In sad news for nostalgists everywhere, today marked the final column of the long-running Annie comic. Read the full post.
Jun 13
2010
02:10 PM ET
Goodbye 'Little Orphan Annie,' fare thee well funnies
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What? This was still running? News to me.
I hope it ended on a happy note and she successfully ended her 87-year quest to find eyeballs.
This, for the win.
An orphan with her eyes cut out–it’s a horror movie! Watch her try to seduce Daddy Warbucks!
Are you kidding me? This article HAS A PIC with it that CLEARLY shows the character that DOES NOT HAVE FRECKLES and yet the writer describes Annie as “freckle faced”? Sad.
For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston is my favorite comic strip. Also Garfield.
I suppose I should feel bad as I truly love the original Harold Gray strip, truly a Dickensian serial of harrowing adventure and endless cliffhangers, but I have to admit that the recent versions have lost the sense of adventure if the original strip. Luckily IDW publishing is currently publishing the original strips in a complete hardcover format so I’ll always have those to go back to.
Oh yeah, the mivie version capture none of the fun and adventure of the strip in its prime and are best left unmentioned by anyone that truly loves and misses the spirit of Gray’s strip. Anyone familiar with the strip would obviously know that Daddy Warbucks, a selfmade man and a Rand-ian figure of self reliance would never be friends with FDR.
The only comics I knew of were Calvin & Hobes, which my brother used to read. I didn’t know Annie or Maramduke were comics to begin with.
I haven’t read the comics section in years. Annie discontinuing was long overduw. I always felt that it was outdated and perdictable. My top favorite strips (in no particular order):
Calvin and Hobbes
For Better Or Worse
Out Of The Gene Pool (before it became the dreadful Single and Looking)
Tina’s Groove (why my local paper discontinued this one I’ll never understand)
LuAnn
Brenda Starr
Dick Tracy
Mutts
One Big Happy
Gasoline Alley
The 1982 movie of Annie is actually available on Netflix’s streaming Watch Now service.
They should have finished the storyline before they discontinued the strip! Annie and her fans deserved better than that. Is Jeff Zucker running the syndicate?
I say yes, Calvin & Hobbes is indeed the best comic strip of all time! Sure they are a riot, but they are so much more – the depth & imagination of each mini-story goes well beyond the old standards of comic strips. I love everything about the boy, his tiger, mom & dad & Susie. I have all the books & now my kids are enjoying their antics & laugh hysterically reading them.
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