What’s your favorite comic strip? I love Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis
“Get Fuzzy”. I know cats with that attitude.
Man this is probably going to be pretty popular but I loved The Far Side when it was still in print. I would also read Family Circus. Not so much because I liked it but moreso to try and figure out why the hell anyone was amused by it.
Mr. Boffo
It would have to be Doonesbury right now, although Calvin and Hobbes was good while it lasted.
my favorite remains Bloom County. nothing before or since has made me laugh so much or think so hard. The FarSide is a close second.
these days… the comics page just doesn’t grab me like it once did. although I do read a host of great webcomics like Sluggy, Penny Arcade, Megatokyo, Player Vs. Player and Diesel Sweethearts. they more than fill the void.
Bloom County was my all time favorite, followed by The Far Side.
But since neither one is still being created, today would be Doonesbury and Dilbert.
Am I showing my age?
Currently, I’m also a huge Get Fuzzy fan. But my heart will forever be in Bloom County. And I’ve got the Opus and Bill the Cat stuffed toys in my bedroom to prove it. Or is that TMI?
Far Side - Best Comic Ever
Duplex - Best currently running comic
Penny Arcade - Best online Comic
Family Circus - WORST COMIC EVER!!!
Odd Bodkins, but unless you have access to some alternative weekly newspapers in California, you won’t get to see current strips. This gem of an artist and author was syndicated back in the late 60s and introduced the world to such wonderful characters as The Werechicken of Petaluma (they raise a lot of chickens there), Five Dollar Bill O’Brady (who looked surprisingly like Abe Lincoln), Norton the Wonderbike and the Lesser Hoo Hoo.
He also produced the amazing Air Pirate Funnies back in '72, an underground comic that was shut down by the Dsny monolith for daring to satirize some of the characters like Mcky M**s*.
It’s worth hunting down the sadly out of print collections of his strips “Hear the Sound of My Feet Walking Drown The Sound of My Voice Talking” and “The Collective Unconscience of Odd Bodkins.”
Finding an “Air Pirate Funnies” or “Dan O’Neill’s Comics and Stories” is also a chore, but well worth it, IMHO.
The Far Side
Calvin and Hobbes
The Pirhana Club
Sherman’s Lagoon
For Better or Worse
Bizzaro
Dilbert
OLD Garfield
Foxtrot
Pibgorn
Pearls Before Swine
Li’l Abner reruns (on www.comics.com)
Luann
For Better or for Worse, eh?
My 300th post! Yesssss! Snug RULES! Yee-HAH! [Snug does the Snoopy dance]
Favorite comics that are no more:
Peanuts - Snoopy, coolest dog, ever.
Calvin & Hobbes - Calvin’s overly active imagination = best comic strip, ever.
Citizen Dog - This was fast becoming my favorite after Calvin & Hobbes stopped running, but it sadly stopped running a short year after I had discovered it.
Present Favorites:
Baby Blues - I laugh at it now, while I can.
Zits - Just getting those teenage years behind me, I think.
My all time favorite was Bloom County, followed by Calvin and Hobbes.
Currently, my favorite is Dilbert.
Dilbert in print.
Megatokyo online.
My two current favorites are both online:
Sluggy Freelance - http://www.sluggy.com
User Friendly - http://www.userfriendly.org
Both very silly and aimed mostly at computer professionals, or those who live and work with computer geeks.
If you pick up these comics, you have to go into the archives and start at the beginning. Both comics are multi-part long story lines with several years worth of comic history.
Userfriendly is my absolute favorite, but then, I am a former tech support geek and can laugh now at what was once painful…
I’ve also become addicted to the Scandal Sheet, thanks to the SDMB.
Sluggy rules - the “Fire and Rain” series of strips was phenominal.
** Garfield** always my absolute favorite 