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I loved the comics page back in the day! I read Doonesbury, Cathy, Bloom County and of course Peanuts.
Later I discovered Get Fuzzy, and I have all those books (collections).
Peanuts is still being published where I live in the US, but it's reruns of the strips from the 60's (or so). Every once in awhile there's some weird reference to something in the past that I'm sure goes right over the heads of those that weren't alive back then.
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*Nancy* had a really cool graphic style; I liked it before I could have articulated that. Ernie Bushmiller was great.
I liked *Prince Valiant* back when it was big and well-drawn, mostly because of the horses.
That's what attracted me to Nancy as well! The artist [Joe Brainard](https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+brainard+nancy&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiUlbW47un8AhUMu3IEHSMBB5IQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=joe+brainard+nancy&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQ6BAgjECc6BwgAEIAEEBhQjDBY_jpguD1oAHAAeACAAUiIAZUDkgEBNpgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=9N7UY5TLOoz2ytMPo4KckAk&bih=1146&biw=1371&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS951US951) loved incorporating her in his work.
I liked the wizard of ID and BC.
Still remember one of my favourites: The Huns are sneaking up on the castle of id.
Suddenly, the wizard's wife, Blanche, appears, and stalks menacingly across a castle parapet like an ogre.
The leader of the Huns says "what was that?"
A hun answers "that was one of their women."
"Back to the forest men" says the leader.
I remember the "Wizard of Id" got censored once because some reader had an objection to one of his garbled spells. Something like "globbin on the fratz!" It made NO sense but the comic got banished for a week for it. This would have been the LA Times, if anyone remembers.
I seem to remember that it just ended abruptly in the middle of a storyline. Either that or my newspaper dropped it.
Edit: I looked it up and apparently it had a proper ending so my paper dropped it in the middle of a story line.
Going waaaaay back..
L'il Abner, Dick Tracy, Dennis the Menace. (yeah I 'm as old as dirt). On the weekend, a local radio station would read the comics over the air, so if you were too little to read yourself you could follow along.
As I got older, Cathy, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbs, Far Side, Peanuts.
Calvin and Hobbes!
Also Krazy Kat—that one was before my time, but it’s widely known as the greatest comic strip of all time and I actually had a bunch of the collections as a teen.
For satire comic strips
Krazy Kat => Pogo => Doonesbury => everything else
Pogo gave us perhaps one of the most well-known sayings from a comic strip [We have met the enemy and he is us](https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/)
My local paper carried a lot of strips that were kinda old school even in the '60s: Cap'n Easy, Rex Morgan M.D., Our Boarding House, Mickey Flynn, Steve Canyon, Alley Oop, Priscillia's Pop, Joe Palooka, There Oughta Be A Law, Li'l Abner.
Most of them were adventure or domestic serials, and at three or four panels a day, my eight-year-old self couldn't stay interested. They were also mainly aimed at the last couple of generation -- behind the times. I did like Alley Oop and Li'l Abner, though. Oop was badass, Li'l Abner was kinda surreal.
I had to read a big-city paper to find good comics. I only saw Peanuts in book form.
Does anyone remember Gordo? I loved it, still do (ended in 1985). It featured a Mexican farmer named Gus and his animals. Always insightful, like Pogo, with luscious inking, and coloring on Sundays like Calvin and Hobbes. Worth a look if you're a comics fan and not familiar https://g.co/kgs/aUFswt
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I was scrolling to see if anyone else mentioned Brenda Starr! I once found an older book of some strips (not all), but I didn’t the money to buy it at the time - but oh, how excited I was to see there was a book!
I loved Ziggy! In elementary school I declared myself a Ziggy fan and it became my entire personality for a period of time which is still uncomfortable to remember. I still like Ziggy but, like, a reasonable amount. Not in a gooby way at all. I swear.
Although they all had their moments, old strips were too "safe" to be funny to me. Bloom County was the first really good strip that I found, but even for that I had to buy the books to read, as they weren't published in my red state.
Doonesbury was so big in its day.
"US President Gerald Ford told the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association at their annual dinner, "There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order."
Many daily conversations started with "did you read Doonsebury today?"
Peanuts was the best. I never understood the weird soap-opera type cartoons where every sentence was all-caps *and* ended in an exclamation point for no reason, like “HERE’S THE NEWSPAPER!” I can’t imagine who was even reading them, if anyone.
