Where is all of the cartoons?

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I have been looking through many of the comic threads and was wondering,
does nobody care about the cartoons? (they are still comics) :?
Anyway, do you guys have any favorites, these are mine,

Peanuts
Pearls Before Swine
The Far Side
Calvin and Hobbes
Dennis the Menace
Dilbert
X.K.C.D

[Poseidon's trident]

I have been looking through many of the comic threads and was wondering,
does nobody care about the cartoons? (they are still comics) :?
Anyway, do you guys have any favorites, these are mine,

Peanuts
Pearls Before Swine
The Far Side
Calvin and Hobbes
Dennis the Menace
Dilbert
X.K.C.D
These are definitely my favorites. I own many of the books of both of these comics.

[Killometer]

Calvin and Hobbes



Greatest comic strip ever created.

I'm even naming my first son Calvin because of it (yes, my wife knows, and she's okay with it 8) ).

[Jandarforever]

Calvin and Hobbes is in my opinion, the best comic strip ever. They were very well drawn and funny as all get out. But what made it even better were the questions the strip raised and the situations they happened in. Just an all around awesome cartoon.

Oh yeah, and the Far Side is sidesplitting too. (By the way, Tubafication you might want to adjust the grammar in the thread title.)

[A_Train]

Calvin and Hobbes



Greatest comic strip ever created.

I'm even naming my first son Calvin because of it (yes, my wife knows, and she's okay with it 8) ).

I've already done this, although, it was the second son.

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Oh yeah, I noticed the grammar, but I have been making most of my posts from a blackberry so I haven't had the chance, thanks for reminding me.

[Agent Minivann]

I have been looking through many of the comic threads and was wondering,
does nobody care about the cartoons? (they are still comics) :?
Anyway, do you guys have any favorites, these are mine,

Peanuts
Pearls Before Swine
The Far Side
Calvin and Hobbes
Dennis the Menace
Dilbert
X.K.C.D
Never heard of it.

I love The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, and X.K.C.D. I feel like Calvin and Hobbes has been hijacked by neanderthals with all the Calvin pissing on stuff window stickers, but it really was a masterpiece.

Another one that kills me is Foxtrot. It's got a lot of geek appeal. I'd see some that I would share with my physics professors from time to time.

[A_Train]

Dilbert is probably my favorite at my current situation in life. Stupid office humour manages to apply to my real life.
I also really enjoy the geek appeal of Foxtrot, but have found real solid laughs have faded for me in recent years.

[Simpsons Scaper]

Clvin And Hobbes. They are so funny! Too bad Watterson didn't want any liscensing on his product. Otherwise, by now, I'd bet we'd have a C&H movie!

[A_Train]

Clvin And Hobbes. They are so funny! Too bad Watterson didn't want any liscensing on his product. Otherwise, by now, I'd bet we'd have a C&H movie!

And the lack of a Calvin and Hobbes movie is a good thing.

[Jandarforever]

Clvin And Hobbes. They are so funny! Too bad Watterson didn't want any liscensing on his product. Otherwise, by now, I'd bet we'd have a C&H movie!

And the lack of a Calvin and Hobbes movie is a good thing.
Right. Just read the Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary book, and you'll see the wisdom behind Waterson not licensing his stuff. Just think how weird it would be to have either Calvin or Hobbes voiced by an actor. Somehow for me, that would take a lot away from the strip.

[Claws of Death]

Clvin And Hobbes. They are so funny! Too bad Watterson didn't want any liscensing on his product. Otherwise, by now, I'd bet we'd have a C&H movie!

And the lack of a Calvin and Hobbes movie is a good thing.
Right. Just read the Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary book, and you'll see the wisdom behind Waterson not licensing his stuff. Just think how weird it would be to have either Calvin or Hobbes voiced by an actor. Somehow for me, that would take a lot away from the strip.
I agree. Calvin and hobbes probably was better off having no movie.

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Definitely with the Calvin and Hobbes thing,
That's what happened to Schulz, (peanuts) he had to much licensing on his product so eventually everybody took it for granted and now whenever somebody hears snoopy, they immediately think of the television specials.

[Onacara]

My favorite cartoon is Totally Awesome Might

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

Big fan of newspaper strips! What a glorious period of American history. The strips of the first half of the last century were hugely popular and devotely followed each day. Readers were treated to spectacularly wild illustration that still holds up to this day.


Love all the greats: Little Nemo in Slumberland, Krazy Kat, Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy, Annie, Nancy, Gasoline Alley, and so forth. Surprisingly, I've never gave Milton Caniff's work much of sampling!

As a boy, my mother would drop me off at the naval base library in Alameda while she shopped at the commisary. Often, I would check out this immense, oversized and heavy collection of Buck Rogers strips. I could sit or lay for hours reading and browsing this amazing tome! I eventually found and bought my own copy in Berkeley for about $24 at Shakespeare books. I was unemployed at the time and lacking in the financial scene, but I had to get that book!
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When I got into college I discovered Roy Crane's work. He created the high adventures of Wash Tubbs and Capt. Easy.
Crane could draw with the best simplified linework exotic locales, the best fisticuff spats, and crazy cute flapper-style chicks
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I spent many a pretty penny collecting Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy volumes on eBay. :o


And then there's this guy! Imagine back in the day the treat to read Eisner's the Spirit newspaper insert?!?
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Also in college, I discovered the treasuries of New Yorker cartoonists.
Head above the rest, Saul Steinberg. Man, was that guy amazing.
He was brilliant. I own about 4 of his collections.
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The modern stuff I collect and enjoy are Tumbleweeds with its wacky, unique,and beautiful style of art!
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Also the fantastic Wizard of Id, and Red Meat. I like the art style of Born Loser, Andy Capp, and Lockhorns. Really good stuff!

I collected the Calvin and Hobbes books years ago and have since handed them off to my son. He's a HUGE fan. Loooooooves the snowman-building sequences as well as when a game of Calvin Ball is played. :lol:'


Sorry, got carried away with this post, but really, I love comic strips! I've an inkling to pull my books out and take a stroll through the classics!

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That's good that there are other people in the world like me who love things like this, I love the old ones too, I just got "Masters of American Comics" and have loved it. I wish I had more money to collect more of the old comics...

[Jandarforever]

Another comic that's okay is Tundra by Chad Carpenter. It's kind of a Far Side clone, but they appeal to Northeners like me because of the outdoor settings. Carpenter draws about hunting, fishing, camping, etc., along with a bunch of random stuff thrown in for kicks. Worth checking out if you're a sportsman.

[Arcus]

Calvin and Hobbes is, by far, the best comic strip ever. There hasn't been a strip like it before or since and I completely respect Bill Watterson's wishes not to commercialize his creation. I have every one of his books, including the hard bound 3 book set, and I even have the tribute page from the Philadelphia Sunday Inquire on the last day the comic was published. I am missing the Holy Grail of Calvin and Hobbes however-a childrens book he wrote in the first couple of years of the strip that can be used as a teaching aid. Good luck finding that sucker!

How about Bloom County? Does anyone remember that one, with the Penguin, the Cat, the Roach and the business man?

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Oh, I love bloom country, except when he moved on to Opus I liked him less. I agree that Calvin and Hobbes is a great strip, but usually if you like Calvin and Hobbes, you'll like Peanuts, they both are very similar because Watterson based his strip heavily off of Peanuts.