Favourite comic strips
 

what comic strips do you love?

Calvin and Hobbes (a long time favourite)
Far Side
Zits
the Other Coast
Peanuts (of course)


I used to be heavily into Garfield, but now....

Calvin and Hobbes is brilliant

viz is highly underated.

I guess I kinda like Get Fuzzy... by Darby Conley.

i like

julius knipl, real estate photographer
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ben katchor's hotel & farm

(both by ben katchor)

see:




(there are much better ones, that's this week's, & this)



also, "the city" by derf





(same deal here-- my favorite ones are those starring "white middle class suburban man"

Calvin and Hobbes, especially this one:



many moons ago, there was one in English papers called Beau Peep that was quite funny, but I wouldn't know if it' still around. I have a couple of old books still, I think. I might search them out tonight and inflict some scans upon you.

Linus, from Peanuts, is cool too. and the strips in Private Eye such as Yobs, The Premiershits and Celeb are worth a read. The Fortena Times used to have one called Guru that was excellent.

A lot of people make fun of Garfield, because obviously it's a piece of crap now. But I still maintain that in the early 80s it was near perfect.

This Modern World
Bloom County
The Far Side
Beetle Bailey
Peanuts
Blondie

Old things such as Cliff Sterrett or Winsor McCay's Little Nemo
http://www.nicksherman.com/home/littleNemo-bed.jpg

i liked get your war on.

Toothpaste For Dinner:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/

Not my favorite, maybe, but it's taken up quite a bit of my time lately.

To be honest I don't really think most comic strips are funny. I even tend to get bored with strips that are smart but lack any real sense of humor. Political cartoons are a good example of that, although I have come across a few that have made me laugh when they're actually silly. Now something like this...this is funny to me:

http://www.alanrickmangallery.com/?cr=1&rfm=y

Get Fuzzy, more of a guilty pleasure.

Dilbert, maybe because I have a business degree.

Sherman's Lagoon, usually satisfying.

Pearls & Swine, I think thats what its called, the one with the rat.

Bizarro, I think it's called that, kind of like the far side, but not.

Yea, the old Garfeild animated movies and comic strips are fucking sweet.

maakies
american elf
calvin & hobbes
little nemo

from today's metafilter

Calvin and Hobbes rarities, including some comic panels Watterson drew of himself with Calvin. From Platypus Comix which also has a nice Bloom County lost strips page.

I really enjoy Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side, Rocky(Martin Kellerman is amazing, I hope he'll maintain his gift forever), Dilbert, Pondus, M, and Bizzaro.

I read something the other day where
...For Better or for Worse was voted as the best comic strip of all time

wtf?

What next? "Rhymes With Orange"?

i should puke. but as kegmama says, "the masses are the asses"

there is an even worst one though. horrid. i can't remember the name but it's usually one panel only with stupid little children.

now you know what used to be great? zippy the pinhead. oh yes zippy was great in the 90s. but i haven't seen it in a while.