three panels, no punchlines: ilx's comic strip nomination thread is now open

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Just in time for the summer - the ultimate comic strip poll! You can nominate anything that is published more frequently than once a month (so no comic books) in a serialized manner. Fair game are webcomics (Penny Arcade, Dykes to Watch Out For), traditional newspaper strips (Hagar the Horrible, Doonesbury), experimental tumblr/blog serialized stuff (Hark! A Vagrant, Girl Mountain), anything else that seems to fit this rubric. I'll let nominations run until July 5th, then voting until July 31st and I'll do the rollout/results in August. Nominations don't have to be ongoing but can be retired (Little Nemo, Krazy Kat), single or three panels okay despite the thread title (Far Side, Lockhorns). Irregularly published comics that are still in serial ongoing form (Achewood, PBF) are also allowed. I'm flexible about the restrictions, I just want to make sure Marvel/DC/indie graphic novel stuff isn't included.

Feel free to also use this thread to link to collections, or to post individual strips to champion. I hope I'm not forgetting anything. Nominate away!

can we only vote for things that are nominated? wondering if I post a list of really obvious stuff or not.

I'll accept any ballot, but feel free to nominate obvious stuff too just in case they get left out.

The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffarroo

Sam's Strip

Barnaby!

First volume of the Fantagraphics reprint is finally out:

http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&category=Barnaby&Itemid=113

2 webcomics:

Bad Machinery (/giant days/scary go round/bobbins) http://www.scarygoround.com
Octopus Pie http://www.octopuspie.com

thank you for loving Pupkin

Krazy Kat better win this

I'll make the Hark! A Vagrant nomination official. Kate Beaton is probably my favorite new cartoonist of the century.

http://harkavagrant.com/

WilliamC OTM.

Dick Tracy
Popeye
Al Jaffee's Tall Takes
Li'l Abner
Little Orphan Annie
The Lockhorns
Beetle Bailey
NANCY

Peanuts
Bloom County
Calvin & Hobbes
The Boondocks

you know, just in case someone forgot one of these existed

I will admit to having a soft spot for CURTIS.

me too.

Little Nemo in Slumberland
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (creepy creepy!)

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Sluggy Freelance
Zippy
Blondie
Hi and Lois
Andy Capp
Hagar the Horrible
Curtis
Mother Goose and Grimm
Sally Forth
Funky Winkerbean
Doonesbury
Foxtrot
For Better or For Worse
Tank McNamara

lol xposts to the CURTIS LOVEFEST

Nancy is so great.

Bad Machinery (webcomic)
Scary-Go-Round (webcomic)
Giant Days (webcomic) (can you tell I'm a John Allison fan?)
Cul de Sac (newspaper strip, Richard Thompson)
Captain Easy
Wash Tubbs
Buz Sawyer (can you tell I'm a Roy Crane fan?)
Krazy Kat

will add more when I have time

Popeye

Thimble Theatre

I like '60s-'70s Odd Bodkins, I don't know what it's been like since. I gather he's still producing it?

Arnold. Only ran in about 50 papers in the mid-80s, and was kind of one-note, but it was a batshit note.

Great Pop Things
Dykes to Watch Out For

Moomin!

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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
Pogo
Leviathan
The Pain - When Will It End?
Moon Mullins
Toonerville Folks
Flash Gordon
The Kin-der-Kids

xkcd

(*ducks*

The Perishers by Dodd and Collins
Bristow by Frank Dickens
Carol Day by David Wright
Garth by Frank Bellamy
Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell and Jim Holdaway
The Broons by Dudley Watkins

Polly and her Pals by Cliff Sterrett
Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff
Johnny Hazard by Frank Robbins
Sky Masters by Kirby and Wood
Tarzan by Burne Hogarth
Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond
B.C. by Johnny Hart
White Boy by Garrett Price
Life is Hell by Matt Groening
Ernie Pook's Comeek by Lynda Barry

kinda late to say this now i guess but we prob should list creators/artists with the strips -- like someone who voted for 'gasoline alley' might want to make it clear that they're voting for frank king's 'gasoline alley' and not that thing that still runs in the papers.

and that goes double for bushmiller's 'nancy,' which for 10 years looked like this:

http://bakertoons.blogspot.com/2012/09/nancy-by-jerry-scott.html

Bringing Up Father by George McManus
Howard the Duck by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan
The Angriest Dog in the World by David Lynch
Prince Valiant by Hal Foster

