What is your favourite comic strip(s)?

[youngred]

I'd have to say mine are 'Get Fuzzy', 'Boondocks', 'For Better or Worse', 'Doonsebury' and 'Non-Sequitor'

Any others I should check out?

[Bertha Venation]

1. Mutts!

You must see it. It's my fave. It's pretty apolitical, but very sweet and makes me smile every day.

[Richardo]

27. The artwork is very cool 1930s retro, too...

...reminiscent of Krazy Kat.



Very funny for dog and cat owners... :)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

49. Patrick McConnell wrote a book about Krazy Kat

If you're a fan of Krazy, that book is a must-have. He did a wonderful job.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810981521/qid=1077332157/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-4139793-8795807?v=glance&s=books

Forgive the long link.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

37. i kind of like that one too

it took a while to grow on me, but I love the art style and the bizarre exchanges in dialogue at times

[DrWeird]

2. Boondocks.

Best drawn cartoon since Calvin and Hobbes, and all the wit of Breathed.

[jus_the_facts]

3. The Far Side.....

....but that Get Fuzzy is too cute!! :hi:

[DrWeird]

4. You know what comic really pisses me off? Peanuts!

Charles Schultz's dying wish was that Peanuts would die with him. He didn't want it to keep going after his death like so many other comics.

And they told him sure, no problem.

And then just a couple of weeks after he died that damn comic popped up again.

Fucking assholes.

[eyesroll]

19. Did Schultz mean cancel the comic completely, or just don't let

another artist take it over?

I'm pretty sure the Peanuts strips being run now are just reruns.

[DrWeird]

20. Cancel completely.

He was writing and drawing all the comics right up until the end. He didn't want anybody else taking over.

I'm 99% positive the ones now aren't reruns. I think I've seen current events references.

[Zomby Woof]

29. they are old

Check the copyright dates in the margins. The Sunday vesions currently running are from 1970, and the dailies have been from the late 80's. I have matched them in old collections, which are available in hardbound books.

His wish was for no one new to do the strip, and that has been honored. No agreement was ever made about reruns.

He saw what happened to Pogo a decade or so after Walt Kelly died. That was one weak-assed resurrection attempt.

[mark0rama]

33. Peanuts strips running right now are from 1970.

It's uncanny how many of them I remember from the paperback compilations I used to collect when I was a kid.

United Media, the owners of the copyright to the characters, have forged ahead with an animated TV special or two, which left Schulz's family a little chagrined. But no one but Schulz, during his lifetime or since, ever laid a hand on his newspaper strip - writing, penciling, inking, it was a one-man show.

[bigwillq]

31. "Peanuts" is classic

Stop the hate or Snoopy gonna whip some ass!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

38. it's a 'classic' version of the strip

he ok'd that. he didn't want it to go through a series of uninspired creators, like the syndicates tend to pass strips off to. (Nancy, Hagar the Horrible, Prince Valiant, etc) it has been protected from that

charles schulz was god, btw

[displacedtexan]

5. Ballard Street

Have you seen it?

[xray s]

6. My favorites=your list +

Zits, Dilbert, The Hots, Candorville, Mr Boffo.

Get Fuzzy is #1 though.

[youngred]

23. ooo Zits is a good one

and hell yeah, I LOVE get fuzzy!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. This Modern World

http://www.thismodernworld.com

[youngred]

24. a good one indeed

One of my favs to read after 2000

[bigwillq]

8. I will always love "Peanuts"

Snoopy is the best! But I do enjoy Boondocks.

[Loonman]

9. Boondocks and Bloom County

Two for America.

[Kamika]

10. BC and wizard of Id

The humor is incredible

[TheMightyFavog]

12. BC has its moments..

However it get real annoying when Hart enters his batshit crazy fundie mode every few weeks or so.

[Kamika]

17. yeah

But when he goes for pure humor he's unbeatable

[pagerbear]

11. For Better or For Worse

Although I love This Modern World, too.

[TheMightyFavog]

13. Calvin and Hobbes.

Best Comic Strip. Ever.

