# Recommend good comic strips **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988 "2015-07-12T23:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/race_to_the_bottom)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/1 "2015-07-12T23:35:19Z")
I like “Sherman’s Lagoon” and “The Brilliant mind of Edison Lee”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/2 "2015-07-13T01:00:32Z")
[Bizarro](http://bizarro.com/): great art, odd sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/3 "2015-07-13T01:05:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/4 "2015-07-13T02:18:59Z")
This thread is probably best suited to Cafe Society. I’ve relocated it. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/5 "2015-07-13T10:59:01Z")
[Achewood](http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12272001), sadly not currently doing new ones. [Wigu](http://overcompensating.com/adventures/) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/6 "2015-07-13T11:09:31Z")
Maakies! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/7 "2015-07-13T13:16:30Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/8 "2015-07-13T13:42:23Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > If you’ll permit a web-comic, Tom the Dancing Bug is piercingly good satire, some of the best writing after XKCD and Dilbert. **Tom the Dancing Bug** is in print in The Washington Post, isn’t it? Weekly, in the Weekend section? ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/9 "2015-07-13T13:45:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/10 "2015-07-13T13:45:36Z")
OK, sit down. Don’t drink or eat while you read this. Ready? [Bloom County Returns!](http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026968352) Have no idea if it will be daily again or what, but what great news! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/11 "2015-07-13T13:56:19Z")
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 Theater](http://www.amazon.com/Popeye-Vol-Yam-What/dp/1560977795/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1436795478&sr=8-11&keywords=popeye&pebp=1436795482960&perid=10C3B384TTCKMD6KTHEZ)is 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/12 "2015-07-13T14:06:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/13 "2015-07-13T14:38:19Z")
[The Argyle Sweater](http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater) (the best single panel since “The Far Side”) and Pearls Before Swine. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/14 "2015-07-13T17:38:04Z")
[Tundra](http://www.tundracomics.com/), an Alaskan strip, can be pretty funny, especially the older stuff. [Sample](http://tundracomics.com/images/SAMPLESUNDAY2.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/15 "2015-07-13T18:13:24Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/16 "2015-07-13T18:22:27Z")
Since nobody has mentioned the best one yet, here’s [Monty](http://www.gocomics.com/monty/2015/07/05). ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/17 "2015-07-13T18:37:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [Tundra](http://www.tundracomics.com/), an Alaskan strip, can be pretty funny, especially the older stuff. [Sample](http://tundracomics.com/images/SAMPLESUNDAY2.jpg). I’ve been seeing those panels in pirated form for years, but never knew the source. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/18 "2015-07-13T19:13:32Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Get Fuzzy (sadly in re-runs, I don’t know what the deal is. But its great.) Reruns (2007, from the date on them) on weekdays, but new ones on Sundays. No, I don’t know why either. > [@crucible](#): > > I have grandkids, so I sort of enjoy seeing the miscomprehensions and kid hangups on "Cul de Sac’ (reruns?). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/19 "2015-07-13T20:33:50Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I’ve been seeing those panels in pirated form for years, but never knew the source. The cartoonist’s style reminds me of Mad Magazine’s Don Martin. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/20 "2015-07-13T20:34:28Z")
The ones that get read every day(ish)(and haven’t been mentioned yet): Menage a 3 Least I Could Do Full Frontal Nerdity [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988.md?page=2)