Mickey Mouse - Floyd Gottfredson

revised with creators:

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katchor
Pogo by Walt Kelly
Leviathan by Peter Blegvad
The Pain - When Will It End? by Tim Kreider
Moon Mullins by Frank Willard
Toonerville Folks by Fontaine Fox
Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond
The Kin-der-Kids by Lyonel Feininger

This is going to be a tough vote. So many of these are wonderful. (Esp. Katchor)

Gasoline Alley by Frank King
Mafalda by Quino
The Family Upstairs by George Herriman
Skippy by Percy Crosby
Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham

Over the Hedge by Michael Fry & T. Lewis
Robotman by Jim Meddick (the original 1980s strip, before it was completely retooled as Robotman & Monty, later on just Monty)
Menage a 3 by Gisèle Lagacé & David Lumsdon
The Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks
Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
Bucko by Jeff Parker & Erika Moen

Here's a few Franco-Belgian strips I'm not sure are well-known in the Anglo world, but they're all classic, so they should be included:

Quick & Flupke by Hergé
Les frustrés by Claire Bretécher
Idées noires by Andre Franquin
Gaston by André Franquin

Oh yeah, thanks for nomming Mafalda, J.D.! That one'll rate high in my ballot.

The Heart of Juliet Jones by Stan Drake
Apartment 3-G by Alex Kotsky
Mary Perkins On Stage by Leonard Starr

- love this fifties/sixties johnstone and cushing affiliated post-raymond realist stuff - part soap opera, part mystery-gothic, all madison avenue fashion decor and props, beautifully observed and penned.

oooh burn

Despite its decade-plus run on the strip, hardly anyone remembers that Jerry Scott worked on this strip.

Fart Party by Julia Wertz
Magic Whistle by Sam Henderson

Cheech Wizard by Vaugh Bode

It's more well-known in collected form, but since it was also serialized first in a French magazine, I'll nominate Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.

that's really stretching the definition of comic strip and opens a colossal can of froglegs, imho - fabulous tho Asterix is, obv

All the 2000AD stuff technically qualifies but doesn't seem right. Maybe a bit too broad in that case. Or maybe we do want it to be a silly sized scope.

it would frogslegs to Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds

Tuomas - was "Les frustres" the title of a regular strip or slot by Bretecher? (I only know her from translated collections, obv - Frustrations, More Frustrations, thence Women and other theme-based titles. Great title for an "umbrella" strip though!)

Unlike, which reminds me

Sick Sick Sick by Jules Feiffer

later Feiffer by Jules Feiffer

There was a Dredd half-page Sunday in the 80s, but the basic unit of 2000AD is the 8-page story or chapter. That's way beyond the scope of "strips".

length isn't defined in original post, only serialization more than once a month. I agree that aren't right but they do fit the definition.

wasn't there a dredd daily back then also? in the daily star iirc.

Life is Hell by Matt Groening

ward beat me to this nom by an hour but I have fond memories of reading this in the mid to late 80s and being in awe of how funny and right on it was. wish there was some complete collection available.. or is there? not much of it seems to be online. at least it seems like whenever I'm searching for a particular one, I can't find it.

it's only available in many slim volumes.

Oglaf by Doug Bayne and Trudy Cooper

terr'ble thompson by gene deitch.

Maakies by Tony Millionaire!

Donald Duck/Scrooge McDuck by Carl Barks

perry bible fellowship by nicholas gurewitch

Jack Chick tracts

american elf by james kolchalka

sounds like there are some bigger anthologies - big book of hell, huge book of hell, that are around 170 pages each. according to wiki groening published life is hell through june 16 2012... had no idea it was still going.

some of those will & abe strips in the 90s were hilar

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barks's donald and scrooge stuff was all for comic books!

the early 'life in hell' holds up but it was pretty bad for the last 10-15 years. groening pretty much stopped coming up with any new ideas and just drew the same two strips over and over again (usually, akbar and jeff dancing, then saying something like 'i regret everything' in the last panel).

