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Best and Worst Comic Strips?

Posted on 03/21/2014 8:24:30 PM PDT by MNDude

In your opinion, what is the best comic strip to ever appear in newspapers (like Peanuts or whatever) and what is your most hated comic strip?


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To: doorgunner69

Yeah, Boondocks was nasty. Never did see what the point/relevance of the title was.


141 posted on 03/22/2014 6:06:32 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: alfa6

Finally, that has bugged me for years, so it was Buzz Sawyer and 1966.

Thanks for finding that.


142 posted on 03/22/2014 6:14:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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No problemo, I had to check it out myself just to be sure.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


143 posted on 03/22/2014 6:19:51 PM PDT by alfa6
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To: MNDude

New strips? I like Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan

Also Liberty Meadows by Frank Cho


144 posted on 03/22/2014 6:39:04 PM PDT by csvset
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To: ansel12
FYI - the Library of American comics might be worth a visit. Suggest www.libraryofamericancomics.com.

"Terry and the Pirates" started, if my memory serves, in the mid-late 1930s. The locale in WWII was often Burma with notable characters such as Madam Deal, a true original (aka the "Dragon Lady") - evil but exotic.

The artwork was superlative - best sketches of era warplenes around (e.g., B-25 with garden-house nose, and so forth).

This is way the "Steve Canyon" began, again IIRC.

Note that helps you.

145 posted on 03/23/2014 1:25:26 AM PDT by jamaksin
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The first public mention of the SEALs wasn’t the Steve Canyon comic strip as I had remembered, it was “Buz Sawyer” in 1966.

Here is an article from Time Magazine-1968

World: Unconventional Commandos
Friday, Jan. 12, 1968
Readers of Cartoonist Roy Crane’s comic strip “Buz Sawyer” were introduced back in 1966 to an outfit called the U.S. Navy Seals (for Sea, Air and Land), an elite bunch of commandos with which Buz performed deeds of derring-do in Viet Nam. It may have seemed like rousing fantasy to readers, but the fact was that just such an outfit was operating in Viet Nam—where its presence was one of the most closely kept secrets of the war.* Only now, in fact, when the Communists themselves have learned of the Seals’ presence the hard way, has the Navy begun to dis close some of their real adventures and reveal something about how they operate.
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,837651,00.html


146 posted on 04/18/2024 9:31:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12; Travis McGee

See post 146 about the first or one of the first public mention of the SEALs, and it was in a comic strip.


147 posted on 04/18/2024 9:34:57 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MNDude

Calvin and Hobbes. Hands down the best comic strip in the universe, ever. Nothing has come close.


148 posted on 04/18/2024 9:35:44 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
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To: Nik Naym

I just realized I replied to an undead thread,

Oops.


149 posted on 04/18/2024 9:48:05 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
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Not dead, it just took a break evidently.

A correction needed to be made.


150 posted on 04/18/2024 9:50:20 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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