What is your all-time favorite comic strip? (or funnies)

[WI_DEM]

For me, even though it is no longer running, it's Peanuts (featuring good 'ol Charlie Brown) by Charles Schultz.

[guitar man]

1. Hagar the Horrible

I've loved it since I was a kid. :)

[Left Is Write]

2. The Far Side.

[BlueJazz]

12. Yep

[MrCoffee]

3. Calvin and Hobbes

[redqueen]

4. +1

[Ikonoklast]

9. +2

[pokerfan]

34. +3

[Rhythm]

45. +4

[keroro gunsou]

51. plus infinity

[Pacifist Patriot]

58. and beyond

[ACTION BASTARD]

33. Calvin & Hobbes- - Eveything else is shallow and pedantic.

Peanuts? It's "quaint".

Hagar the Horrible? It is.

Beetle Baily? Beetle needs to be shipped to the 'Stan without body armor.

Gasoline Alley? Oh yes, the tales of a fat, rolly-polly grease monkey that loves to over-eat and...well, there's not much else is there? Needed to be put down 15yrs ago

Zits? How 90's. Look a supporting teenage character has piercings! So edgy.

B.C.? DOA.

Get Fuzzy? Without the cat it all falls apart.

Curtis? Modern day black Charlie Brown minus the imagination, better developed supporting cast and super cool and infinitely more important dog and his 2nd banana. Black pre-teen wanders through life trying to "get-over" on his rents and fails miserably every time.

Blondie? Eat, late for work, POW right into the mailman. Needed to be divorced over 30yrs ago.

The Lockhorns? Well, at least he can draw real pretty women when the need arises. Which is just about everyday.

Over the Hedge? Daring, exquisitely drawn and not nerdy in the least bit. The movie was a scream.

Doonesbury? More hits than miss. His post-Bush work will be interesting.

Liberty Meadows? Oh Frank Cho won't you please come back and save us from a Calvin & Hobbes-less world? Please Frank?

[Danger Mouse]

53. You do know that Peanuts was one of the big inspirations for Calvin and Hobbes, right?

Look at some of the earlier Peanuts strips, especially ones involving Linus. Calvin and Linus are a lot alike.

[HughBeaumont]

56. Peanuts is "quaint"?

What about Krazy Kat? Is that worthless also? :eyes:

[Phillycat]

64. Wrong spot

[DarkTirade]

5. Published comics, Calvin and Hobbes

Webcomics, damned if I know. I read too many of 'em to choose just one.

[pokerfan]

35. Webcomics

via web feeds:

Cyanide and Happiness
Jesus and Mo
Sinfest
xkcd
Tom the Dancing Bug
Abstruse Goose
Atheist Eve

[seemunkee]

6. Krazy Kat with Pogo being a close second

[BarenakedLady]

7. Bloom County

and then Calvin & Hobbes.

[GOPisEvil]

57. +1

[BOSSHOG]

8. Peanuts is the greatest!!!

We have Snoopy bobbleheads, Snoopy Trashcans, and even have Snoopy framed and on the wall. There is a great shop on Royal Street in NOLA that features a lot of Peanuts related arts.

[Tikki]

10. I always found Lynda Barry's 'Marlys" serial fascinating...

Tikki

[PassingFair]

13. Have you read "Cruddy"?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XN3BAGJTL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

What a ROUGH book!

[Tikki]

21. Yes...

I am a fan of Lynda Barry's work...Marlys is my sentimental favorite, though.


Tikki

[crimsonblue]

11. CALVIN AND HOBBES

all others bow down in ignominy at the alter of comic perfection.

[PassingFair]

14. Life in Hell

or anything by Matt Groening

[flvegan]

15. Get Fuzzy.

[Strong Atheist]

16. Anything by Phil Foglio. nt.

[keroro gunsou]

63. oh my god...

i remember the stuff he did for tsr's dragon magazine... it was hysterical...

"what's new with phil and dixie"

part of the reason i read dragon...

[Strong Atheist]

67. His art is everywhere.

Games, comics, books...

I would especially recommend Buck Godot, Zap gun for hire and Girl Genius...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. I save Doonesbury for last, so I guess it's that. But I always have a soft spot for the comics.*

Even the crappy ones. That means you, Family Circus.

I just can't get a day done without reading the funny page out of habit. Perhaps its me trying to keep something of my youth behind.

*Except "Cathy", 'cause that woman just makes me ridiculously anxious how she freaks out over everything. If I was that Irving dude, I would have committed hari kari long ago.

Calvin and Hobbes was pretty well done, but Bill Waterston always struck me as something of a pompous ass.

