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
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
some of the best use of colour in any newspaper strip imho:
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/p/price_garrett/price_whiteboy.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
also there's an issue of the comics journal that reprints a good amount of white boy strips.
― sleepingsignal, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
Aww man, I almost missed this completely! Pretty late to be nominating stuff, but Pokey the Penguin is pretty great.
― cwkiii, Saturday, 27 July 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
consider it nominated and ballots are still being accepted
― Mordy , Saturday, 27 July 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link
We have a few more days, right?
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 27 July 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― Mordy , Saturday, 27 July 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
Cool. I've been a lazy fuck and need more time.
And again, congrats to you and yours. More Mordys make me smile.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 27 July 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
Strips I would have nominated if I'd been in time:
Barack Hussein Obama by Steven WeissmanThree Word Phrase by Ryan PequinNedroid by ???Gunshow by KC GreenSpace Avalanche by ???
And Homestuck, just so that it's available for the "worst strips ever" list.
― Dan I., Saturday, 27 July 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
mordy did you get my ballot?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 27 July 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Yep- I got it!
― Mordy , Saturday, 27 July 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
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?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
Yep
― Mordy , Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Cool. I'll have the ballot to you shortly.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
Forgot about this, think I have my longlist somewhere - we still got a bit of time, right?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
There is still time!
― Mordy , Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
You should have mine now.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
ok shit I still have to vote. I'll get mine in soon.
― staind in the place where you live (crüt), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
Just about to send my ballot.
http://assets.amuniversal.com/b9e4caf0daa80130fcf3001dd8b71c47
One reason Arlo & Janis is top-5 for me.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 9 August 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
God how those two like to fuck.
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
Poor Gene has probably been sleeping with headphones on since he was a toddler.
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 02:56 (ten years ago) link
haha it took me like a full minute to understand that joke
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 9 August 2013 03:10 (ten years ago) link
WAIT imma vote today!! I just found this!!
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 August 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
a few months late to the game, but what on earth happened to:
Toothpaste for DinnerPearls Beforeo SwineGet FuzzyFoxTrotNonSequiter
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 August 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 9 August 2013 12:29 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OfUu2sy.gif
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Arlo is constantly craving sexual congress from his wife Janis.
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
It's a better schtick than "ACK! I'll be late for work!"
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 9 August 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Fuck, that reminds me, I didn't put Cathy on my "worst strips" ballot.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 9 August 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
ACK!
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
SUBMIT'D
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 August 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Monday, 12 August 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
guys it's ok just go shopping
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
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
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
idk Pluggers but I am having a hard time imagining something more embarrassing and reductive than Cathy
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
The art in Pluggers is 10K better than Cathy.
― pplains, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
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?
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, you might actually be right about Pluggers.
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 12:01 (ten years ago) link
I've been away from ILX for a while, can I still vote in this poll, or is it closed?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
I just read through two weeks of Pluggers strips and I am pretty sure I want to die
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Whenever I read Pluggers I am pretty sure I want to kill
― no one should be offended by the lyrics in this song (stevie), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link
never said I wasn't taking some pluggers out with me
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
― Tuomas, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:24 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Still open, I believe.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Still open, Tuomas, please vote!
― Mordy , Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
def think ilx should send in their fake pluggers and see if any of them get printed ("you know you're a plugger when you search in vain for the punchline to a comic strip" etc)
but as pplains sez, the artwork is far more accomplished than Cathy...or Dilbert
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
there's no denying that the artwork is more accomplished but in some ways that makes it worse, because someone is spending effort on drawing these painfully banal scenes into the lives of boring retirees
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link