Thank you for this, Nocturne.
This strip was always a cut above IMO, and is still coming out today (Sundays).

Btw, you might want to add Heathcliff to any daily strip lists you curate. The typical format by @[email protected] is to take the day’s strip and remove the cat, as a thought experiment (like “Garfield w/o Garfield”), but he also shares the untouched day’s strip in comments, as well as other edits, sometimes.

Anyway, the community as a whole is dedicated to all Heathcliff content. I sometimes contribute, but am way behind at the moment… still working on cleaning up an article about the founder, Gately.

This was my favorite strip on the comics page when I was a child. Significantly better kid-humor to Boomer-humor ratio than the legacy strips that often dominated newspapers. You could definitely tell the author was on the younger side (basically the only places to find video game related strips that side of the webcomic revolution). Still had the stereotypical golfer dad that was inexplicably universal in the late 20th century comic strip world, though (yet another reason why Calvin and Hobbes is the GOAT). Zits was another strip actually geared toward children/youth.

Yay! Another steady drip of 1980s humor.

I forgot about this comic! Used to love reading it in the newspaper back in the day.