Best and Worst Comic Strips?

[HangnJudge]

XKCD

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Best - pearls Before Swine

Worst - where to begin...

[cuban leaf]

Best: Calvin and Hobbes.

Worst: The one with that ridiculous bald guy in a clown suit with the slightly pointy head. I think it’s ziggy. I really tried to get it, but I never did.

[laweeks]

Best: BC

Worst: Doonesbury

[PAR35]

Best (hard to rank)
Pogo
BC
Bloom County (and its Progeny)
Wizard of Id
Far Side
Calvin & Hobbs
Mallard Filmore
Dilbert

Worst:
Doonsbury

Distant 2nd - Mary Worthless. And what was the one about high school jocks?

[pa_dweller]

Doonesbury is repugnant. Blondie - the same thing for fifty years? Really?

Thumbs up: Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, the old B.C., Foxtrot. Close to Home was good.

New Favorite: Baby Blues

[cuban leaf]

Extra-Special Mention- Worst: THIS MODERN WORLD

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That’s a blast from the past. I used to read it in The Rocket in Seattle. It was never funny and way too heavy handed with it’s political message. It was along the lines of “why is George bush stupid? Because he’s a republican, HAHAHAHA!!!”

Huh?

[HangnJudge]

Honorable mention
Prickly City

http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2014/03/19#.Uy0OFCe9KSN

[yarddog]

I remember my Mother telling me her favorite comic strip when she was a kid was “The Katzenjammer Kids”. She was born in 1918. They lived in Florida but her father subscribed to the “Montgomery Advertiser”.

I think my favorite was BC. I also liked Alley Oop, “Lil Abner” and “Our Boarding House”.

[Migraine]

Wizard of Id = best

Doonesbury = worst

[MNDude]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Cathy as worst yet.

[wideminded]

No one has mentioned Nancy. That was in a class by itself. I wasn't going to say this but I used to think that the cartoonist might be retarded. But I don't feel so bad after reading on Wikipedia that a friend once called him "a moron on an acid trip".

[KarlInOhio]

Best: Bloom County, with a special gold star award for this comic strip decades before Our Dear Reader: http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=82415

Other greats: Dilbert, Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes

Worst: This Modern World or anything by Ted Rall. Doonesbury is mild compared to these idiots.

Honorable mentions for extreme unfunniness: Henry and Nancy. Do these strips even exist anymore?

[razorback-bert]

Pogo, Calvin and Hobbes best

Nowdays. I don’t read the papers.

[Dogbert41]

I bought two Soviet cats to keep me company over there. Named one, “Bill” and the other “Opus”. And yes, they looked like them! Bill was insane!

I love Dilbert, duh! Screen name was almost ratbert...

Far Side
Calvin and Hobbs
Hagar
Beetle Bailey

When I was a little boy, I used to love reading these cartoon books from the 60s about Senator Snort and other stuff from Grin and Bear It.

[Danforth]

My Best?

Our Boarding House with Major Hoople
Bringing Up Father (Maggy & Jiggs)
Flash Gordon
Little Nemo
Pogo
Calvin & Hobbes
Steve Canyon

Worst
open the nearest bird cage liner

Thing about syndicated strips is, they’re SUPPOSED to be the same thing every day, more or less. Newspaper comics have always been a kind of OCD ritual, a daily fix of bemusing fixed points in a chaotic world. Some cartoonists do it with breathtaking style, other sophisticated and subtle humor, others with characters that look in their underwear and pull faces. Don’t really matter. Most comic fans like a mix of these constants. Funnies, for me, were almost never funny. But they were fascinating as hell, especially the ones that used to be popular, and reflect old times and lost worlds, like Our Boarding House.
Egad! If I wanted funny, I read Mag Magazine.

[warsaw44]

Best would have to be Calvin and Hobbes.

I do like Arlo and Janis, Big Nate, Luann, Jump Start, Ham Shears, Scary Gary, Pearls before Swine.

Sometime I read the old Peanuts cartoons which I grew up on.

[drew]

All time worst: For Better or For Worse.

[RegulatorCountry]

Best: Dilbert, The Far Side.

[doorgunner69]

Had to go look it up, as it used to piss me off so much;

The hate negro comic strip was called "Boondocks"

The hatred from that strip was palpable. It went away about the time I stopped reading print. Hopefully the writer had a stroke from all his hate.

Why that name, who knows, since inner city black kids are not much for the real boondocks, with all those creepy and slithering things out there.