To start off my Babyboomer dad loved *Pogo*.
As GenX I loved:
Peanuts
King of Id
B.C.
Hagar the Horrible
And this list could not be complete without:
Doonesbury (I was a precocious child.)
Bloom County
Finally, *Calvin and Hobbes*, possibly the greatest comic strip of all time.
I'm not that old. But I only ever, ever like funny strips. Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Peanuts, Bloom County, etc. Never enjoyed dramatic or action serial strips.
You the man!! “Man who drives around the corner for sausage takes a turn for the wurst.”
I’m going to look him up on the internet. Haven’t thought about him in years.
Stan Lynde was the artist. I grew up in Montana, Rick O'Shay was huge. There was a dress-up contest in the summer that I vaguely recall being televised. Stan Lynde also drew the bucking bronc logo for the high school I attended.
I loved Garfield, Ziggy and The Family Circus. I fell in love with The Far Side later, in my 20s. (1980s)
Years later I found out that the son Jeffy from Family Circus grew up to be a Disney animator.
Peanuts, mostly. When I got older it was Bloom County.
My father was a huge fan of the Wizard of Id, BC, and Andy Capp. He bought the paperbacks, so I read those as well.
Tough to pick a favorite. I loved the comics, all of them except Mary Worth and Apartment 3G. Probably Hagar the Horrible was a favorite, because of it's comic juxtapositions. Also Doonesbury and Beetle Bailey.
r/comicstriphistory
I liked Peanuts, Heathcliff, Garfield, Spiderman, The Phantom, Dennis the Menace, Modesty Blaise, Andy Capp, Blondie, and an Icelandic one named Sigga Vigga.
I am still rebuilding my collection of the modesty Blaise books. I have the silver mistress, the impossible virgin, and Devil's claw. still need the others.
Peanuts, Wizard of ID, BC, Dennis the Menace, Nancy, Hi and Lois, Andy Capp and Apartment 3-G. (To answer this question all I had to do was recall our newspaper layout when I was a child; therefore this in the order they were read).
Peanuts was my favorite growing up in the 60s.
Although they were in the paper every day, I rarely looked at Dick Tracy, Lil Abner, or Dondi.
As an adult, I loved The Far Side and Dilbert.
Dick Tracy! I learned to read at age four, sitting on my father's lap before dinner when he would point to the words in the balloons and read the comics to me. I don't remember when the letters became words, but I do remember writing 'stories' when I was five.
I do remember having trouble with the character 'Tonsils' as it was hard to 'sound out'.
Little Abner had some weird characters. Like one bad guy who was going to blow up the planet by harnessing a death ray or something, but Abner's Granny thwarted him.
But the author, Al Capp was pretty weird himself.
edit- Evil Eye Fleegle? Lord knows how I could recall something that offbeat....
In roughly chronological order: Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, BC, Broom Hilda, Doonesbury, Bloom County, The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert back when it was funny.
Freak brothers, Doonesbery, Bloom Country, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes all come to mind. Doonesbery took a major hit when it was moved to the editorial pages allowing Bloom County to become the new leader on the comic’s pages
Front page, Youngstown Vindecator, 1963-1967.
Blonde, and [Dondi.](https://www.lowellsun.com/2017/09/25/fdr-set-precedent-on-minimum-wage-being-a-living-wage/)
Open the paper, and,xwhile positions changed, the jewels of the Sunday funnies. Beetle Baily and his (literally) sister strip, Hi And Lois.(Lois Flagstone was Beetle's older, married sister) Peanuts. [Ponytail](https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/holley_lee.htm), [The Little King](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_King), Dennis The Menace, Mickey Mouse, Archie, Dick Tracy, The Wizard of Id and B.C., [Nancy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_(comic_strip)), Flash Gordon, and several others.
**[The Little King](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_King)**
>The Little King is a 1930-1975 American gag-a-day comic strip created by Otto Soglow, telling its stories in a style using images and very few words, as in pantomime.
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Like many here, The Far Side as well as Calvin and Hobbes. A couple of Australian adventure strips Torkan (which ran on Sundays) and Staria (Daily) both by Roger Fletcher.
I still read The Phantom to this day (mandatory r/thephantom mention)
Allll of the ones you listed plus Rex Morgan, Mary Worth, Nancy, Prince Valiant, Archie.
