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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 16:27:06 GMT -5
Calvin & Hobbes
The Far Side
Peanuts
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Post by foxley on Jun 17, 2014 16:31:49 GMT -5
1. Footrot Flats
2. Modesty Blaise
3. The Wizard of Id
4. Peanuts
5. Zits
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 17, 2014 17:29:52 GMT -5
1. Calvin & Hobbes
2. The Far Side
The truth is I'm not a huge comic strip guy. I have some appreciation for Peanuts, Pogo, Krazy Kat, Doonesbury... but I don't know how much love I have for any of them.
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Post by berkley on Jun 17, 2014 19:17:22 GMT -5
1. Modesty Blaise
2. Peanuts
3. The Far Side
4. Secret Agent Corrigan (Al Williamson art)
5. Flash Gordon
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 17, 2014 20:00:04 GMT -5
I love the great comedic strips, but my favorite was always Hal Foster's Prince Valiant. I just got the first two Fantagraphic's volumes in and they're on my to read list next. The Far Side is a close second. It always made me laugh; "Anatidaephobia. The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you."
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Post by benday-dot on Jun 17, 2014 20:00:45 GMT -5
1. Prince Valiant
2. Terry and the Pirates
3. Secret Agent Corrigan
4. Flash Gordon
5. Buzz Sawyer
This was tough. I like adventures over humour generally, though it meant I had to leave off favourites like Nancy, Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. Also I left out Nemo in Slumberland. I felt like Roy Crane wasn't getting his due, and I dig Buzz Sawyer a little more than Captain Easy.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 17, 2014 20:12:07 GMT -5
Adventure strips are tough because they don't lend themselves as well to the standard three to six panels (it takes a while for adventures to rev up) as do "funny gag" strips. This is why the Spider-Man strip used to annoy me as a kid. If I wanted a good dose of Spider-Man, I'd watch Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, or read the comic, not read a strip that consists of Peter Parker talking to J.J. Jameson for two panels with him opening a door in the last.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 20:27:38 GMT -5
I used to cut out the Spiderman strips and reread them when I had a good stack.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jun 17, 2014 20:48:14 GMT -5
1. Bloom County- my dad introduced me to them....he has almost every volume
2. Garfield- as a kid, this was my go to. Love Garfield.
3. The Far Side- Gary Larson rocks
4. Mother Goose and Grimm- always made me laugh
5. Peanuts- classic, who doesnt enjoy good ole Chuck
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 17, 2014 20:54:28 GMT -5
1. The Katzenjammer Kids - Harold Knerr  2. Dick Tracy - Chester Gould  3. Lil Abner - Al Capp  4. Little Nemo in Slumberland - Winsor McKay  5. Life in Hell - Matt Groening  Many others, but just a shout out to a couple not mentioned yet but still great : (from Wikipedia) Shoe is an American comic strip about a motley crew of newspapermen, all of whom are birds. It was written and drawn by its creator, cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, from September 13, 1977[1] until his death in 2000. It has since been continued by Chris Cassatt, Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly.  While not politically oriented in the style of strips such as Doonesbury, Shoe often pokes fun at various social and political issues of the day (especially when Senator Batson D. Belfry makes an appearance). Although not particularly well-known outside of the U.S., Shoe was in fact granted its own monthly comic book in Norway for a brief time in 1987 under the name "Sjur," which consisted of reprints from newspapers. The magazine reached a total of six publications. Later on, in 1989, Shoe did a brief comeback to Norwegian readers, this time under the name "Krax," appearing as an extra-feature in the then brand-new Calvin & Hobbes magazine. The strip won MacNelly the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for the year 1979. and Sky Masters of the Space Force was an American, syndicated newspaper comic strip created by writer Dave Wood and penciler Jack Kirby, featuring the adventures of an American astronaut.  This was one of the first to jump to mind and I had forgotten it was done but only published years later in comic book form but never as the strips they were meant to be. Signed Wood / Kirby, many thought it was by Wally Wood and Jack Kirby. It was and it wasn't. Kirby did the pencils and Wally Wood inked some of them, but brothers Dave & Dick Wood were the writers. Never saw print due to legal difficulties over royalties between them and then DC editor Jack Schiff, who rejected the concept but helped broker a deal with a syndicate. A fascinating footnote in strip history. Because of the falling out, Kirby left DC and went back to Atlas / Marvel. What might DC have had if Kirby had stayed ? |
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 17, 2014 20:58:06 GMT -5
1. Calvin & Hobbes (can retire the trophy now, it will never be passed)
2. Bloom County
3. Flash Gordon
4. Peanuts
5. Wizard of Id
Honorable Mentions
Prince Valiant
Garfield
Family Circus
Dilbert
Fox Trot
Zits
Get Fuzzy
B.C.
Beetle Bailey
Hagar the Horrible
Non Sequitur (single panel version)
Life in Hell
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Post by maddog1981 on Jun 17, 2014 20:59:02 GMT -5
1. Calvin and Hobbes
2. The Far Side
3. Foxtrot
4. Get Fuzzy
5. Bloom County
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Post by dupersuper on Jun 17, 2014 21:28:03 GMT -5
Superman
Dilbert
Doonesbury
Calvin&Hobbes
Pogo
Bizarro
The Far Side
I really want to read Little Nemo in Slumberland.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 21:43:01 GMT -5
1 - Calvin and Hobbes
2 - Modesty Blaise
3 - Foxtrot
4 - Prince Valiant
5 - Pearls Before Swine
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 17, 2014 21:53:44 GMT -5
Just edited mine above to number 1 - The Katzenjammer Kids, knocking out my previous number 5, Calvin and Hobbes, even though it's brilliant.
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