Your Favorite Comic Strip

[Atomsized]

Well, i'm sure at least most of us has read at least a few comic strips that come in the newspapers, and some of us still do, or may be entirely against the idea of reading the tiny small text that come with the strips these days for that matter, but anywho, what was/is your favorite comic(k) strip?

Mine was Foxtrot by Bill Amend.

[Icewalker]

...OOTS!

Mk, not webcomic, comic strip. :smallbiggrin:

Not sure, never was much of a newspaper person. Maybe Dilbert.

[Sneak]

Foxtrot is good, as is Pearls Before Swine. And on occasion, Get Fuzzy.

[blackfox]

Foxtrot is good, as is Pearls Before Swine. And on occasion, Get Fuzzy.I usually like Foxtrot but Pearls Before Swine gets on my nerves. There's a newish strip in the Washington Post called Frazz that is usually pretty good, and then there's always Rhymes with Orange.

As for webcomics I'd have to say xkcd is probably the funniest.

[alexeduardo]

Foxtrot is good, as is Pearls Before Swine. And on occasion, Get Fuzzy.

get fuzzy is horrible.
Tom The Dancing Bug is usually a masterpiece and I still read bloom county reruns from time to time

[Zeful]

Foxtrot is good, funny, zanny, and a little creepy. I also like some of the earlier garfield strips.

[DraPrime]

I absolutely love Dilbert. Scott Adams is a genius.

[RTGoodman]

I love(d) "Foxtrot" and I used to read "Get Fuzzy" a bit, but that's about it (other than the occasional Dilbert, Hagar the Horrible, Zits, etc.). I usually skim through all or most of the comics, though, I just can't stand most of them.

For the record, I hate "The Family Circus" with the burning fury of a thousand suns.

[blackfox]

Gah.
How the hell could I ever forget Doonesbury?
My parents never forgave me for telling them I wanted to be Zonker when--erm, IF I grew up.

[adanedhel9]

My normal reading list is Dilbert, Doonesbury, Foxtrot, and Safe Havens, each for their own reasons. I couldn't pick out one favorite from the four.

[Vaynor]

I wish Far Side/Calvin and Hobbes still ran because those are my favorites, but I guess my favorite current one would be Foxtrot.

[Copacetic]

Far side. The End.

[chiasaur11]

Well, besides Webcomics, the aforementioned examples, and the classics (like Krazy Kat and Pogo), I enjoy Lio from time to time. Fun stuff.

[blackfox]

Aaaah! And Calvin and Hobbes!
*memory a'splodes* :smallbiggrin:

[ghost_warlock]

Yes, like many others the Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes were the best newspaper comics.

For online comics, I enjoy Partially Clips, Red Meat, xkcd, and (of course) OotS. Red Meat is probably my favorite, though...I'm kinda twisted. :smallamused:

Edit: although it's not technically a comic, Fail Blog is pretty funny, too. :smallwink:

[TFT]

Calvin and Hobbes, but if you are talking about current ones, I would say Zits(probably because of my age)

[MisterSaturnine]

Calvin and Hobbes forever. Also, Doonesbury. Also, Bizarro.

[Ghastly Epigram]

Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, and The Far Side. Never read any of them (Or any others for that matter) in an actual newspaper though.

[Indurain]

The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Zits, Get Fuzzy.

I will also add For Better or Worse to that list, not because I enjoy it per se, but what that comic has done is remarkable. I've been reading it since I was young, and to watch the characters grow up with me...just an amazing feat.

[bosssmiley]

Hagar the Horrible (the henpecked Viking) is win. :smallbiggrin:

[Dallas-Dakota]

Sigmund.

It´s a dutch one...

[DigoDragon]

I regularly read "Baldo" and "Zits". I find them both to be usually funny.

[Rare Pink Leech]

Calvin and Hobbes.

[Dr. Bath]

Perry Bible Fellowship. And yes, it is quite often in papers, just not the whole time.

[Mauve Shirt]

Calvin and Hobbes wins, hands down. But for ones that are still going on, I like Foxtrot, Zits, and Frazz. Frazz reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes.

