Panel Discussion - The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results

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

[redacted picture of whiney g]

=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

[redacted picture of whiney g]

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.

81: Oor Wullie by Dudley Watkins (35 points, 1 vote)
(already posted)

Kin-Der-Kids rules. I'm about 90% certain I voted for it.

=80: THE BROONS by Dudley Watkins (36 points, 1 vote)
Scotland’s Greatest Cartoonist

Also created by R.D. Low and Dudley Watkins in 1936, but about the laughs and struggles of a large working-class family living in a single flat. “There were very, very, few cartoonists in the world producing work of the quality of Watkins's work. The Broons pages contained less panels than the more action-orientated Oor Wullie, so there was more of a canvas for Watkins to experiment on. His command of perspective and shifting points of view was almost peerless and I think, with the exception of a handful of European and American greats, like Winsor McCay, it would be difficult to think of a more talented and influential cartoonist. He truly was one of the all-time greats.” - McKie

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iB_EdMEPk6Y/Ss6AGScAmkI/AAAAAAAAEFY/Np0gHe2ZW6g/s1600-h/broons1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iB_EdMEPk6Y/Ss6AFzIzP_I/AAAAAAAAEFQ/PWAGTC-BJCI/s1600-h/broons2.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Klfz36T6_so/Tba_6tH2wpI/AAAAAAAAGJk/tDq4PUeJH0I/s1600/scan0156.jpg

I voted for both of these and the article sic linked to is kind of right - effortlessly beautiful, I guess his closest peer is maybe Frank King?

=80: A Lesson Is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible by Dale and David (36 points, 1 vote)
(already posted)

=80: CURTIS by Ray Billingsley (36 points, 3 votes)
Awards and Distinctions: The President's Award from the American Lung Association

Curtis details the day-to-day life of a close-knit contemporary African-American family living in the inner city.  It is a comic work that does not fit easily in any category.  Though it mainly features children, it is not necessarily “child-themed.”  It can be humorous, thought-provoking, topical in subject and have bursts of pure zany fantasy.
Sometimes falling victim to censoring, Curtis is best welcomed by those modern free-thinkers who appreciate it for the work of art it is.  It is often called "The Thinking-Man’s Strip,” for its witty approach, satire and use of storylines with an unexpected twist.

http://chrispearce.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/curtis3.jpg

http://aalbc.com/authors/images/cut80606.gif

https://comicskingdom.com/system/blog/2012/12/15.jpg

not a bad strip but his drawing style has never appealed to me

Why have some things already been posted?

there was an initial listing of everything that got one vote

no, I don't know why

xpost
iirc we began w/ forks' unsorted first take and we are now on sic's sorted second edition, so a few of the low entries have already been printed first time round?

i'm about 90% certain i voted for the broons

http://joshreads.com/images/08/07/i080703curtis.jpg