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

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

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.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/b9e4caf0daa80130fcf3001dd8b71c47

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

God how those two like to fuck.

Poor Gene has probably been sleeping with headphones on since he was a toddler.

haha it took me like a full minute to understand that joke

WAIT imma vote today!! I just found this!!

a few months late to the game, but what on earth happened to:

Toothpaste for Dinner
Pearls Beforeo Swine
Get Fuzzy
FoxTrot
NonSequiter

Get Fuzzy and Foxtrot are on the list. I thought about Pearls when I was working on my ballot last night, but it definitely wouldn't have made my top 40.

http://i.imgur.com/OfUu2sy.gif

Arlo is constantly craving sexual congress from his wife Janis.

It's a better schtick than "ACK! I'll be late for work!"

Fuck, that reminds me, I didn't put Cathy on my "worst strips" ballot.

ACK!

SUBMIT'D

ACK!

guys it's ok just go shopping

but don't eat chocolates or you'll get fat, ACK!

really, the only thing keeping Cathy from being the absolute fucking worst is the existence of Pluggers

idk Pluggers but I am having a hard time imagining something more embarrassing and reductive than Cathy

The art in Pluggers is 10K better than Cathy.

http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/

America’s first interactive, reader-participation comic -- Pluggers chronicles the hardworking people the world depends on. They represent the 80 percent of humanity who unceremoniously keep plugging along -- balancing work, play and family life.

Is the POV sort of Mallard Fillmore + Stockholm Syndrome, or is it more apolitical?

Oh man, you might actually be right about Pluggers.

I've been away from ILX for a while, can I still vote in this poll, or is it closed?

I just read through two weeks of Pluggers strips and I am pretty sure I want to die