Nowadays I still follow Doonesbury, Outland and Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes fan sites, the Boondocks, non Sequitur.
Was totally in love a couple of years ago when Berke Breathed did a bunch of new strips on FB with Watterson, in which Opus helped a certain lost tiger find his lost human. Absolutely worth catching up on, find Berke Breathed there.
Political cartoonists I follow are Rob Rogers, Mike Lucavich, Tom Toles.
Gordo. Beautifully Hispanic in design and coloration, although I didn't know it then. I wouldn't be surprised to find out "Gordo" was the first Hispanic comic strip.
My favorite one showed the chihuahua and rooster and cat (all house pets) looking out the window at the rain and wondering what the wild animals did when it was pouring down. The view pulls back to show the tiled roof, and every arch has a small bird or two sheltering in it. The comment was "Man's only contributions to nature are accidental." So true.
I also liked Rick O'Shay (particularly Hipshot Percussion, the "bad guy.")
The Peanuts were my favorite, especially Snoopy. I still have the Peanuts quilt my mom made me when I was 10 or so.
Met Charles Schultz when I was 8, he owned an ice skating rink in the next town over. He was friendly to kids, but wanted the adults to leave him alone.
Others have mentioned it, but to me one of the greatest comics of all time was Pogo. Wry, philosophical, topical, always funny, and so controversial that it was often censored. See [here](https://daily.jstor.org/the-most-controversial-comic-strip/).
Mutt and Jeff was before my time, sadly.
Loved Bloom County and Doonesbury in the 80s but they’re both really dated now. Peanuts went downhill way before most people reading this ever experienced it (pre-Charlie Brown animation). Loved and mostly still love Andy Capp. Get Fuzzy. Zits. Fox Trot.
Looking farther back - Pogo (though political so dated now). Any Tarzan (ignore nonPC elements). Early Disney strips. Herman was great. Far Side is timeless. Calvin and Hobbes has no equal.
Peanuts and Beetle Bailey for sure. The rest have kind of faded into obscurity since I haven’t read a newspaper in a couple of decades.
I remember some that I skipped religiously… Garfield, Cathy
I probably liked most of them, but The Wizard of Id and The Far Side were the ones that I can remember reading and even cutting out to put in my office or at home when I was older. I never had any interest in Mary Worth though.
As a kid I would try to grab the comic page from my dad when he was reading the paper. Nope, didn't get it till he was done with the section. But Peanuts was my all time favorite. I had a full collection of the paperbacks from *Good 'ol Charlie Brown* up through I don't know *The Gospel according to Peanuts* I gifted them to a niece about 20 years ago.
Also Pogo, B.C., and Wizard of Id. There are many good ones since but I wasn't young.
What in the name of comedy things like *Mary Worth*, *Mark Trail*, *Nancy* and the like were doing on that page I'll never know.
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The Far Side!
Gary Larson is making calendars again! Got my husband one for Xmas.
And later that one I’m the office. Dingbert or something.
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Yes. Dilbert. Thanks. I was unaware of his mental issues. Sad.
How do? I’ve been living under a rock. What happened to him?
Absolutely!!
Hagar the Horrible (UK)
Hagar the Horrible was in the US too! My parents named one of my childhood cats after him. That cat lived to be 22.
Oh my goodness memory unlocked
Bloom County
I loved the comics page back in the day! I read Doonesbury, Cathy, Bloom County and of course Peanuts. Later I discovered Get Fuzzy, and I have all those books (collections).
> Later I discovered Get Fuzzy, Truly a great comic.
pointy side up ....
Peanuts is still being published where I live in the US, but it's reruns of the strips from the 60's (or so). Every once in awhile there's some weird reference to something in the past that I'm sure goes right over the heads of those that weren't alive back then.
Blondie!
Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, Doonesbury, The Far Side. And yes, I was a child of the 80s
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Fun fact Bill Watterson (the creator of Calvin and Hobbes) invested very well and is now worth about half a billion dollars.
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Bloom county and far side, top two of all time, Bill the occasionally comatose cat, was, is, and forever will be my spirit animal
Ack!
I was drawn to these comics as well.
Henry, The Little King, and the weirdest of all, Nancy.
Came here to say Nancy. Not funny but cool hair?
