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  1. 07-31-2015, 12:13 AM #1
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    So, What is Your...

    ...Favorite comic series of all time?

    Over the years I have enjoy a number of them, even reading Prince Valiant when I was a kid back in the dark ages. My second favorite is probably Far Side by Gary Larson. The one I never forget has two polar bears surrounding an igloo with a hole in the top. One says to the other, 'I just love these things. Crunchy on the outside with chewy middle.' I would have posted it, but Larson is extremely picky about digital rights and it would be a violation to post it.

    My favorite though has long been Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. It was simply so funny and off the wall. I could really identify with Calvin's Dad. I have the complete set of the ten years he did the strip. Unlike many that should have stopped years before they did, Bill should have kept writing for another ten years.

    What is/are you favorite strips?
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    Pogo! Walt Kelley was an absolute genius at political satire. He would have a hay day with today's political clowns of all persuasions. I bet not many people remember it.
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  5. 07-31-2015, 1:35 AM #4
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    Mark Blatter,

    As a kid- to age 12 or so, I liked a variety from the Sunday paper including Blondie, Beetle Bailey, L'il Abner, Andy Capp, and as Art Mann mentioned -Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us". I was more interested in Saturday cartoons- especially Bugs Bunny- Roadrunner and Tom and Jerry. I still think those are amazingly funny.

    When older, I liked Doonesbury and the two you mentioned, Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. Far Side beside being fantastically funny had a great kind of cleverness that was scientific / literary- it was cultural anthropology. Garfield had his moments- really capturing the essence of smug catness.

    But I would have to say my favorites overall were in the The New Yorker over the years:

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    A special favorite was Saul Steinberg who, besides the great compressive surrealism also tossed off one of the great summations about life , "The purpose of life is to avoid boredom." Sadly, The New Yorker has declined dramatically in the funniosity and the overall quality has grown thin since the William Shawn era, both the cartoons and the clunky, adolescent political humor of Andy Borowitz is more more bore than wits.

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    Charles Schultz and Peanuts. Guess I identified with Charlie Brown.
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    I like the Far Side, in particular this is my all time favorite cartoon:
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    I'm a fan of Bizarro. Lots of great ones but here is one appropriate given another recent thread.

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    Doonesbury. Also like Red and Rover and Calvin and Hobbs.

    Oh, yes, and Dilbert, since I'm a nerd.

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    I still miss Calvin and Hobbs.
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    Calvin and Hobbes is definitely at the top of my list. In addition to some of the published books, I also have a 3-year collection of strips I'd cut out from the Sunday edition of the Seattle Times--quite a few of which aren't included in the books.

    Other favorites include:

    Peanuts
    Arlo and Janis
    The Far Side
    Non Sequitur
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    Adam/Adam@Home
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    My favorite comics:
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    The one I never forget has two polar bears surrounding an igloo with a hole in the top. One says to the other, 'I just love these things. Crunchy on the outside with chewy middle.' I would have posted it, but Larson is extremely picky about digital rights and it would be a violation to post it.
    This was hanging on the wall of my work space over 30 years ago. A coworker came by and said she really liked it. She is now my wife. While in Chicago for work I saw the mug for sale in a store. This was from the box and has been on one of our refrigerators ever since.

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    This has always been my favorite Far Side cartoon:

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