<3 abe, tho I guess that dude is in his 20s by now

and says less funny stuff

barks's donald and scrooge stuff was all for comic books!

hmm yeah I thought the single page gags would qualify but I guess not

groening was incredibly good at writing from a kid's POV without ever being condescending or forced. the 'childhood is hell' and 'school is hell' collections are still hilarious, especially the ones that verge on the extremely dark, i.e., 'the 16 types of dads' which include everything from lame hawaiian-shirt wearing dad to violent abusive dad to deadbeat dad (a blank panel). the ones where he illustrated his sixth-grade diary were great too.

yeah those books are amazing. the 12 types of teachers etc

Where's the one Life in Hell that follows Bongo from cradle to grave, with captions under each panel like "Give up," "You can't win," etc? IIRC it ends with a shot of the grave saying, "See, I told you so" or suchlike.

al talliaferro did all the donald strips iirc and they are totally worth nominating so i will do that now.

Um, how did I not know about Peter Blegvad's other life as a cartoonist? That looks totally great.

btw, akbar and jeff's tofu hut changed my life.

the blegvad book is amazing and easily available... got it because doug wolk recommended it and his suggestions are basically never wrong with comix

Something Positive

akbar and jeff's tofu hut

where the elite meet to eat tasty treats

Eisner's The Spirit may be the most egregious still outstanding necessary addition to the current list.

this is a field i fucks with, btw

Kind of want to vote in this but not sure I'm really well-versed enough. Don't want to skew the results to stuff that maybe isn't actually as good as something I've never heard of.

I assume everything I care about has been nominated except for:

Death to the Extremist by Michael Zole
A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible by Dale and David
Pictures for Sad Children by John Campbell

emil.y you were a key contributor to the animation poll, plz vote in this

oh also

The Far Side by Gary Larson

Tuomas - was "Les frustres" the title of a regular strip or slot by Bretecher?

Actually, I'm not sure... I've always assumed it was, because it's in one-page strip format, but I've only read those collected books too. Does anyone else know?

Marmaduke by Brad Anderson

Here's a couple of Disney noms:

Donald Duck by Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp

Mickey Mouse, drawn by Floyd Gottfredson and written by various writers

Oh, I see that Mickey Mouse has already been nommed, sorry about that.

Chris Ware's Acme Comic Novelty Library (originally a Chicago broadsheet strip before collected into pamphlets and books) is pretty goddamn important too.

Eisner's The Spirit may be the most egregious still outstanding necessary addition to the current list.

I dunno, what's the policy on comics that were serialized, but appeared in multi-page format? Because if those are included, that would mean stuff like Tintin, Asterix, Corto Maltese etc. is valid, and I don't think those count as "comic strips". A lot of classic Franco-Belgian comics originally appeared in serialized form.

Simply because search tells me nobody has yet

Achewood by Chris Onstad

i'm kind of opposed to including the spirit -- it was clearly drawn and designed as a comic book and always appeared as a special newspaper supplement, rather than running with the other comics.

oh and Get Your War On by David Rees

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marmaduke

zits

man, if the spirit isn't a comic strip, i just dunno

It was weekly, it was in newspapers.

Frank and Ernest (Bob Thaves)

Dry Bones (Yaakov Kirschen)
(in the last twenty years has become more political/predictable, less funny, but I remember getting my mind blown by its technique when we read this in Hebrew school, possibly my all-time favorite Israeli cultural product)

Jim's Journal (Scott Dikkers)
(late 80s minimalist classic, to my surprise still going)

Washingtoon (Mark Alan Stamaty)

oh and you know what, yes, we all hate it, but it left a big cultural footprint, and my 7-year-old loves it beyond reason despite it no longer being a cultural touchstone, so i can't deny that there's something rather extraordinary about it, gentlepeople, i give you

GARFIELD

Dilbert by Scott Adams (I have a soft-spot for it despite Scott Adams being apparently a colossal self-involved jerkhole)

Mordy do you expect a 25 or 50 ballot size?

just to make it easier to tabulate:

Family Circus by Bil Keane
Marmaduke by Brad Anderson
Zits by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Garfield by Jim Davis

i don't really wanna get into the inevitable "what is and isn't a comic strip" debate over the spirit but i feel like if we go down that road and include stuff like ware and the stuff daniel clowes serialized and tintin it'll basically end up being the TCJ top 100 comics list all over again.

I'm expecting a 50 ballot size. I'm not going to ban any of the nominations and leave it to the voters' discretion for what qualifies. I may also end the nomination period earlier than expected if we seem ready by the end of this week. (I'm trying to figure out how best to schedule this since we're expecting in mid-July. It'll definitely wrap up and roll out before mid-August but flexibility should be expected.)