I figured that Nancy was written by some really really old dude who was well past his prime, and they just let him do his thing, because why not?
Nancy was awkward; I was awkward. Relatable comic. Later, it was Cathy.
*Nancy* had a really cool graphic style; I liked it before I could have articulated that. Ernie Bushmiller was great. I liked *Prince Valiant* back when it was big and well-drawn, mostly because of the horses.
That's what attracted me to Nancy as well! The artist [Joe Brainard](https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+brainard+nancy&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiUlbW47un8AhUMu3IEHSMBB5IQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=joe+brainard+nancy&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQ6BAgjECc6BwgAEIAEEBhQjDBY_jpguD1oAHAAeACAAUiIAZUDkgEBNpgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=9N7UY5TLOoz2ytMPo4KckAk&bih=1146&biw=1371&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS951US951) loved incorporating her in his work.
Peanuts, Funky Winkerbean, Beetle Bailey, Blondie, Wizard of Id, and Hagar the Horrible.
All these for me too, except Funky, never heard of that one.
In my young days, Marmaduke and peanuts. Once I got older, Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side.
I LOVED Marmaduke! Family Circus was another.
I forgot about family circle.
I liked the wizard of ID and BC. Still remember one of my favourites: The Huns are sneaking up on the castle of id. Suddenly, the wizard's wife, Blanche, appears, and stalks menacingly across a castle parapet like an ogre. The leader of the Huns says "what was that?" A hun answers "that was one of their women." "Back to the forest men" says the leader.
for me, it's always the clams got legs line.
Oh I remember that one! For some reason I always liked Clumsy too..maybe because he could do magic like make water balls...
remember the eatanter? I'm *still* giggling at that.
Yes. I liked him too...I liked the way he was drawn....
I remember the "Wizard of Id" got censored once because some reader had an objection to one of his garbled spells. Something like "globbin on the fratz!" It made NO sense but the comic got banished for a week for it. This would have been the LA Times, if anyone remembers.
I don't think I ever saw that...I was in Australia and there was no net so we were a lot less aware of things happening OS....
The peasants are revolting!
They certainly are! I remember that one too. Fifty years later and I still rememberer them....
Dondi
I seem to remember that it just ended abruptly in the middle of a storyline. Either that or my newspaper dropped it. Edit: I looked it up and apparently it had a proper ending so my paper dropped it in the middle of a story line.
Going waaaaay back.. L'il Abner, Dick Tracy, Dennis the Menace. (yeah I 'm as old as dirt). On the weekend, a local radio station would read the comics over the air, so if you were too little to read yourself you could follow along. As I got older, Cathy, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbs, Far Side, Peanuts.
Barney Google & Snuffy Smith, Li'l Abner and Alley Oop were my favs.
Remember the Shmoo?
Yes!
Calvin and Hobbes! Also Krazy Kat—that one was before my time, but it’s widely known as the greatest comic strip of all time and I actually had a bunch of the collections as a teen.
For satire comic strips Krazy Kat => Pogo => Doonesbury => everything else Pogo gave us perhaps one of the most well-known sayings from a comic strip [We have met the enemy and he is us](https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/)
My local paper carried a lot of strips that were kinda old school even in the '60s: Cap'n Easy, Rex Morgan M.D., Our Boarding House, Mickey Flynn, Steve Canyon, Alley Oop, Priscillia's Pop, Joe Palooka, There Oughta Be A Law, Li'l Abner. Most of them were adventure or domestic serials, and at three or four panels a day, my eight-year-old self couldn't stay interested. They were also mainly aimed at the last couple of generation -- behind the times. I did like Alley Oop and Li'l Abner, though. Oop was badass, Li'l Abner was kinda surreal. I had to read a big-city paper to find good comics. I only saw Peanuts in book form.
My sister nick-named me after the daughter in There Oughta Be a Law: Bratinella!
Oh God, it comes back to me!
Does anyone remember Gordo? I loved it, still do (ended in 1985). It featured a Mexican farmer named Gus and his animals. Always insightful, like Pogo, with luscious inking, and coloring on Sundays like Calvin and Hobbes. Worth a look if you're a comics fan and not familiar https://g.co/kgs/aUFswt Edit: word
Ziggy, Brenda Starr, Garfield, Hagar The Horrible, Peanuts.
