What's your all time favorite comic strip?

[Longgrain]

Of course I like all the good one's. Bloom County, Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbs...

But I'm hoping to hear about some really different ones.

Mine would probably be Pogo, (anyone else ever read the Walt Kelly originals?)

Too many comic strips suck these days...

[frylock]

1. larson's the far side..

I think The Fusco Brothers are probably my favorite current comic strip.

[HEyHEY]

3. Hey man!

Long tim eno see

[frylock]

10. whaddup bro!

Who's Tim Eno? Any relation to Brian? :P

[benny05]

8. Far Side, Dilbert

Also Wizard of Id, Peanuts, Snuffy Smith, Dennis the Menace

[MissMillie]

52. Far side gets my vote too (n/t)

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[nytemare]

2. I did like Pogo, and the Far Side

I really have to say that Peanuts was my favorite though. I loved the mix of characters and the psychology of it.

LOL, I may as well not have posted, I am not helping you out much here.

[Longgrain]

6. Nay, those are all good choices...

Plus you got Walt Kelly in your sig line...cool! B-)

[nytemare]

16. I absolutely love that quote

You think it is going to be pessimistic, and whammo! It is optimistic.

:)

[frylock]

12. i hope they keep running peanuts till the day i die..

they're timeless classics.

[nytemare]

17. I do too!

I love the cartoons on TV as well. Anytime my mother starts nagging my father to death, he does the "Miss Othmar" imitation and my mom stops nagging him. Makes me laugh every time.

[Democrat Dragon]

4. Blondie, Foxtrot, Baby Blues, Cathy, and For Better or Worse.

can't decide on which one is "The Best" though

[Huckebein the Raven]

5. Calvin and Hobbs, Garfield, The Far Side

and Peanuts

[fudge stripe cookays]

7. Non Sequitur

Bizarro, Far Side, and Bloom County.

FSC

[ralps]

9. "Doonesbury" and "Get Fuzzy"

:hi: :pals:

[non sociopath skin]

45. Yes to both of these. Plus Tom Tomorrow and the Boondocks ....

... and Little Nemo and Krazy Kat from the archives.

The Skin

[Fenris]

11. "Get Fuzzy." And "Mallard Fillmore."

:evilgrin:

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Maakies.

Dook! Dook! Dook!

[Arkana]

14. Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, and Foxtrot

[Longgrain]

20. I agree with 1/3 of your choices...

:D

[WilliamPitt]

15. Bloom County

[Longgrain]

18. Definitely one of my all time faves!

I own nearly all the books, and read them religiously during my teen years...

[VelmaD]

55. Damn skippy

Bloom County ROCKS!

Outland was ok I suppose. But it never really captured that same something special Bloom County had.

[No Mandate Here.]

19. Odd Bodkins,

San Francisco, 1960's and early 1970's

Two addled birds, one who rode a Norton motorcycle (escept through Petaluma, where there were too many bugs) cavorted through Nixon's America. Five dollar Bill (Abe Lincoln), J Edgar Hoover, and who knows how many others (Oh yeah, even Spiro Agnew put in a cameo appearance) were in the strip.

Great stuff.

[Jackpine Radical]

21. The instant I saw your thread I thought

"I gotta get in there & make a pitch for Pogo!"
And you've already done it.

For nonpolitical, early-memory stuff, I'd bring up Alley Oop.

[DrZeeLit]

23. My dad used to read me Dick Tracy and Lil Abner, and I liked

Mary Worth and Dr. Rex Morgan, MD.
But those Girls in Apt 3G were cool, too.

And... I loved Brenda Starr!!! Oooh, the guy with the eye patch -- that was mystery, adventure, and... dare I say... romance!!! I remember a storyline about a rare orchid.

[Jackpine Radical]

36. Jeez, what a sig line photo!

I wonder what the baby will look like.

[WoodrowFan]

66. why do you assume its a M and a F??

they could be Gay..

[Jackpine Radical]

76. Well, they didn't set off my Gaydar, I guess.

But, then, since I'm both straight and obtuse, just about nothing sets off my Gaydar anyway.

[WoodrowFan]

78. you're kidding?

