Comments on: Lucky Cow to close its doors in February

By: Scotty MC

Scotty MC — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:16:00 +0000

After not being able to read my comics for a while (during the crunch of tax season), I am now attempting to catch up and wondered what became of Lucky Cow. ‘Tis sad news indeed…how come the good ones always seem to end so quickly while crap like B.C., Cathy, and Broom Hilda are still hanging around. They wore our their welcome a looong time ago. Adios, Lucky Cow…I guess only the good die young.

By: Jon Herman

Jon Herman — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:36:24 +0000

Wow, I’ve been so busy the last several weeks, I missed seeing that “Lucky Cow” ended. It was one of my favorite strips and while I respect Mark’s decision to end it, I wish he hadn’t! That said, I look forward to seeing what he’ll come up with next.

By: Tisha Larue

Tisha Larue — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:41:30 +0000

Please, if I can’t have Lucky Cow daily, would you consider making another book or two?

By: Drewe

Drewe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:34:12 +0000

This is really sad – We really enjoyed Lucky Cow.

Good luck to Mark in whatever he chooses, and maybe one day the franchise will reopen :D

By: mike witmer

mike witmer — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:50:44 +0000

I’m sure that there are weir….people still reading them. Probably the same folks who watch “Crossing Over.” I just don’t understand why they get lumped in with the comics section.

But you’re exactly right, Eric…Morbit curiousity.

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:24:32 +0000

In all the threads that I’ve read on the shrinking comics pages and what replaces it, this is the first time that anyone has brought up what a waste of space the horoscopes are! Damn fine point, Delta…

…I’ll read them with the same morbid curiousity as the obituaries, but does anyone still actually read them?

By: Charles Brubaker

Charles Brubaker — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:28:54 +0000

“Yet there are so many great internet comics I wish people could come to know in papers. Sheldon, Schlock Mercenary and Prickly City to name a very few.”

Uh, “Prickly City” IS a newspaper strip. Universal Press Syndicate distributes it to over 100 newspapers.

By: Delta Hotel

Delta Hotel — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:14:27 +0000

If you can believe it, there are some print outlets which still have reruns of classic Lil’ Abner cartoons, not just Snoopy or Calvin & Hobbes.

I do appreciate some of the older strips which have new material. You grow up with them and you’re comfortable with them. Hagar the Horrible, Garfield, Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Tarzan, The Phantom, The Lockhorns, Prince Valiant – even though they are hopelessly outdated. Being 55 myself, I used to get comics delivered in the mail by subscription as a lad. Like many people my age, I could say “I was a millionaire until my mom threw away all my old comics when I went to Viet Nam”.

Yet there are so many great internet comics I wish people could come to know in papers. Sheldon, Schlock Mercenary and Prickly City to name a very few.

I thought, as American ages, that more senior humor would begin to hit the funny pages, yet The Elderberries is struggling for circulation. I wrote my paper to suggest Elderberries when one strip they carried closed. They said that they were “looking for a younger audience” and had “several legacy comics” already. I called the editor and asked her who she thinks still READS papers?

Comics are usually amusing, sometimes they make you think and sometimes they do both. It would be a poorer world without them.
But as the newspaper industry is shrinking due to penny pinching, poor management and bias (either way), the comics are an easy target for cutting costs. Yet you’ll notice that nothing shuts down the blasted horoscope column. This is not the 1960s-70′s. Nobody has asked me what my sign was in thirty or more years (thankfully). It is not even religion, it is pure bunkum, yet papers will waste time on horoscopes which nobody I know ever bothers to read, except occasionally to ridicule.

DEATH TO HOROSCOPES – MORE COMICS!

By: Carolla Ault

Carolla Ault — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:12:19 +0000

My family is also sad because we have no more Lucky Cow. We all appreciated Mark Pett’s clever, amusing, and very real strip. Cul De Sac replaced LC in our newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times, and while amusing, it is not LC. “Another one bites the dust.” Sigh.

By: Chris Weidler

Chris Weidler — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:34:15 +0000

I would read Lucky Cow every morning in the Chicago Sun-Times. I too am disappointed that it is gone,I really got to like the characters and the way that he would poke fun at the way real companies and life is. It took me by surprise when it just ended like it did, but that last panel I felt was a appropriate knock on how the U.S. has become. Someone’s misfortune, someone else jumps on for their own gain.