Panel Discussion - The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results

oh shit, a stick figure comic that I forgot to add to my "worst comics" list. (you're going to post those too, right forks?)

at some point

That last Dudley Watkins strip is The Broons, not Oor Wullie.

Am I really the only person that voted for it?

I think I voted for the Broons but not Oor Wullie - in both cases it's really only the post-war Watkins stuff I like

Actually, I might have done that too now I think about it.

i don't think i voted for nedroid but i find it super enjoyable

I liked my life better 20 minutes ago when I didn't know that John Campbell had ever existed.

I really like the art on Mutts. It would be so much better if the guy who draws it would work with a writer to give it a little more substance than a Hallmark card.

I forgot to vote (or I'm guessing even nominate) a strip that thus will likely not appear here. RIP, Wildwood.

xp -- otm. I quit reading Mutts a few years ago. I didn't want it to charm me, I wanted it to be funny.

I think the strips with the crab are pretty funny. I wish it was just about the crab.

oh cool, didn't realize this was happening. thanks for taking the reins, forks.

hey J.D. and DJP - your ballots look like they're meant to be in order; am I assuming correctly?

I have no recollection of my ballot so I will say "yes"

had to look mine up -- yes it is.

ta dudes.

i think i voted in this poll? was it polled a long time ago? idk

you did

haha cool! thanks

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Your diligent ordering of ballots has now been taken into account and the ILX COMIC STRIPS AND SHORT WEBCOMICS AND SOME OTHER THINGS POLL will imminently resume. We start just outside the top 100, due to clustering of ties.

103: THE ANGRIEST DOG IN THE WORLD by David Lynch (24 points)
Lynch fansite

“The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.” Filmmaker / visual artist / composer Lynch’s strip ran with the same four panels and different dialogue weekly in the LA Reader, New York Press and other alt-weeklies from 1983 to 1992, and was later revived on davidlynch.com

did the thread just start over?

Sic is driving from here on in; I don't believe we're starting over

Think this is now the tally of all strips that got more than one vote. The single votes were "honorable placers" or something.

I didn't get around to voting (unless my memory is *really* bad), but probably would've tossed off a vote for the Angriest Dog in the World. Real comics fans should probably be glad I didn't vote, as most of my choices would've been webcomics. Not the super shitty stick figure webcomics (though actually I think stick figures *can* work, sometimes), but still webcomics.

It's a soft reboot.

The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results NOW!

sic, would it be possible to also tell us how many people voted for each strip? also, the names of everyone who voted for bloom county. thanks

Can we get a breakdown of left-handed vs right-handed voters?

=102: SLUGGY FREELANCE by Pete Abrams (25 points)
Sluggy.com

One of the first successful, and probably the longest successful, native web strip. Has evolved from daily gags to long arcs, but still uses something like Comic Sans for lettering.

how many votes did that get?

(obv i'm stoned bc i just realized i could check myself nm) it looks kinda terrible tho esp that second example

that is atrocious

1 vote for Sluggy Freelance. Obv the voter is welcome to provide better examples than I found!

(sorry, I didn't tally number of votes when I ran the numbers. Happy to check on specific examples, and forks and Mordy feel free to answer if I'm away for timezone reasons!)

or as long as I remember I'll include them

=102: SCARY GARY by Mark Buford (25 points, 1 vote)
Universal

Cold, staring eyes mesmerize their victim's attention as sharp teeth nuzzle into the necks of the surprised captive. The warm blood eases the vampire's hunger pangs and desire for life.. . But after a while, a vampire gets older and wants to quit working. That's where Mark Buford steps in. The creator of "Scary Gary" gives fans an inside view on the life of a 700-year-old retired vampire and his evil but very funny friends. (TheCartoonists.ca)

Let’s try some others.
http://www.thecartoonists.ca/images/MarkBuford1.jpg
https://thedailyfunnies.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/11-10-10-scary-gary.png

And a couple of links to different ones just in case:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9kqk7YrbOBc/SlJ1TqC5SQI/AAAAAAAAA8c/WQvU9QjWe4c/s400/sunday+1.gif
http://gocomics.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5f3053ef019aff6d6159970b-800wi

lol ok that's pretty charming. it reminds me a little of joann sfar's vampire in love (tho cruder + more comic strippy)

Assuming that CTRL + ALT + DEL will be Top 40 material.

yeah, Scary Gary is the first one I've found so far that I'd never heard of, but thought I'd enjoy finding in a newspaper, if I read a newspaper

i continue to read the comics page of the newspaper at the same place i read them as a child - my parent's kitchen table. they're the only ppl i know who sub to a newspaper!

Wrapping up the outside-the-top-100:

=102: Dry Bones by Yaakov Kirschen (25 points)
(already posted)

=102: The Magic Whistle by Sam Henderson (25 points)
(already posted)

One vote each, obv. Angriest Dog In The World got 4.

I cant remember if I can voted in this but angriest dog and magic whistle showing up make me think that I did.

Fuck hat!

I guess I was the Scary Gary voter? It's on my ballot anyway, down at #16. It's still one of my daily reads. (I follow a couple dozen strips with my morning coffee on my pixelated newspaper.)

Pluggers better get like 90 votes because if it doesn't, this one's coming out any time someone starts talking some shit.

http://comixtalk.com/images/jun2007/sluggy3.gif

There were 19 voters.

One of whom was Shakey.

Sploosh

Just found the worst awful my eyes my eyes Pluggers On The Beach panel during a smart-aleck Google Image Search, so I'll just shutthefuckup now.

I know I nominated Dry Bones but I don't think I voted, so somebody else threw it a vote?