I mean that dog is just FLAMING! He makes Nathan Lane look like Clint Eastwood! And that cat looks like he came from the kitty version of "The Birdcage" :P

[Jackpine Radical]

82. See? I missed all that.

Obtuse, I tell ya.

[Raiden]

22. Calvin & Hobbes

It doesn't get any better! =)

[enigmatic]

24. Calvin And Hobbes......

w/ "Bloom County" a distant 2nd...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. Little Nemo in Slumberland, Maakies, Boondocks, Bloom County or Leviathan

[Longgrain]

32. Oh Little Nemo!

You got some good taste there!

[non sociopath skin]

44. Wonderful stuff.

The complete strips in four volumes have pride of place in my comic strip library.

The Skin

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

46. Thanks. I personally think everyone would love little Nemo if they were

exposed to it. Damn lack of art history in this Country :grr:

[bif]

57. Windsor McKay wqas way ahead of his time

[WoodrowFan]

79. I like how his cartoons kept copying Mutts Sunday title panel..

http://muttscomics.com/art/tributes.asp

[CanuckAmok]

26. Peanuts.

Peanuts raised the bar, way back in the 50s.

Of course, Bloom County, Tom Tomorrow, and Red Red Meat are my faves these days.

[SmileyBoy]

27. Bloom County, Dilbert, The Boondocks

That's basically it

[Bzzzz]

28. Mutts,

Boondocks, For Better For Worse, Calvin and Hobbs

[parsifal_e]

29. bizarro , by pizzaro .....n/t

[ffm172]

30. Calvin and Hobbes

Fox Trot, 9 Chickweed Lane. There esp. the Hllmarks of felinity

[RadicalMom]

31. Tumbleweeds, Hagar the Horrible, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes,

The Neighborhood, Life in Hell.

[baron j]

33. Garfield, Mutts, Hagar the Horrible, Pogo and Luann

Anything with a cat in it...except Prickly City. That is a cat, correct? No cat would ever be a repug.

[MisterP]

62. it's supposed to be a coyote: the whole thing appears to be

painstakingly assembled out of eraser leavings by someone well down the Jame Gumb path

[FuzzyDicePHL]

34. Lynda Barry

"Ernie Pook's Comeek"

:D

[RogueTrooper]

35. Bloom County

Far Side, Doonesbury and Steve Bell's 'If' ( This is a comic strip version of his political cartoons ).

[Mike Daniels]

37. Any strip with Opus and Bill the Cat in it and Pearls Before Swine

PBS is the one strip that I make sure to read every day. And this comes from someone who initially saw it as just a "Dilbert" with an all animal cast.

It's great to see something that cynical and dark become as successful as it has over just a few short years.

[DelawareValleyDem]

38. Look at my signature pic

[dr.strangelove]

39. Get Fuzzy and For Better or For Worse

[terrya]

47. I like For Better, For Worse because the characters age...

It is the comic strip that most reflects what life is all about. The Pattersons go through the same life experiences that we do. And Lynn Johnston has tackled some sensitive subjects in "FBFW". I'm going to be sorry to see this strip go (she said she's discontuing it in a couple of years)...but I understand why she's giving it up.

[dr.strangelove]

49. I know

She gave an interview where she said she wants to get John and Elly into the Empty Nest years. April is 14, so she will be at University in a few years.

Michael and I share both the same name and the same age. We had kids at similar times, got married, graduated and so on. I really relate to Michael through this strip.

The coming out of Lawrence was very meaningful to me. One of my best friends came out my first year of college. I, like Michael, thought our friendship would never be the same. While it has changed, we are closer now then ever. We live on opposite sides of the country, but we e-mail every week. We travel together and our kids are growing up as friends. My son e-mails their son as often as I e-mail Stephen.

This strip has always been a pleasure to read and I too will miss it.

[WoodrowFan]

65. but is April "Roadside" yet??? (NT)

[Crankie Avalon]

40. Strips I remember liking were...

Amy and Jordan
Steven
Big Baby

[terrya]

41. Calvin and Hobbes. Sheer genius n/t

[flvegan]

42. "Get Fuzzy" is mine.

[Az]

43. Currently a tie

Between www.sinfest.net and www.herdthinners.com

[mdmc]

87. thanks for the links and toons!

