Panel Discussion - The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results

-How does the sap know when it's time to come up again?
-How do you know when it's time to play marbles.

two volumes for 80 bucks seems reasonable.

but that's actually eleven volumes for over $800, p much the exact opposite of what Ward was wishing for

King stepped down from the Sundays in 1951

there IS a Maresca / Ware table-sized best-of though! if I had a home I'd probably be ordering it in one drink's time

that book is the size of a table and not so much physically affordable
though i've been tempted

if you're going to do a best of may as well print it at the proper size imo

I got bought it for Christmas and blimey it's huge.

proper size should probably involve fitting onto a bookshelf imo
i'm glad this stuff exists for library use but the vogue for gargantuoversized reprint/artist proofs is steering me away rather than to purchase these days

23: THE BOONDOCKS by Copy & Paste (118 points, 6 votes)
Universal

The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. Created by McGruder in 1996 for Hitlist.com, an early online music website, it was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine The Source in 1997. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate for debut on April 19, 1999. A popular and controversial strip, The Boondocks satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman

Am I missing something...is this getting updated elsewhere?

It's maintaining it's usual schedule.

It seems a mammoth undertaking, and given how many books it's prompted me to search out, I would probs go broke if sic updated any faster!

the last four were posted on July 6 (2x), July 8 and July 12 tho

I did the album/tracks poll for a few years so i know how much of a pita it can be but no one was commenting either, i thought maybe it migrated to a part 2 thread or something...

First post in this thread: We should be done by 2015.

This poll has changed hands once, been subject to a NSFW parody thread and contains Garfield*. I'm just happy that it hasn't come to a complete grinding halt (right?).

* I voted for this, for childhood nostalgia/easy-to-draw-with-tracing-paper reasons.

I like the pace - it's always a nice surprise when a new result pops up.

can't believe you guys scared off all the Boondocks fans right when they were about to start talking about how good Boondocks is, smh

you are the worst poll master in history and i'm including the supreme court

can't believe forks scared them off again with this unchecked aggression >:(

you are bad at this and you should feel bad about it

anyway, have a Kurtzman (?) / Elder parody of Li'l Abner from the unreprinted Trump:

http://www.printmag.com/wp-content/uploads/WillElder_Abner-1200w.jpg

i have this signed litho in my living room
http://www.deniskitchen.com/xprod/SP_HK.timesquare.bg.jpg

I just saw this photo for the first time today - Will Elder and Al Jaffee in high school

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qhjnzeul1qjwbbvo1_500.jpg

Elder on the right, there.

I so strongly coveted that print when Kitchen discovered the leftovers, but would never have anywhere to hang it

i think mine was bought first gen, my father found it in someone's attic framed and got it as a favor

22: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE by Lynn Johnston (121 points, 6 votes)
FBorFW.com

But “For Better Or For Worse” included both jokes and long, sometimes serious story-lines about its central figures, the Patterson family. When the strip began in 1979, daughter Elizabeth was a toddler. By the time the strip ended in 2008, she was a teacher and step-mother. Son Michael grew from a preschooler to a journalist and father. Over the course of those 30 years, parents John and Elly Patterson had another daughter, April. They saw the death of the beloved family dog, and tackled serious issues including divorce, sexual harassment, and a major character’s coming out. And yet even in the midst of these Very Special Story Lines, the strip remained genuinely funny, low-key, and warm.

I wasn't around during the start of this poll but I might make a ballot anyways once the results come in.

I collect comic strips and not comics. Recently I have been buying the early Complete Peanuts Box Sets and The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The latter is actually way better than the former but Donald Duck books are an entirely different beast than Charlie Brown. I absolutely love the Donald Duck and Scrooge stories.

My ballot would put Little Nemo, Calvin and Hobbes and Krazy Kat way towards the top.

I'm not sure what constitutes a comic strip versus a comic. Anyone care to clarify? What was allowed in this poll? Was Donald Duck and Frank comics nominated?

Strips are short-form (one panel to one page, generally, although stuff like The Spirit stretches a little further), traditionally printed in newspapers and, later, online. Frank would be ineligible since it's only been printed in comic book form. Carl Barks/Don Rosa Donald Duck would be ineligible for the same reason, but Donald Duck also appeared in a newspaper strip which would have been eligible.

Is the reboot still a reboot? It just seems like more work to go back and recreate everything with the same toothless results than it would be to start something completely different.

http://i.imgur.com/1Wg3KAl.gif

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Never forget

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I collect comic strips and not comics. [...]

I'm not sure what constitutes a comic strip versus a comic.

