{"id":4083,"date":"2015-12-11T21:35:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2015-12-11T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T02:35:21","slug":"comic-strips-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/comic-strips-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic strips &#038; collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my votes on newspaper and online comic strips, current ones and ones from the recent past. It&#8217;s possible that some of these strips used to be funnier than they are now. There are some comic strips that are supposed to be serious &#8212; I haven&#8217;t gotten into any of them (if there was a <strong>Rex Morgan, M.D.<\/strong> in a newspaper I was reading I would skip it).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how 3 of the 4 best comic strips ended while they were still brilliant, yet many of the less funny ones just keep going and going (sometimes transitioning into the hands of the original creator&#8217;s children or others).<\/p>\n<p>Always Funny<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bloom County &#8212; Berke Breathed<\/li>\n<li>Calvin &amp; Hobbes &#8212; Bill Watterson<\/li>\n<li>The Far Side &#8212; Gary Larson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/a-comic-strip-that-disappeared-and-came-back\/\">Gil<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Norm Feuti<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Often Funny<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bizarro &#8212; Dan Piraro<\/li>\n<li>Dilbert &#8212; Scott Adams<\/li>\n<li>Get Fuzzy &#8212; Darby Conley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/the-oatmeal-a-unique-comic\/\">The Oatmeal<\/a> &#8212; Matthew Inman<\/li>\n<li>Sherman&#8217;s Lagoon &#8212; Jim Toomey<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/surviving-the-world-a-funny-web-comic\/\">Surviving the World<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Dante Shepherd<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/xkcd-a-very-funny-web-comic\/\">xkcd<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; Randall Munroe<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/youre-all-just-jealous-of-my-jetpack\/\">You&#8217;re all just jealous of my jetpack<\/a> &#8212; Tom Gauld<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Occasionally Funny<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam@Home &#8212; Rob Harrell<\/li>\n<li>B. C. &#8212; Mason &amp; Mick Mastroianni and Perri Hart\u00a0 (Johnny Hart until 2007)<\/li>\n<li>Beetle Bailey &#8212; Greg &amp; Mort Walker (Mort Walker and assisted by various others)<\/li>\n<li>Blondie &#8212; Dean Young and John Marshall (Chic Young until 1973)<\/li>\n<li>Broom-Hilda &#8212; Russell Myers<\/li>\n<li>For Better or For Worse &#8212; Lynn Johnston<\/li>\n<li>FoxTrot &#8212; Bill Amend<\/li>\n<li>Garfield &#8212; Jim Davis assisted by various others<\/li>\n<li>H\u00e4gar the Horrible &#8212; Chris Browne (Dik Browne until 1988)<\/li>\n<li>Hi and Lois &#8212; Brian &amp; Greg Walker and Robert Browne (Mort Walker and Dik Browne)<\/li>\n<li>Mother Goose and Grimm &#8212; Mike Peters<\/li>\n<li>Non Sequitur &#8212; Wiley Miller<\/li>\n<li>Overboard &#8212; Chip Dunham<\/li>\n<li>Peanuts &#8212; Charles M. Schulz<\/li>\n<li>Pearls Before Swine &#8212; Stephan Pastis<\/li>\n<li>Retail &#8212; Norm Feuti<\/li>\n<li>Rhymes with Orange &#8212; Hilary B. Price<\/li>\n<li>Shoe &#8212; Chris Cassatt, Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly (Jeff MacNelly until 2000)<\/li>\n<li>Wizard of Id &#8212; Jeff Parker (Brant Parker and Johnny Hart until 1997)<\/li>\n<li>Zits &#8212;\u00a0Jerry Scott and\u00a0Jim Borgman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Never Funny<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cathy &#8212; Cathy Guisewite<\/li>\n<li>Drabble &#8212; Kevin Fagan<\/li>\n<li>Family Circus &#8212; Jeff Keane (Bil Keane)<\/li>\n<li>Marmaduke &#8212; Brad Anderson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Collections<\/h2>\n<p>Best of the best<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bloom County Babylon \u2013 Berke Breathed<\/li>\n<li>Classics of Western Literature \u2013 Berke Breathed<\/li>\n<li>The Far Side Gallery \u2013 Gary Larson<\/li>\n<li>The Far Side Gallery 2 \u2013 Gary Larson<\/li>\n<li>The Far Side Gallery 3 \u2013 Gary Larson<\/li>\n<li>The Far Side Gallery 4 \u2013 Gary Larson<\/li>\n<li>The Far Side Gallery 5 \u2013 Gary Larson<\/li>\n<li>The PreHistory of the Far Side \u2013 Gary Larson<\/li>\n<li>Last Chapter and Worse \u2013 Gary Larson<\/li>\n<li>The Essential Calvin and Hobbes \u2013 Bill Watterson<\/li>\n<li>The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book \u2013 Bill Watterson<\/li>\n<li>The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes \u2013 Bill Watterson<\/li>\n<li>The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes \u2013 Bill Watterson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner ups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dilbert: A Treasury of Sunday Strips &#8212; Scott Adams<\/li>\n<li>Journey to Cubeville &#8212; Scott Adams<\/li>\n<li>Bucky Katt&#8217;s Big Book of Fun &#8212; Darby Conley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/shermans-lagoon-1991-2001\/\">Sherman&#8217;s Lagoon 1991 &#8211; 2001<\/a> &#8212; Jim Toomey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my votes on newspaper and online comic strips, current ones and ones from the recent past. It&#8217;s possible that some of these strips used to be funnier than they are now. There are some comic strips that are supposed to be serious &#8212; I haven&#8217;t gotten into any of them (if there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7,54,42],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-book","tag-comic-strips","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7635,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions\/7635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}