A reader suggested I try Inbox Comics, a free and ad-free service that would send you daily the comics of your choice from a list of over 400 (currently, 439) syndicated comics. As per their FAQ, “Every daily email comes at 1:00 PM GMT+2 … because most dailies are posted before then, and it’s still early enough that even the early risers on the east coast of the U.S. can enjoy the comics over their morning coffee.”

I’m not sure whether my reader ran over my Comic Strip Browser for GoComics and Comics Kingdom Easy Browser or over my older PyQt6 Comic Strip Browser for GoComics (with updates for 1.1.1 and 1.1.3), but I acknowledge that even for people who, like me, have no problem using the two web-based apps, the classic concept of receiving dailies in one’s inbox has at least a couple of advantages:

  • You don’t have to do anything.
  • Even if you forgot to visit your comics, they come to you.
  • You don’t have to be limited to my selection of 20+20 titles (or to modify the code to add your preferences).

Obviously, the inbox-based concept doesn’t allow you to navigate in the online archives. It’s basically just a newsletter.

I can’t remember, but I believe there were some such free services in the past (now GoComics and Comics Kingdom are not free). Maybe Dilbert, or Garfield, or GoComics? Years ago, GoComics even had a free app, but they discontinued it. I’m pretty sure that I was subscribed to a similar daily “comics in your inbox” service, but certainly not Inbox Comics!

As a quick test, I subscribed to Garfield, Shoe, Pearls Before Swine, Off the Mark, and Pickles, to keep it simple. For the others, I can just visit my web apps. And here’s how such an e-mail looks:

Oh, you should know that Dilbert and Dilbert Classics are not in public access, so they won’t work (at least, they shouldn’t), despite still being listed. After Scott Adams got canceled for racism, he managed to over-cancel himself. And now some inoperable cancer will cancel him prematurely, but so far he’s been quite successful in not giving up.