You’ve never heard of Kliban Cats? Climb out from under that rock and into the sun! 
Anyone who doesn’t understand that all modern comic strips are derivative of Maggie and Jiggs is a non-sentient consuming dolt.
Note the obvious similarities between Maggie and Marge Simpson.
Except that the title of the thread in question, if taken non-rhetorically, was specifically asking about ranking.
OMG! I think I love you! I have been looking for this cartoon since I was a kid, when I saw it in an issue of Punch magazine. Assuming it’s the one with the two horrifying critters running down the street while one woman says that to another. Now I just need to find a copy of it.
Well, there’s this version of it I picked up years ago - probably still in a comic box somewhere!
Of course, these guys are all posers at the feet of Gibert Shelton, creator of F. Frederick Skitty. 
Nonsense! It’s neck and neck for Edward Gorey and Chas Adams to claim the “Everybody Else Is Ripping Me Off” award. Of course, they stole it from “Terry and the Pirates” so it’s pretty much moot by now of course. Then again, “Terry” is blatantly derivative of Cruikshank, who stole it from Hogarth who was inspired after a visit to Lascaux…
Psht, might as well just give up–it’s so difficult to be a purist aesthete these days. :rolleyes:
Yes! That’s it! And much Googling failed to turn up an image. It’s not on the official Gahan Wilson website, alas.
Well, the Far Side was alright but anyone who thinks it even approaches what Bill Watterson achieved with Calvin and Hobbes is a total simpleton.
Bill Watterson was OK, but anyone who think it even comes within spitting distance with what Bill Keane achieved with Family Circus, well, you’re a syphilis-ridden compulsively-masturbating drooling spider monkey with a major head injury. The only one who came even close was Johnny Hart, but only when he made strips that implied Jews went to hell for not worshiping a guy that wasn’t even born yet during the time frame of the strip. Some of Jack Chick’s work is pretty good too.
When I was a kid, and my dad was stationed in a town where the Family Circus did not appear in the paper, my grandfather would cut them out and mail them to us. And people wonder why I’m warped.
Re the OP: I don’t mind a bit if lissener wants to think Kliban was better than Larson, or even if he wants to think that Larson was derivative of Kliban. It’s no skin off my nose. It’s the supercilious, anybody who doesn’t agree with me is blind or stupid or both manner in which he does so that grates on my last nerve.
Wow, he’s an expert on cartoons as well?
Who knew.
But, not on getting his bills paid on time. Of course, that’s not his fault.
Not for lissener.
I think this is a big part of lissener’s problem. He has a desperate need for respect, but, quite pathetically, seems quite unable to understand how to earn it.
This is really classic lissener. He not only asserts that his opinion is the only possible valid one, he also accuses anyone who disagrees with him of calling him a liar.
Lissener is the only poster I have ever pitted. His behavior in that thread made me think that he is seriously delusional, as well as being one of the Board’s biggest assholes.
But … A Dope without lissener would be like a planet Earth without poverty. And really, WHO would want that, hmmm? :dubious:
After some very early negative interactions with him, I’ve learned how to tolerate his antics. Sometimes, ya just gotta ignore them. Other times, look on it as the high art of dark comedy. And, every now and then, especially when spews are directed personally at you, call him on it.
Save the lissener.
Save the Dope.
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Looking at a few random samples, I find his work cute but not especially humorous and the similarity to Larson’s work is somewhat superficial.
That site isn’t really a good introduction to Kliban. His cat stuff (which seems to be the focus of that website) was pretty mainstream, cutesy-type stuff that made him a lot of money, but most of his comic output was significantly darker and stranger than Larson.
One thing I DON’T do is follow people around dragging old grudges, presenting my amateur and remotely arrived at psychological opinions, Colibri. Especially since, your bizarre dismissal of my copious authoritative cites notwithstanding, you were wrong in the facts of the case you still hold so close to your heart. So while the object of the word “delusional,” as you–again, amateurishly–bandy it about in this *yearlong *discussion is not valid, perhaps the word itself is not inappropriate in the discussion itself. Especially considering your bizarre mischaracterization of the discussion you seem still to chew over during your long sleepless nights. I hope you find your way to peace soon, Colibri.
A Pit without an exceedingly lame pitting of lissener is like Paris Hilton without ass herpes, and who wants THAT?
I’m a Kliban, Larson AND Bill Watterson fan (especially Larson though). My husband had some Kliban sheets when we met. They’re old old old and very tatterred now and we haven’t used them for years, but I can’t bring myself to throw them away.