# What comic strip would you like to see brought back from the grave? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652 "2000-05-27T00:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/1 "2000-05-27T00:11:58Z")
Some comics, like Calvin and Hobbes, Outland, Peanuts, etc. have little chance of being resurrected soon. Some, like Little Orphan Annie, Mickey Mouse, and the dreaded Mary Worth, have separate lives from their original artists. Others, like Dagwood, Hi & Lois, and Sally Forth get co-written/drawn or handed down or farmed out by the original cartoonist. Basically, it depends on who owns the rights and how much they want to cash in. Which comic would you ask for, \*[sub]back up[/sub] from [sup]the grave?[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/2 "2000-05-27T00:32:38Z")
**Pogo** (but it would truly be from the grave as only the original Walt Kelly could do it justice.) The funny **Doonesbury**. **The Far Side**. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/3 "2000-05-27T01:16:56Z")
Rex Morgan, M.D.? Judge Parker? ooooo…ooooo…I know I know . . . . . Brenda Starr! ---
**Author:** ![ConMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ConMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ConMan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/4 "2000-05-27T02:26:45Z")
In no particular order: The Far Side Bloom County Calvin & Hobbes ---
**Author:** ![Brunetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Brunetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunetter)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/5 "2000-05-27T02:37:16Z")
Without a doubt … Calvin and Hobbes! Wise, humourous, beautiful drawings, and the odd heartwrenching poem … capturing the spirit of childhood SO completely! I also agree that it would be nice to see some FUNNY Doonsebury comics again! How long’s it been, 15 years? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/6 "2000-05-27T02:47:05Z")
Two words: Bloom County. ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/7 "2000-05-27T02:52:00Z")
Doonesbury is **hilarious** still. Brenda Starr, unfortunatly, is still around. Sometimes I miss **Dondi** , but then I get back on my medication and that feeling goes away. ---
**Author:** ![L.Ron\_Hoover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@L.Ron\_Hoover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/L.Ron_Hoover)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/8 "2000-05-27T03:59:21Z")
Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes Bloom County (Penguin LUST!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Argeable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Argeable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argeable)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/9 "2000-05-27T04:12:09Z")
Undoubtedly, it’s Calvin and Hobbes. They totally rock. Of course, Far side was awesome too, but it couldn’t compare. I’m sure there are some others, but I am just a youngin… ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Greg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Greg)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/10 "2000-05-27T04:31:59Z")
Definitely Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes. Anybody know what Berke Breathed and Bill Watterson are doing these days? ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/11 "2000-05-27T04:44:19Z")
I’ll toss in my vote for Calvin & Hobbes and Bloom County also. I grew up on those and they were heads and shoulders above the rest of the 80s stuff. But I also want to give a shout out to Walt Kelly and Pogo. Nobody and I mean no **body** can write and drawn anything as witty, beautiful and great as he can. He is high up on my not too small list of Great Non-Pointy-Headed[sup]TM[/sup] artists! ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/12 "2000-05-27T05:29:11Z")
THE comic to bring back: Nancy. But you’d also have to bring back Ernie Bushmiller. No Plastinos, or Scotts, or whoever’s doing it this year. Ernie’s Nancy was one of the bizarrest, cleverest, and at the same time simplest comic strip ever. Many before me have commented on the 3 rocks, Sluggo’s speech problems, Fritzi’s lean, etc. etc. So I will just quote a comic. Now I pick up one of the few Nancy collections I own and just open to a random page: Frame 1: Nancy is standing next to Sluggo, who is sitting on a wood crate peering through a hole in a fence. A sign on the fence says “Ball Park”. “I see you bored a hole” says Nancy. “I bored TWO holes” replies Sluggo, pointing to another hole higher up in the wall. Frame 2: Nancy: “What is the other hole for?” Sluggo: “That’s for the seventh-inning stretch” * * * July 8th 1971. A later work, but pure Bushmiller. ---
**Author:** ![Mac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Mac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/13 "2000-05-27T05:45:21Z")
Hey let’s not forget! [http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/main.htm](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/main.htm) ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/14 "2000-05-27T13:14:26Z")
Odd Bodkins, yes definately Odd Bodkins. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/15 "2000-05-27T14:38:18Z")
Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side. Without them, I have no reason to read the comic pages anymore. ---
**Author:** ![UpperUS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a8b319/32.png) [@UpperUS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UpperUS)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/16 "2000-05-27T17:55:12Z")
Why didn’t anyone say **Fearless Fosdick**? Thathas to be the best strip ever. And it should be easy to draw, the guy had a square chin. ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@Me\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Joe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/17 "2000-05-27T18:23:34Z")
While “Bloom County” and “Calvin & Hobbes” were both great strips, I personally would love to see the ressurection of two REALLY old comic strips that were obvious inspirations to both Watterson and Breathed. “Krazy Kat” by (I think his name was)Walter Herriman was a surreal little strip about a cat who loved a mouse, and the mouse that hated his guts. (which i’d bet money inspired the idea for ‘Itchy & Scratchy’ on “The Simpsons.”) “Little Nemo in Slumberland” was a strip about a little boy (Little Nemo) with fantastical imaginative dreams and fantasies, much like Calvin. Both of these strips were amazing to look at, and if you see Krazy Kat, you can see how Berke Breathed was “inspired” to create Outland. I’ve been trying with no luck to find anthology books of either of these strips. Alas, while they always appear in books about “the history of comics” no publisher has had the bright idea to do a book specifically about them… ---
**Author:** ![blank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blank)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/18 "2000-05-27T18:27:58Z")
I’d go with Li’l Abner. Not the political stuff, but he was the only artist that drew pretty women and buff men and scrawny old coots. Nobody has done that since. I think there’s a real opportunity for some artist. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/19 "2000-05-27T20:53:56Z")
Bill the cat for president!!! I have a whole collection of Opus stuffed animals. If my hubby would have had his way our son Dylan would be Calvin, and it’s bad enuff that he carries a Tigger everywhere. Oh, Goddess help me I can see it now! On our van we have a Calvin and Hobbes sticker and my son insists that it is Dylan and Tigger. Favorite ones are the ones with the snowmen! And I know we will have our own troubles with babysitters! The Far Side rocks! Very twisted! ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652/20 "2000-05-27T21:45:31Z")
Odd Bodkins and Pogo _sigh_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-strip-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-from-the-grave/20652.md?page=2)