Any body else grow up with "Funny Papers"

As a kid on the farm Mom and Dad used to get the weekend edition of the Winnipeg Free Press. It had a rural distribution to farmers and ranchers across western Canada. Every week we would get the latest version and the first thing we looked for was the colored comic section that we all referred to as "The Funny Papers". I liked Beetle Bailly while Dad liked Bugs Bunny. My sister preferred Mandrake.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

Growing up on the ranch, we didn't get a paper. Any Sunday comics were hand-me-downs and treasured. But the real bonanza was the summers when we could to my uncle & aunt's orchard so my parents could help with the harvest. By then I was bedridden so my contribution was limited to cutting cots for the drying trays, but being bedridden I qualified for access to the closet full of Sunday comics my uncle & aunt kept for when their kids were ill. They kept all Sunday comics, so there was an entire closet full.