Best and Worst Comic Strips?

[Danforth]

Senator Snort! Tnx for the memory! With that, bubbled up another Grin and Bear It standard, the Blowhard General with the HERO medal.

[Danforth]

Yes, some great strips were and are funny.

Dilbert is funny. Calvin and Hobbes were funny. The difference in their styles couldn’t be more stark, but as an unknown cartoonist, I tip my hat to both. Beyond them, 1950s Peanuts could be funny. Nancy and Henry were just so freaking strange, they could be funny too, like Smokey Stover.

[rednesss]

I have an autographed litho of this strip. One of the funniest cartoons of all times in my opinion.

[JouleZ]

Blondie

Dilbert

Pearls Before Swine - my favorite

Pickles

[MNDude]

Oh yes, I hate that comic too. It always shows that smug black kid with the hateful condescending scowl on his face.

[doorgunner69]

Sorry to hear it still exists........

[Kirkwood]

I liked BC, Peanuts, and Bloom County.
Far Side was the best single pane.

I won’t even mention the worst.

[NoCmpromiz]

Surprised that I saw Mallard Filmore mentioned only once in the best catagory...

But I sense universal disgust with Doonesbury. ;-)

[Cvengr]

[DemforBush]

I *love* XKCD. Great little strip.

[Secret Agent Man]

bloom county

calvin and hobbes

dilbert

[fieldmarshaldj]

“ACK !”

[fieldmarshaldj]

The current guy drawing it is highly patriotic and injects a lot of “country” into it.

[Secret Agent Man]

as Best...

[FredZarguna]

Agree mostly, except for one thing: if you're counting The Far Side as a "strip," it's the best ever.

[FredZarguna]

L'il Abner is the greatest actual "strip" comic of all time. The Far Side doesn't qualify as a "strip," it's one panel.

[latina4dubya]

my very favorite was, "For Better or Worse," and i was dismayed when Lynn Johnston retired about five years ago... and of course, Calvin and Hobbes... and BC...

i loathe Boondocks and Doonesbury...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Had to refresh my memory on “Boondocks.” The guy who drew it is a moonbat racist nutjob. It went defunct back in 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_McGruder

Larry Elder named an award after him for Black public people who say dumb nonsense.

[DemforBush]

My favorites:

Calvin and Hobbes - The gold standard, IMHO.

Far Side

Foxtrot

Peanuts

Red Meat - Surreal, but sometimes achingly funny comic you see in a lot of alternative press publications. I hate you Milkman Dan!

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My least favorites:

Dagwood

All of the Apartment 3G/Mary Worth type strips - I don’t like dramatic comic strips much.

This Modern World - vile ultra-lefty spew that you see in local alternative press publications, and on sites like DailyKos.

[FredZarguna]

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