot@slrpnk.net

For anyone unfamiliar with the strip:

FoxTrot is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Amend. The strip launched on April 10, 1988, and it originally ran seven days a week. From December 31, 2006 onwards, FoxTrot has only appeared on Sundays.

The strip revolves around the daily lives of the Fox family, composed of parents Andrea (Andy) and Roger and their children, Peter, Paige, and Jason. It covers a wide range of subject matter, including spoofs of pop culture fads, nerd culture, complex math, and popular consumer products.

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!bloomcounty@sopuli.xyz
!outland@slrpnk.net
!theboondocks@slrpnk.net
!calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world
!thefarside@sh.itjust.works
!exo@discuss.online
!cyanideandhappiness@discuss.online
!smbc@discuss.online
!peanuts@discuss.online
!oglaf@discuss.online
!moomin@sopuli.xyz
!pbf@discuss.online
!garfield@lemmy.world

Yay! Another steady drip of 1980s humor.

I forgot about this comic! Used to love reading it in the newspaper back in the day.

This was my favorite strip on the comics page when I was a child. Significantly better kid-humor to Boomer-humor ratio than the legacy strips that often dominated newspapers. You could definitely tell the author was on the younger side (basically the only places to find video game related strips that side of the webcomic revolution). Still had the stereotypical golfer dad that was inexplicably universal in the late 20th century comic strip world, though (yet another reason why Calvin and Hobbes is the GOAT). Zits was another strip actually geared toward children/youth.

Jason and I were about the same age when the strip started, I very much identified with him. Unlike Milo and Binkley in Bloom County, who were my age when I started reading it... I always identified more with Bill.

It still holds up nicely today, altho it's only Sundays, now.

The humor's fresh and still pretty clever for its' genre.

Thank you for this, Nocturne.
This strip was always a cut above IMO, and is still coming out today (Sundays).

Btw, you might want to add Heathcliff to any daily strip lists you curate. The typical format by @fauxpseudo@lemmy.world is to take the day's strip and remove the cat, as a thought experiment (like "Garfield w/o Garfield"), but he also shares the untouched day's strip in comments, as well as other edits, sometimes.

Anyway, the community as a whole is dedicated to all Heathcliff content. I sometimes contribute, but am way behind at the moment... still working on cleaning up an article about the founder, Gately.