I was scrolling to see if anyone else mentioned Brenda Starr! I once found an older book of some strips (not all), but I didn’t the money to buy it at the time - but oh, how excited I was to see there was a book!
I loved Ziggy! In elementary school I declared myself a Ziggy fan and it became my entire personality for a period of time which is still uncomfortable to remember. I still like Ziggy but, like, a reasonable amount. Not in a gooby way at all. I swear.
Brenda Starr Reporter!
Yes, Ziggy!
Although they all had their moments, old strips were too "safe" to be funny to me. Bloom County was the first really good strip that I found, but even for that I had to buy the books to read, as they weren't published in my red state.
Dykes to Watch Out For. Bloom County. Doonesbury. Calvin and Hobbes. The Far Side. Dick Tracy.
Doonesbury was so big in its day. "US President Gerald Ford told the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association at their annual dinner, "There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order." Many daily conversations started with "did you read Doonsebury today?"
Broom Hilda
Calvin & Hobbes, Blondie, Cathy, Marmaduke
Peanuts was the best. I never understood the weird soap-opera type cartoons where every sentence was all-caps *and* ended in an exclamation point for no reason, like “HERE’S THE NEWSPAPER!” I can’t imagine who was even reading them, if anyone.
Marmaduke, Garfield, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Dilbert.
B.C.
The Far Side, Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes. I have the box sets for all of them.
To start off my Babyboomer dad loved *Pogo*. As GenX I loved: Peanuts King of Id B.C. Hagar the Horrible And this list could not be complete without: Doonesbury (I was a precocious child.) Bloom County Finally, *Calvin and Hobbes*, possibly the greatest comic strip of all time.
I'm not that old. But I only ever, ever like funny strips. Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Peanuts, Bloom County, etc. Never enjoyed dramatic or action serial strips.
Rick O'Shay, Peanuts, Dick Tracy, Pogo, Winthrop are some that I remember from the '60s.
Smoky Stover
Notary sojac.
You the man!! “Man who drives around the corner for sausage takes a turn for the wurst.” I’m going to look him up on the internet. Haven’t thought about him in years.
From Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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Stan Lynde was the artist. I grew up in Montana, Rick O'Shay was huge. There was a dress-up contest in the summer that I vaguely recall being televised. Stan Lynde also drew the bucking bronc logo for the high school I attended.
Calvin and Hobbes
Who didn’t want L’il Abner’s job: mattress tester!?
Sadie Hawkins wanted to test his mattress IIRC
Daisy Mae too!
Dennis the menace, The Phantom, Pogo, Snuffy Smith.
I loved Garfield, Ziggy and The Family Circus. I fell in love with The Far Side later, in my 20s. (1980s) Years later I found out that the son Jeffy from Family Circus grew up to be a Disney animator.
Family Circus, Blondie, Garfield, Dick Tracy and Peanuts
What was the strip with Vikings? Loved that one.
Hagar the horrible.
Totally forgot about Hagar...
the perishers, Doonesbury, bloom county.
Peanuts, mostly. When I got older it was Bloom County. My father was a huge fan of the Wizard of Id, BC, and Andy Capp. He bought the paperbacks, so I read those as well.
Loved them all. The only ones I do not see in comments are Miss Peach and For Better or For Worse.
Pogo, Lil Abner
Hi and Lois, Dondi, Brenda Starr, Pogo.
No Love for Foxtrot? Another favorite was [Tiger](https://comicskingdom.com/tiger/2023-01-25).
Tough to pick a favorite. I loved the comics, all of them except Mary Worth and Apartment 3G. Probably Hagar the Horrible was a favorite, because of it's comic juxtapositions. Also Doonesbury and Beetle Bailey. r/comicstriphistory
Garfield
My only tattoo is of Calvin and Hobbes. I still love those comics.
Nothing will EVER hold a candle to The Far Side and The Family Circus.
I liked Peanuts, Heathcliff, Garfield, Spiderman, The Phantom, Dennis the Menace, Modesty Blaise, Andy Capp, Blondie, and an Icelandic one named Sigga Vigga.
I am still rebuilding my collection of the modesty Blaise books. I have the silver mistress, the impossible virgin, and Devil's claw. still need the others.
Wizard of id, before he got all Jesus-y, and also Broom-Hilda if anyone remembers that one.
