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― Mordy , Tuesday, 9 July 2013 10:13 (ten years ago) link
top 40 is kinda hard for me to make without throwing in nominations for strips i barely know.
― fit and working again, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
send to ilxstripp✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧
too many ✧'s for that to be "stripper"
― how's life, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
wait, am I blind or is The Boondocks not on the nomination list?
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
the answer is "I am blind", lol
vote for up to 40 xxp
― Mordy , Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
quick q: for '5 worst comics' can we include stuff that's not on the list?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
for the most part the list is nominations of things people like ... so yes.
― fit and working again, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
yes xp
― Mordy , Tuesday, 9 July 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
peanuts needs no campaigning but here's the second-to-last Sunday:
http://www.willhines.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/peanuts_big.jpg
― fit and working again, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
i fell in love w/ doonesbury from a late-70s collection. i thought the comics were funny, and it was about a period in history i wasn't alive for - so it was interesting getting a sense of the late-70s zeitgeist (which is what i think trudeu is best at doing). i don't think the contemporary ones are as good (tho far from the worse thing on the comics page), but what are some other really strong eras of doonesbury? i'm thinking about maybe picking up some cheap used copies. maybe reagan years?
also, calling all crabbits to contribute to this thread
― Mordy , Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
i also picked up sam's strip on basis of its nomination and its the funniest i've ever seen mort walker. so many of these collections are like $1 or less on amazon used. what else should I order?
― Mordy , Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
damn, that 'peanuts' is fucking bleak. can't believe that just missed being the last one ever.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
schulz is one of the great rain artists
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
schulz was very influenced by percy crosby:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JDJHE7GFVAE/Tbt85m6ILzI/AAAAAAAACW4/15tEcWXzs8U/s1600/01%2B7%2B25.JPG
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
think that's the first time i've seen schulz's visual debt to crosby made so clear - otoh, have always found skippy to be p unreadable (the snippets i've read - it's never really been collected, has it?) in some ways, early 20th century comics strips are among the most opaque and deeply coded cultural artefacts, these days - the slang, the humour, some of the visual style (even the lettering) seems from another world and time that's very distant to our vile modern selves
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
― Mordy , Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I vastly prefer Sam's Strip to pretty much everything else Walker has done (and I'm wondering if Jeff Dumas was really the dominant voice).
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
Whoops, Jerry Dumas, I mean.
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
Woohoo! So happy to see the Sam's Strip love. As I said in the nominations thread, I was ignorant of it until a few months ago but was blown away when I read it.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
i think a 'skippy' collection is in the works -- i love the artwork, but have only read bits of it here and there. but yes, early 20cen comic strips often make for bizarre reading. 'krazy kat' actually seems a lot less dated and strange than some of its more popular contemporaries (including some of herriman's other work).
more schulz and crosby matchups here (but try to ignore the blogger's obnoxious commentary):
http://thecribsheet-isabelinho.blogspot.com/2011/04/crosby-schulz.html
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
man, if Cathy doesn't rank high in the "worst comic strips ever" poll, I basically don't even know you people
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
ACK!!
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
huh amazingly only one of my five worst managed to make the nomination list
"amazingly"
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
one of the alltime worst strips:
http://comicbooth.com/images/pluggers_dogfood.jpg
― Mordy , Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link
i'm not a fan or anything but 'cathy' won't be on my worst list -- there are probably at least five things on the nominations list i think are worse.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
I know Oglaf is basically a porn comic, but it's a surprisingly funny porn comic. It was mentioned on twitter a year or so ago by Dylan Horrocks or Scott McCloud (I don't remember which) and I became a fan pretty quickly.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
omfg how the hell did I forget about PLUGGERS
xkcd may have just won a reprieve
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
i hope everyone remembers to vote for questionable content as worst comic ever, bc i'm fairly certain it is
― Mordy , Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
I'd never seen Pluggers before. What the fuck?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
ha I have avoided QC like the plague so I can't in good conscience vote it the worst since I've never read it
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
also Pluggers has the distinction of being one of a very small number of comic strips that have caused me to scream obscenities at a newspaper
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
some other really strong eras of doonesbury?
GBT came back strong from his sabbatical, so yeah, 1984-1986 was a good Doonesbury time. That era features Inside Reagan's Brain, the USA for Africa series and Mike & JJ's newlywed years.
1988-1991 was also pretty good. (May as well just say 1984-91.) You had invisible Bush, the Persian Gulf War, Raoul Duke managing the David Duke campaign...
hated the Mr. Butts stuff and Mike's kid brother's Captain Condom phase or whatever that was doesn't rank high with me.
― pplains, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
only 3 ballots in so far. let's get some campaigning and some voting going on this fine weekend!
http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/cf2c43ea7d65fff201590628e4be7203/images_/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/POP_CULTURE/2013/01/25-best-newspaper-comic-strips-of-all-time/krazykat_resize_438029.jpg
― Mordy , Saturday, 13 July 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
Did you get my poll, Mordy?
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 14 July 2013 07:44 (ten years ago) link
wow I messed up big on the nominations
― the next night we ate Wale (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 14 July 2013 07:45 (ten years ago) link
Ward Fowler, I did receive your ballot. Drugs A. Money: what did you mess up on? Maybe we can still fix it.
