Chris Straub of Checkerboard Nightmare (http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com) has this to say about the state of comics today- specifically, old comics that have survived into today's newspapers. He's on the ball with most of them, but I think Sally Forth deserves a second look.

Maybe ...webcartoonists are focusing on the wrong thing. See, [Scott] Kurtz is trying to get PVP [ http://www.pvponline.com ] into newspapers. Maybe what the rest of us should do is try to get existing comics out of the newspapers. I wonder how a lot of them are able to remain there, other than some kind of sick tenure. Come on, there are a lot of people under 60 out there! You'd think all the cane-waving in the world wouldn't save the following comics:
Marmaduke - It's like reading a corpse. I don't head down to the morgue for a laugh, so why is this still in the papers? Of this comic strip, I wrote elsewhere: "Any of your [crappy] comic strips (like stand-up comedians) depend on observational humor, the little giggle you feel when someone else notices something you thought only you noticed. That's why Marmaduke can have ten panels of the dog loping around like an orange blanket on stilts with Down syndrome, and in the last panel, the father says 'I guess he was hungry.' In his defense, Brad Anderson is probably 10,000 years old."
Cathy - A lot of people give Cathy a lot of guff, but it's really not that bad a comic strip. I don't think it's all that good either. It's like a saccharined-up Something Positive -- that is to say, each panel is crammed full of words and sentences human beings would never say, except there's no point. We know, Cathy, that there are 4,000 different types of snack cakes. You don't have to enumerate them to make the point that there's no such thing as a "anti-cake" or whatever your dieting joke is this week.
Blondie - If people are going to get upset, don't remove it from the newspapers, just chop it down to two panels. In panel 1, Blondie calls after Dagwood about taking out the trash or meeting his boss for dinner. In panel 2, Dagwood is asleep on a couch made of tall sandwiches.
Family Circus, Dennis the Menace - Let them die. It's okay, really. In fact, the same goes for any comic that people just "feel good" about knowing it's still in the paper. They don't read it. They haven't read it for months. But they look at the round circle and Jeffy's round head and think to themselves, "see? The world's not so different. People everywhere still love Family Circus. I mean... I used to read it. I don't now, because it sucks, but somebody must like it, and that gives me hope!" I wonder if Bil Keane also feels that way.
Sally Forth - Seriously, what is this doing here? It's like spoken word. By panel two, you're already deep into the current story, reading lines like "Another cup of coffee was just what I needed" and "Men just don't know how to fold laundry." I guess I'm supposed to be nodding my head in satisfaction, my understanding of the world confirmed.