Ware and Eisner's work showed up weekly in newspapers prior to (and without the intent of) being collected in any other form, same as Groening and Barry. I would argue strongly against shuffling that stuff off as "not really a strip" as it is not historically accurate to look at it that way and negates their achievement.

My benchmark is what I just outlined above: comics originally published daily or weekly in a periodical prior to their collection in any other format. If Tin Tin, Asterix etc follow that same guideline, they should be fair game too.

that sounds legit to me

we should probably have the "does a single panel count" conversation now too
i would vote yes fwiw

i said yes in the op

ah. well. there we are then.

wasn't there a dredd daily back then also? in the daily star iirc

possibly, the Sunday was all that my Australian city got though

most of Life In Hell is never-collected

barks's donald and scrooge stuff was all for comic books!

yeah but he published waayyyyyy more than one story a month, so by Mordy's definition it counts

Eisner's The Spirit may be the most egregious still outstanding necessary addition to the current list.

this needs to be specifically broken down by creator though - Eisner didn't do lots of them, and my favourite era is when Feiffer was writing it with/for Eisner

Acme Novelty Library is called Acme Novelty Library not Acme Comic Novelty Library btw BUT I don't know how it was tabulated in newspapers when it was running the same serial every week

I would disqualify Barks' work for comics on a monthly publication schedule. Ditto Kirby's Fourth World (wayyyy more than one story a month, yes I know it wasn't cited), ditto recent superhero comics on weekly and biweekly publication schedules. There's the spirit of the poll that litigating can't get around.

I would too. But Mordy specifically allows other stuff under the same criteria.

With one-pagers and shorts, Barks could do idk ten duck stories a month sometimes?

Thankfully, I only have a preference, not a verdict.

Putting my noms in proper form:

Barnaby by Crockett Johnson
Pogo by Walt Kelly
Moomin by Tove Jansson

Love this bit about the latter, per wiki:

Jansson said that she had designed the Moomins in her youth: after she lost a philosophical quarrel about Immanuel Kant with one of her brothers, she drew "the ugliest creature imaginable" on the wall of their WC and wrote under it "Kant".

re superheroes, obviously daily spiderman would be fine. by contrast 52, even tho it was a weekly, wouldn't. it's hard to explain exactly the criteria and i know that makes it difficult for stuff like banks, but i think the aesthetic is mostly clear?

wld 'newspaper strip' rather than 'comic strip' solve some of these probs?

Tintin is tricky because it was unquestionably a newspaper strip, but the form that all of us know it in isn't its newspaper form -- the stories were reworked, colorized, etc. I'll probably leave it off my ballot because my experience of it is as a series of graphic novels, which feels very different to me from newspaper strips. But I won't second-guess anyone voting for it.

yes, but i didn't want to limit it to things published in newspaper. i think some of the things nominated (PBF, DTWOF, etc) should be included but i'm not sure if they've ever been run in a newspaper

https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/1068109.jpg

vs

http://img1.etsystatic.com/001/1/5611221/il_340x270.364734337_ihgj.jpg

yes, the first

I have that first one (I think my brother has the second). just as a record of racist stereotypes its breathtaking

PBF has been published in a newspaper but after the web, of course Dykes was

actually I just realised that Mordy's rules specify serialised strips so PBF is out

"Irregularly published comics that are still in serial ongoing form (Achewood, PBF) are also allowed"

it's not the irregularity, it's serialisation

so are:
Hark! A Vagrant
Tall Tales
Krazy Kat except for Tiger Tea
Beetle Bailey
Nancy
The Spirit
Barks
Nancy
Life In Hell
Little Nemo
Rarebit Fiend
Great Pop Things
Family Circus
Bretecher
... most of the thread tbh

haha wait so are you saying that Mordy doesn't understand his own rules

Moomin by Tove Jansson

I don't think there should be any reason to nominate the Tove strips only, since Lars Jansson wrote and drew Moomin for much longer, and his work on the strip is just as good as his sister's was. (Well, maybe artwise Lars wasn't quite on the same level Tove, but the writing was still top-notch.)

so frazetta lil abner? dunno how granular this is getting now

xp

Sure. I encourage any and all Moomin votes.

Amy & Jordan

(by Mark Beyer)

Love & Rockets/Los Bros Hernandez stuff would be excluded from this, right?

