I read quite a few webcomics, most of which are a bit too twisted to link in here.
The first one I really got into was Something Positive, which contains lots of bad language (don't click kids!) and is set in, that apparent haven for cartoonists, Boston.
My favourite is Sporkman, the story of the man who is simultaneously a crime-fighting super hero and that most useful of utensils.
Q. Why do Communists drink herbal tea?
A. Because proper tea is theft.
Calvin and Hobbes is definitely a great strip. Unfortunately, my local paper stopped running it a few years back.
Non-Sequitur and Zits are also growing on me (not literally! )
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
--Abraham Lincoln
Excerpt fromAnimal Songs Never Written
"Hey, dad," croaked the vulture, "what are you eating?"
"Carrion, my wayward son."
"Will there be pieces when you are done?"
The Farside, Calvin and Hobbes, and Foxtrot were/are the only ones I ever really enjoyed that ran in the paper.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbs, Far Side & Opus are the only ones I ever really liked, though I also like some of the classics like Beetle Bailey, Hagar the Horrible, and Dagwood. Of the other ones, Garfeild, Doonesburry and Nancy stand out as the ones I hated the most.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
Yeah, I think we need to find the people who think Kathy, Marvin, The Family Circus, and For Better or Worse are funny and slap them on the back of the head. Those strips have been stinking up the Sunday paper for as long as I can remember (same for Garfield and Peanuts, though they both used to be funny at one point).
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
ur-bane wrote:Calvin and Hobbes is definitely a great strip. Unfortunately, my local paper stopped running it a few years back.
Non-Sequitur and Zits are also growing on me (not literally! )
I forgot Non-Sequitur. That's a good one, too!
Be kind to your web-footed friends, for a duck may be somebody's mother.
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