Calvin and Hobbes...best comic...ever?

[spacejamz]

only 4 references to Dilbert so far? :Q

 

[CPA]

1. C & H
2. Mother Goose & Grimm

 

[Mermaidman]

C&H is very good, but I'm particularly fond of Eyebeam

 

[DrPizza]

C&H definitely, with Far Side a close second.

How can anyone say "peanuts"?! I thought that 9 out of 10 peanuts cartoons were stupid. At least C&H and Far Side creators gave up at their peak, before they ran out of original material. I also hope Dilbert stops when Scott Adams runs out of material (and runs out of good material people send to him). Schulz should have retired long before the end of peanuts... it was like he was milking it or something. Can anyone provide a link to a funny peanuts cartoon?

Oh, and I'd definitely put Mother Goose and Grimm up there, but certainly not at the top.

 

[Mr N8]

Calvin & Hobbes is by far the best comic ever. Followed by Foxtrot, Far Side, and sometimes Dilbert.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Calvin > Opus > *

The Days are Just Packed!

Yep, everything else is far behind these two.

 

[SuepaFly]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
Far Side for me, I think.

 

[jalaram]

To me, the top 3 are C&H, Bloom County, and Far Side.

C&H was consistently excellent and ended before it faded. Plus, it was a great mix of straight and subtle humor.

Bloom County is close, but it was fading toward the end of its run. It was a political cartoon, but also had plenty of social commentary and straight ahead humor.

Far Side also faded at the end, but it was mostly great. There was nothing like it before and the ones that came afterwards are pathetic imitators.

Anyone who knocks Peanuts don't know how great the comic once was. I've heard there will be a new Peanuts book coming out that'll have the old ones in it. I can't wait for that.

From the few strips I've seen, one comic strip that seemed to blow away Bloom County on the political front (I don't think Doonesbury has been consistent enough) was Pogo (Walt Kelly, I believe). However, it was before my time and I haven't read enough strips to know if it was consistently that good.

A current one that I really like is Non Sequitur. Its humor is really good, but unfortunately, not as great as the above ones.

 

[phantom309]

C & H, but the first ten years of Peanuts were brilliant also. Schultz ran out of ideas by the early 70s. After that, Peanuts was more a line of merchandise than anything else. The strip itself became really weak.

 

[imported_Strang]

Originally posted by: jalaram
Anyone who knocks Peanuts don't know how great the comic once was. I've heard there will be a new Peanuts book coming out that'll have the old ones in it. I can't wait for that.

It's actually a series of books. Fantagraphics is printing two a year for the next 12.5 years, each book containing two actual years worth of strips in them. Details here.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: knivox
Calvin & Hobbes = Fight Club ???

lol interesting


i love C&H

 

[MrDingleDangle]

calvin and hobbes followed very close by far side which is very closely followed by bloom county

favorite calvin moment- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~smit916/trick.gif

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: Strangone

Originally posted by: jalaram
Anyone who knocks Peanuts don't know how great the comic once was. I've heard there will be a new Peanuts book coming out that'll have the old ones in it. I can't wait for that.

It's actually a series of books. Fantagraphics is printing two a year for the next 12.5 years, each book containing two actual years worth of strips in them. Details here.

Thanks for the info, Strangone. I appreciate it.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Apathetic
Calvin & Hobbes and Bloom County are my all time favorites.

Conjur, thanks for the links! I love the snowman comics.

Dave

:beer:

 

[imported_Strang]

Originally posted by: jalaram

Originally posted by: Strangone

Originally posted by: jalaram
Anyone who knocks Peanuts don't know how great the comic once was. I've heard there will be a new Peanuts book coming out that'll have the old ones in it. I can't wait for that.

It's actually a series of books. Fantagraphics is printing two a year for the next 12.5 years, each book containing two actual years worth of strips in them. Details here.

Thanks for the info, Strangone. I appreciate it.

No problem. I just got the first in the series a week or so ago, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Just thumbing through it, it's interesting to see how much his style evolved over the years.

 

[jalaram]

This thread reminded me of Pogo, so I googled it to get more info. I found one site that gave its opinion of the best comic strip. Here's part of what it said:

THE BEST?

I might get some argument if I only said "funniest," or only said "best-drawn," but what comic strip of past or present history can match Kelly's Pogo--or even come close? Krazy Kat? There is a cult of comic fans that consider George Herriman's creation the most inspired of all strips, but though Herriman certainly was a capable artist, he can't match Kelly's skill with a brush. Neither could Berke Breathed, creator of Bloom County, a strip that I might concede matched Pogo in the humor category. When it comes to combining both art and gags, Bill Watterson probably comes closest to Kelly, but at least one professional cartoonist I interviewed recently scoffed at Watterson, claiming Calvin and Hobbes was a Pogo knock-off, Hobbes looking almost identical to the tiger drawn by Kelly, although with a personality more closely resembling that of Albert. Calvin was Pogo, of course.

Just an FYI since most of you would have never read Pogo.

 

[Looney]

Idiotic poll. You should have put down some of the most popular strips, and have people vote which they liked best. Despite the idiotic poll, i still think C&H is the best.