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Favorite comic strips
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I will always be grateful to Charles Schulz for the greatest comic strip ever created: Peanuts.
Obviously, Calvin & Hobbes and the Far Side are right up there.
As for what's in the newspapers today, I enjoy Pearls Before Swine, and was sad when my local market considered Get Fuzzy and the Boondocks too edgy.
Obviously, Calvin & Hobbes and the Far Side are right up there.
As for what's in the newspapers today, I enjoy Pearls Before Swine, and was sad when my local market considered Get Fuzzy and the Boondocks too edgy.
Of course they count, if you like them that's good enough for me.
I used to have a Mickey Rat t-shirt I always wanted to wear it at Disneyland but never got the chance
Yeah, I love Bloom County too. All the Star Trek references and of course DEATH TONGUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2gtSUULYPY
Almost time to get together with friends for our annual viewing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas." If you are ever in Northern California the Charles Schulz Musuem in Santa Rosa is pretty cool.
OK, so the statue is of Desperate Dan and Minnie the Minx, but The Beano, Dandy and other D.C. Thomson comics were certainly one of the good things to come out the 'dee. That and the GTA games, you'd almost think we were some sort of trouble makers
Totally! I forgot about them. Those were among my favorites too. Hell, I'd still read them. Minnie the Minx!
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Looking at some of the names on here, I realized, that I enjoy a fair number of comic strips, but there is something missing in much of them: art. Red Meat is funny at times, but it is just clip art with speech bubbles. After you've seen each character once, there is nothing more to look at, and the strip is just a joke that may as well be text. Dilbert is another one. I guess when you have a business to run and calendars to sell, the art is the first to go.
Compare that to Calvin and Hobbes, Zippy, Little Nemo or Krazy Kat. The images are absolutely essential to the success of the strip. Whereas you spend 10 seconds reading Dilbert, you can spend 10 minutes on Calvin and Hobbes. One is a momentary distraction, the other an engaging activity.
Compare that to Calvin and Hobbes, Zippy, Little Nemo or Krazy Kat. The images are absolutely essential to the success of the strip. Whereas you spend 10 seconds reading Dilbert, you can spend 10 minutes on Calvin and Hobbes. One is a momentary distraction, the other an engaging activity.
I also like Booth. If I am in a doctors office and I see a New Yorker I will pick it up and look for the Booth strips.
There is no doubt that Krazy Kat and Little Nemo are both absolute masterworks of the art form. I have a couple collections of both. I still love Dilbert though, for the art and commentary, simple is often very effective...
This was my favorite as a kid, and when people came back from Scotland from a visit after we moved to the US, they would bring me copies. My all time favorite comic. Remember this Titus?? Beryl the Peril, trouble making schoolgirl.
Dennis The Menace, Minnie The Minx, Desperate Dan....all great strips from when I was a kid for sure, although I preferred the Beano to the Dandy.
However, trumping both of those were the Beezer, Whizzer & Chips and Tiger & Scorcher, featuring the legends that were Roy Of The Rovers and Hot Shot Hamish.
I also like Booth. If I am in a doctors office and I see a New Yorker I will pick it up and look for the Booth strips.
I'm a fan of nearly all the cartoons in The New Yorker. Recently borrowed an issue from my neighbor (read: stole it from the recycling bin) and found that not only are the cartoons wonderful, but the articles are almost astonishingly engaging; I think it took me three whole weeks to read that one issue cover to cover!
Been thinking about getting a subscription...mostly for the 'toons, but I'd read the hell out of it too.
Oh yeah, and +1 for The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, and -- important caveat -- really old (1960s) Peanuts.
I have never actually seen Beano. But I know about it from this album cover. We used to call this the Beano album. I still love this music. First time for Clapton overdriving a Marshall with a Les Paul.
Those little people that lived in the human...The Numskulls. Class.
I also remember Whoopee. Strips like The Bumpkin Billionaires, Odd Ball, Calculator Kid, Mustapha Million....aaah, the good ol' days.
