Panel Discussion - The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results

an okay selection here: http://www.tijuana-bibles.com/tijuanabible-comics.html

http://www.tijuana-bibles.com/comicpics/snowwhite/snowhite-pg4.jpg

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=94: THE FART PARTY by Julia Wertz (30 points, 2 votes)
The Comic Formerly And Regrettably Known As ‘The Fart Party’

Web-based outlet for blackout autobiographical one-pagers; after the first two book collections, Wertz moved away from the name and further into long-form, more analytical stories about her adult life.

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=94: BAD MACHINERY (30 points, 1 vote)
Scary Go Round

Set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and loosely based on characters and situations from John Allison's previous webcomic, Scary Go Round. The story of Bad Machinery picks up three years after the end of Scary Go Round and involves two groups of schoolchildren that investigate mysteries. - wikipedia

what I was posting was less offensive than that

Why didn't you vote for something better, then?

=94: JL8 by Yale Stewart (30 points, 1 vote)
(already posted)

Aw, I really like Bad Machinery.

Me too.

Whiney's critiques of comics are always so nuanced and analytical, you guys are right to feel shamed

Trying to get Whiney threadbanned for posting an image from one of the honored comic strips has been the funniest thing I've seen in this thread so far.

Well, besides this knee-slapper, of course.

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

I love Bad Machinery too! The Bad Machinery / Scarygoround / Bobbins universe is also one for your "comics where the characters age in approximately realtime" thread; was pleased recently to see Eustace "The Boy" all growed up, and to note that two of the Bad Machinery kids appear as primary school kids in Scarygoround.

Anyhow I didn't vote because I don't know much about real paper comics and feared the wrath of people who do.

tl;dr newsie-wewsies. Speaking of which:

in the 90s the Mail on Sunday used to do a whole pull-out cartoon section that printed both Fred Bassett and Marmaduke, as well as a load of other US syndicated strips!

My Nan's neighbour saved this for me every week late 80s to at least mid 90s. Things I remember it including: Fred Bassett, Marmaduke, Robotman/Monty, Wizard of Id (BC too?), Crock, Herman, The Born Loser, Shoe, the horrible Love Is..., maybe Garfield? I suspect many of these are not very good but I have childhood/Nan-related nostalgia for some of them anyway; see also the Gambols (nod to Ward Fowler's mention).

I love Julia Wertz

me itt

http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/custom/images/2012/01/24_cantornoreaction1.gif

enjoying it tho; mordy otm upthread

http://i.colnect.net/images/f/103/449/Garfield-Waiting.jpg

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-dLFDRSd/0/1050x10000/i-dLFDRSd-1050x10000.jpg

sic, i abdicated this thread cause I thought you wanted to handle it... do you want to hand it back over, or....?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/business/media/jay-maeder-67-newspaperman-who-wrote-annie-comic-strip-dies.html

To think he didn't get to see this thread end.

=91: Mafalda by Quino (31 points, 1 vote)
(already posted)

=91: Pictures for Sad Children by John Campbell (31 points, 1 vote)
(already posted)

=91: MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM by Mike Peters (31 points, 2 votes)
Grimmy

The strip revolves around a yellow dog named Grimm, owned by an anthropomorphic goose named Mother Goose, along with a dimwitted Boston Terrier named Ralph and a cat named Attila. The strip is noted for its references to popular culture or recent news ,such as Grimm's creation of a website known as "GrimmyLeaks," devoted to publishing rumors relating to fellow comic strip characters). The comic strip also makes multiple references to iconic fictional characters including Mr. Potato Head, Superman, Batman, and more, along with popular products including Amazon Kindles. -wikipedia

oof those punchlines

88: FOOTROT FLATS by Murray Ball (32 points, 2 votes)
a fansite last updated in 2005

Beginning as a local strip by an actual Kiwi farmer, quickly grew to huge popularity, with book collections selling millions in Australia, and a theatrical feature animation in 1987 spawning a #1 single in both countries. Focussing on the nitty-gritty of farming and rural town life, but remaining hilarious, and featuring the best dog lead-ish character in strip history. Ball later became New Zealand’s Dave Sim.

http://www.townsvilletale.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/footrotflats_006.jpg

http://www.footrot-flats.net2go.info/images/the_dog_01.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NMXMSTec_BY/UNpla4LZjYI/AAAAAAAAEaQ/h7qysy9dyWg/s1600/footrot9.jpg

http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n590/rmacfarl/Footrot%20Flats/Dolores.jpg

http://www.oneil.com.au/footrot/comics/ff17_15a.gif

best dog lead-ish character in strip history

...

have some more

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/rangi_zps8b357f88.jpg

http://furrypause.com/cartoons/footrotflats/strip/ff_strip0002.jpg

http://www.oneil.com.au/footrot/comics/ff19_15a.gif

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/angry/mothergooseandgrimm2008-08-17.jpg

jesus h christ

ummmmmmmmm

maybe you should go back to posting cartoon tits

Mike Peters won a Pulitzer Prize! It was for his editorial cartoons though, not Mother Goose and Grimm

He who protests the loudest... I think I know who our two MG&G voters were!