[Pepz]

my, how has Peanuts not been mentioned yet? Schulz drew those comics for 50 years, and it's still one of my favourites, other's include dilbert and calvin and hobbes.

As for on-line, I read about 27 webcomics, check all of them near daily. My favourites includes Questionable Content (http://www.questionablecontent.net), Irregular Webcomic (www.irregularwebcomic.net), XKCD (http://xkcd.com), Goblins (http://goblinscomic.com/), Something Positive (http://www.somethingpositive.net/index.html), A Softer World (http://www.asofterworld.com/), White Ninja (http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/comics.shtml) and Punch 'n Pie (http://www.punchanpie.net/)

O yeah, Chasing the Sunset (http://www.fantasycomic.com) is nearing their 500th comic, asked if all the readers could plug it so on say, Friday, they'd have a peak of readers :smallamused:

that's all for now :smalltongue:

[Totally Guy]

I remember enjoying a comic called George and Lynn when my nan used to buy a newspaper. It was about a wealthy attractive couple that were frequently nude. Oh how we find our rolemodels for life.:smalltongue:

[Hzurr]

Calvin & Hobbes and Far Side are my two favorite comic-comics of all time. Zitz and Foxtrot make me laugh often. I recently started reading Calvin and Hobbes in French, and it's been amazing.

I hate Doonesbury. Not because it isn't funny, or that the guy isn't a good comic, it's just that he hasn't had a new subject matter for 3 years. Now, I only ever read the Sunday one, but I've got a guess about what the one will be about next week: It will be about...*channels madam cleo*...how bad Bush and his administration is. Do you know how I know that? Because that's what it was about last week. And the week before that. And the week before that. And the month before that. Seriously. We understand that you think Bush is horrible. Thank you, now please move on to making a comic about...oh, anything else really.

Sorry, I just have trouble respecting a comic who relies on the same punchline/targets the same audience/uses his cartoon to announce his political views to the world. I'm not saying that it's accurate or inaccurate, I'm simply saying it's well past time to freaking move on.

[Madmal]

Mafalda. Period

[Dallas-Dakota]

my, how has Peanuts not been mentioned yet? Schulz drew those comics for 50 years, and it's still one of my favourites, other's include dilbert and calvin and hobbes.

As for on-line, I read about 27 webcomics, check all of them near daily. My favourites includes Questionable Content (http://www.questionablecontent.net), Irregular Webcomic (www.irregularwebcomic.net), XKCD (http://xkcd.com), Goblins (http://goblinscomic.com/), Something Positive (http://www.somethingpositive.net/index.html), A Softer World (http://www.asofterworld.com/), White Ninja (http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/comics.shtml) and Punch 'n Pie (http://www.punchanpie.net/)

O yeah, Chasing the Sunset (http://www.fantasycomic.com) is nearing their 500th comic, asked if all the readers could plug it so on say, Friday, they'd have a peak of readers :smallamused:

that's all for now :smalltongue:
Doctor Mcninja isn´t among them?

:smalleek:

*slay the heretic*

*turns up with pitchfork and burning torch*

*is the only one*

Wait, I´m the only one who has read Dr. Mcninja and seriously likes it?

:smalleek:

:smalltongue:

[Haruki-kun]

Peanuts, Mafalda, the Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes. All of them are awesome.

[chiasaur11]

Doctor Mcninja isn´t among them?

:smalleek:

*slay the heretic*

*turns up with pitchfork and burning torch*

*is the only one*

Wait, I´m the only one who has read Dr. Mcninja and seriously likes it?

:smalleek:

:smalltongue:

Hey, I thought this was a newspaper only thread.

I was saving the fire for Funky Winkerbeen.

Dr McNinja is awesome enough to kill them himself.

[RTGoodman]

Wait, I´m the only one who has read Dr. Mcninja and seriously likes it?

I know people that like it IRL, but I'm not sure about it here. My only experience with it is when Nedroid did a guest strip a while back, after which I tried to read some of the rest of it and wasn't that impressed.

