comic strips archived online

Cool, I went to visit the Dilbert website since I saw it in my twitter digest and it's improved.

For one thing they have a magnifying glass to increase the size of the strip.  And for another thing, you can use the calendar function and go back and view previous strips all the way back to the beginning!  The first strip debuted back on April 16, 1989.

Some of my other favorite comic strips are at gocomics.com.  They also feature a magnifying glass (on most of the strips) and a calendar function.

Doonesbury goes back to October 26, 1970.

Brewster Rockit debuted July 5, 2004.

Peanuts is also there and goes all the way back to October 2, 1950!

Others:

How can I forget Calvin and Hobbes?  It debuted on November 18, 1985 and ran through December 31, 1995.  I see a strip dated today, so I guess they're showing reruns (Peanuts too I guess).

Pickles began on 1990, but gocomics has it back to January 1, 2003.

For Better or For Worse began in September 1979.  Gocomics has it consecutively back to July 2, 2000, then going back jumps to 1/1/00, then to 8/24/99 through 7/1/99, then to 12/6/97 through 11/23/97, then to 11/23/90, then to 2/5/86 and finally to 11/23/81.

Betty became a stand-along strip in 1991.  Gocomics has it back to 6/1/96, then jumps back to 5/19/96, 4/30/96 and has most of the strips (with a few holes) back to 1/1/96.

I see gocomics has an app.  Methinks I'll install it.

Installed the app, but it's a little hard to navigate from comic to comic.  I think it'll be easier when I create an account and select favorites. They also have Dilbert on there, but the archive doesn't go very far back.  So I installed the Dilbert app too (surprisingly only 0.2 MB).  It's ok, but a little different.  It forces you to hold the ipad vertically.  And the display is panel by panel, which I suppose how the comic strip is meant to be read.  But I'm used to reading it in the newspaper where you see everything at once.

So I tried using gocomics through the ipad browsers, but it's also hard to navigate.  When you click the magnfying glass, the x doesn't show up on the upper left.  The screen is cut off, so you have to back arrow to go back.  It's more cut off on chrome, but the problem is on safari too.