# Recommend good comic strips

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988>\
**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:** 4\
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**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, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/21 "2015-07-13T22:58:12Z")

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Nobody’s mentioned Tank McNamara. The “Doonesbury of Sports,” a clever, fun, witty, and highly educational strip. I’ve learned more about sports from Tank than from any other source…or all other sources combined!

It’s worth studying for its blend of savagery…and heartfelt gentleness.

(Yikes! I had not known that Jeff Millar, the writer, had passed away in '12. Bill Hinds, the artist, has been doing the writing too since then.)

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/22 "2015-07-13T23:25:32Z")

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Goon show reply:

“(fighting on radio) Biff, bam, zowie.” “Where did you learn to fight?”  
“In a comic strip.” “Have you ever seen a comic strip?”  
“Only in a Turkish bath.”

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**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 14, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/23 "2015-07-14T04:40:02Z")

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> [@Cartoonacy](#):
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> 9 Chickweed Lane (I like a cartoonist who isn’t afraid to use polysyllabic words)

I have mixed feelings about this one. It’s beautifully drawn and I like interactions between very intelligent characters. I don’t like self-indulgent storytellers who take a story that could be wrapped up in two weeks and stretch it out for six months. I don’t like unnamed characters from before I started reading the strip popping up, with no explanation of who they are, and carrying on like I’m supposed to know them and their backstory. And when you’re writing what’s supposed to be a witty sex farce, I really hate the use of antiquated euphemisms. Still, it’s one of only five strips I make a point of reading every day. And I can’t really respect Edda for not moving on from that pansy Amos.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-good-comic-strips/724988/24 "2015-07-14T06:42:13Z")

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Some of my favorite on-line comics:

[Buni](http://www.bunicomic.com/)

[Medium Large](http://www.medium-large.com/) - written by Francesco Marciuliano, the same guy who does the Sally Forth newspaper comic. The Sally Forth strips show up on the Medium Large blog every week.

[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal](http://www.smbc-comics.com/)

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