Also - more ballots please!
http://mediumlarge.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/sally-forth-ending.jpg
Francesco Marciuliano's original comic - Medium Large - ^ (he is also the current writer on the real Sally Forth)
― Mordy , Sunday, 14 July 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef011570961c98970b-pi
― fit and working again, Sunday, 14 July 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Here's a classic that wasn't nominated:
http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/50b8c3f1ecad045154000001-480/bazooka-joe.jpg
― Mordy , Sunday, 14 July 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
With sales of Bazooka bubble gum down, Bazooka Candy Brands announced in November of 2012 that they will no longer include the comic strip in their packaging. The new wrapper will include brain teasers, instructions, and codes that can be used to unlock videos and video games.
― fit and working again, Sunday, 14 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m65oz0K2oS1r7cvrzo1_400.png
Mondays got you down? Submit a ballot to the ilx comic strip poll!
― Mordy , Monday, 15 July 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
I know Oglaf is basically a porn comic, but it's a surprisingly funny porn comic. It was mentioned on twitter a year or so ago
could be Horrocks, if he knew the creators from Platinum Grit twenty years ago
I see B4yne shoeless at my bus stop and local banh mi shop a lot
― eau de feet (sic), Monday, 15 July 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.weeklystorybook.com/.a/6a0105369e6edf970b0147e158fbef970b-800wi
― fit and working again, Monday, 15 July 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
http://assets.amuniversal.com/ce043c90dd18012fe7fd001dd8b71c47
― fit and working again, Monday, 15 July 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
comic strip bumps very much in character -- afaik the only explicitly jewish family in the funny pages:
http://www.weeklystorybook.com/.a/6a0105369e6edf970b0120a96ecc2c970b-800wi
― Mordy , Monday, 15 July 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
(^ edge city)
do you mean Bazooka Joe, or the detournement of it by "Robby Reed"? If the latter, how many did he do?
― eau de feet (sic), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
I meant original Bazooka Joe, sorry for the confusion.
― Mordy , Tuesday, 16 July 2013 04:48 (ten years ago) link
poor bazooka joe and his sexual ineptitude xp
― Treeship, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 04:52 (ten years ago) link
http://assets.amuniversal.com/96bf9360acb5012d63f600163e41dd5b
― Mordy , Wednesday, 17 July 2013 01:11 (ten years ago) link
I missed the noms poll but would like to add:Henry, by Carl AndersonSherman's Lagoon, by Jim ToomeyShoe, by Jeff MacNellyJump Start, by Robb ArmstrongOverboard, by Chip DunhamCandorville, by Darrin Bell
― loudoun reston herndon munich (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
maybe u should bump the nom thread
― i too went to college (silby), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/16
always thought this plugger character looked like Roger Ebert
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/07/30
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
seems relevant
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
so uh is there a deadline?
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
I think I'll be ready to do rollout in Oct so lets make the hard deadline the end of Sept. plz get ur ballots in!!!!
― Mordy , Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
on related note, my first cul de sac collection just arrived by post
nice feature about flook at tcj today.
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
i have 16 ballots in - i want to start rollout next week. can we get 4 more to make it an even 20??
― Mordy , Saturday, 28 September 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
ok fine I'll do a ballot.
― Viceroy, Sunday, 29 September 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
me too! should i get it in tonight?
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Sunday, 29 September 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
yes plz!
― Mordy , Sunday, 29 September 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
I will vote tomorrow, or not at all.
― i too went to college (silby), Sunday, 29 September 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
voted!
did anyone get to the full top 40? i gave up at 20, i don't know if there actually are that many good comics. too many candidates for the 5 worst list, though.
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Sunday, 29 September 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
I think i did forty
― erect, sporadic, notorious, genitals (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 September 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
I did a full-40 ballot.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Sunday, 29 September 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
I did 40 without difficulty.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 29 September 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I had to cut down to 40.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Sunday, 29 September 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
okay time to do this
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 30 September 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
:( just cutting things I haven't been exposed to or have been and didn't feel like should get any points I only have 32 on my list, kind of a sad ballot, oh well
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 30 September 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
sent
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 30 September 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
wait no
i misread the first few posts and tried sending to "ilxstripper"
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 30 September 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
whatever, OTHER PEOPLE VOTE YAY COMIX
how many ballots you got now?
― deez so unusual (some dude), Saturday, 19 October 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
i have 20 exactly - results to come
― Mordy , Saturday, 19 October 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
sweet
― deez so unusual (some dude), Saturday, 19 October 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
Scary Gary started out kinda weak, but it's gotten darker and funnier over the last year or so.
http://assets.amuniversal.com/7ddab350183201312ebf001dd8b71c47
― Victor Immature (WilliamC), Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
?
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
Yeah are we gonna get the results?
― Viceroy, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
i predict a landslide for marmaduke
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
― fit and working again, Monday, 20 January 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
he's a giant dog
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
i was just bumping the thread and echoing the previous queries.
― fit and working again, Monday, 20 January 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
i know, jokes bruv
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 January 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
iirc Mordy mentioned upthread somewhere that he and Mordywife were expecting an incoming tiny Mordy at some point
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Monday, 20 January 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
http://arloandjanis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2010-02-16-jogging.gif
― pplains, Friday, 14 February 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
http://arloandjanis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2005-03-29-polaroid.gif
I haven't stopped by the A&J page in months, and I swear these were the first strips I saw.
― pplains, Friday, 14 February 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
mordy, did you ever want to pass along the results to someone else to post? I'd do it i guess.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 June 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/F0IU1vL.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
idgi
― Nhex, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
i'm gonna take this on.For the record, each vote counts as one vote; i gotta take these as unweighted ballots.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 June 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Panel Discussion - The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 June 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link