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Which comic strip is the greatest?

Bloom County
3
4%
Calvin and Hobbes
29
40%
The Far Side
11
15%
Garfield
3
4%
Dilbert
11
15%
Peanuts
6
8%
Doonesbury
2
3%
Other
7
10%
 
Total votes: 72

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I noted last Sunday the return of Berke Breathed to the comics pages with his "Opus" strip. I was pleased to see it, though in truth I'd rather see all of the Bloom County characters return to the paper. Back in the 80s Bloom County was my favorite comic strip. I suppose it still is, though Calvin and Hobbes is hot on its heels.

I'm curious to see what strips most other people here consider the greatest of all time.
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it is so Calvin and Hobbs. No comic stirs up nostalgia and laughter like that beautiful comic.
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I am a Garfield fan, but I will give credit where credit is due. The best comic strip ever has to be Peanuts. The longevity, quality and volume of work done speaks for itself.
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I like Doonesbury, personally. :) If we were talking about online comics, i'd go for VGCats or 8-bit Theatre.

EDIT: The far side is also damn good.
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Calvin and Hobbes forever!
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Macross wrote:I am a Garfield fan, but I will give credit where credit is due. The best comic strip ever has to be Peanuts. The longevity, quality and volume of work done speaks for itself.
I've never understood this. I included Peanuts among the choices because, for some inexplicable reason, it has become a part of our pop culture. But I have never read a Peanuts strip that I thought was funny, and I don't personally know a single person who has. By contrast, Bloom County, The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes have all had me convulsed with uncontrollable laughter from time to time, and frequently had me laughing out loud, or at least chuckling.
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Calvin and Hobbes, reminds me of a few years ago.

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Perinquus wrote: I've never understood this. I included Peanuts among the choices because, for some inexplicable reason, it has become a part of our pop culture. But I have never read a Peanuts strip that I thought was funny, and I don't personally know a single person who has. By contrast, Bloom County, The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes have all had me convulsed with uncontrollable laughter from time to time, and frequently had me laughing out loud, or at least chuckling.
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Its not the humour. Its the adultness of the comic, expressed in so simple, innoncent a manner in the Lil Folks that gets to us.

Face it, which one of us hasn't been Charlie Brown once in his life? A loser, someone who never wins the ball game, unaccepted? Or a Linus, someone who needs a security blanket, even though he is more mature than Charlie? Or a Snoopy even, with our flights of fantasy, and where nothing can get us down?

In a way, its something that helps us to express our feelings, understand what's going on around us and cope with it.

Like what Charles said, its not about the gags. Its the story of the Peanuts gang, and more importantly, its entertainment.
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Farside is the only one that i've bought a book of, so Farside it is
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Calvin and Hobbes, hands down. Though Farside comes in a close second for me.
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[1] Calvin and Hobbes
[2] The Far Side
[3] Dilbert, though with a larger gap between it and the far side then that of the far side and Calvin and Hobbes
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A hard choice. C&H comes first, but Farside is a close second. Both artists retired the same year; that really sucked.
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1. Bloom County
2. Calvin and Hobbes
3. Far Side
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Terry and the Pirates

god that comic influenced so many comic books...

and you can't beat it's quentesstial Femme Fatale....
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Its quite obvious wich one i chose. :mrgreen:
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I recommend anyone who didnt vote Calvin and Hobbes be hunted down and burned like the whitch that they are.

Greatest comic in the history of the universe. I still read all of my collections from time to time and after god knows how many re-reads they're still wonderful, inspiring, beautiful and most of all, they're still god damned funny!
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Calvin & Hobbes, of course :D
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Calvin and Hobbes for overall. Really wish the books we had for it didn't fall apart.

The Far Side gets a mention for the one I'm most likely to see posted outside a lab door.

Peanuts gets most legendary ending, since Schulz died just the day before his last strip was published.
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Garfield is excruciatingly bad, and its inexcusable since there's like eight people who work on it. Calvin and Hobbes rules.
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I taught myself to read with books of Peanuts comics. Good old Charlie Brown.
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Just a question, since I stopped getting C&H in the mailbox each day, is the auther still drawing?
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Doonesbury, mostly because of Raoul Duke and Honey :D
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Ace Pace wrote:Just a question, since I stopped getting C&H in the mailbox each day, is the auther still drawing?
Retired in 1997 i believe.
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We need YT30000 to come in here and "Reeducate" the calvin and Hobbes unbeliever. the Best series of strips ever was the one with the Transmogrifier ray! LMMFAO!
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