# Favorite comic strip?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 3, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137 "2003-04-03T04:30:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Nimsay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimsay)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/1 "2003-04-03T04:30:11Z")
What’s your favorite comic strip? I love Pearls Before Swine by _Stephen Pastis_
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### Author:  [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/2 "2003-04-03T04:35:09Z")
“Get Fuzzy”. I know cats with that attitude.
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### Author:  [@Dana27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dana27)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/3 "2003-04-03T04:41:44Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/4 "2003-04-03T05:09:12Z")
Mr. Boffo
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### Author:  [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/5 "2003-04-03T05:13:56Z")
It would have to be **Doonesbury** right now, although **Calvin and Hobbes** was good while it lasted.
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### Author:  [@djxiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djxiii)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/6 "2003-04-03T05:33:27Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Lennon\_Lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lennon_Lives)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/7 "2003-04-03T05:41:06Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/8 "2003-04-03T05:43:40Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/9 "2003-04-03T06:37:40Z")
Far Side - Best Comic Ever
Duplex - Best currently running comic
Penny Arcade - Best online Comic
Family Circus - WORST COMIC EVER!!!
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### Author:  [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/10 "2003-04-03T06:41:16Z")
**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 D_sn_y monolith for daring to satirize some of the characters like M_ck_y 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.
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### Author:  [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/11 "2003-04-03T06:54:17Z")
**The Far Side**
**Calvin and Hobbes**
**The Pirhana Club**
**Sherman’s Lagoon**
**For Better or Worse**
**Bizzaro**
**Dilbert**
OLD **Garfield**
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/12 "2003-04-03T07:53:20Z")
**Foxtrot**
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### Author:  [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/13 "2003-04-03T08:14:18Z")
Pibgorn
Pearls Before Swine
Li’l Abner reruns (on [www.comics.com](http://www.comics.com))
Luann
For Better or for Worse, eh?
My 300th post! Yesssss! Snug RULES! Yee-HAH! [Snug does the Snoopy dance]
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### Author:  [@Latino\_Yoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latino_Yoshi)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/14 "2003-04-03T08:14:20Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Badge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badge)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/15 "2003-04-03T09:25:14Z")
My all time favorite was Bloom County, followed by Calvin and Hobbes.
Currently, my favorite is Dilbert.
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### Author:  [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/16 "2003-04-03T10:18:23Z")
Dilbert in print.
[Megatokyo](http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=1) online.
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### Author:  [@NameAlreadyTaken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NameAlreadyTaken)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/17 "2003-04-03T13:18:46Z")
My two current favorites are both online:
Sluggy Freelance - [http://www.sluggy.com](http://www.sluggy.com)
User Friendly - [http://www.userfriendly.org](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.
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### Author:  [@Woeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Woeg)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/18 "2003-04-03T13:46:25Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/19 "2003-04-03T13:52:44Z")
Sluggy rules - the “Fire and Rain” series of strips was phenominal.
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### Author:  [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comic-strip/166137/20 "2003-04-03T13:53:39Z")
\*\* Garfield\*\* always my absolute favorite 🙂
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