Ball later became New Zealand’s Dave Sim.

lol is this true?

https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/tq/255230707.jpg

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=87: DENNIS THE MENACE by Hank Ketcham (33 points, 2 votes)
Complete Ketcham books

Single-panel family comedy, twee-to-vapid subject matter, magnificent line and design.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2126/1553740369_46bddd0708_o.jpg

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/4734/6841448_1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/lefthanded_zpsfdd8f4ba.jpg

http://cdn.coollinesartwork.com/Images/Category_2/subcat_42987/aDennis10131970s.jpg

http://cdn.coollinesartwork.com/Images/Category_2/subcat_42987/aDennis10261979.jpg

http://sekotsstudiosblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/dennis-the-menace-daily-1979-11-08.jpg

Nice to see a Ketcham original there, tho' I'm not expert enough to detect the work of his assistants.

Well that's better than the other "Jackson" panel I've seen

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The other Jackson panel, ftr.

=87: HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Dik Browne (33 points, 3 votes)
fansite with both Dik and Chris

Domestic Viking lols. ”The strip is a caricature and loose interpretation of medieval Scandinavian life,” per Wikipedia.

http://cdn.coollinesartwork.com/Images/Category_2/subcat_34001/Thumbs/HagarD1973.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ah2Y1SNOrfE/TrakTBkfgkI/AAAAAAAAAEk/h7XxaRsjbR4/s1600/hagarthe%2Bhorrible.gif

http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_3563/subcat_34001/Thumbs/HagarTheHorrible815th1980DikBrowne,insideBathroom.jpg

I always though Hagar was a British strip, I think because of these ads?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTlzYf1HJ8

he was published in The Sun for a long time, as a kid i also assumed it was a British strip even tho i knew Peanuts wasn't so must've been aware that international syndication existed

concorde244 6 years ago

I was the one who got Hagar's voice Changed to Micheal Elphic the original voice was Brian Glover (bless his soul never to be replaced) but his voice was too high pitch so they changed it

=85: Howard the Duck by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan (34 points, 1 vote)
(already posted)

=85: Death to the Extremist by Michael Zole (34 points, 1 vote)
not even nominated

=85: Cheech Wizard by Vaughn Bode (34 points, 1 vote)
(already posted)

=85: THE KIN-DER-KIDS by Lyonel Feininger (34 points, 2 votes)
at the Billy Ireland

31-week elaborately-illustrated strip from 1906 by the German painter. Wikipedia: The Kin-der-Kids's "full-fledged, frankly suspenseful week-to-week continuity," writes cartooning historian Bill Blackbeard, was a "real innovation for the time" when even Winsor McCay's Little Nemo had not yet developed into ongoing stories. The artwork is lauded as well, and has been called "exquisitely drawn" in Time.

Art Spiegelman: “Feininger's visually poetic formal concerns collided comically with the fishwrap disposability of news print... The cartoonist, a New Yorker who had emigrated to Germany at sixteen and returned to safe harbor in America in 1937 became a celebrated second-generation cubist, one of the Bauhaus boys, but his handful of Sunday pages -- testing the uncharted waters between the high and low arts, between European and American graphic traditions--remains his greatest aesthetic triumph."[5]

http://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_albums/lyonelfeininger/Large%20Online%20Format/SFT96-1_1906-05-27_lrg.jpg

http://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_albums/lyonelfeininger/Large%20Online%20Format/SFT96-3_1906-09-09_lrg.jpg

http://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_albums/lyonelfeininger/Large%20Online%20Format/SFT96-4_1906-11-11_lrg.jpg

wow I guess Chris Ware must have been a fan of these, at least they seem similar to me

Feininger is what's up forever; it's a sin that his work is primarily out of print except for this
http://www.amazon.com/The-Comic-Strip-Lyonel-Feininger/dp/1560978201
all of kinder kids is like 60 pages fer crissakes

i have the kinder-kids collection, it's wonderful stuff.