When I recently said I was quitting my LA Times subscription because I don’t feel like helping Sam Zell eviscerate the paper so that he can make his mortgage payment, a reader of this blog asked how I was going to read “the funnies.” Posed as it was to someone who has read them his entire life, this was an excellent question.

(And just to reiterate:  I never said that canceling my newspaper subscription was going to be easy. I actually think it’s going to be hard. But I’m so furious about what’s been done to the Times that I don’t want to support it with my check. And it makes me feel stupid that 12 million other people are reading it for free online while I’m paying for it — so I’m going to join them.)

While at the time I proposed a couple of online resources to read the comics, today in my playwriting workshop a friend shared the best one I’ve seen to date:  The Houston Chronicle online. They’ve got about 100 daily comics — almost half of them in color. (The LA Times, by the way, has only 31, all of them in black and white.) Best of all, you can build your own comics page and never accidentally read “Cathy” again. Here’s the link.

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