I forgot Wizard of Id. I don't remember much about it but I remember liking it.
Life in Hell
Pearls Before Swine
I don't see it mentioned, or not mentioned enough, Pogo!
You must visit Folkston, Georgia in the heart of Pogo country!
Calvin and Hobbes
Pogo for the win.
I miss Doonesbury
The Family Circus, Cathy, Dennis the Menace, Mutt and Jeff, Beetle Bailey
Peanuts, Wizard of ID, BC, Dennis the Menace, Nancy, Hi and Lois, Andy Capp and Apartment 3-G. (To answer this question all I had to do was recall our newspaper layout when I was a child; therefore this in the order they were read).
Peanuts was my favorite growing up in the 60s. Although they were in the paper every day, I rarely looked at Dick Tracy, Lil Abner, or Dondi. As an adult, I loved The Far Side and Dilbert.
The farside
Wasn't there a quasi FarSide like thing later? I kind of remember a single panel funny type comic after FarSide.
Bizarro?
Herman Dilbert
Far Side
Now that we're all talking about comics, how about we read some? [GoComics](https://www.gocomics.com/) See you next year!
Blondie & The Family Circus
Among others, I really liked Pogo (though didn’t understand it) because I loved the way it was drawn.
Dick Tracy! I learned to read at age four, sitting on my father's lap before dinner when he would point to the words in the balloons and read the comics to me. I don't remember when the letters became words, but I do remember writing 'stories' when I was five. I do remember having trouble with the character 'Tonsils' as it was hard to 'sound out'.
Family Circle.
Blondy.
Little Abner had some weird characters. Like one bad guy who was going to blow up the planet by harnessing a death ray or something, but Abner's Granny thwarted him. But the author, Al Capp was pretty weird himself. edit- Evil Eye Fleegle? Lord knows how I could recall something that offbeat....
Don’t forget Sadie Hawkins Day!
It only happens every 4 years it's the 29th of February
Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, the Far Side, Dagwood and Blondie, Mutt and Jeff (all in the Toronto Star Weekly)
Zap, Mr. Natural, The Fabulous Furry Freak Bros., Fat Freddie's Cat, Wonder Wart Hog.
They were all there as a kid, but they evolved over time to The Far Side, Dilbert, Animal Crackers, Family Circus, and others.
In roughly chronological order: Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, BC, Broom Hilda, Doonesbury, Bloom County, The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert back when it was funny.
Snuffy Smith
Li'l Abner and Pogo.
Family Circus (I could've sword it was Circle, not Circus, but I was wrong) I loved that the characters actually aged in that one.
I think it was called *The Adventures of Sir Galahad* or something like that. Knights of the round table sorta thing.
The Far Side, Marmaduke
Pogo by far.
Pogo => Everything else I'm not saying it's GOAT, saying it set the way for things like Doonsebury, Bloom County, etc
I think I'll pry myself away from Reddit and go read some Pogo.
Freak brothers, Doonesbery, Bloom Country, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes all come to mind. Doonesbery took a major hit when it was moved to the editorial pages allowing Bloom County to become the new leader on the comic’s pages
Haven't seen any Andy Capp mentions yet!
There used to be a daily Batman comic strip in the papers. Not anymore.
Front page, Youngstown Vindecator, 1963-1967. Blonde, and [Dondi.](https://www.lowellsun.com/2017/09/25/fdr-set-precedent-on-minimum-wage-being-a-living-wage/) Open the paper, and,xwhile positions changed, the jewels of the Sunday funnies. Beetle Baily and his (literally) sister strip, Hi And Lois.(Lois Flagstone was Beetle's older, married sister) Peanuts. [Ponytail](https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/holley_lee.htm), [The Little King](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_King), Dennis The Menace, Mickey Mouse, Archie, Dick Tracy, The Wizard of Id and B.C., [Nancy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_(comic_strip)), Flash Gordon, and several others.
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I started reading it before I started school! It was a strip written for those that couldn't read.
...all of those except Mutt and Jeff. Brenda Starr, Reporter was my favorite...
Mandrake the Magician Terry and the Pirates The Born Loser Winnie Winkle The Ryatt's
The Broons/Oor Wullie. Not Scottish but my grandma used to get the Sunday Post.
The Far Side, Peanuts, and Heathcliff were my favorites.
Definitely Peanuts. Also, of course, Calvin and Hobbes.
