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Best and Worst Comic Strips?

Posted on 03/21/2014 8:24:30 PM PDT by MNDude

In your opinion, what is the best comic strip to ever appear in newspapers (like Peanuts or whatever) and what is your most hated comic strip?


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41 posted on 03/21/2014 9:10:08 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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Best - pearls Before Swine

Worst - where to begin...


42 posted on 03/21/2014 9:10:42 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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Best: Calvin and Hobbes.

Worst: The one with that ridiculous bald guy in a clown suit with the slightly pointy head. I think it’s ziggy. I really tried to get it, but I never did.


43 posted on 03/21/2014 9:10:45 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: MNDude

Best: BC

Worst: Doonesbury


44 posted on 03/21/2014 9:10:54 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: MNDude

Best (hard to rank)
Pogo
BC
Bloom County (and its Progeny)
Wizard of Id
Far Side
Calvin & Hobbs
Mallard Filmore
Dilbert

Worst:
Doonsbury

Distant 2nd - Mary Worthless. And what was the one about high school jocks?


45 posted on 03/21/2014 9:11:44 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: LowOiL

Doonesbury is repugnant. Blondie - the same thing for fifty years? Really?

Thumbs up: Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, the old B.C., Foxtrot. Close to Home was good.

New Favorite: Baby Blues


46 posted on 03/21/2014 9:12:57 PM PDT by pa_dweller (Extremist tea-party-driven hostage-taking legislative arsonist without a life)
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To: hoagy62

Extra-Special Mention- Worst: THIS MODERN WORLD


That’s a blast from the past. I used to read it in The Rocket in Seattle. It was never funny and way too heavy handed with it’s political message. It was along the lines of “why is George bush stupid? Because he’s a republican, HAHAHAHA!!!”

Huh?


47 posted on 03/21/2014 9:13:12 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: MNDude

Honorable mention
Prickly City

http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2014/03/19#.Uy0OFCe9KSN


48 posted on 03/21/2014 9:15:39 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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I remember my Mother telling me her favorite comic strip when she was a kid was “The Katzenjammer Kids”. She was born in 1918. They lived in Florida but her father subscribed to the “Montgomery Advertiser”.

I think my favorite was BC. I also liked Alley Oop, “Lil Abner” and “Our Boarding House”.


49 posted on 03/21/2014 9:17:21 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: MNDude

Wizard of Id = best

Doonesbury = worst


50 posted on 03/21/2014 9:24:06 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
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To: MNDude

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Cathy as worst yet.


51 posted on 03/21/2014 9:25:22 PM PDT by MNDude
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No one has mentioned Nancy. That was in a class by itself. I wasn't going to say this but I used to think that the cartoonist might be retarded. But I don't feel so bad after reading on Wikipedia that a friend once called him "a moron on an acid trip".
52 posted on 03/21/2014 9:26:12 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: MNDude
Best: Bloom County, with a special gold star award for this comic strip decades before Our Dear Reader: http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=82415

Other greats: Dilbert, Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes

Worst: This Modern World or anything by Ted Rall. Doonesbury is mild compared to these idiots.

Honorable mentions for extreme unfunniness: Henry and Nancy. Do these strips even exist anymore?

53 posted on 03/21/2014 9:28:45 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: MNDude

Pogo, Calvin and Hobbes best

Nowdays. I don’t read the papers.


54 posted on 03/21/2014 9:38:20 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: Varmint Al

I bought two Soviet cats to keep me company over there. Named one, “Bill” and the other “Opus”. And yes, they looked like them! Bill was insane!

I love Dilbert, duh! Screen name was almost ratbert...

Far Side
Calvin and Hobbs
Hagar
Beetle Bailey

When I was a little boy, I used to love reading these cartoon books from the 60s about Senator Snort and other stuff from Grin and Bear It.


55 posted on 03/21/2014 9:55:51 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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To: MNDude

My Best?

Our Boarding House with Major Hoople
Bringing Up Father (Maggy & Jiggs)
Flash Gordon
Little Nemo
Pogo
Calvin & Hobbes
Steve Canyon

Worst
open the nearest bird cage liner

Thing about syndicated strips is, they’re SUPPOSED to be the same thing every day, more or less. Newspaper comics have always been a kind of OCD ritual, a daily fix of bemusing fixed points in a chaotic world. Some cartoonists do it with breathtaking style, other sophisticated and subtle humor, others with characters that look in their underwear and pull faces. Don’t really matter. Most comic fans like a mix of these constants. Funnies, for me, were almost never funny. But they were fascinating as hell, especially the ones that used to be popular, and reflect old times and lost worlds, like Our Boarding House.
Egad! If I wanted funny, I read Mag Magazine.


56 posted on 03/21/2014 10:00:09 PM PDT by Danforth (FAP!)
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Best would have to be Calvin and Hobbes.

I do like Arlo and Janis, Big Nate, Luann, Jump Start, Ham Shears, Scary Gary, Pearls before Swine.

Sometime I read the old Peanuts cartoons which I grew up on.


57 posted on 03/21/2014 10:04:35 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: MNDude

All time worst: For Better or For Worse.


58 posted on 03/21/2014 10:07:58 PM PDT by drew
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To: MNDude

Best: Dilbert, The Far Side.


59 posted on 03/21/2014 10:12:29 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: doorgunner69
Had to go look it up, as it used to piss me off so much;

The hate negro comic strip was called "Boondocks"

The hatred from that strip was palpable. It went away about the time I stopped reading print. Hopefully the writer had a stroke from all his hate.

Why that name, who knows, since inner city black kids are not much for the real boondocks, with all those creepy and slithering things out there.

60 posted on 03/21/2014 10:16:48 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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