Garfield Minus Garfield which I will vehemently argue be its own separate thing

garfield minus garfield yes, love + rockets i think no

if Asterix is allowed please may I nominate:

Lucky Luke by Morris/Morris & Goscinny

(M+G is the real golden age but may as well include pre- and post-Goscinny; haven't seen the post-Morris stuff)

I have some reservations about whether it fits or not but it was serialised and it's easier to nominate it and not vote for it than the other way round

again, the reasonable benchmark in my mind is that it was published in daily or weekly format first before it ended up in compiled format.

Re: the rules, I think it'd make a lot of sense to make this poll about newspaper strips and webcomics only. If we allow for stuff that was originally released in magazines/comic anthologies, and/or which was released several pages at a time, then Asterix, Corto Maltese, Tintin, etc. would be valid and I think they're simply a different thing, aesthetically. Like, to me a comic strip is something that tells a small finite story, even if they're also a part of a larger story, and the Franco-Belgian stuff feels kinda different from that, even if its technically valid.

I would also rule out webcomics that are simply graphic novels released a couple of pages at a time, and don't even try to work as smaller units.

xp that makes sense but I'd love a separate poll of the Belgian-style serials if they don't make this one

haha wait so are you saying that Mordy doesn't understand his own rules

I'm saying there's a slight chance they may not be entirely consistent or coherent!

Tuomas you can nominate Lars' Moomins separately of course. (I'd bet that a lot of votes for "Eisner's Spirit" would really be thinking of Feiffer's Spirit, though.)

I pretty much agree with Tuomas here -- it's gotten to the point of palpating the rules in order to include one's own particular faves.

If I vote for the Spirit Sunday sections, I'll just write "The Spirit" rather than "The Outer Space Spirit sections that Wally Wood worked on," which is what I'll actually mean.

this is my practice run before i figure out how the non-western music poll is going to work (which i imagine will be much more complicated in terms of rules)

Hogan's Alley by Richard F. Outcault
Buster Brown by Richard F. Outcault
The Katzenjammer Kids by Rudolph Dirks
Mutt and Jeff by Bud Fisher

Red Meat from the secret files of Max Cannon

pros & cons

ctrl+f reply all

Phrase not found

*phew*

Arlo and Janis (Jimmy Johnson, newspaper strip)
Luann (Greg Evans, newspaper strip)
Scary Gary (Mark Buford, newspaper strip)

3 favorites among current dailies

diesel sweeties

DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary by Erika Moen
Order Of The Stick by Rich Rurlew

ctrl+f user friendly

Phrase not found

*phew*

Glen Baxter!

I'm not that likely to vote for any of these, but I thought I'd throw up a list of Guardian strips in case anyone likes them but forgot about them:

If... by Steve Bell
Home-Clubber by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage
A Softer World by Joey Corneau and Emily Horne
Loomus by Steven Appleby
Clare in the Community by Harry Venning
Berger & Wyse (I actually weirdly like this one - it appears in the Food section of the Weekend supplement, the jokes are extremely lame food puns, but it's kind of endearing)
The Stephen Collins Cartoon by Stephen Collins

Luann?!? plz explain

I'm not sure I can! As neverending teen angst soap operas go, it just comes across with a good spirit. I like the slow evolution of some of the characters, especially Luann's brother Brad, who used to be gross and obnoxious but figured out what the hell to do with his life and wound up getting the girl. Luann herself is a brat, but I still root for her.

but... the art

...is not real good. Yep.

Good writing will save bad art more than good art will save bad writing, is my general rule of thumb.

Azumanga Daioh by Kiyohiko Azuma
Planet Bore, a strip in old Viz comics

will probably be the only one to vote for it but i nominate

Alf Tupper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Tupper

also

Sid the Sexist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_the_Sexist
My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable
http://www.mnftiu.cc/

Good writing will save bad art more than good art will save bad writing, is my general rule of thumb.

― WilliamC, Tuesday, June 25, 2013 5:37 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I definitely agree with you here, WmC.

Has anyone nominated The Broons for Algerian Goalkeeper yet?

I don't think "good art" will necessarily save bad writing, but funny art will often save bad writing.

Rockets Passing Overhead
http://www.captainstar.net/star/

Viz is bimonthly

i missed that bit. tough but ok i guess.

