What is your favorite comic strip?

[zzzippper]

I like Pearls Before Swine and Tundra usually has a knee slapper. Mother Goose and Grimm occasionally hits a home run.

It is time to put Marmaduke to sleep.

 

[steveno]

Wizard of Id , Dagwood , Peanuts , Dilbert and B.C.

 

[Coldshooter]

Get Fuzzy followed by 9 Chickweed Lane. Chickweed has a character Thorax who is used as a foil for some great political satire.

 

[CajunBass]

Baby Blues and Shoe

 

[rwsmith]

All time favorite.....

My all time favorite has to be Calvin and Hobbes.

The Far Side and Dilbert are more modern ones that make me laugh still.

In the old days....B.C., Andy Capp, The Wizard of Id, Hagar the Horrible, Peanuts, Beatle Bailey

In the really old days, Blondie and Dagwood, Dick Tracy, Lil Abner,

Hated Mary Worth, Prince Valiant, Nancy and Sluggo, Dondi

The WORST of all time... Henry


Honorable mention: Bloom County, Cathy, Shoe, Rick O'Shay

Who remembers? Mandrake the Magician, the Phantom

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

The Far Side, Dilbert, Bloom Country, Calvin & Hobbs.
Sad to say, I think Dilbert is the only one still left.....

 

[blackdeuce]

My all time favorite has to be Calvin and Hobbes.

Same here, but I'm a little biased. My youngest son is Calvin. When we got our German Shepherd puppy a few years ago, he naturally became Hobbes. The owner had named him Brutus because he was a large puppy, but Hobbes is much more fitting for this dog.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

There's a lot of them I like, but probably Calvin and Hobbes.

There's one that isn't in high circulation called Sherman's Lagoon that I think is hilarious.

My mom would cut out a Family Circus and put it on the fridge probably once a month because of something one of us kids did... "Why do I have to wash the backs of my hands? I only eat with the fronts!"

 

[shouldazagged]

"Pearls Before Swine" and the reruns of "Calvin & Hobbes" are daily reading. I loved "Bloom County".

I agree that "Henry" and "Li'l Nancy" were stupid and tedious, but my vote for the all-time worst goes to "The Family Circus". The most awful job known to humanity has to be that of the poor chump who reads thousands of letters from doting parents and grandparents with "adorable" things their little darlings have said or done.

If I had to nominate a best comic strip of all time it would have to be "Pogo". I hope that in the great Somewhere Walt Kelly, Jim Henson and Shel Silverstein, three of the nicest, funniest and most humane minds of the 20th century, are sitting around a table swapping stories and gently needling each other.

 

[zzzippper]

I was thinking only of those still active but classics like Farside and Calvin and Hobbes are rightfully listed. I made sure to buy their anthologies.

There was one MANY years ago, I can't remember the name. But it always had crazy inventions to perform simple tasks, Rube Goldberg or Wallace and Grommet style.

 

[Alpo]

Selkie
http://www.selkiecomic.com/

 

[zzzippper]

I hope that in the great Somewhere Walt Kelly, Jim Henson and Shel Silverstein, three of the nicest, funniest and most humane minds of the 20th century, are sitting around a table swapping stories and gently needling each other.

Shel Silverstein, known for his children's books, did a book of delightfully inventive soft pornography.

 

[wbraswell]

I'm like several of you. I so miss Lil Abner. Al Capp was genius. Calvin & Hobbs is missed also. I like Zits, Shoe, and Dilbert. I have liked For Better or Worse, but sometimes they let too much of real life drama get in.
For all the rest of you that loved Bloom County, you do realize that we saw Bill the Cat & Opus win the 1992 Presidential Election.

 

[rwsmith]

If it's current...

I was thinking only of those still active but classics like Farside and Calvin and Hobbes are rightfully listed. I made sure to buy their anthologies.

If it's a current strip, I can't help you. I don't have any idea what is in papers and the strips are so tiny that if I see them I ignore them.

I agree with Bill Watterson in that they have ruined the format for comics by shrinking them to nothing.

I remember the Rube Goldberg strip and also something called "They'll Do It Every Time" (a tip of the Hatlo Hat) They also had some very clever drawings like a 'saddle' and 'light' and you were supposed to come up with 'satellite'. Har Har.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Best of all time: Pogo
A close second: Doonesbury

Calvin and Hobbes, the Far Side, Bloom County.

Al Capp might have gotten better once he lost his marbles. How can you top Moon Maid and the Magnetic Air Car, and who ever thought we'd ever see parades of dorks in helmets riding dumbed-down versions on our parkways?

I always had to keep up with Steve Roper to see if Mike Nomad was going to drag the Vincent out of storage.
There's nothing in the current papers that I have to see on any given day.

 

[BearBio]

I'd have to say Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes (Both no more, alas). Another one is/was Cheech Wizard from National Lampoon. Also, Gahan Wilson, from Playboy. Newspaper strips don't do anything for me, except maybe Get Fuzzy.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

If I had to nominate a best comic strip of all time it would have to be "Pogo". I hope that in the great Somewhere Walt Kelly, Jim Henson and Shel Silverstein, three of the nicest, funniest and most humane minds of the 20th century, are sitting around a table swapping stories and gently needling each other.

"We have met the enemy and he is us." Truer now than ever.

 

[the ringo kid]

Fer moi, they be: Garfield, Crock, Gasoline Alley, Olley Oop and one most outside of Texas most likely ain't heard of: Cowpokes, by Ace Reid. Look it up, they are great.

 

[Pop's2]

Pogo was the best.....I still have several of the books.

of the current crop my wife and I like "Pickles"

Archives of Past Strips

 

[mjsmith1223]

The Far Side

Dilbert - especially the older stuff.