Comic Strips Worth Clipping

[Juniper]

Do you read the comics in the newspaper? Or do you read them online? Do you ever find one that is just SO perfect and meaningful to your life that you are driven to clip it out and pin it to a bulletin board, tape it to your cubicle wall, stick it on the fridge?

I do. It's kind of a weird habit.

The ones that "spoke to me" used to be Cathy, then it was Baby Blues, FBOFW. I went through my Dilbert phase, my Bloom County phase, Far Side...now my current favorite is Zits. Oh, I also have a soft spot for Dinette Set.

[Side note/name dropping: I've actually shaken hands with the Zits cartoonist, Jim Borgman, back when he was just another political cartoonist at the Cincinnati Enquirer. Ha. Nice man.]

I really liked Sunday's. I generally do like Blondie. Dagwood reminds me of my dad.

THIS is my all-time favorite comic. I still get a grin on my face when I think about it.


I guess it hit my funnybone because at the time I actually knew this guy named Doug, and he could be quite charming but he was bipolar and when he was NOT charming he was definitely someone to beware of. Not because he was dangerous, particularly, just really weird and unpleasant. He filled the role of the "boyfriend's childhood friend that had been around in boyfriend's life forever, so couldn't be ditched even though he was a royal pain in the ass."

[Another side note. Years later, I met a female friend of my hubby's and - I have no idea how it came up - but I found out she had actually DATED this guy Doug. Very weird because hubby and my old BF weren't from the same circles at all. Small world.]

I am bringing this topic up tonight because I have just found the PERFECT comic -- the one that I saw and exclaimed OMG, that's ME!

So, my friends, this is the real Juniper.


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