What was your favorite printed cartoon character or series? Yep, comic books count in here also!
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Plenty on other mediums, so let’s stick to printed cartoons, comics, drawn series, etc. What characters or artist did you/do you still like?
Think of the daily funny pages. Or the Sunday paper’s funnies section. 5 cent, 10 cent, 25 cents comic book editions?
Magazine cartoonists- remember Charles Aadam’s ghoulish characters? Others from the New Yorker.
Little Annie Fanny strips- no pun intended.
Older series? Alley Oop? Katsenjamer Kids? Brenda Starr, Steve Canyon? Prince Valiant? Gasoline Alley?
Peanuts, Garfield, Bloom County? Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes?
Richie Rich, Hot Stuff, Caspar, Baby Huey? Wendy Witch?
Superman, Batman, Spider-Man?
Mad Magazine – Don Martin’s best? Cracked Magazine?
Hazel? Lil’ Abner? Nancy? Mary Worth? Hi & Lois? Hagar the Horrible? Lil’ Orphan Annie? Kathy? Non-Sequitur? Marma Duke?
Big Boy Comic books? Dennis the Menace? Dagwood&Blondie?
Felix and Obelisk? Goofus and Galliant? Top Cat? Ziggy?
Disney- The Von Duck Family? Huey, Dewey, and Louey?
Misspellings? My humble apologies.
Your Country’s Offerings omitted? Please add in!
My choices? Little Lulu and The Far Side.
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Bub Slug from the Edmonton Journal or Edmonton Sun news paper. It was canceled and it’s name changed to Betty.
Edit it was the Edmonton Journal.
Superman comics from the 1960s-1970s.
Haibara Ai from Detective Conan.
Johnny Fartpants
Buster Gonads
Fat Slags
Roger Mellie (The man on the telly)
Mrs Brady (Old lady)
All from Viz comic
Most comics in the newspaper are usually pretty lame. Non-Sequitur is pretty good. I liked Far Side in the 1980’s. I like Doonesbury when it isn’t political (it’s mostly political nowadays and really belongs in the political opinions section of the news paper).
Doonesbury and Calvin and Hobbes.
Get Fuzzy
Calvin and Hobbes
Bloom County
Non Sequitur
Sally Forth
come to mind as adult reads.
Of course, it’s evolved over the years as strips have come and gone, and I’ve aged. I remember thinking:
Hagar the Horrible
Blondie and Dagwood
Beetle Bailey
Garfield
were tops when I was a kid and never missed them in the paper.
Cerebus the Aardvark and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
Vaughn Bode had several volumes of comics called Junkwaffel and Deadbone Those are the ones I remember the most. High quality drawing and weird, otherworldly storylines.
Normal stuff would be Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, Non-Sequitur, and Tundra. Also, Giles and Asterix.
Almost forget, Gary Larson and The Far Side.
Oor Wullie from the Sunday Post
Calvin and Hobbes, hands down. Fatso is my Hobbes. I relate to and love those comics so much that there aren’t adequate words in existence to describe it.
Probably not that well known but it was called Dondi. It ran in Newsday (the paper of record for Long Island) considered a major paper.
He was just so adorable; a war orphan adopted by an American GI.
It frequently ran opposite or below page to the syndicated columns of Sydney J. Harris a wonderful thought provoking writer. Even as a kid I was hooked on his columns and for awhile there I was clipping them and saving in a scrapbook.
What can I say; I was an odd kid who, even from a young age, appreciated good writing.
So, little Dondi was sort of a by-product of my love for the writings of Harris. Plus he was so much cuter and realistic looking than Little Orphan Annie. Her eyes were drawn like empty saucers. Creepy for a kid to look at.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dondi
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_J._Harris
WOW.
In reading through the entirety of the article, I came across this comment of his about terrorism, (written in 1986)
It reminds me afresh why I so appreciated his thought provoking writing.
“Terrorism is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; war is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.”
@Buttonstc I have not seen a Dondi cartoon since I was a kid his age and 40 years later you post one that is precisely what I am currently going though…how very odd! :?
As the Disney ride sings “it’s a small world after all”
:D
I saw a newspaper in the trash today turned to the funnies.
“Zits”. I used to love reading Zits, about a teen boy and his interactions with his family.
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