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

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!

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

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Here's a classic that wasn't nominated:

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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

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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.

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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

We have a few more days, right?

bc of new baby actually longer. i wish i could give a hard close date - i cannot - but i will bump this a ton before voting closes

Cool. I've been a lazy fuck and need more time.

And again, congrats to you and yours. More Mordys make me smile.

Strips I would have nominated if I'd been in time:

Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman
Three Word Phrase by Ryan Pequin
Nedroid by ???
Gunshow by KC Green
Space Avalanche by ???

And Homestuck, just so that it's available for the "worst strips ever" list.

mordy did you get my ballot?

Yep- I got it!

I've got my top 40 but I don't have a bottom 5. I don't pay attention to shit comic strips I've read once or twice so I don't know any names nor do I care. Is it okay if I just skip it?

Yep

Cool. I'll have the ballot to you shortly.

I'll send mine tonight as well. Just completed it but can't edit work email stuff out on my phone so will have to do it from the desktop at home.

Forgot about this, think I have my longlist somewhere - we still got a bit of time, right?

There is still time!

You should have mine now.

ok shit I still have to vote. I'll get mine in soon.

Just about to send my ballot.

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One reason Arlo & Janis is top-5 for me.

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

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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.

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idgi

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

Panel Discussion - The ILX Comic Strip Poll Results