# Best comic strip of all time?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comic-strip-of-all-time/542529/121 "2010-06-15T02:59:09Z")

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> [@MTCicero](#):
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> I fully expected **Calvin and Hobbes** and **The Far Side** to be the top two when I first posted the poll, as those are arguably the most geek-friendly strips listed. And the SDMB is nothing if not populated primarily by geeks (and I say that with all love and respect, as I am one myself).

I’ve come across this statement before and it always bewilders me. Calvin and Hobbes is popular because it is _geek_-friendly? In my opinion, it is sublime because it is _everybody_-friendly. The musings of the characters are normal-people emotions and thoughts.

Calvin’s escapism is a romanticised version of a feeling we’ve all had at some point or the other. Dad’s nerdy love for plain oatmeal and six-mile jogs in the sleet is a caricature of our own loved ones’ foibles that have us shaking our heads in private. I mean, seriously, which parent has NOT used the tone of voice that you can hear in every sarcastic word of “Now are you through charging around the house, or are you going to fall down the stairs again?”

Viva Calvin and Hobbes!

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