Favorite Comic strip and why.

[RandomGuy]

Pearls Before Swine.

Wierd, funny, and unconventional, with a very distinct tendency to go for strips with really bad puns at the end.

Plus they make fun of other comic strips. Satire, social commentary etc.

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/pearlsbeforeswine

[1369]

Calvin and Hobbes (Sadly no longer running)

Funny comic with a biting view given by a 7 year old and his tiger.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4026/jon5cf6.gif

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Peanuts.


When I figured out that the strip was essentially Charles Schulz' diary it took on a lot more meaning.

[Bigzax]

daisy owl!

http://www.daisyowl.com/comic_images/39.gif


http://www.daisyowl.com/comic_images/43.gif

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Get Fuzzy

[mrsmaalox]

Get Fuzzy

Get Fuzzy is my favorite too. But anyone with a teenaged son can appreciate Zits.

[JoeChalupa]

Calvin and Hobbes (Sadly no longer running)

Funny comic with a biting view given by a 7 year old and his tiger.

http://hem.passagen.se/rust29/images/HOBBE/C_HAMMER.JPG

+1
I loved Calvin and Hobbes!! :tu

[ORION]

Far Side....

[Phil E.Buster]

Family Circus

[G-Nob]

Pearls before swine, because its very clever.

Most comics these days aren't even funny.

[JoeChalupa]

Bizarro is also one of my favs.

[baseline bum]

Calvin & Hobbes easily

[Shelly]

Foxtrot.

Sadly, he's only doing Sunday strips now.

[bus driver]

Calvin and Hobbes (Sadly no longer running)

Funny comic with a biting view given by a 7 year old and his tiger.

http://hem.passagen.se/rust29/images/HOBBE/C_HAMMER.JPG +2

[MiamiHeat]

wow, what the hell are those baseball comics in pearls before swine mean? i think the name is clever, it's a popular phrase, but the comic sucks.

most of your choices suck.

my favorite is http://www.qwantz.com/

and

http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=010506

[MaryAnnKilledGinger]

http://xkcd.com

There's the comic strip giggle and the mouse-over guffaw. And sometimes it's like he lives inside my mind:
http://xkcd.com/245

[Mister Sinister]

Calvin and Hobbes. I grew up on it, and the lines "It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy. C'mon, let's go exploring." and "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night!" still tug at my heartstrings.

[alamo50]

Asterix has always been my favourite comic strip since growing up.
I liked it as a kid because of the hilarious illustrations and I like it now because of the historical data brought in a hilarious package.
I don't know if you know about it outside Europe.

http://www.nounours.fr/site/images/historique/logocarac/asterix.jpg

[METALMiKE]

Pearls Before Swine
and
F Minus

[Fpoonsie]

It seems almost cliche' to answer C&H in this thread now, but alas, I have no other option.

http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/calvin-on-scientific-law.gif

I actually used this answer on a test one time when given the "in your own words" opportunity (while also knowing my audience/teacher would appreciate it), and he actually gave me full credit. It was a good day.

[Bandit2981]

I'm an engineer, so Dilbert is my favorite. It's so true in many cases that its scary sometimes.

[balli]

Calvin and Hobbes- just because of the depth and breadth of it's philosophy- they aren't named Calvin and Hobbes on accident. A strip about Santa's legitimacy turns into a philosopher's rumination on Pascal's Wager. A strip about the bully Moe isn't really about bullying and a strip about homework isn't really about homework, but more about the existential connection we have to an unfair and hostile world. A strip about riding a wagon down a wooded hill and off a cliff is actually a shrewd metaphor about enjoying the ride even though the consequences, maybe terrible, lie in the future.

Plenty of strips avoided the philosophy altogether and went right into condemnation of environmental destruction, human greed and the like. Which was amazing- because besides Doonsbury, not too many comic authors have the courage to be outspoken politically.