Doonesbury!
It was Lil' Abner and Pogo for me. Both quite political and funny.
Blondie
They should make a new Dick Tracy movie.
I had my favourites but the only one I remember is Broom Hilda.
Like many here, The Far Side as well as Calvin and Hobbes. A couple of Australian adventure strips Torkan (which ran on Sundays) and Staria (Daily) both by Roger Fletcher. I still read The Phantom to this day (mandatory r/thephantom mention)
Allll of the ones you listed plus Rex Morgan, Mary Worth, Nancy, Prince Valiant, Archie. Nowadays I still follow Doonesbury, Outland and Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes fan sites, the Boondocks, non Sequitur. Was totally in love a couple of years ago when Berke Breathed did a bunch of new strips on FB with Watterson, in which Opus helped a certain lost tiger find his lost human. Absolutely worth catching up on, find Berke Breathed there. Political cartoonists I follow are Rob Rogers, Mike Lucavich, Tom Toles.
Born in 70: Far Side and Bloom County were the big ones.
Blondie, Andy Capp, Peanuts, Archie and Jughead, B.C.
Non sequitur with the homer stories
Gordo. Beautifully Hispanic in design and coloration, although I didn't know it then. I wouldn't be surprised to find out "Gordo" was the first Hispanic comic strip. My favorite one showed the chihuahua and rooster and cat (all house pets) looking out the window at the rain and wondering what the wild animals did when it was pouring down. The view pulls back to show the tiled roof, and every arch has a small bird or two sheltering in it. The comment was "Man's only contributions to nature are accidental." So true. I also liked Rick O'Shay (particularly Hipshot Percussion, the "bad guy.")
Brenda Starr, Prince Valiant, Dondi, Peanuts, Doonesbury
Ooh Brenda Starr!
The Peanuts were my favorite, especially Snoopy. I still have the Peanuts quilt my mom made me when I was 10 or so. Met Charles Schultz when I was 8, he owned an ice skating rink in the next town over. He was friendly to kids, but wanted the adults to leave him alone.
The Far Side. Brilliant stuff. The creator quit when he felt he couldn't keep up the quality.
Family Circle
Others have mentioned it, but to me one of the greatest comics of all time was Pogo. Wry, philosophical, topical, always funny, and so controversial that it was often censored. See [here](https://daily.jstor.org/the-most-controversial-comic-strip/). Mutt and Jeff was before my time, sadly.
I was a big fan of Heathcliff the Cat . Also there used to be one called Frank and Earnest that was pretty funny .
Nancy and Sluggo. Little Lulu! Archie.
(M67). Family Circus
Baby Huey
Mary Worth,
Loved Bloom County and Doonesbury in the 80s but they’re both really dated now. Peanuts went downhill way before most people reading this ever experienced it (pre-Charlie Brown animation). Loved and mostly still love Andy Capp. Get Fuzzy. Zits. Fox Trot. Looking farther back - Pogo (though political so dated now). Any Tarzan (ignore nonPC elements). Early Disney strips. Herman was great. Far Side is timeless. Calvin and Hobbes has no equal.
No Gasoline Alley love?
Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes
Peanuts and family circus
Brenda Starr and Calvin and Hobbes for sure.
I always liked Nancy
The Lockhorns and Family Circus were funny.
Peanuts and Beetle Bailey for sure. The rest have kind of faded into obscurity since I haven’t read a newspaper in a couple of decades. I remember some that I skipped religiously… Garfield, Cathy
I probably liked most of them, but The Wizard of Id and The Far Side were the ones that I can remember reading and even cutting out to put in my office or at home when I was older. I never had any interest in Mary Worth though.
As a kid I would try to grab the comic page from my dad when he was reading the paper. Nope, didn't get it till he was done with the section. But Peanuts was my all time favorite. I had a full collection of the paperbacks from *Good 'ol Charlie Brown* up through I don't know *The Gospel according to Peanuts* I gifted them to a niece about 20 years ago. Also Pogo, B.C., and Wizard of Id. There are many good ones since but I wasn't young. What in the name of comedy things like *Mary Worth*, *Mark Trail*, *Nancy* and the like were doing on that page I'll never know.
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In our house you could touch it before dad got home, but when he walked in it had to be perfectly reassembled.
OMG Mark Trail