We should do a ranked ballot poll of every Viz feature ever

xpost to emil.y, yes the Broons have already been nominated

Rock'n'Roll Zoo by Savage Pencil
Dal Tokyo by Gary Panter
Maxwell the Magic Cat by Alan Moore
Conchy by James Childress
Troubletown by Lloyd Dangle

Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith

The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K. by Rube Goldberg
King Aroo by Jack Kent
Little Lulu by Marge
Miss Peach by Mell Lazarus
The Wizard of Id by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker
Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley

JL8, by Yale Stewart
SuperMutant Magic Academy, by Jillian Tamaki
Girl Mountain, by Simon Hanselmann

Has anyone nominated The Broons for Algerian Goalkeeper yet?

― emil.y, Tuesday, June 25, 2013 5:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you forgot Oor Wullie by Dudley Watkins

I'd nominate dennis the menace (Beano version) but I dunno who wrote it

same with The Bash Street Kids and Desperate Dan

footrot flats

David Law did Dennis until 1970ish. Leo Baxendale created the Bash Street Kids but they've been done by someone else since 1961. Desperate Dan was done by Dudley Watkins until 1969, when he stopped drawing them due to death, but ran in reprints til the early 80s when they decided they were too dated to keep using.

Footrot Flats was by Murray Ball and is in my top 200 strips of all time but no-one else will vote for it

i might. more likely that than little no no & sniffy

xpost
on't know if D.C. Thomson still have records of who actually wrote those strips - but if they have, they prob won't ever release that information. Wish they would at least give us a complete, chronological reprinting of Dennis (or Beryl the Peril, Davey Law's masterpiece imho) but don't ever expect to see such a thing in my lifetime.

But unlike the Broons or Oor Wullie, which do actually appear in a newspaper, I don't think Dennis etc should be eligible for this poll - or else, EVERY british weekly strip character would be eligible and again, that way lies a certain kind of madness.

Isn't Australia the world's number one Phantom-loving nation? And there's also the work of Stanley and Reginald Pitt to nominate...

Yes re Phantom, but especially in monthly comic-book form, rather than being thought of as a native newspaper strip

Speaking of Aus, I want to nominate the following for purely nostalgic reasons:

Ginger Meggs by Jimmy Bancks
Bluey and Curley by Alex Gurney
Ettamogah Pub by Ken Maynard

Agree with Ward here, I think we need to keep British strips out of it. Happy to poll that myself once I have home internet again. Will contribute myself more to this at that point.

nomination list so far. if i put the wrong creator/writer for any of these, please correct me. also, if i missed anything in the thread, please let me know.

i'm also thinking that, appropriate to the genre, we should also have a smaller worst comic strip ballot too. just in case someone is burning to scream about how awful questionable content is. (that someone is me.) here's the list so far - if it seems like we're not getting any more noms by Friday, I'll wrap it up then and open voting on Monday, otherwise I'll leave it open a bit longer:

