Best comic strip ever

C.S.Strowbridge · Post by **C.S.Strowbridge** » 2003-11-30 05:23am

Ghost Rider wrote:1. Bloom County
2. Calvin and Hobbes
3. Far Side

Same here, and if I recall correctly, all three artists retired with a year of each other.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2003-11-30 05:26am

Shadowhawk wrote:Go Calvin!

I hope for the day that Watterson follows Larson's example and releases a Complete Collection. My Farside Complete Collection just kicks ass.

Hey, I never seen that "Spring is coming" strip yet.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2003-11-30 07:04am

You can't beat the classics: Prince Valiant, Little Nemo In Slumberland, Terry And The Pirates, Tarzan, Popeye. Of course, those were also the glory days of the newspaper comic strip, before the bastards started shrinking the pages (a trend attacked several times in Berke Breathead's Bloom County —one of the greatest of the modern strips).

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-11-30 07:47am

Patrick Degan wrote:You can't beat the classics: Prince Valiant, Little Nemo In Slumberland, Terry And The Pirates, Tarzan, Popeye. Of course, those were also the glory days of the newspaper comic strip, before the bastards started shrinking the pages (a trend attacked several times in Berke Breathead's Bloom County ?one of the greatest of the modern strips).

Unfotunately, I could never really keep up with Prince Valiant. As for the others, I never saw them...

~ver

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-11-30 08:27am

I'm a far-side guy. Surreal and funny if you get them and also funny when other people don't.

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2003-11-30 01:11pm

The Far Side. I can never get enough talking cows.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-30 01:23pm

I never read Calvin and Hobbes. It falls outside my sphere of comic influence.

While I learned to read on Peanuts, and work in a world wheer everyone has a farside cartoon on their door (I still laugh at the cattle tube farm), Dilbert has Bob the Dinosaur who gives wedgies to people who deserve it.

Dilbert,, therefore, wins.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-11-30 02:07pm

Dilbert, if only for proving that you don't necessarily have to draw extremely well to have a successful comic strip.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-30 02:26pm

Patrick Degan wrote:You can't beat the classics: Prince Valiant, Little Nemo In Slumberland, Terry And The Pirates, Tarzan, Popeye. Of course, those were also the glory days of the newspaper comic strip, before the bastards started shrinking the pages (a trend attacked several times in Berke Breathead's Bloom County —one of the greatest of the modern strips).

YES! Prince Valiant rocks.

As for the page shrinkage, it is damn annoying, and Bill Waterson of Calvin & Hobbes fame also attacked that.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-11-30 03:37pm

Bill Watterson also attacked the tyranny of required panel size... unfortunately, there haven't been many who have taken advantage of the freedom.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-30 04:24pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Bill Watterson also attacked the tyranny of required panel size... unfortunately, there haven't been many who have taken advantage of the freedom.

He later learned that freeing himself from those constraints meant for a lot more work.

Fred G., who does the webcomic Megatokyo, also has noted how much longer the "free-form" comics take to draw compared to his earlier panel-based ones.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-11-30 06:54pm

Yup, ahh but la resistance lives on..

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » 2003-11-30 08:03pm

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-11-30 08:20pm

Comic STRIP. Not book, STRIP.

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-11-30 08:21pm

Ahh, it has to be peanuts for me without a doubt...

erh..mostly because I've not heard of the rest save for garfield..

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » 2003-11-30 08:25pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Comic STRIP. Not book, STRIP.

apologises for breathing

shakes his three fingered muppet fist at the heathen

I happened to just like the image...not that it is any of your business

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » 2003-11-30 08:29pm

The Boondocks...

Cosmic Average · Post by **Cosmic Average** » 2003-11-30 09:07pm

Sluggy Freelance

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2003-11-30 09:28pm

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You will die a horrible, horrible death.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-12-01 12:31am

Beaker wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:Comic STRIP. Not book, STRIP.
apologises for breathing

shakes his three fingered muppet fist at the heathen

I happened to just like the image...not that it is any of your business

It's amazing how much you over-reacted over a simple correction.

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » 2003-12-01 12:35am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
It's amazing how much you over-reacted over a simple correction.

That isn't me over reacting...that is me at play

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