[HEyHEY]

32. AMEN!

[Tims]

14. Piranha Club

Monty (but I do miss Robotman)
Non-Sequitur
The K Chronicles

[Kamika]

39. piranha club owns

I love Sid and Ernie

[frylock]

15. the fusco brothers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PrestoChango]

16. Get Your War On ...

and of course My Fighting Technique is Unstoppable!

Also Boondocks.

[elfwitch]

18. Calvin and Hobbes and Frumpy the Clown

Everybody knows Calvin.

Frumpy was a strip done by former Real Worlder and current writer for Green Lantern and Barry Ween Boy Genuis, Judd Winick.

Just a sample of FTC:


Check the archives at http://www.pedroandme.com/frumpy/archives.html

[Mike Daniels]

21. Pearls before Swine

It probably more of an aquired taste than most comics but I find it funny as hell more often than not for a strip the focuses on death and misery a good portion of the time.

[youngred]

28. That is a good one

I do enjoy it, though it isn't in my top 5

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, the Far Side

[youngred]

25. DAMMIT, I can't edit

But my FAVOURITE of all time (well tied with Get Fuzzy) is CALVIN AND HOBBES.

C&H is a classic beyond compare!

[pmbryant]

35. Clearly, you've got good taste :-)

I kind of gave up reading the comic pages after Calvin & Hobbes retired in 1995.

But I still love Doonesbury. Dilbert has had its moments. And the Far Side was also brilliant.

Never heard of 'Get Fuzzy', but I'll have to check it out. :-)

Peter

[youngred]

45. Why Thank You

definitely check out Get Fuzzy, its about one sarcastic guy, one cantankerous cat with one fang and one love everyone dog who wears a broken wristwatch

[Whitacre D_WI]

26. MAAKIES!

Dook! Dook! Dook!

on edit: http://www.maakies.com

[Archae]

30. Freefall!

Really funny Sci-Fi based strip.

Right now Sam (the main character) tried making a "soup sandwich" while in zero-g.

One of ship thrusters fires, and the soup gets all over Sam. :D

http://freefall.purrsia.com/

[Sentath]

43. Thats on my list too

http://www.brightok.net/~rodnet/comics.htm

[mark0rama]

34. Frazz!

http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

36. Peanuts,without question - then Pogo, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes

though if we're going only with current strips, I'll say

Opus
This Modern World
Get Fuzzy

[Breezy du Nord]

40. Calvin and hobbes, The Boondocks,

Get Fuzzy is very funny too.

You know what I DON'T like? Garfield! That one STINKS!

[NoPasaran]

41. Doonesbury, Dilbert, This Modern World

Pretty much cover all of society.

I'm always amazed when I visit my folks and see that the New Haven Register still has Archie.

[Az]

42. Sinfest

An online only strip. Too hot to go paper.

[geniph]

44. Non Sequitur, Dykes to Watch Out For, Boondocks, Mutts

This Modern World, Troubletown, Doonesbury, For Better or Worse, 9 Chickweed Lane, The K Chronicles, Nina's World are all good.

[cryfordawn]

46. I think I lived there

Bloom County definitely.

[allalone]

47. umm, that would be mother goose and grimm

[Az]

48. Ozzy and Millie, another great online strip

http://www.ozyandmillie.org/

[Gildor Inglorion]

50. Fox Trot

Jason IS me at that age. Except for Quincy the iguana *yuck*

[BlackVelvetElvis]

51. Contemporary favorites

Get Fuzzy
Mutts
Non Sequitor
Funky Winkerbean
For Better or For Worse

As a huge fan of the very old strips, I'd have to say my favorites are

Krazy Kat
Thimble Theater
Little Nemo in Slumberland
Little Orphan Annie

Two that dont quite fit in either catergory

Bloom County
Calvin and Hobbes

[slack]

52. Tintin from belgium, by hergé

or astérix et obélix by Goscinny et Uderzo.
Both european comics.
From america, I think Calvin and Hobbes are my favorits.

[philosophie_en_rose]

53. Boondocks & Dilbert.

[Endangered Specie]

54. Far Side, Garfield, Non-Sequitor, Doonsesbury

[Spider Jerusalem]

55. Boondocks, Doonesbury, Red Meat, This Modern World (n/t)