The 1980s gave you a daily dose of new Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes. I think it might have been the high water mark of newspaper comic strips. There were legends before, and there have certainly been successes since, but those two very different strips both running at the same time is as good as the medium ever got, in my opinion anyway. More @Wikipedia
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