[stuntcat]

18. Peanuts.

cause it's the sweetest :loveya:

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. The Far Side.

Almost always made me laugh out loud.

[bigwillq]

20. Peanuts (nt)

[justabob]

22. The Far Side

Bizarro *almost* fills the void, but is not as reliable as the Far Side was.

[arcadian]

23. three way tie: Bloom County, Farside, Calvin & Hobbes

[DS1]

24. The Freak Brothers

[Bucky]

25. Steve Roper and Mike Nomad

It's like the Sistine Chapel of art.

[Bake]

26. Bloom County/Opus

Followed by, in no particular order:

Doonesbury
Calvin and Hobbes
Peanuts

Bake

[CreekDog]

31. bless you

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

27. Nobody said Bloom County yet? Shame on you!

:spank:

[BarenakedLady]

36. Unless you have me on ignore

I did on #7

[CreekDog]

38. Oh I'm sorry I missed that

I could never ignore you! :pals:

[BarenakedLady]

43. Oh sure, sure

You say that now...after you ignored me!

:cry:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

28. Doonesbury

I own two original Doonesburys from back in the seventies. A Sunday 'toon and a daily. They are among my most cherished possessions.

[Zomby Woof]

29. The Far Side

Calvin & Hobbes

The Boondocks

Zippy

Non Sequitir

Zits

Pearls Before Swine

9 Chickweed Lane

Sally Forth

Bloom County

[AngryAmish]

30. Family Circus

That Jeffery is always getting into mischief!

[flying rabbit]

68. Yep!

And don't forget the dark political undertones and stark reverberation of class issues that pervade that circle'o'hilarity.
Yuks for days.

[ThomCat]

32. Bloom Country + Calvin and Hobbes.

:)

[NJmaverick]

37. 3 way tie between Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side

I miss them all

[rurallib]

39. I would add "for better, for worse" to that group.

[NJmaverick]

41. I liked that strip for years, but didn't like the whole growing old thing

I have enough with growing old in real life, don't need to see it in the comics

[rurallib]

42. That was one of the things I liked.

made it more real. To each his own.

[mopinko]

62. love that one, too.

i love her commitment to letting people grow up. we had babies at about the same time, el and i. i was planning a home birth and she wasn't, but we both had one.
when she bumped off that dog, i really mourned.

[Orsino]

40. Pogo, maybe.

Still waiting for the Fantagraphics collections.

Doonesbury, Dilbert and Peanuts (in its day) were all faves.

edit: I forgot Calvin! And Bloom County.

[Godhumor]

44. Get Fuzzy, Dilbert and Pearls Before Swine

Dilbert's writing is so spot-on I actually collect the bound editions when they're released.

[jmowreader]

46. Freak Bros, Calvin, Far Side, Pearls Before Swine

I KINDA like Baldo, but don't actively seek it out.

[cordelia]

47. Calvin and Hobbes

and the Far Side.

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. 'Peanuts'

No other strip has had such an effect on popular culture. I always found it somewhat theraputic in addition to being wonderfully amusing.

[Common Sense Party]

49. Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert and The Far Side.

Today, the only ones that make me chuckle are "Pickles" and "Real Life" and once in a while "Zits."

[Condem]

50. Mutts.

Moochie and Earl never fail to put a smile on my face.

[Danger Mouse]

52. Calvin and Hobbes, no contest.

[elshiva]

54. Dykes to Watch Out For

[surrealAmerican]

55. I'm going to mention Little Nemo (because nobody else did), ...

... but I think Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite.

[HughBeaumont]

59. Peanuts, followed by Krazy Kat and Little Nemo in Slumberland

Windsor McKay, George Herriman and Chuck Schultz were decades ahead of their time.

[JeffR]

60. Hard to believe no one has mentioned the hilarious antics of

The Family Circus. Never repetitious, always filled with sharp insights into the way kids think, drawn with majestic simplicity... An American classic right up there with Pat Boone and the Osmonds and Thomas Kinkade, the Painter of Light.

[mopinko]

61. sylvia

my home town girl. a friend of a friend. but i always loved her, and changed my daily paper to follow her.
unfortunately, she has to hand in 3 strips every day, and the syndicate gets to pick which one to run. they always take the weany one. very few of the really cutting ones get through.

[Phillycat]

65. Boondocks, Calvin and Hobbes, xkcd

[Orrex]

66. What? No Mary Worth? What the hell is wrong with you sick fucks?

[WI_DEM]

69. and no Blondie!

[struggle4progress]

70. Pogo was great when it was the original Walt Kelly strip. Loved Calvin & Hobbes, too

The early Peanuts were fantastic though the strip went downhill beginning in the 70s