Posted on 11/08/2005 10:56:27 PM PST by Lorianne
Edited on 11/09/2005 5:29:39 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Ten years ago Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, left newspaper cartooning for painting. Since then, no new comic strip has matched the quality, longevity, or cultural dominance of Watterson's daily drawings about a boy and his tiger. There remain good strips, such as Jef Mallett's Frazz; acclaimed strips, such as Aaron McGruder's Boondocks; and venerable strips, such as Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. But these days, the best-selling comics books tend to be either graphic novels or hardbound anthologies of the greats, such as Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts.
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Um.. Katzenjammer Kids, Pogo by Walt Kelly (Berkeley Breathed's work is sometimes quite similar), Buster Brown, Little Nemo, etc. were all great comic strips before Charles Schulz ever started. Don't get me wrong, Peanuts is a great strip.
Actually, that was Berke Breathed who did the cartoon artwork for Secondhand Lions.
Can you, or someone else, please explain that strip to me? It is the weirdest thing in the newspaper, bar none . . .
You don't get Zippy the Pinhead?... You must be light on your meds. Double up immediately. Then it'll all be clear.
All the grass in the Merrimack Valley couldn't make that strip make sense!
Like "Boondocks," it takes the occasional swipe at conservative ideologies and most certainly the Bush administration, but it does so in an "artsy" way. Most of us Freepers wouldn't understand.
You too, can become "critically acclaimed," you just have to produce some kind of artwork that rejects George W. Bush, or promotes the gay agenda...take your pick.
I'll take that challenge...what were we talking about?
Wow, I didn't realize any known cartoonist did that work -- but in hindsight, I could have guessed it was Breathed just by the style.
Note to self: Never compete in a comics discussion without your reference material at hand, or at least knowing what you are talking about...
It doesn't make sense, nor is it remotely funny. Is it supposed to be a funny strip? It's almost like an accumulation of words found in a Boggle game, put into a comic strip.
I don't know, man. Pass the Fritos, will ya?
Absolutely my very favorite too...
I went to http://www.mycomicspage.com and began getting getting C&H stips sent to me every day. I think that I've got nearly every compilation book that has been put out, except for the new collection, and I plan on buying that soon. But it wasn't until I looked at the mycomicspage archives that I realized the sheer volume of his work. He put out one strip a day, 365 days a year, for almost 10 years! That's more than 3500 strips, all of which were original and fresh! No wonder he decided to give it up. I can't imagine the talent that sort of creativity takes.
I wish that I could thank him to his face for all the good feelings and smiles that he's given me over the years.
Mark
Heh - if we all posted only about things we had bona fide expertise in, there'd be about three posts a day here ;)
Anyway, this page has a bit of background on the art....
One monitor cleaning, coming up!
Great one, but my favorite "The Far Side" was where this woman's on the telephone, looking out her window, and there's this huge eye looking in...
She says, "Hi Marge, this is Ethyl. Oh, fine, thanks. Say, would you mind looking out your window and telling me what's on my front lawn?" It was funnier in the paper.
Mark
WAY off base.
Walt Kelly did that in the 50s with "Pogo", still my all time favorite.
Calvin and Hobbes, for me, runs a close second...
I love "The Far Side" That guy is just twisted!
Of course; that's what made it so timeless.
The eternal struggle inside of all of us between Faith Calvin, and Reason Hobbes.
"Deck us all with Boston Charlie
Walla walla wash and Kalamazoo.
Nora's freezin on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower, alley ga roo"
What was the strip about, do you remember?
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