The Comic Strip Thread

Great strips now deceased ---

GORDO by Gus Arriola

POGO by Walt Kelly

BUZ SAWYER (can't remember author)


Great Strips today

SHERMAN's LAGOON

PIRANHA CLUB

DOONESBURY

BIZARRO (a panel, not a strip, but in the top 5)

NON SEQUITER

 

Since the demise of Bloom County (and then Outland), the only comic strip I read is Get Fuzzy.

 

I still look at the daily Calvin and Hobbes online. What a great look at society thru a boy and his stuffed animal...and funny! I've at least 5 of the books/collections.

 

I go to http://www.comiczone.com/ and http://www.ucomics.com/ on a regular basis; partly because our paper doesn't carry the Sunday comic of the weekly strip and partly because they dropped a strip that I liked. It's amazing what strips are still out there like Nancy, Dick Tracy and even L'il Abner (although that's in reruns) and also what new ones there are. Without that I wouldn't know about 9 Chickweed Lane or Barkeater Lake. I know about the upcoming movie Over the Hedge mainly because I've been reading the strip online for some time.

 

I gotta vote for my avatar: Nancy

 

There was a strip called Mr. Boffo that quit last year. I saved the very last one they ran. See attached. (Yes, it really was the last one! And, no, I didn't edit it.)

- Tom