What's Your Favorite Comic Strip or Cartoon?

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I started reading American comics in the late Sixties and really like Batman and DC . I also have seen one called Witchblade by Top Cow and I’m pretty amazed at the Buddhistic and Eastern religious basis, as well as mentions of “demons” per se . This correlates with the deChristianisation thesis which was not present in the old DC and Marvel numbers, can the comics still be moral with so many occultic harmonics I wonder. Witchblade herself is also pneumatically gorgeous if you know what I mean, but she is only a comic book but even so…her fashions are sexually provocative … dear me, are there shades of Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” ? Was he Catholic I wonder ?
 
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Calvin & Hobbes

by FAR the greatest comic strip ever. Garfield had a great era. Peanuts was solid. B.C. is my current fave. I do miss Far Side and I currently also like Dilbert and Shermans Lagoon.

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Calvin & Hobbes was LITERATURE
 
C&H the best comic ever…love it.

Cathy is a fave of mine but it’s kinda weird now that she’s married. Still good though…BC is written by a guy from my area. Good stuff too.
 
Comic Strip: “Steve Canyon” (Ran from 1947 until 1988; An adventure strip)

Comic Book: “Sgt. Rock”

Cartoon: Looney Toons! (Anyone see “The Three Little Bops”? Brilliant!)
 
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Edwin1961:
In today’s (June 20th) newspaper, the comic strip B.C. makes strong reference to God and Father’s Day.
So, what is your favorite comic strip or cartoon?
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How could you not offer The Far Side as a choice?? I’ve split my sides so hard laughing I had to go to the E.R. for X-rays.

A couple favorites:

White-coated man flying out the window of a building w/ a sign **Institute for the Study of Emotional Stress. ** Voice from inside, “I feel better already.”

Two deer in the woods, one with concentric red circles on his chest. Caption: “Bummer of a birthmark, Hal.”
 
It amazes me that nobody has mentioned The Buckets yet! Scott Stantis also does hilarious political cartoons.
 
It’s been quite a while since I started this thread. Nice to see some new life in the thread.
How about not just talking about your favorites, post them:

This one is from today’s paper:

A comment about the times, isn’t that the truth.
 
My favorite strips are/were “Bloom County”, “Outland”, “Calvin & Hobbs”, and “Opus”. “The Wizard of Id”, “B.C.” and “Peanuts” are also my favorites. As for televised ones, maybe “Fractured Fairy Tales” and the fractured “poetry” of the old “Rocky and Bullwinkle Show”.
 
My all time favorite is The Far Side, but I have also always enjoyed Family Circus. Neither is mentioned in the poll! My husband’s favorite has always been Calvin and Hobbes. I like it too.
 
My three favorites:
  1. Fox Trot — Growing up, I WAS Jason! I suppose I still am, the perpetual Sci-Fi nerd.
  2. Calvin and Hobbes — Who amongst us wasn’t a young child with an overactive imagination that bothered our parents, outraged our teachers, and made us torment that poor kid in class that we secretly had a mad crush on?
  3. Bloom County — As one who came of age in the 1980’s, no other outlet skewed the popular culture of the time with such brilliance!
 
Of the ones in the poll, I’d say Peanuts. I love Charlie Brown (Linus and Peppermint Patty are my favorite characters). As for ones not in the poll, I like Rose Is Rose (I like Pasquale’s guardian angel best), Luann (she reminds me of a cousin), Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side, and Mallard Fillmore (the Doonesbury of the conservatives. Much funnier, though)
 
All of the above, especially Calvin.

(By the way, as far as the Calvin window stickers – to the best of my knowledge, those were NOT created by Bill Waterston (sp.) I admired him for refusing to market Calvin and Hobbes beyond the book anthologies. Those window stickers are bootlegs of Calvin and Waterston does not make a dime out of those disgusting things.)

But also:
Frazz (a lot of Michigan references).
Heart of the City (if Calvin were a girl…)
and Speed Bump, Non Sequiter, Real Life Adventures and Mr. Boffo and any of the other ones that are so similar to the Far Sides’ single panels.
 
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