[annonymous]

48. Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes

I also like Doonesbury and The Boondocks.

[baba]

50. My faves

1. Bloom County
2. Calvin and Hobbes
3. Get Fuzzy
4. The Far Side
5. Bizzaro
6. Non Sequiter
7. The Boondocks

And I haven't seen anyone mention this one yet:

8. Rhymes With Orange

[jpgray]

51. No. 1 is Calvin and Hobbes, then Peanuts, maybe Krazy Kat (nt)

[Spirochete]

53. The Neighborhood

The Far Side
Snuffy Smith
Dilbert

[Lilith Velkor]

54. Booondocks, baybee!

Honorable Mention goes to Life in Hell.

[bif]

56. Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend

And Little Nemo in Slumberland.

[seemunkee]

58. Krazy Kat

Best strip EVER. Pogo would have to be #2

[kwassa]

59. with Ignatz the Rat, and Officer Pup

[semillama]

60. Life in Hell

Does Groening still do the strip? I haven't seen it in years.

Online, I'm a huge fan of Something*Positive.

[central scrutinizer]

61. "our boarding house"

with Major Hoople
Dondi
The Katzenjammer Kids
Terry and the Pirates
The Little King

(just kidding - those were all stupid)

[masaka___]

63. Another vote for Sinfest.

http://sinfest.net

pimp ninjas and geisha slut whores.

who could ask for more?

;-)

[WoodrowFan]

64. Besides the ones mentioned (Sherman's Lagoon)

One can't beat "Calvin", "Peanuts", "PBS", "Bloom County" and "Liberty Meadows." But, I gotta cast a dark horse vote for "Sherman's Lagoon" for a shout-out. It still cracks me up all the time. "Mutts" makes me smile much of the time as well....

[WoodrowFan]

67. Pogo

I have some old bound Pogo's that were my Dad's. GREAT! I also still have the Pogo figurines I got as a kid in the 60s. They came free attached to some dish soap or something like that.

[nicolemrw]

68. all my favorites have been mentioned except

for "unshelved". i want to work at the mallville library!!!

[July]

69. Mafalda, Tintin, Asterix.

None of which I'd heard of before living in Spain. I'd read them to my kids, then reread them when the critters were in bed.

Mafalda kills me:

Felipe: Han suspendido las clases.

Mafalda: SOCIALES?!!!

[WoodrowFan]

70. never been able to find Mafalda in a collection in English

but I agree with her about soup.

[July]

72. I haven't seen Mafalda in English, either.

Kind of strange, isn't it, given her popularity in Spanish-speaking countries?

[WoodrowFan]

74. I've seen some in English on the web

but not in a book. too bad, it's funny./

[CRK7376]

71. Just about everything

Gary Larson draws...and Zits

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

73. Peanuts, of course --followed by Bloom County, BUT

am I the only one who thinks Berke Breathed's return to comics with Opus has been a massive, play-it-safe letdown?

[WoodrowFan]

75. Opus reeks

ugh, VERY big letdown.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

77. he keeps repeating the same jokes

that didn't work the first time
dial-a-mom, tropical island dreams, etc

it's basically the worst of outland revisited. bloom county's best stuff was the long, drawn-out storylines and beautifully designed characters

opus is just a bad greeting card each week

though, i do admit, his art has never looked better.
and there's always boondocks to fill the void

[MrSlayer]

80. Far Side, Get Fuzzy, Arnold

Too bad Arnold got cancelled in the 90's, was funny as hell. While crap like Nancy and Garfield runs forever.

[khashka]

81. Hothead Paisan

Really cool comic strip about a pissed off lesbian who just beats the living daylights out of rightwingers.

Bloom County, obviously.

A few others: Dykes To Watch Out For, Boondocks, Sylvia.


Khash.

[NNadir]

83. Calvin and Hobbes. Nothing else was even close.

The (non newspaper strip) cartoonist Kliban was incomparable too.

[mdmc]

84. Doones

:kick:

[donheld]

85. Calvin and Hobbs

[elshiva]

86. Tie between Dykes To Watch Out For and

Doonesbury.

Dykes...


Doonesbury circa 1971 (And I love all Doonesbury, but this is too neat!)