response 25 of 47:

Oct 29 07:28 UTC 2003

there aer so many, for so amy years .. pogo starts it, peanuts ends it .... and
teh *intelectual* strips in between.

response 27 of 47:

Oct 29 13:36 UTC 2003

"Pogo" was the first newspaper comic strip I know of that took on
political and social issues of the day.  This was in the early 1950s,
long before Doonesbury or anything else.  For, example, the Simple J.
Malarky polecat character, a satire of Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

Hm, maybe that's not quite true.  Right-wing cartoonists Harold Gray
("Little Orphan Annie") and Chester Gould ("Dick Tracy") used their
strips to advocate their own social and political philosophies,
although more in later years than in the early days, I think.  
Ironically, maybe they were inspired by the liberal "Pogo".

response 29 of 47:

Oct 29 21:02 UTC 2003

Hmm.  Past favorites:  "Calvin/Hobbes", "Far Side" (for which there is 
a new book set out containing *all* FSs ever published), "Bloom County", 
"Arnold" (a strip that only lasted a few years in the mid-80s).  Also 
"Mr. Boffo", and "Guindon".  I used to like "Doonesbury" a lot in it's 
earlier years, but I find it only mildly interesting these days.  

Current favorites:  "Frazz" is easily my current favorite. "Zits" is 
awfully good.  "Boondocks".  "For Better or For Worse" continues to 
surprise me, but I hear that one is destined for the dustbin soon, too. 
 Gotta put "Speedbump" on the list, too--it's the only strip I regularly 
clip to hang on the fridge.

response 31 of 47:

Oct 30 02:33 UTC 2003

Yes, but I overspoke when I said "soon".  I recalled hearing that the 
author of the strip was planning on retiring it, but a quick web search 
discovered that "soon" is defined as "in the next few years."    

response 33 of 47:

Nov 3 21:25 UTC 2003

Wally, of course.  
Torg in sluggy freelance.  
Div of penny arcade.  
Skull of pvp

response 35 of 47:

Nov 5 09:52 UTC 2003

excellent choice ... !!
/.

response 37 of 47:

Nov 17 22:23 UTC 2003

  Unless you count Jack Chick..  :-O

response 39 of 47:

Nov 18 11:54 UTC 2003

Re #36:  Al Capp was moderate-to-liberal for much of his career
(supported Kennedy in 1960) but turned quite conservative -- very
outspokenly so -- in the late 1960s.  Carried his anti-new-left
message to lots of TV talk shows, and his viewpoint crept into
his Li'l Abner comic strip as well (e.g. the "Little Joanie Phoney"
parody of Joan Baez).  Never could figure out why he did such an
about-face.

For "most right-wing cartoonist" my nominees would be either
Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie) or Chester Gould (Dick Tracy).
They were consistency hardcore right-wing throughout their
careers.  Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon)
is not far behind.

response 41 of 47:

Nov 27 08:26 UTC 2003

*whores*

response 43 of 47:

Dec 2 21:34 UTC 2003

I've never noticed anything in his tail.  It looks like a fairly standard
wolf's tail, to me.

response 45 of 47:

Dec 3 14:32 UTC 2003

In http://www.herdthinners.com/index.phtml?current=19951219 it looks like a
safety-pin.  He apparently removed it, eventually, since he doesn't have in
the current strips.

response 47 of 47:

Dec 3 16:29 UTC 2003

It was a piercing.