What are my favorite comic strips? I don't read the (paper) newspaper anymore, but I still have some classics I love. Nothing holds water next to the incomparable Calvin & Hobbes (left), but here are some folks still doing good work:
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is an amazing political satirist that accomplished what
the mainstream media could not and would not with his travelogue, To
Afghanistan and Back. Some of his humor is flawed and too obvious
(for example, I found 2024 to be pretty boring and poorly written)
and his illustrative style is blocky and garish at best, but he's no slouch
in the courage department. And though his cartoons based on his imagination
and extrapolations may leave a littel to be desired, he excels at journalism.
Check out the excellent To
Afghanistan and Back
on Amazon.
David Rees
These strips are hilarious! This guy sprung out of nowhere, taking photocopied clip art and using it as powerful iconography to appeal to the universal fears and concerns of Americans after September 11. Luckily, they're now collected in a book. Try Get Your War On from Amazon.
Doonesbury
The GeekOut: For Geeks by Geeks
"Little Things" by Brandon Hanvey
This strip is strangely endearing, even though it'd not actually very
funny.
More here.
My favorite comic strips:
- Calvin and Hobbes
- The Far Side
- Doonesbury
- The Boondocks
- Robotman
- Girls with Slingshots
- Grand Avenue
- FoxTrot
- Non Sequitor
- Real Life Adventures
- Liberty Meadows
My least favorite:
Marmaduke
Beetle Bailey
Family Circus
The Lockhorns
A comic strip so bad
it does the world a horrible
disservice by ever existing:
Cathy
Also, make sure to visit the Comics section of my site.