Panel Discussion - The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results

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?

threw it a bone, you mean

Was it this one?

http://comicbooth.com/images/pluggers_beach.jpg

98: Medium Large by Francesco Marciuliano (25 points)
(already posted)

=97: Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens (28 points)
(already posted)

=97: MOON MULLINS by Frank Willard (28 points, 2 votes)
Toonopedia

Moon Mullins, created by cartoonist Frank Willard (1893–1958), had a long run as both a daily and Sunday from 1923 to 1991. The strip depicts the lives of diverse lowbrow characters who reside at the Schmaltz (later Plushbottom) boarding house. The central character, Moon (short for Moonshine), is a would-be prizefighter—perpetually strapped for cash but with a roguish appetite for vice and high living. Moon took a room in the boarding house at 1323 Wump Street in 1924 and never left, staying on for 67 years. (Wikipedia)

http://www.comicstripfan.com/newspaper/m/moonmullins/MoonMullins19400122.jpg

http://www.comicstripfan.com/newspaper/m/moonmullins/MoonMullins19470521.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/149/1105/1024/mm450118.jpg

I voted for Sluggy Freelance almost exclusively because of the first Kitten storyline, which is what I first read. The strip is very heavily serialized, to the point where pulling out individual daily strips is almost an exercise in futility. It also devolved into self-referential nonsense several years ago and I don't read it anymore aside from checking in every few months to see if a particular storyline has finished.

"Kitten" starts before this strip with some background material but this is where the meat of the story starts. Like pretty much every Sluggy storyline it's best read as a whole rather than in daily format. It's also not as funny 14 years later but there are still some good bits.

Was it this one?

― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, June 24, 2014 3:22 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, it was this one.

http://comicbooth.com/images/pluggers_multiboobs.jpg

classic unnecessary anatomic correctness