availability when?

Try comix

@actionparsnip and @Kavoura: I just read this:

https://alternativeto.net/software/comix/

According to that website, the latest release of comix is from April 2009. They suggest trying mcomix instead, which is also in the Ubuntu repositories.

Here are 3 more alternatives to mcomix, if we do not take the discontinued software into account:

https://alternativeto.net/software/mcomix/?license=opensource&platform=linux

Those other programs are not the same. Buoh fetches daily comics like Garfield, Ziggy, etc, and displays them
 I have found nothing else that does this. I cannot install manually from the deb file I have due toissing dependencies, it relies on libgcrypt11.

Here are the results of my tests using the dosage package to download comic strips and then mcomix to view them (it works):

sudo apt install python-pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-pip is already the newest version (8.1.1-2ubuntu0.1).
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
➜ ~

sudo pip install dosage
[sudo] password for .......:
Collecting dosage
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from dosage)
Installing collected packages: dosage
Successfully installed dosage-2.15
➜ ~ dosage
MainThread> WARN: No comics specified, bailing out!
➜ ~ dosage garfield
MainThread> ERROR: multiple comics found: GoComics/Garfield, GoComics/GarfieldMinusGarfield
➜ ~ dosage GoComics/Garfield
GoComics/Garfield> Retrieving 1 strip
GoComics/Garfield> Saved Comics/GoComics/Garfield/Garfield_20160806.gif (85.98KB).
➜ ~ dosage Comics/GoComics/Garfield/Garfield_20160806.gif
MainThread> ERROR: comic 'GoComics/Garfield/Garfield_20160806.gif' not found
➜ ~ mcomix Comics/GoComics/Garfield/Garfield_20160806.gif
10:10:24 [MainThread] WARNING: subprocess32 not available! using subprocess
10:10:24 [MainThread] WARNING: czipfile not available! using zipfile
➜ ~ apt-cache show dosage
Package: dosage
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 952
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Bastian Kleineidam <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.15-1
Depends: python-requests, python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8)
Suggests: python-argcomplete
Filename: pool/universe/d/dosage/dosage_2.15-1_all.deb
Size: 252126
MD5sum: 7540154bb9e9c3635a1f79eb70297901
SHA1: 475cde86708bae037a8e81e3648144345bb9e5c8
SHA256: 68027621eb45ca9203638d86e06da46e667c9031be8cd891e259fe4933292229
Description: comic strip downloader and archiver
Description-md5: bb08aa349a9c9684c9bea85df31c3990
Homepage: http://wummel.github.io/dosage/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

➜ ~ dosage ziggy
GoComics/Ziggy> Retrieving 1 strip
GoComics/Ziggy> Saved Comics/GoComics/Ziggy/Ziggy_20160806.gif (99.87KB).
➜ ~