Dick Tracy
The Phantom
Safe Havens
Sally Forth
Judge Parker
Mutts
If we’re including webcomics, also:
JL8
Questionable Content
another vote for Pearls Before Swine. the ones where they work in a bad pun and the last panel is the characters threatening to hurt the author/artist usually get a chuckle out of me. Like this one.
I loved this one too.
Any love out there for Daddy Daze?
It’s a quirky, charming little strip about Paul, the (amicably) divorced dad of one-year-old Angus. He shares custody with his ex. Angus’ vocabulary consists of three words, “Ma”, “Da” (the first two pretty self-explanatory), and “Ba”. “Ba” makes up the majority of his speech. Yet somehow, Paul is able to translate Angus’ “ba’s” into complex sentences–and he’s on the money, since, like The Doctor, he appears to speak baby.
Pearls Before Swine
Zits
Arlo & Janis
Baby Blues
Non Sequitur
Speed Bump
Yes, Girl Genius is consistently excellent.
Any lovers of In Security around? The trip has been running about three years, and is erratically-written but always features magnificent art.
KneadToKnow, so you’re the one who likes Mutts! I knew there had to be someone somewhere who did!
:smack: I forgot to mention Mutts on my list, too! I love Earl and Mooch!!
Add me to the people who like the puns in PBS (that’s Pearls Before Swine, not a public broadcaster).
Up 'til recently, I subscribed to the local paper. Because of circumstances I don’t want to go into here, I stopped reading it earlier this year. Most of the comics I used to read, I stopped reading. They just weren’t worth going out of my way to read. But I still follow PBS, Non Sequitur, and Breaking Cat News on GoComics. One other that I did like was Baby Blues, so I better find it on-line (and thanks to people upthread who reminded me of it.)
In webcomics, I tried to get people interested in Sleepless Domain in a different thread, but found no takers. Shame.
Another webcomic I read is somewhat unusual: Scandinavia and the World. What’s unusual is that the “characters” are stereotypes representing countries, rather than individuals[sup]1[/sup]. The main characters are, of course, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, but there’s representatives of many other countries and some subnational regions. Sometimes they “reenact” historical events, otherwise things seen in the news.
[sup]1[/sup] There’s one other webcomic that does this, but I can’t remember its name. It’s about WWII, written by a Japanese. I don’t read it, just heard about it.
Dick Tracy.
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
YESH!
That would be Hetalia.
I don’t read the comics regularly, but when I do, not only do I like Mutts, but also Rose is Rose.
I love Off the Mark. A recent favorite.
Luann. I’m still waiting for Gunther and Tiffany to do the nasty.
Blondie. Just because I’ve always read it.
Prince Valiant, though the current story line bores me shitless.
Lio. Something funny about a kid with such a interest in gory and gruesome things.
Not from the papers, but Tom Tomorrow is great political satire.
From the Washington Post (the only comics I am exposed to without any effort), my faves are:
Brewster Rockitt (consistently hilarious)
Lio (weird kid television network, ha!)
Sally Forth (cleverly surreal; I started a thread on it last year)
Pearls Before Swine (all around good)
Big Nate (I just really like the kid)
Dilbert (still funny and on point)
There are others I read, but the above are the gems.
Rose Is Rose can be surprisingly risque.
I like most Mutts very much, but one not yet mentioned I don’t think is Red and Rover. It’s not always obvious but it takes place in the 60s – a boy and his dog. It’s the best replacement for Calvin I’ve seen though certainly not up to that level.
I mentioned Red and Rover. I’ve never been quite clear on whether it’s actually set in the past, or if it just deals with timeless subject matter (a boy playing with his dog) that could be set at any time. It almost never makes me laugh out loud, but it almost always makes me smile.
As for Mutts, occasionally they have a joke that’s funny… the first time. But after they tell the same joke again five more times over the course of the week, it gets kind of old. Or when they have a whole week of nothing but quotes from dead poets, or a whole week of “You should adopt me because I’m cute”.
I really like Cleats as well, but it’s been in reruns since 2010.
It’s more than sometimes; the daily Bizarro is done by Wayno. Dan Piraro only does the Sunday strips.
Several people have mentioned Sally Forth. I’ll agree with that one and add that Francesco Marciuliano, the author of Sally Forth, has a site called Medium Large where he will occasionally do one-off strips that are good.
Arlo and Janis, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Retail, Candorville, The Knight Life.