This strip is the lamest of C&H imitators, IMHO.
Posted on 10/08/2005 11:52:46 PM PDT by E Rocc
-Eric
You need to be checking out Day by Day if you are not.
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Default.aspx
Right up there, but in a single-panel format, is "Far Side." Those years we had both C & H and FS running at the same time were golden.
We have the complete series. My children love C and H and so do I. It stands the test of time. And the parents always win.
This strip is the lamest of C&H imitators, IMHO.
What good is wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody asks to see them?
I was about to post when my cat brought in a live bat and turned it loose in the room.
I agree that Calvin and Hobbes was a delightful interlude, but I DON'T agree with the author's premise that "Prickly City" is merely a "right wing" diatribe. Perhaps the author doesn't "get" political humor, of which "Day by Day" by Chris Muir is THE best and "Prickly City" is also wonderful (even "Get Fuzzy" has had some hilarious political overtones). Prickly City doesn't have the same style as C & H and doesn't pretend to do so. I understand the author's dilemma: the left takes awhile to get the joke unless President Bush is the punchline. In light of that, my new tag (below) really applies to the left.
Hands down my favorite comic strip of all time.
Calvin, Pogo, Bloom County, and Far Side are in a catagory of their own. I have my favorites in todays paper but the great stuff ain't there.
Don't forget 'Shoe"
There are some very good strips today but what is needed are strips that are consistently funny. C&H was funny and insightful at the same time, as was Bloom County. I'll cut the new guys some slack though. With a daily deadline to meet you will have a few off days.
some of my favorites.
Non Seqitur: Leans left but usually funny and fairly well drawn with interesting characters
Bob The Squirrel
I just found this strip recently and I think it's quite good. Lots of potential and some really funny individual strips. I think it will develop into a great one.
Pearls Before Swine:
Pastis is one twisted guy but I identify with Rat's cynicism and I work with a bunch of people who are as clueless as Pig is.
And he's not afraid of taking a shot at other comics.
And, of course, Monty. How can you not like a strip with an alien spy who is on earth to mine dairy products, a talking chimp, and a beer swilling neighbor with a talking bird?
The excellence and originality of Watterson's work becomes clearer when it's juxtaposed with a derivative strip such as Scott Stantis' "Prickly City." ... "Prickly City," Winslow the coyote often has no legs; his lumpy body just sits on his puffy feet. Carmen's scribbly, misshapen lips appear on the bottom or the side of her blobby cranium, like a Mrs. Potato Head gone wrong. More significantly, Winslow and Carmen have no personalities: They're ciphers who exist to promulgate Stantis' right-wing diatribes.
With this glowing review...
The humor and calligraphic drawing in "Frazz" reflect Watterson's influence, but the strip doesn't feel like a pallid imitation. Songwriter-turned-elementary school janitor Edwin "Frazz" Frazier often plays Hobbes to precocious student Caulfield's Calvin... Mallett's characters have real personalities. The friendship between Frazz and Caulfield isn't just a plot contrivance: They love to read and play tricks on the redoubtable Mrs. Olsen. When Frazz complains about gas-guzzling SUVs, it's because he's an enthusiastic runner and cyclist, not a spokesman for a political agenda.
It's nice to know that, even in the microcosm of the funny pages, liberals are still better then conservatives. /gag
Memories are short around here. Calvin and Hobbes was excellent, but there are others in that same rank.
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