I like “Sherman’s Lagoon” and “The Brilliant mind of Edison Lee”.
Bizarro: great art, odd sense of humor.
Dick Tracy is having a good run these days: nice art, and clever writing. They’re having fun, right now, with Little Orphan Annie as a guest character. :eek:
Tumbleweeds went into a tailspin some decades ago, and then pulled out of it – a minor miracle – and is, today, one of my very faves.
A couple of blokes have taken up B.C. after Jonny Hart’s passing, and they’re doing pretty well with it.
If you’ll permit a web-comic, Tom the Dancing Bug is piercingly good satire, some of the best writing after XKCD and Dilbert.
This thread is probably best suited to Cafe Society. I’ve relocated it.
Maakies!
I like Luann (this one gets so many comments every day, its not funny, people are really passionate about it).
Pearls Before Swine.
Daddy’s Home.
The Dinette Set (I hate-read this one, the characters are so maddening).
Get Fuzzy (sadly in re-runs, I don’t know what the deal is. But its great.)
Tom the Dancing Bug is in print in The Washington Post, isn’t it? Weekly, in the Weekend section?
I have grandkids, so I sort of enjoy seeing the miscomprehensions and kid hangups on "Cul de Sac’ (reruns?). Likewise, being that age, we like Pickles and relate to it a lot.
OK, sit down. Don’t drink or eat while you read this. Ready? Bloom County Returns! Have no idea if it will be daily again or what, but what great news!
Do they have to be fresh comic strips, because we’re in a Golden Age of classic strip reprints. The complete run of Segar’s Thimble Theateris available in 6 deluxe hardcover volumes.
eta to clarify: the complete run of Thimble Theater starring Popeye- he ran it for something like 10 years prior to Popeye’s introduction.
In the paper, Non Sequiter and Luann are my two go-to’s.
On-line, Schlock Mercenary, Girl Genius, and Stand Still, Stay Silent are the three I follw closely.
The Argyle Sweater (the best single panel since “The Far Side”) and Pearls Before Swine.
Among contemporary comic strips, I read most of them, but the ones I go to first are:
9 Chickweed Lane (I like a cartoonist who isn’t afraid to use polysyllabic words)
Frazz (and literary references)
Frank and Ernest (and horrible puns)
Pearls Before Swine (and even more horrible puns.)
Luann (Great cast of characters.)
Zits (Same here.)
Stone Soup (And here.)
Brewster Rockit (I love parodies of science fiction)
Rip Haywire (and adventure stories.)
My all-time favorites, though, are Peanuts (for the humor), Terry and the Pirates (pre-1947 only, for the adventure), and Mary Perkins On Stage (for the drama… and all three for the well-defined characters).
Since nobody has mentioned the best one yet, here’s Monty.
I’ve been seeing those panels in pirated form for years, but never knew the source.
Reruns (2007, from the date on them) on weekdays, but new ones on Sundays. No, I don’t know why either.
Cul-De-Sac’s (BTW, the title refers to the name of the community, not that the main family’s house is on a cul de sac) author Richard Thompson developed Parkinson’s Disease, and in mid-2012, announced that it was just too hard to keep drawing the strip. He had intended to draw one final strip, in September, 2012, but discovered that his health had deteriorated to the point where he couldn’t do it, so he chose to repeat his favorite Sunday strip as the finale.
The cartoonist’s style reminds me of Mad Magazine’s Don Martin.
The ones that get read every day(ish)(and haven’t been mentioned yet):
Menage a 3
Least I Could Do
Full Frontal Nerdity