Favorite cartoon strip ever?

[Va Lefty]

Had to be published in mainstream newspapers. What's your fav?

[opiate69]

1. Bloom County by far..

But Calvin & Hobbes and Get Fuzzy get honorable mention.

[midlife_mo_Jo]

31. Baby Blues

[MrCoffee]

2. Calvin & Hobbes in a walk

[triguy46]

45. Absolutely. When it went away, I went through grieving stages.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. Calvin and Hobbes

absolutely no contest.

[Archae]

4. Freefall

http://freefall.purrsia.com/

[redqueen]

5. I don't know if I could choose, honestly...

between Bloom County and The Far Side and Dilbert and Get Fuzzy and... oh there's so many great ones.

Does Life In Hell count? It definitely ranks up there... dunno if it was in a "mainstream" *retch* newspaper though.

[Va Lefty]

7. Oh hell, can't believe I forgot Dilbert

I would have listed that instead of Peanuts!!

[NightWatcher]

6. 3 words: Midvale School for the Gifted

[MrCoffee]

8. 1 word: Calvinball

[SoxFan]

35. Two, er, one word: snowmen

[Common Sense Party]

56. The snowkid on the toboggan, looking back at the bifurcated

snowadult...just kills me.

Of course, I'd love to know how Calvin got those spindly branch arms to hold up that big snow head, too.

[cloudbase]

16. We took that one and

changed the Midvale sign to Texas A&M.

Edit: Damn! Put the post in the wrong place.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. The two I always save for last...

The two I always save for last are Get Fuzzy and Doonesbury. Those are the two I look forward to the most. Get Fuzzy makes me laugh out loud, and Doonesbury is just so dead on to current events.

I actually read all of the strips, even the crappy ones. (Hell, I even read Prince Valiant on Sundays!) I know, a 28 year old guy reading the funny pages sounds stupid, but I don't care.

My paper doesn't get Pearls Before Swine, but whenever I've read it in other papers, I always seem to get a laugh out of it.

Growing up as a little kid I loved Garfield. As a kid. Now I realize it's sort of stupid, but since I grew up on Saturday mornings watching the Garfield cartoon show, I still have a soft spot for it.

[ghostsofgiants]

10. The Boondocks.

[Perry Logan]

11. Krazy Kat

[Va Lefty]

12. God, I miss Bloom County

[deucemagnet]

50. Here's one of my favorite Bloom Countys

Ironically, I found this on free republic. I'm sure they enjoyed it on a whole other level.

[krispos42]

58. That's the one I was looking for!!!!!

Oh, thank god!

I was looking for that one a couple of months ago to post in a reply or something, but I didn't have the book that it was printed in and I couldn't find it on the Series of Tubes!


Thanks!

:yourock:

[NewJeffCT]

60. This one is my favorite Bloom County

[DS1]

13. Each Christmas, ET_Awful posts a series of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons

mostly around snowmen, but some other wintery topics, and they have me in tears laughing. The Far Side was cute, laugh out loud sometimes, but CH just appeals to more of me.

[cloudbase]

14. A couple of my favorites

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. Can't see the pics...

[cloudbase]

33. They show up on mine okay.

I only posted two, so I don't know what the other two "red x" boxes are from.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. Which strips are they?

[cloudbase]

46. One is the

Where do we go when we die? strip. Pittsburgh. Is that if you've been bad or good?

The other one is the

Some people complain all the time strip, where Calvin goes on and on about people who won't stop complaining. Hobbes says that maybe they're not very self aware, to which Calvin replies that that's another thing that gets on his nerves.

Watterson is a genius.

[quip]

15. Calvin and Hobbes, period, end of poll. A skosh behind would be

The Far Side.

[jpgray]

17. Calvin and Hobbes. No better strip exists--not Nemo, not Krazy Kat

Not nothing not nohow!

[Capn Sunshine]

18. Gahan Wilson

I think he may have been limited to monthly appearances in Playboy in the late 60's. But he was the inspiration for Larsen.

[cloudbase]

27. He is wonderfully sick.

[cloudbase]

28. No Family Circus

and Ziggy?

[Burma Jones]

19. I voted Calvin, but Peanuts is a close second.....

yeah yeah, Charles Schultz was a Clinton hater...la de dah

[pokerfan]

20. C&H with Bloom and Far Side just behind

http://www.gla.ac.uk/philosophy/Cartoons/Calvin's%20dad.JPG

[Thirtieschild]

21. Am I the only one here who's old enough to remember Pogo?

[quip]

23. We have met the enemy, and he is us...

Nope;-)

[Thirtieschild]

25. That is my favorite line from Pogo

[HughBeaumont]

22. Peanuts, with Bloom County running a close second.

Followed by Krazy Kat and then C&H.

[jmowreader]

24. Tumbleweeds

A "spoof of the Wild West." Contains great characters like Hildegard Hamhocker, who's been trying to snare a husband for 40 years using advice out of a book written by a woman who's been trying to snare one for 50 years.

[yellowdogintexas]

49. I love the Indians,especially the poor beleagured chief

and the skulkers sneaking up on the cowboy

[BlueIris]

26. "Bloom County," all the way. 'Specially the classic years.

Steve Dallas, Bill the Cat, Milo—trying maniacs for quick cash, "ACK-ing" at celebrities, being an insufferable cutie. Hillarious.

[NewHampster]

29. I had two cats named Calvin and Hobbes

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. No Mallard Fillmore option? Oh, wait, you're looking for favorite, not funniest.

I'm sure Mallard will be on your funniest ever poll.

[bigwillq]

34. Peanuts (nt)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

36. I like Pearls Before Swine...

[Arkansas Granny]

43. Our local paper has recently started carrying Pearls Before Swine.

I quite enjoy it.

