# Best comic strip of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529 "2010-06-09T13:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/21 "2010-06-09T15:22:51Z")
_Little Nemo_. So beautiful, ambitious and weird. And early. But I think that Nemo is a bit different from the others with the large format and all. For proper 3-frame-strips I think _Calvin and Hobbes_ should take the prize. ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/22 "2010-06-09T15:24:15Z")
I almost went with _Little Nemo_ to give it some love, but then I realized _Calvin & Hobbes_ just did everything exceedingly well. It had a human touch like _Peanuts_. It was painfully funny like _Far Side_. And it did the surreal and imaginative like _Little Nemo_. It might not have been number one in each category, but placing 2nd or 3rd in all categories makes it #1 overall. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/23 "2010-06-09T15:27:31Z")
No love for **Zippy the Pinhead**? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/24 "2010-06-09T15:32:46Z")
Peanuts, Pogo, The Far Side, Doonesbury, and Calvin and Hobbes will all be remembered a century after their ending. I give the edge to C & H because Watterson folded the tent and left us yearning for more. (Yes, so did Far Side, but I didn’t yearn quite as badly for more Far Side as for C & H.) ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/25 "2010-06-09T15:34:13Z")
Calvin and Hobbes is my clear winner here, with Far Side and Peanuts as runner-ups. Probably the funniest comic strip today is Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/26 "2010-06-09T15:36:02Z")
If it were predicated on the hotness of the title character, Blondie would run away with it. Choosing instead to base my choice on wit and humor, I had to go with The Far Side. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/27 "2010-06-09T15:38:10Z")
[_The Order of the Stick_](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html) - it’s not just a comic strip, it’s an adventure. [_Sinfest_](http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1) - i don’t know why i chose _Sinfest_ over _Charlie Brown_, perhaps it’s simply that it has been a long time since i read Snoopy. _Peanuts_ - not fun to read online at all as it’s limited to a few strips and the website presentation isn’t as good as the others. (i don’t want to click 3 times just to view one strip!) are any of the poll choices newer online strips? i’m not familiar with most of them, i am guessing they’re on American newspapers. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/28 "2010-06-09T15:42:30Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > are any of the poll choices newer online strips? i’m not familiar with most of them, i am guessing they’re on American newspapers. None of them are webcomics, I believe, and many of them are very old. Like, decades old. Krazy Kat and Little Nemo alone were comic strips from the 1920s, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/29 "2010-06-09T15:44:41Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > If it were predicated on the hotness of the title character, Blondie would run away with it. You, Sir, have obviously not seen [Aunt Fritzi](http://www.mirandallambert.com/aunt-fritzi2.jpg) lately. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/30 "2010-06-09T15:51:48Z")
If Tintin’s allowed I’d add Asterix - utter genius, especially the english translations. But Calvin and Hobbes wins it for newspaper strips. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/31 "2010-06-09T15:58:56Z")
**Krazy Kat** , an assessment that is either blindingly obvious or completely unfathomable. Next would be **Pogo.** ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/32 "2010-06-09T15:59:53Z")
[Little Nemo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_nemo) was even earlier than that: 1905-1914 with a brief revival in the '20s. [Krazy Kat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_kat) was from 1913-44. [Thimble Theater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimble_Theatre) more popularly known as _Popeye_, was started in 1919 and still has new strips on Sundays. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/33 "2010-06-09T16:04:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You, Sir, have obviously not seen [Aunt Fritzi](http://www.mirandallambert.com/aunt-fritzi2.jpg) lately. Not bad, considering she is around 100 years old! (she was in her 20s in 1922) ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/34 "2010-06-09T16:08:45Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > Life in Hell = Calvin and Hobbes \> The Far Side = Doonesbury \> The Boondocks = This Modern World > > I voted _Life in hell_ cause it had less votes then _Calvin and Hobbes_ > > Someone needs to add _Foxtrot_ and the old _Robotman_ (pre-monty) Orcenio, after hearing about Life in Hell all my life, since I was a kid, I’m gonna go ahead and finally try to track that down and check it out. My list is: Calvin and Hobbes at the top, naturally. Far Side, naturally. Peanuts, naturally. Boondocks is a\* distant \*4th. I have always really liked Andy Capp. I used to love Doonesbury, too. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/35 "2010-06-09T16:21:35Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You, Sir, have obviously not seen [Aunt Fritzi](http://www.mirandallambert.com/aunt-fritzi2.jpg) lately. Fritzi is one hot mama to be sure and I’ve said as much on [this very](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=355923&highlight=fritzi)[board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=528018&highlight=fritzi). However, her rather unsightly niece has been the title character of the strip for some time now. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/36 "2010-06-09T16:26:00Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Fritzi is one hot mama to be sure and I’ve said as much on [this very](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=355923&highlight=fritzi)[board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=528018&highlight=fritzi). However, her rather unsightly niece has been the title character of the strip for some time now. Aww. I always dug Nany’s fro. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/37 "2010-06-09T16:29:05Z")
It’s not the hair. It’s that hydrocephalic skull. Or maybe that horizontal dash instead of a nose. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/38 "2010-06-09T16:49:12Z")
GAH!! I have to decide between Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County?? You might as well have asked me which of my children I love more. I went with Bloom County but now I’m having voter’s remorse. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/39 "2010-06-09T17:06:07Z")
Pearls Before Swine - especially days where the characters are talking to the cartoonist and plots involving the crocs. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/40 "2010-06-09T17:10:25Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Pearls Before Swine - especially days where the characters are talking to the cartoonist and plots involving the crocs. Crocs rock. Me happy when dey is feechure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529.md?page=3)