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John Cole
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Bloom County or Far Side.
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Jason Czeskleba
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Pogo is probably my all-time favorite strip, but Doonesbury certainly belongs in the top five. It was consistently funny and well-written for the entire 44 years it was a daily strip. The political aspect of it tends to overshadow everything else, but it had its share of groundbreaking dramatic storylines that were character-driven. And I can't think of any other strip that has such a large cast of fully-developed, well-rounded characters, and it was all the more impressive that he aged them in (more or less) real time.
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Brian Floyd
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Breathed's big mistake was dropping Bloom County and doing Outland. Outland was garbage, and I'm surprised it ran as long as it did.
Bloom County has been good since he revived it, but I feel no need to read it with any regularity like I used to.
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John Byrne
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Bloom County or Far Side.••• Both heavily derived from earlier works by different artists. It comes back, as always, to what we see first.
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Dave Kopperman
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I appreciated Outland as a way for Breathed to flex his drawing chops. When he started Bloom County, it's clear that he was more of a writer/cartoonist than illustrator. It's telling that after he discontinued that, he became a childrens' book creator who worked in airbrush, no less.
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Robbie Moubert
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I think I missed the point of this thread with my earlier post about Modesty Blaise as everyone else is talking humour strips. With that in mind, and as much as I love Calvin and Hobbes, I'd have to go with Andy Capp. We didn't get the Daily Mirror in my house but as a kid I devoured the twice-yearly collections. When I got older I started buying them myself instead of relying on my mum to get them. Still got them all!
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Gary M. Peiffer
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Robbie, Modesty Blaise was not published in U.S. daily newspapers so completely missed this strip. Then, I discovered the Titan reprints and discovered what I had been missing all of these years (and, oh, Holdaway!).
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Gregory Harshman
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Mother Goose and Grimm almost always made me laugh.
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Tim O Neill
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DOONESBURY has been my favorite since high school and has
not lost the top spot since. The characters have been
constant companions, and Trudeau has ended up creating a
sweeping epic that is still going strong. His political
humor has been right on target, especially his skewering of
Trump, but it's the characters that have kept this in my
top spot. He got some advice from an editor early on to
balance the strip between heavy topics and lighter
character work, and it has paid off.
The core characters have aged and their stories deal with
the changes. I love how the strip incorporated new
characters up until the daily strips ended. Mike's daughter
Alex and Toggle have been stand out characters for me. And
the "Red Rascal" (Jeff Redfern's literary alias) storylines
are so funny. The latest collection is great.
To my knowledge, nothing official has been announced, but I
have the sense that Doonesbury is near the end. Mike has
retired, and is having trouble adjusting. It's the first
major character development in a while - since becoming a
Sunday only strip, Trudeau has understandably not detailed
the character arcs as he once did. I think he is signaling
an end soon.
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