[yellowdogintexas]

47. I also recently discovered it..I enjoy it tremendously nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

59. That is very, very funny

I really wish my paper carried it.

They still carry old Peanuts reruns. Don't get me wrong, Peanuts is a classic, but Charles Schultz has been dead for what, 10 years? Time to move on. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel needs Pearls Before Swine!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

68. You'll appreciate this one...

[mainegreen]

38. Little Nemo in Slumberland. This is why:

Nothing else has ever come close.

[GreenPartyVoter]

39. Calvin, Bloom County, and the Far Side

[Orangepeel]

40. Uh, Doonesbury?

I know you didn't have room for all of the classics, but jeeze. :D

[Richard Steele]

57. No kidding!

Forgetting it on the OP is one thing; but
the entire Lounge goes 39 responses without
mentioning it?

What's up with THAT? :wtf:

[mark414]

41. Calvin and Hobbes was my third parent

[Arkansas Granny]

42. The Far Side, for sure. Some Frank and Ernest used to crack

me up, but it just doesn't do it any more. One of my recent favorites is Pearls Before Swine.

[Sonora Nora]

44. Zippy the Pinhead

he is the best! in fact i get email strips every dang day!!

[yellowdogintexas]

48. of the poll list, definitely Calvin & Hobbes, followed by Peanuts

but my currently available favorites are:

Doonesbury
For Better or Worse
9 Chickweed Lane
Luann
Nonsequiter
Pearls Before Swine
Rose is Rose

and when I remember to go to their web page to catch up: Baby Blues

[Roon]

51. remember pre-columbine?

When Calvin called up the hardware store and asked if he could get some bombs to bomb his school? You wouldn't see that in today's comics.

[ironflange]

52. Funky Winkerbean

But then, I really enjoy being severely depressed too.

[LynneSin]

65. I love Funky Winkerbean and they've moved out of the depressing stuff

it's been fast-forwarded 10 years. After 10 days of flashbacks to what happened at the funeral they are now in a more upbeat arc. Summer and Less walked in a Breast Cancer awareness event in NYC. Afterwards Cindy Summers gave them a tour of NYC and then went to the latest Montini's opened in the big apple. Funky greated them there.

Funky didn't age well but Les did. I like his goatee

[ironflange]

67. Funky looks awful

He can't kill him off, though, then what would he call the strip?

[LynneSin]

69. Well they couldn't call it Wally Winkerbean - that's an unanswered question there

On the FW homepage they have Becky married to that guy who runs the comic book store, which means something happened to Wally during his last tour in Iraq.

That should be an interesting story.

[MrSlayer]

53. Arnold.

Used to run in the 80's hilarious stuff. I really like "Get Fuzzy" now.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

54. I LOVED Pogo by Walt Kelly....

Years and years ago...

Of course, Calvin and Hobbes ranks right up there too...

:hi:

[Common Sense Party]

55. Tough question. Has to be Calvin, but Far Side & Bloom County

were excellent as well. I like "Zits," and "Baby Blues" today, but they're not even in the same league.

Least favorite? "Nancy and Sluggo." Ack!

[terrya]

61. Calvin and Hobbes, without question

[seemunkee]

62. Krazy Kat

Best strip ever invented

[mac56]

63. "Calvin And Hobbes" without a doubt.

But "Liberty Meadows" is up there too.

[yellowcanine]

64. What, no "Pearls Before Swine" fans? The "Zeeba Zeeba Eatas" will make you

pay for that. Are you a zeeba youself? Rat wants to know.

[yellowcanine]

66. Oops, I zee dat Goddess ees a fan. Me apology.

[semillama]

70. Bloom county

Helped mold my political sensibilities and sense of humor. That was closely followed by Doonesbury and Calvin and Hobbes. I always tell my wife that if we have kids, Calvin's dad is going to be my role model as a father.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

71. Not my very favorite, but "For Better or Worse" is very well done

I like how the characters age in real time, as opposed to being stuck in the same age for decades.

My mom must have had a million "For Better or Worse" clippings when we were growing up, as I think she related well to a lot of the strips.

[LynneSin]

75. Unfortunately that's all changing now

:cry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Better_or_For_Worse#2007_format_changes

2007 format changes
Johnston had planned to retire in the fall of 2007<20> but in January 2007, it was announced that Johnston would be tweaking the format of FBorFW in September 2007: storylines would now focus primarily on the "second generation" family of one of the original children; scenes and artwork from older strips would be reused in new contexts; and the characters would stop aging. Johnston announced that the changes are to provide more time for travel and to help with health problems, including a neurological condition (dystonia) she controls with medication.<1>

In September 2007, it was revealed that Lynn Johnston and her second husband, Rod, are separated and will probably divorce. In the Kansas City Star, Johnston is quoted as saying,

<...> I have a new life. My husband and I have separated. I am now free to do just about anything I want to do. We still communicate. We still have children in common. It’s a positive thing for both of us. And I just see so many things in the future.
But when asked if this would be a storyline for the strip, Johnston replied, "No, not a chance. I only want to live through this once."<21> Johnston currently plans to create more new strips.<22>

[SteppingRazor]

72. Doonesbury, by far. n/t

[Rob H.]

73. Calvin & Hobbes

If for no other reasons than Watterson's beautiful Sunday strips, Spaceman Spiff, and Tracer Bullet.

[applegrove]

74. I wanted that Far Side coffee table book something bad.

[Westegg]

76. 3-way tie: "Little Nemo," "Krazy Cat," and "Achewood"/NT

[WinkyDink]

77. L'il Abner. (Hey, what does a kid know about politics?! LOVED "Lower Slobovia"!)

[abq e streeter]

78. Far Side, in a photo finish ahead of Calvin and Hobbes