After reading the "Do you read american comics" thread and noticing several people saying only the funny pages in the news paper, I thought I'd get everyone's favorite strips.
Mine:
Classics:
Peanuts: I grew up on Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty and the gang. There is a lot in those old strips for adults as well as kids.
Calvin and Hobbes: Big surprise. Watterson is definately one of the greatest comic creators of all time. Calvin embodies our society frighteningly well, and just like us, doesn't always get why he's wrong.
The Far Side: One line sums up the greatness of Gary Larson "It's a fax from your dog, Mr. Dansworth. It looks like your cat."
Fresh meat
Zits: It's nice to know that even now in high school, it's all the same, only the names have changed.
Get Fuzzy: Garfield on acid. A socially inept owner, a stupid but lovable dog, and a concieted, thinks he knows everything cat.
Baby Blues: parenthood is only funny when it's not your kids.
Honorable mentions
Family Circus, Beetle Baily, Garfield, Hagar the Horrible, Dilbert.
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You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. Rom. 6:18
God can do anything, anytime, anyway He wants to.......if He wants to paint me blue and hang me upside down nekkid from an apple tree, thats alright, as long as it's God doing it. Of course, if He comes through with a directive like that, I might have to ask for some I.D. Michael Wanke
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righteous_slave - Posts: 393
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My own favourites (omitting web comics):
Defunct:
Outland/Bloom County
Calvin & Hobbes
The Outcasts
The Far Side
Current:
Foxtrot
Sherman's Lagoon
Doonesbury
Defunct:
Outland/Bloom County
Calvin & Hobbes
The Outcasts
The Far Side
Current:
Foxtrot
Sherman's Lagoon
Doonesbury
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
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I don't really read any of the comics in the papers now, but I am a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side. I own most of them in book form. 
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cbwing0 - Posts: 2728
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Calvin and Hobbes is the greatest. The Far Side comes in a close second.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
[indent]~~Gandalf, in Fellowship of the Ring[/indent]
[indent]~~Gandalf, in Fellowship of the Ring[/indent]
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EireWolf - Posts: 2496
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Add to most of the others I've seen here:
Curtis
For Better or for Worse
Pickles
Marvin
FoxTrot (see sig space)
Pearls Before Swine
Sally Forth
Mother Goose & Grimm (used to go by Grimmy sometimes)
Hagar the Horrible
BC (Christian author if you didn't know)
Wizard of Id
The Boondocks can be pretty good at times, though I wouldn't lose sleep if they took it out of the paper.
The Funnies, it's the main reason I get a paper.
Curtis
For Better or for Worse
Pickles
Marvin
FoxTrot (see sig space)
Pearls Before Swine
Sally Forth
Mother Goose & Grimm (used to go by Grimmy sometimes)
Hagar the Horrible
BC (Christian author if you didn't know)
Wizard of Id
The Boondocks can be pretty good at times, though I wouldn't lose sleep if they took it out of the paper.
The Funnies, it's the main reason I get a paper.
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madphilb - Posts: 1057
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My personal favs...
Foxtrot
Zits
Calvin and Hobbes
Dilbert
Yet, my all-time favorite.... is the online comic... Dork Tower!
Foxtrot
Zits
Calvin and Hobbes
Dilbert
Yet, my all-time favorite.... is the online comic... Dork Tower!
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Bloom County and Outland were great. Definitely my favorite comic strips. And apparently, Berke Breathed has come out of retirement to do another one, "Opus". I saw it in the Sunday paper a couple weeks ago, it was pretty good.
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Oh yeah, I forgot "BC!" He usually does a good Easter message in his comics.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
[indent]~~Gandalf, in Fellowship of the Ring[/indent]
[indent]~~Gandalf, in Fellowship of the Ring[/indent]
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Big Peanuts fan, right here. *points to self* I also like Garfield, BC, Archie, and a few others that I can't think of at the moment. (Some probably already mentioned.)
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Calvin and Hobbes
Foxtrot
Peanuts
Foxtrot
Peanuts
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Ah, Foxtrot. I had forgotten about that. It's one of my favorite.
Both BC and Wizard of Id are by the same author, and at times some of them are pretty good. The Christian messages can also be appreciated.
Both BC and Wizard of Id are by the same author, and at times some of them are pretty good. The Christian messages can also be appreciated.
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Foxtrot! I knew there was at least one I was forgetting that should have been on the list.
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. Rom. 6:18
God can do anything, anytime, anyway He wants to.......if He wants to paint me blue and hang me upside down nekkid from an apple tree, thats alright, as long as it's God doing it. Of course, if He comes through with a directive like that, I might have to ask for some I.D. Michael Wanke
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righteous_slave - Posts: 393
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All time Favs:
Dilbert
Foxtrot (I love Jason the most)
Calvin and Hobbes
These were also comic strips in my home country:
Asterisk
Modesty Blaise
The Heart of Juliet Jones
This is not a comic Strip but absolutely worthy of being mentioned:
Tintin by Herge
Dilbert
Foxtrot (I love Jason the most)
Calvin and Hobbes
These were also comic strips in my home country:
Asterisk
Modesty Blaise
The Heart of Juliet Jones
This is not a comic Strip but absolutely worthy of being mentioned:
Tintin by Herge
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Mave - Posts: 3662
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righteous_slave wrote:Get Fuzzy: Garfield on acid. A socially inept owner, a stupid but lovable dog, and a concieted, thinks he knows everything cat.
To go with this, I present the 2nd half of Monday's Get Fuzzy:
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"This Modern World" is pretty biased (nor does it deny it), but still humorous at times. To the writer's credit, he does make fun of every presidential administration.
Here's an example where he actually isn't taking a political side:
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=16710
Here's an example where he actually isn't taking a political side:
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=16710
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uc pseudonym - Posts: 15506
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I'd forgotten about that one. The website's pretty good too.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
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