# The most attractive women in the comics/cartoons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892 "2016-11-13T20:32:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/81 "2016-11-19T00:38:33Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Well, consider it from Annie’s point of view. You mean, like, her spectacular cleavage? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/82 "2016-11-19T00:39:34Z")
“Little Annie Fanny” is an astonishing bit of comic strip history because of Harvey Kurtzmann’s involvement, the quality of the writing, and the fact that every panel was hand-painted. Nobody else devoted that much care and love to a comic strip. The compilations are well worth buying. Kudos to Hefner for funding it for so long. Annie herself, while charming, is not my dream girl. A walking Kurtzmann satiric joke: eye-popping chest, but skimpy elsewhere. As Louis Armstrong would have said, “All that meat and no potatoes.” In reverse. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/83 "2016-11-19T01:09:49Z")
1. Lois Griffen 2. Luanne’s brother’s girlfriend. Drawn to look like a bimbo sexpot but as I recall, she was a pretty competent individual. Haven’t read the strip for years. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/84 "2016-11-19T01:21:26Z")
I always thought Luanne on _ **King of the Hill** _ was pretty hot! ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/85 "2016-11-19T06:28:35Z")
Another vote for Brandy of Liberty Meadows. I would walk a mile in the snow just to be able to stand barefoot in her shit. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/86 "2016-11-19T06:42:56Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I considered it. Oddly, Frankenhoff’s 100 SEXIEST WOMEN IN COMICS includes Betty and Veronica, but not Melody…whose main schtick was being so incredibly sexy that boys’ eyeballs did the Warner Bros cartoon thing when she sashayed past in her miniskirts. Do you mean the way the “W-B” shield crashed forward in the intro to the cartoon _Lumber Jack Rabbit?_ :eek: I have to wonder also just what Betty’s mother looked like when _she_ was a teenager. She’s quite a beauty for the mother of a teenage girl… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/87 "2016-11-19T06:44:29Z")
No love for Modesty Blaise? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/88 "2016-11-20T19:47:10Z")
Definitely love the Modesty Blaise strips and novels, and, yes, she’s very attractive, in a kind of “classical statuary” way. Several of the stories, in fact, involve people making statues or paintings with her as the model. I think the problem, perhaps, here, for this thread, is that she’s a “realistic” paragon, and can’t compete with the “supernormal releasers” such as Daisy Mae Yokum or Holli Would. Modesty Blaise is portrayed a “real.” She’s got scars. (As for personality, she’s very high on the list. She is really easy to get along with. Just don’t threaten anyone she loves.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/89 "2016-11-20T21:46:26Z")
In the “newspaper comic strip mother” category, I think it’s tough to top Jill, from [The Pajama Diaries](http://pajamadiaries.com/). It’s a running gag in the strip that her husband is [always in the mood](http://pajamadiaries.com/comics/november-17-2016/)… which I find completely unsurprising. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/90 "2016-11-22T05:25:39Z")
What was that comic that ran in _Penthouse_ magazine? The busty, raven-haired lesbian and her busty, blond lesbian assistant? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/91 "2016-11-22T05:40:03Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > No love for Modesty Blaise? I thought about her, but I encountered her through the books first. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2016, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/92 "2016-11-22T05:56:53Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Nobody else devoted that much care and love to a comic strip. Except maybe Winsor McCay. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/93 "2016-11-22T06:04:59Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > What was that comic that ran in _Penthouse_ magazine? The busty, raven-haired lesbian and her busty, blond lesbian assistant? That was “Oh, Wicked Wanda!” She was apparently intended as a direct opposite of Little Annie Fanny. Nothing attractive or appealing about her, as far as I am concerned. