Dilbert - Alice and Wally Wizard of Id - Sir Rodney :) Bull N Bears used to be favourite before they switched from being a manufactuting commpany to a brokerage firm.47 responses total.
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My favorite comic strips are:
- Mickey Mouse (pre-1954, when it was an adventure strip
with continuity rather than gag-a-day)
- Pogo
- Krazy Kat
Pretty retro tastes, eh?
The best comic strip ever was The Far Side.
I really liked Calvin and Hobbes a lot. I was sorry when it ended.
Boondocks, Doonesbury, For Better For Worse.
Pogo, the early years of Peanuts, Doonesbury, Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert. (In chronological order.)
FBOFW is my favorite. I love the way all the characters have progressed, rather than be static in time. Favorite character - Michael Cathy is another one. The character has aged a bit, but it kind of grew stale after a while - Favorite character - Cathy Baby Blues was another one that aged the characters to a point. I liked it better when Zoe was an only child. Favorite character - Zoe Dilbert - because I identify so much with it. Favorite character Alice. Calvin and Hobbes- Favorite character - Hobbes (Love reading this aloud to my sister and laughing. Brilliant comic strip)
Pogo. Favourite character was the alligator, although Ma'amselle was nice, too. These days, first on my list to read is Kevin and Kell, but no favourite character.
Re #6: I should add "Peanuts" (early years) to my list of favorites as well. Great strip in the 1950s through the mid-1960s; declined thereafter.
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Smokey Stover
Hobbes. Linus. Woodstock. Sparky the Wonder Penguin. Dondi. (just checking to see whether anyone's actually reading what I write.)
(Why would we do that, mcnally?)
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (now usually "Hotel & Farm") Dilbert Doonesbury Bizarro This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow) (at times in the past, I enjoyed Peanuts, The Far Side, Bloom County) I don't really have favorite characters from these.
Oh, yeah, and Calvin & Hobbes when it existed.
Under teh Lemon Tree Liberty Meadows non Sequiter
Kevin and Kell Calvin and Hobbes Bloom County
Far Side, by far.
Oh, I forgot: Little Nemo in Slumberland
Rose is Rose used to be a favorite. -- Pasquale Bloom County -- Opus Calvin and Hobbes -- Hobbes User Friendly -- Dust Puppy This Modern World -- N/A
Bloom County-- Binkley Get Fuzzy-- Bucky Katt
My current favorites: Dilbert (I like Wally) (I hate Sunday Dilbert, though.) Arlo 'n Janis Frank and Ernest on Sunday My past favorites: Peanuts (get an old collection of Peanuts strips; they're wonderful) Doonesbury (in the 1970's, all of the characters were possible to identify with. I liked B. D., Duke and Joanie. And Zonker, and Mark's dad, and the elderly couple...) Bloom County Calvin and Hobbes The Far Side
I'm enjoying Get Fuzzy. (Can't remember the dog's name at the moment) Rose Is Rose (Rose's alter ego) Calvin and Hobbes when it was out was good. (Hobbes) Red and Rover isn't widely carried, but I enjoyed reading it when I lived in Yakima (Rover) Foxtrot The Phantom used to be good, especially explaining history or when the Phantom did detective work. It was a boyhood favorite Non Sequitir (N/A) For Better Or For Worse (no real big favorite in there, they are all good)
Peanuts...if you look at a lot of the favorite strips you named, particularly Doonesbury, Bloom County, Cathy, For Better or For Worse, B.C., Boondocks .etc, all of their artists-- and they openly admit it-- are disciples of Charles Schulz. The influence of Peanuts is wideranging. And the greatest of all comic strip characters ever is Snoopy of course
there aer so many, for so amy years .. pogo starts it, peanuts ends it .... and teh *intelectual* strips in between.
Doonesbury, Uncle Duke Dilbert, Alice The Boondocks, Huey Sluggy Freelance, Bun-bun
"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".
I forgot to put Pogo on my list. I read books of Pogo strips in grade school and loved them.
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.
They're going to stop For Better or For Worse?
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."
current favorite is boondocks.... gotta luv hutzpah.
Wally, of course. Torg in sluggy freelance. Div of penny arcade. Skull of pvp
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excellent choice ... !! /.
The most right-wing cartoonist had to be Al Capp.
Unless you count Jack Chick.. :-O
Marvin, Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes
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.
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*whores*
Kevin & Kell are my favorite. I've been going over all the ones I've missed at herdthinners.com. Anybody know what that thing is in Rudy's tail?
I've never noticed anything in his tail. It looks like a fairly standard wolf's tail, to me.
Look again. It looks kinda like a clothspin, but that can't be right.
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.
So he doesn't. I started from the beginning so I haven't reached the pin-less ones yet.
It was a piercing.
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