Peanuts did the same thing in way, but in a generational sense, I don't think it pulled me in the way Calvin and Hobbes did. As a kid I identified with Calvin; I too sat in classrooms daydreaming about bombing the school with an F-16, I too spent summers rummaging around in the woods and I too was a kid who imparted philosophical skepticism into everything. It's not just a comic strip, it's a reflection on existence and all of its contradictions, parsed into the head of a hyper-active six year old. One of the great 20th century works of writing.

[DarkReign]

Calvin and Hobbes (Sadly no longer running)

Funny comic with a biting view given by a 7 year old and his tiger.

Hands down. I started reading that strip when I was about 10 years old.

I have all the books. All of them.

Havent read them in long while, but I can still recite some -isms.

[baseline bum]

I'm an engineer, so Dilbert is my favorite. It's so true in many cases that its scary sometimes.

:lol

My favorite one...

http://folk.uio.no/hpv/linuxtoons/dilbert.2007-01-25.gif

[Heath Ledger]

Garfield.

[MiamiHeat]

Calvin and Hobbes- just because of the depth and breadth of it's philosophy- they aren't named Calvin and Hobbes on accident. A strip about Santa's legitimacy turns into a philosopher's rumination on Pascal's Wager. A strip about the bully Moe isn't really about bullying and a strip about homework isn't really about homework, but more about the existential connection we have to an unfair and hostile world. A strip about riding a wagon down a wooded hill and off a cliff is actually a shrewd metaphor about enjoying the ride even though the consequences, maybe terrible, lie in the future.

Plenty of strips avoided the philosophy altogether and went right into condemnation of environmental destruction, human greed and the like. Which was amazing- because besides Doonsbury, not too many comic authors have the courage to be outspoken politically.

Peanuts did the same thing in way, but in a generational sense, I don't think it pulled me in the way Calvin and Hobbes did. As a kid I identified with Calvin; I too sat in classrooms daydreaming about bombing the school with an F-16, I too spent summers rummaging around in the woods and I too was a kid who imparted philosophical skepticism into everything. It's not just a comic strip, it's a reflection on existence and all of its contradictions, parsed into the head of a hyper-active six year old. One of the great 20th century works of writing.

dude, i just wanna laugh!

[baseline bum]

dude, i just wanna laugh!

Calvin & Hobbes works flawlessly on that level too.



Calvin: I’m so smart it’s almost scary. I guess I’m a child progeny.
Hobbes (with look of intense sarcasm on his face): Most children are.
Calvin: What?
Hobbes: Nothing.

[spurster]

For current comics, Dilbert, because it's the truth.

For past comics, the Far Side by far.

[velik_m]

Alan Ford.

Also Asterix.

[MaryAnnKilledGinger]

Calvin and Hobbs has lived a charmed existence. It came out at just the right time when the audience was not too jaded to dismiss it and yet sophisticated enough to enjoy it.

I often wonder in this post 9/11, post Columbine world how much of Calvin's boys-will-be-boys violent fantasy daydreams would have been allowed.

My favorite Calvin and Hobbs was the mother pulling up to the house with groceries to find a few mangled half-melted snowmen bearing signs that say things like "The End is Near" and "Spring is coming."

I don't even remember the punchline that Calvin's mom gets in the final panel. Just the image of the prophets of doom snowmen in my head makes me still chuckle.

[Blake]

http://comicsalliance.com/files/2015/08/Larson02.jpg

[Blake]

http://41.media.tumblr.com/6090710f08e4256c30b974cb739f86ab/tumblr_musksdOYQF1stxqq3o1_500.jpg

[Blake]

This comic really puts things in perspective.
http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Tom%20Tomorrow/


https://i0.wp.com/imgs.xkcd.com/comics/moon_landing.png

[baseline bum]

You shills can pretend all you want. The proof that the moon missions were faked is crushing.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144487

I thought I told you to go fuck your mother faggot.

[Blake]

You shills can pretend all you want. The proof that the moon missions were faked is crushing.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144487

Who is paying you to shill here