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/94 "2016-11-22T06:33:17Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Definitely love the Modesty Blaise strips and novels, and, yes, she’s very attractive, in a kind of “classical statuary” way. Several of the stories, in fact, involve people making statues or paintings with her as the model. > > I think the problem, perhaps, here, for this thread, is that she’s a “realistic” paragon, and can’t compete with the “supernormal releasers” such as Daisy Mae Yokum or Holli Would. Modesty Blaise is portrayed a “real.” She’s got scars. > > (As for personality, she’s very high on the list. She is really easy to get along with. Just don’t threaten anyone she loves.) > [@Czarcasm](#): > > I thought about her, but I encountered her through the books first. This is the first I’ve heard about any novels. I know her through the _Bangkok Post_ newspaper, which used to run the strip. There was a huge outcry when they dropped it. > [@dougie\_monty](#): > > That was “Oh, Wicked Wanda!” She was apparently intended as a direct opposite of Little Annie Fanny. Nothing attractive or appealing about her, as far as I am concerned. :mad: Oh yeah. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/95 "2016-11-22T10:24:59Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > This is the first I’ve heard about any novels. I know her through the _Bangkok Post_ newspaper, which used to run the strip. There was a huge outcry when they dropped it. [http://www.plexmx.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Modesty-Blaise-Pulp-Fiction.jpg](http://www.plexmx.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Modesty-Blaise-Pulp-Fiction.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/96 "2016-11-22T14:14:18Z")
[I just got why the artist’s name is Wally Wood](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_tOfYtAKeDc/TYSKQeHuNPI/AAAAAAAAQE0/JNHpTu5mt8Q/s1600/Mad%2B005%2BWally%2BWood%2B%2B004.jpg) Kids bought these??? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/97 "2016-11-22T15:29:19Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > [I just got why the artist’s name is Wally Wood](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_tOfYtAKeDc/TYSKQeHuNPI/AAAAAAAAQE0/JNHpTu5mt8Q/s1600/Mad%2B005%2BWally%2BWood%2B%2B004.jpg) > > Kids bought these??? Oh, Wally Wood did stuff that was _definitely_ not for kids. His comic _Sally Forth_, for instance, was _very_ different from the present-day newspaper strip of the same name! NSFW: [http://www.heavymetal.com/v2/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/sally-forth-67-comicartfans-com.jpg](http://www.heavymetal.com/v2/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/sally-forth-67-comicartfans-com.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/98 "2016-11-23T02:48:50Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > That was “Oh, Wicked Wanda!” She was apparently intended as a direct opposite of Little Annie Fanny. Nothing attractive or appealing about her, as far as I am concerned. :mad: Well, physically, she’s beautiful. Her personality is depraved to the nth degree, but her body would cause a Bishop to kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Same for Candyfloss: few of us could survive ten minutes in her company, but, dayum, she’s pretty! > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > This is the first I’ve heard about any novels. I know her through the _Bangkok Post_ newspaper, which used to run the strip. There was a huge outcry when they dropped it. . . . Peter O’Donnell wrote [a series of novels about Modesty](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40834-modesty-blaise), and they’re pretty good. A bit formulaic, and a bit purple, but within acceptable limits. They’re generally clever and witty, and quite fairly comparable to the James Bond novels. (Two of the books are actually collections of stories, and these are actually my favorites.) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/99 "2016-11-23T11:35:38Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > [I just got why the artist’s name is Wally Wood](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_tOfYtAKeDc/TYSKQeHuNPI/AAAAAAAAQE0/JNHpTu5mt8Q/s1600/Mad%2B005%2BWally%2BWood%2B%2B004.jpg) > > Kids bought these??? Well that page was from the original version of MAD. Wallace Wood was a main artist at EC. He was also later popularly credited with “developing” Power Girl’s trademark, um, visual feature. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892/100 "2016-11-23T15:37:43Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Well, physically, she’s beautiful. Her personality is depraved to the nth degree, but her body would cause a Bishop to kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Same for Candyfloss: few of us could survive ten minutes in her company but, dayum, she’s pretty! To paraphrase Forrest Gump, pretty is as pretty does. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-attractive-women-in-the-comics-cartoons/771892.md?page=6)