My current list of webcomics includes: anti-Heroes (http://ah.indolents.com/comic) (by one of our very own Playgrounders!), Chainmail Bikini (never got around to deleting the subscription... R.I.P.), Cowbirds in Love (http://cowbird.110mb.com/archive.html), Daisy Owl (http://www.daisyowl.com/), dinosaur comics (http://qwantz.com/), Garfield Minus Garfield (http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/), Kate Beaton Comics (http://katebeaton.com/Site/Welcome.html), Kukuburi (http://www.kukuburi.com/2007/08/09/one/), Nedroid (http://nedroid.com/), OotS (of course), PHD Comics (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php) (which is, as far as I know, occasionally in actual school newspapers), and xkcd (http://www.xkcd.com).

[Pepz]

I've read Doctor McNinja and....well I don't know...I never really got into it, always thought it was a bit presumptuous somehow

you're not the only one who likes it tho, there's a lot of people who do. I just don't

[Hzurr]

Ahh Dr McNinja. The thing is, Dr. McNinja isn't good, but it is awesome. It isn't the best written, isn't the best drawn, doesn't have the best story lines, but it's AWESOME. Punching out a dinosaur, Paul Bunyan's Disease, surfing a robot dracula. Again, not good, but awesome.

Other webcomics I'm a fan of are xkcd, OotS, Questionable Content, Perry Bible Fellowship, Penny Arcade (from time to time), 8-bit theatre, Dinosaur Comics (from time to time), Dr. McNinja, lfg (from time-to-time). I think that's mostly it.

[Mike62]

I have to toss in my votes for Peanuts, the Far Side and Dilbert. And of course OOTS, but I suppose since Im here already, thats obvious

[Dr. Bath]

Ahh Dr McNinja. The thing is, Dr. McNinja isn't good, but it is awesome. It isn't the best written, isn't the best drawn, doesn't have the best story lines, but it's AWESOME. Punching out a dinosaur, Paul Bunyan's Disease, surfing a robot Dracula. Again, not good, but awesome.

It is pretty well drawn, much better than some of the other comics you listed there, although I don't think the colour looks quite as good.

Most importantly it's funny. I see it more as a slow-ish (as in not gag-a-day) gag-strip than look for story. If you're looking for a coherent plot...try elsewhere. No seriously. :smallbiggrin:

I particularly like the alt text. A cool side-effect of the rise of web-based comics.

[snoopy13a]

As strongly hinted by my user name :smalltongue: , my favorite comic strip is Peanuts.

I also like Calvin and Hobbs, The Far Side, and Doonesbury. Interestingly, Doonesbury is the only one of the bunch that is still makes new strips.

[Totally Guy]

I'll tell you about a webcomic I like but you have to keep it a secret. Loxie and Zoot it's a webcomic about the adventures of people that attend a naturst resort. The main storylines are majorly superior to the little bitty story arcs the guy occasionally does.

[Mc. Lovin']

Explosm.net

It's surprisingly original for a daily update comic

[Capt'n Ironbrow]

Duck & Birdie (Fokke & Sukke)

Sigmund (http://www.sigmund.nl/?p=home_eng&l=eng for english strips)

Gummbah (dirty and absurdistic)

[Nychta]

I think that if I could read only one comic for the rest of eternity, it would have to be xkcd. Because it takes all those wisps of ideas from the back of my head and makes them humorous and relevant.

Close second is Gunnerkrigg Court.

Other awesome comics are Calvin and Hobbes, OotS, Wasted Talent (but man, waiting for updates is painful).

[Weiser_Cain]

Farside and Calvin and Hobbes

[vegetalss4]

don't know what it is called in english but with a bit of Wiki-Fu i find that its name is ...
Beetle Bailey

[Tempest Fennac]

I'd say Dilbert as well. Garfield is often funny as well, though.

[valadil]

Get Fuzzy started out good, but has been insipid at best lately. That ones coming out of my RSS feed real soon.

Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and Far Side are all classic, but how did you guys forget Bloom County? It's by far my favorite.