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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 22:30:57 GMT -5
I can't wait to read some Dick Tracy. I have one reprint comic floating around my collection somewhere, and the big thick graphic novel based on the movie.
Surprised I was the only one with Boondocks in my top five.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 17, 2014 23:10:05 GMT -5
I pretty much don't look at current strips from about 2000 on.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 18, 2014 11:26:34 GMT -5
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. Sky Masters of the Space Force was indeed syndicated to newspapers in 1958-61. It never had great success, but it was published. There wouldn't have been lawsuits about money if the strip hadn't been published. The Toonopedia says it started in over 300 papers. As for my all-time favorites: Calvin & Hobbes Prince Valiant The Far Side Dilbert Doonesbury And my favorite strip being published today: Luann by Greg Evans. It started as a gag-a-day strip about a teenage girl but has evolved, a la Funky Winkerbean, into an ongoing realistic story with a large cast of delightfully believable characters who are aging but not quite in real time. The strip started in 1985, and Luann was then 13. This week, she graduated from high school. I'm eager to see what happens to the gang next. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 18, 2014 11:33:53 GMT -5
Of course Sky Masters was published in the newspapers.Who's going to work on 3 years of dailies and Sundays without it being published?
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Post by DubipR on Jun 18, 2014 11:36:21 GMT -5
I haven't read a newspaper strip in about 20 years so I don't know what's good or not, but I'll go from my childhood likes:
1. The Far Side- It was so obscure and wonderfully out of left field.
2. Calvin & Hobbes- Watterson's classic.
3. The Amazing Spider-Man- It was Spider-Man daily; couldn't beat that!
4. Tarzan- The Manning strips are brilliant
5. The syndicated works of Paul Conrad.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 18, 2014 11:40:46 GMT -5
Great response for the first 24 hours of the All Time Newspaper Strip Vote. 27 voters so far made their choices and 42 different strips have been mentioned. The leader is far ahead of the pack but we have a virtual tie for 2nd and 3rd, a virtual tie for 4th and 5th,and a number of strips close to breaking into the top 5
Next Tuesday I'll report on the complete vote results with every nomination included
Don't delay-Vote today
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Post by DubipR on Jun 18, 2014 11:46:42 GMT -5
Great response for the first 24 hours of the All Time Newspaper Strip Vote. 27 voters so far made their choices and 42 different strips have been mentioned. The leader is far ahead of the pack but we have a virtual tie for 2nd and 3rd, a virtual tie for 4th and 5th,and a number of strips close to breaking into the top 5 Next Tuesday I'll report on the complete vote results with every nomination included Don't delay-Vote today I was seriously considering a political cartoonist's strip. Would that count?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 18, 2014 11:54:45 GMT -5
Great response for the first 24 hours of the All Time Newspaper Strip Vote. 27 voters so far made their choices and 42 different strips have been mentioned. The leader is far ahead of the pack but we have a virtual tie for 2nd and 3rd, a virtual tie for 4th and 5th,and a number of strips close to breaking into the top 5 Next Tuesday I'll report on the complete vote results with every nomination included Don't delay-Vote today I was seriously considering a political cartoonist's strip. Would that count?
If it was a regularly scheduled daily or weekly,syndicated strip I don't see why not.Something like The Far Side didn't have regular characters and its perfectly acceptable. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 18, 2014 11:58:02 GMT -5
Great response for the first 24 hours of the All Time Newspaper Strip Vote. 27 voters so far made their choices and 42 different strips have been mentioned. The leader is far ahead of the pack but we have a virtual tie for 2nd and 3rd, a virtual tie for 4th and 5th,and a number of strips close to breaking into the top 5 Next Tuesday I'll report on the complete vote results with every nomination included Don't delay-Vote today I was seriously considering a political cartoonist's strip. Would that count?
Which reminds me that Bill Mauldin's WWII panels (Willie & Joe) were on my Classic Christmas list. And almost certainly in the top five. And probably high in the top five. And probably should have been here. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 18, 2014 12:03:21 GMT -5
Village Voice style weeklies count? 'Cause my list would skew really, really heavily in that direction over the Family Circus or Marmaduke.
Ernie Pook's Comeek is my favorite *anything* in comics form.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 18, 2014 12:08:19 GMT -5
Village Voice style weeklies count? 'Cause my list would skew really, really heavily in that direction over the Family Circus or Marmaduke. Ernie Pook's Comeek is my favorite *anything* in comics form. If it appeared in more than the voice, in other words syndicated, sure.I was a big fan of Jules Feiffer's strip for many years |
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Post by DubipR on Jun 18, 2014 12:26:20 GMT -5
I was seriously considering a political cartoonist's strip. Would that count?
If it was a regularly scheduled daily or weekly,syndicated strip I don't see why not.Something like The Far Side didn't have regular characters and its perfectly acceptable. Paul Conrad was definitely syndicated. |
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Post by tolworthy on Jun 18, 2014 20:06:51 GMT -5
1. Judge Dredd in the Daily Star by Wagner and Ron Smith. So much goodness in so little space, by the best Dredd writer and the best Dredd artist IMO. Calvin and Nemo have enough votes already, so honourable mentions to... 2. Mary Tourtel's Rupert Bear. I love how he would simply stand and watch most of the time - I took that as a sign of great wisdom and intelligence. But the later Rupert was more active, and I saw that as a sign of a narrowed vision: he was just an annoying kid, whereas I could infer great depths to Tourtel's version. 3. Fudge the Elf by Ken Reid. Like most of Reid's stuff it was deceptively brilliant: for example his occasional dinosaurs were beautifully rendered. I wish somebody would publish a "best of" for Ken Reid. He has more forgotten classics than any artist I know. I suppose it's a matter of taste, but I consider his Jonah at its best to be the greatest single comics pages ever, and his Deed a Day Danny at its best was sublime perfection. 4. Early Perishers. They got repetitive later (Most strips do), but it was a thing of beauty. I particularly love how well their town was crafted. As a teenager I created a map of their town based on the strips' art, and the writer liked it so much he sent me a signed original! 5. Bristow by Frank Dickens. Not always the funniest, and it definitely lost steam, but such gentle pleasure when I was young. Included for nostalgia reasons: it was the Dilbert of its day (and ran for 41 years) |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 18, 2014 21:31:05 GMT -5
Of course Sky Masters was published in the newspapers.Who's going to work on 3 years of dailies and Sundays without it being published? Yes Ish, and Rob, of course you're right. The Kirby Museum shows the Adams Syndicate as the publishers. Well, ill, that's the first time I've caught Wikipedia wrong. I was trying to think of the name of the strip and up came Wikipedia. Lesson learned. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 19, 2014 17:30:35 GMT -5
Yes, I noticed that wikipedia had it wrong. I don't know any wikipedians myself but I think a couple of messages in the right place will turn up someone who can edit that article.
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