What are Sup Forums's favorite newspaper strips?

What are Sup Forums's favorite newspaper strips?
What are the must reads?

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Little Nemo in Slumberland

Nancy

Bushmiller's Nancy was fantastic.
Gilchrist's Nancy (the current comic) is an abomination.

Wizard of Id

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Terry & The Pirates
Mary Perkins, On Stage

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The Far Side
Peanuts
Dilbert
Calvin and Hobbes
Garfield from 1978 to 2002

How come i never heard of this before? Its kind of nice

It was created by Johnny Hart, along with his mentor Brant Parker. It started in 1964 and is continued today by their family members (both men died a week apart from each other in 2007).

At its peak, it was good. Today, not so much.

Is that a JoJo reference?

Who here Piranha Club? (used to go by Ernie)

Harold Teen by Carl Ed.

Debuting in 1919, it was one of the first comic strips with a teenage protagonist. It ended 40 years later in 1959, when the author passed away.

I love it whenever I get a chance to read it. I hear it's big in Scandinavia.

Little Nemo
Calvin & Hobbes
The Far Side
Krazy Kat

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Swede here. It definitely is big here, to the point there were some fans who actually took a vacation to Bayonne ironically.

is that the anime people keep referencing everywhere?

Do you have any of the later ones?

Only this Sunday page from 1953.

I recall a strip about Bud buying a bra from a bazaar babushka in Estonia. Maybe it was locally exclusive.

those are some jojo tier fits

That answer my query if the character got updated with time but I can see the comedy vanished

Mickey Mouse by Floyd Gottfredson, all the way.

More Wizard of Id.

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I just discovered Zippy the pinhead
I don't like it......?
This is coming from someone who loves the heck out of Cowboy Henk and Xavier Renegade Angel.

It's an acquired taste. I have a few Zippy books, including one that compiles his underground comix stories.

Ponytail by Lee Holley, who was an assistant to Hank Ketcham and worked as an animator at Warner Bros.

It ran from 1960 to 1988, with a Sunday version added in 1962.

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Belvedere by George Crenshaw, who was an animator for both Disney and MGM in the 1940's.

The panel ran from 1962 to 1995.

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MUST
NOT
MAKE
OBVIOUS
JOKE

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What the fuck this is heathcliff but funny.

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Wait, is this where that weird anime thing where people suddenly double over face to the floor when they're embarrassed? Which came first?

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If it's so good then make a thread every week about it like that Heathcliff goy

Cow Tools

Preteena by Allison Barrows 2001-2008

There was a musical based on the strip.

It's called a plotz.

I can make out a rake, a saw and a club of some sort. The first item is still a mystery to me.

More Preteena PG-13

The plop take was and is an American invention.

Walter Hoban, creator of "Jerry on the Job", was a master of it.

Another example, nearly six years later.

Winnie the Pooh had a newspaper series. It was pretty dark.

Sixth one's my favorite.

Big George, by magazine cartoonist Virgil "Vip" Partch.

It ran from 1960 to 1990.

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When Partch and his wife were killed in a traffic accident in 1984, he was six years ahead of schedule on "Big George". It ended in 1990, but only because his last contract for the syndicate was expiring and sales were waning. In fact, there was actually about a month or two of further material that was never published.

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I like the ones where the roadside ads made to look like people talk to zippy

I hate the ones with zerbina

>When Partch and his wife were killed in a traffic accident in 1984, he was six years ahead of schedule on "Big George". It ended in 1990, but only because his last contract for the syndicate was expiring and sales were waning. In fact, there was actually about a month or two of further material that was never published.
Holy fuck!

The Flop Family by George Swanson, creator of Salesman Sam.

It ran from 1943 until January 2nd, 1982, a month after Swanson's death in 1981.

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That's too long, I ain't reading that.

Last batch is from the strip's final years (including the very last daily). The Sunday version had ended back in 1966.

Swanson was in his eighties, his artwork was suffering immensely, and he never bothered to keep up with the times. He was pretty much frozen in time, back to the 40's and 50's. I'd be surprised if the strip actually had any clients left at this point.

That's charming but kind of poor

Count Screwloose by Milt Gross

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Dave's Delicatessen, by Milt Gross

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Nize Baby by Milt Gross

Banana Oil by Milt Gross

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I actually took drawing lessons with Guy Gilchrist. He had a drawing school for a while, I even ended up winning an original print of his for some competition in his class.

Open for questions if anyone has any

Was it a Nancy print?

Yeah. One he'd drawn.

I'd photograph and post the thing, but it's back home and I'm in college. I could try to find it online though, if y'all want.

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This is helpful if you're having trouble "getting" the strip. A 6-part lesson comic put together by the author himself.

Crock, by Brant Parker, Bill Rechin and Don Wilder.

The strip ran from 1975 to 2012. Brant Parker wrote gags and left after the first year to devote his time to "Wizard of Id".

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I loved the hell out of Bloom County when I was younger.

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Bill Rechin helped design training manuals and graphic aids for the Army, and Don Wilder spent 17 years with the CIA as a visual information specialist.

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