Poll on hold again until the Captain's ballot comes in.

i always doubt that the eyes are really blinking in that boxcar gif

sic just admit you never want this poll to end

If you wanna beat my PS2 poll procrastination record, you've got a long way to go. I initially set the ballot deadline for April 1 2010 and posted the #1 game December 21 2012. 995 days. Just sayin you have to wait until March 30th 2016 to post your number one if you wanna take my belt.

i always doubt that the eyes are really blinking in that boxcar gif

I had forgotten all about that until I was scanning the whole "Grandpa Has a Stroke" series earlier to find boxcar. At first, I thought I was the one having a stroke.

Today I saw that Fantagraphics are bringing out Barks reprints in a small, two rows per page paperback format, so that the story looks more like a newspaper strip than a comic book. Are Fantagraphics fucking with Barks' page layouts when they present the work in this way?

http://www.fantagraphics.com/goldenhelmet/

yes, but the early works were heavy grid layouts.
i think those reprint books are meant for kids

Hey, Fantagraphics, maybe instead of indulging your unsavory tendency of reissuing multiple versions of the same material, you could maybe put a little more effort into keeping the less-than-a-year-old output from your other Duck project in print: http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Uncle-Scrooge-Donald/dp/1606997815/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1442605166&sr=8-8

(P.S. If anyone can hook me up with a copy of that Don Rosa slipcover set for less than $2,342, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm looking more in the $1,500 price range, if possible.)

lol, i have a copy. had no idea it went out of print so fast

Both of those are marked as

✔ In stock

I'll sell it to you for $1500. It might not ship from my house...

(P.S. If anyone can hook me up with a copy of that Don Rosa slipcover set for less than $2,342, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm looking more in the $1,500 price range, if possible.)

$110 at abebooks

instead of indulging your unsavory tendency of reissuing multiple versions of the same material

also is there anything at all they've done this with in the last 35 years apart from making eg baseball-themed Peanuts collections for the gift market, and colour Sunday collections of Peanuts strips that they last-and-only issued an edition of over a decade ago? not counting Free Comic Book Day or Love & Rockets Sampler giveaways?

http://i.imgur.com/wu1X3rK.jpg

haha she always has to hide her binge eating.

http://i.imgur.com/uo5usY3.jpg

=21: DINOSAUR COMICS by Ryan North (123 points, 5 votes)
qwantz.com

Spiritual sequel to Lunch’s Angriest Dog, in which the exact same panels get new dialogue every week or whenever.

http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-590.png
http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-762.png
http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1838.png

lol *Lynch

=21: HARK! A VAGRANT by Kate Beaton (123 points, 6 votes)
Hark! A Vagrant

Perhaps the greatest success of the third webcomics era, Beaton literally went from posting napkin scrawls on livejournal to the NYT bestseller list. Without continuing characters or a regular schedule, and flitting from one semi-esoteric interest to another, a huge audience has accumulated simply for Beaton's sensibility. Historical costumes, bad childrens novels, feminist heroes, fat ponies and sketchbook diaries about her family all jumble together on one site, with Beaton's loose, vibrant line and sense of humour the unifying factor.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/history/poevernesm.png
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http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/HOPUB/BEETHOVENBIRTHDAY_dec_lrg._V390133988_.jpg

http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/brontessm.jpg
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http://www.harkavagrant.com/history/franklinfinal.png

http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/spidermansm.png
http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5zv2eB63v1qbb9d7o1_500.jpg

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Rah!Rah! The Comic Strip Poll resumes

Boooooooo! to Dinosaur Comics

19: CUL DE SAC by Richard Thompson (124 points, 8 votes)
The Complete, in paperback

Already a busy illustrator and cartoonist of the weekly panel Richard's Poor Almanac, Thompson added a daily to his schedule in 2007. Lasting five years before his retirement due to Parkinsons, it brought a liveliness of attitude, line, colouring and sheer cartooning ability to an American newspaper landscape that appeared beyond such things. A spiritual sequel to Peanuts and especially Calvin & Hobbes in its focus on the interior lives of pre-schoolers (and sometimes the travails of the adults dealing with them, and how much of a childish spirit one can carry into a world of adult responsibilities), the strip remains resolutely underivative, with entirely distinct characters. If the entire marketplace wasn't terminal, and the strip's life so unfortunately curtailed, Alice and Petey Otterloop would be going down in history as the last great characters of the American newspaper comics page.

http://www.heroesonline.com/images/blog/creators/thompson-r_cul-de-sac_donuts.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D4lxVYwvFTY/UJD723ulJJI/AAAAAAAAGMo/EmwitLEGbnA/s640/halloween+cul+de+sac.gif
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/culdesacneuro2.gif

best strip in generations

Also, I realized comics.com has Richard's Poor Almanac reruns so I'm getting to read new (to me) Thompson work.

Didn't realise there was a complete Cul De Sac, wish list time