golf, amirite? ilx's comic strip voting thread is now open

man, if Cathy doesn't rank high in the "worst comic strips ever" poll, I basically don't even know you people

ACK!!

huh amazingly only one of my five worst managed to make the nomination list

"amazingly"

one of the alltime worst strips:

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

i'm not a fan or anything but 'cathy' won't be on my worst list -- there are probably at least five things on the nominations list i think are worse.

I know Oglaf is basically a porn comic, but it's a surprisingly funny porn comic. It was mentioned on twitter a year or so ago by Dylan Horrocks or Scott McCloud (I don't remember which) and I became a fan pretty quickly.

omfg how the hell did I forget about PLUGGERS

xkcd may have just won a reprieve

i hope everyone remembers to vote for questionable content as worst comic ever, bc i'm fairly certain it is

I'd never seen Pluggers before. What the fuck?

ha I have avoided QC like the plague so I can't in good conscience vote it the worst since I've never read it

also Pluggers has the distinction of being one of a very small number of comic strips that have caused me to scream obscenities at a newspaper

some other really strong eras of doonesbury?

GBT came back strong from his sabbatical, so yeah, 1984-1986 was a good Doonesbury time. That era features Inside Reagan's Brain, the USA for Africa series and Mike & JJ's newlywed years.

1988-1991 was also pretty good. (May as well just say 1984-91.) You had invisible Bush, the Persian Gulf War, Raoul Duke managing the David Duke campaign...

hated the Mr. Butts stuff and Mike's kid brother's Captain Condom phase or whatever that was doesn't rank high with me.

only 3 ballots in so far. let's get some campaigning and some voting going on this fine weekend!

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Did you get my poll, Mordy?

wow I messed up big on the nominations

Ward Fowler, I did receive your ballot. Drugs A. Money: what did you mess up on? Maybe we can still fix it.

Also - more ballots please!

http://mediumlarge.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/sally-forth-ending.jpg

Francesco Marciuliano's original comic - Medium Large - ^ (he is also the current writer on the real Sally Forth)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef011570961c98970b-pi

Here's a classic that wasn't nominated:

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/50b8c3f1ecad045154000001-480/bazooka-joe.jpg

With sales of Bazooka bubble gum down, Bazooka Candy Brands announced in November of 2012 that they will no longer include the comic strip in their packaging. The new wrapper will include brain teasers, instructions, and codes that can be used to unlock videos and video games.

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Mondays got you down? Submit a ballot to the ilx comic strip poll!

I know Oglaf is basically a porn comic, but it's a surprisingly funny porn comic. It was mentioned on twitter a year or so ago

could be Horrocks, if he knew the creators from Platinum Grit twenty years ago

I see B4yne shoeless at my bus stop and local banh mi shop a lot

http://www.weeklystorybook.com/.a/6a0105369e6edf970b0147e158fbef970b-800wi

http://assets.amuniversal.com/ce043c90dd18012fe7fd001dd8b71c47

comic strip bumps very much in character -- afaik the only explicitly jewish family in the funny pages:

http://www.weeklystorybook.com/.a/6a0105369e6edf970b0120a96ecc2c970b-800wi

(^ edge city)

Here's a classic that wasn't nominated:

do you mean Bazooka Joe, or the detournement of it by "Robby Reed"? If the latter, how many did he do?

I meant original Bazooka Joe, sorry for the confusion.

poor bazooka joe and his sexual ineptitude xp

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I missed the noms poll but would like to add:
Henry, by Carl Anderson
Sherman's Lagoon, by Jim Toomey
Shoe, by Jeff MacNelly
Jump Start, by Robb Armstrong
Overboard, by Chip Dunham
Candorville, by Darrin Bell

consider them all added -- everyone feel free to add them to your ballots

nah

Oh yeah, Shoe

Shoe was very good for a long time but when it dropped it fell hard.

QC isnt on this list, haters (lol)

Shoe was very good for a long time but when it dropped it fell hard.

iswydt

I wondered if anyone was going to catch that.

i was gonna nominate dilby but the website isn't there anymore

can i just vote for kate beaton 40 times?

fwiw, here's a review I wrote of the most recent Beaton collection a few years ago:

http://www.metropulse.com/news/2011/oct/05/kate-beaton-makes-comics-about-pirates-nancy-drew/

dang, no snake 'n' bacon

i nominate snake 'n' bacon

http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20090728-snakenbacon.jpg

everybody vote now

cyanide & happiness - when it's off, it's off, but when it's on, it's hilarious.

better than stickman from xcd or whatever.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m464f3tr2t1rrrp7no1_400.jpg

Did White Boy get reprinted anywhere? All I've seen of it has been the few incredible strips in the smithsonian book.

there is a larger selection of full colour white boy strips in dan nadel's essential anthology Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969, along with a number of other very interesting and obscure american newspaper strips - but no, there is no complete collection of it, sadly

some of the best use of colour in any newspaper strip imho:

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/p/price_garrett/price_whiteboy.jpg

the nadel bk also introduced me to (the comic book version) of Jack Mendelsohn's incredible early 1960s strip Jacky's Diary, which i'm sure if there was collection of it would make my top 40:

http://library.osu.edu/blogs/cartoons/files/2012/11/JackysDiaryWashington.jpg

also there's an issue of the comics journal that reprints a good amount of white boy strips.

Aww man, I almost missed this completely! Pretty late to be nominating stuff, but Pokey the Penguin is pretty great.

consider it nominated and ballots are still being accepted

sent

wait no

i misread the first few posts and tried sending to "ilxstripper"

whatever, OTHER PEOPLE VOTE YAY COMIX

how many ballots you got now?

i have 20 exactly - results to come

sweet

Scary Gary started out kinda weak, but it's gotten darker and funnier over the last year or so.

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Yeah are we gonna get the results?

i predict a landslide for marmaduke

?

he's a giant dog

i was just bumping the thread and echoing the previous queries.

i know, jokes bruv

iirc Mordy mentioned upthread somewhere that he and Mordywife were expecting an incoming tiny Mordy at some point

http://arloandjanis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2010-02-16-jogging.gif

http://arloandjanis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2005-03-29-polaroid.gif

I haven't stopped by the A&J page in months, and I swear these were the first strips I saw.

mordy, did you ever want to pass along the results to someone else to post? I'd do it i guess.

http://i.imgur.com/F0IU1vL.jpg

idgi

i'm gonna take this on.
For the record, each vote counts as one vote; i gotta take these as unweighted ballots.

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