A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible, by Dale and David
A Softer World, by Joey Corneau and Emily Horne
Achewood, by Chris Onstad
Acme Novelty Library, by Chris Ware
Alf Tupper, by Gilbert Lawford Dalton
American Elf, by James Kolchalka
Amy & Jordan, by Mark Beyer
Andy Capp, by Reg Smythe
Apartment 3-G, by Alex Kotsky
Arlo and Janis, by Jimmy Johnson
Arnold, by Kevin McCormick
Azumanga Daioh, by Kiyohiko Azuma
B.C., by Johnny Hart
Bad Machinery, by John Allison
Barnaby, by Crockett Johnson
Beetle Bailey, by Mort Walker
Berger & Wyse, by Joe Berger and Pascal Wyse
Blondie, by Chic Young
Bloom County, by Berkeley Breathed
Bluey and Curley, by Alex Gurney
Bringing Up Father, by George McManus
Bristow, by Frank Dickens
Bucko, by Jeff Parker & Erika Moen
Buster Brown, by Richard F. Outcault
Buz Sawyer, by Roy Crane
Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson
Captain Easy, by Roy Crane
Carol Day, by David Wright
Cheech Wizard, by Vaugh Bode
Clare in the Community, by Harry Venning
Conchy, by James Childress
Cul de Sac, by Richard Thompson
Curtis, by Ray Billingsley
Dal Tokyo, by Gary Panter
DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary, by Erika Moen
Death to the Extremist, by Michael Zole
Dennis the Menace, by Hank Ketcham
Desperate Dan, by Dudley Watkins
Dick Tracy, by Chester Gould
Diesel Sweeties, by Richard Stevens
Dilbert, by Scott Adams
Donald Duck, by Al Talliaferro and Bob Karp
Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau
Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, by Winsor McCay
Dry Bones, by Yaakov Kirschen
Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel
Ernie Pook’s Comeek, by Lynda Barry
Ettamogah Pub, by Ken Maynard
Family Circus, by Bil Keene
Fart Party, by Julia Wertz
Flash Gordon, by Alex Raymond
Footrot Flats, by Murray Ball
For Better or For Worse, by Lynn Johnston
Foxtrot, by Bill Amend
Frank and Ernest, by Bob Thaves
Funky Winkerbean, by Tom Batiuk
Garfield Minus Garfield, by Dan Walsh
Garfield, by Jim Davis
Garth, by Frank Bellamy
Gasoline Alley, by Frank King
Gaston, by Andre Franquin
Get Fuzzy, by Darby Conley
Get Your War On, by David Rees
Giant Days, by John Allison
Ginger Meggs, by Jimmy Bancks
Girl Mountain, by Simon Hanselmann
Great Pop Things, by Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death
Guick & Flupke, by Hergé
Hagar the Horrible, by Dik Browne
Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton
Hi and Lois, by Mort Walker
Hogan’s Alley, by Richard F. Outcault
Home-Clubber, by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage
Howard the Duck, by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan
Iater Feiffer, by Jules Feiffer
Idées noires, by Andre Franquin
If..., by Steve Bell
Jeff Hawke, by Sydney Jordan
Jim’s Journal, by Scott Dikkers
JL8, by Yale Stewart
Johnny Hazard, by Frank Robbins
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, by Ben Katchor
King Aroo, by Jack Kent
Krazy Kat, by George Herriman
Les frustrés by Claire Bretécher
Leviathan, by Peter Blegvad
Li’l Abner, by Al Capp
Life is Hell, by Matt Groening
Little Lulu, by Marge
Little Nemo, by Winsor McCay
Little Orphan Annie, by Harold Gray
Loomus, by Steven Appleby
Luann, by Greg Evans
Maakies, by Tony Millionaire
Mafalda, by Quino
Magic Whistle, by Sam Henderson
Marmaduke, by Brad Anderson
Mary Perkins On Stage, by Leonard Starr
Maxwell the Magic Cat, by Alan Moore
Medium Large, by Francesco Marciuliano
Menage a 3, by Gisèle Lagacé & David Lumsdon
Mickey Mouse, by Floyd Gottfredson
Miss Peach, by Mell Lazarus
Modesty Blaise, by Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway
Moomin, by Tove Jansson
Moon Mullins, by Frank Willard
Mother Goose and Grimm, by Mike Peters
Mutt and Jeff, by Bud Fisher
My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable, by David Rees
Nancy, by Ernie Bushmiller
Octopus Pie, by Meredith Gran
Odd Bodkins, by Dan O’Neill
Oglaf, by Doug Bayne and Trudy Cooper
Oor Wullie, by Dudley Watkins
Order of the Stick, by Rich Rurlew
Over the Hedge, by Michael Fry & T. Lewis
Peanuts, by Charles Schulz
Perry Bible Fellowship, by Nicholas Gurewitch
Pictures for Sad Children, by John Campbell
Pogo, by Walt Kelly
Polly and her Pals, by Cliff Sterrett
Popeye, by E.C. Segar
Prince Valiant, by Hal Foster
Pros & Cons, by Kieran Meehan
Pupkin, by Bobby Crosby
Red Meat, from the secret files of Max Cannon
Robotman, by Jim Meddick
Rock’n’Roll Zoo, by Savage Pencil
Rockets Passing Overhead, by Steven Appleby
Sally Forth, by Greg Howard
Sam’s Strip, by Mort Walker
Scary Gary, by Mark Buford
Scary-Go-Round, by John Allison
Sick Sick Sick, by Jules Feiffer
Skippy, by Percy Crosby
Sky Masters, by Kirby and Wood
Sluggy Freelance, by Pete Abrams
Something Positive, by R. K. Milholland
SuperMutant Magic Academy, by Jillian Tamaki
Tall Tales, by Al Jaffee
Tank McNamara, by Jeff Millar
Tarzan, by Burne Hogarth
Terr’ble Thmopson, by Gene Deitch
Terry and the Pirates, by Milton Caniff
The Adventures of Superhero Girl, by Faith Erin Hicks
The Angriest Dog in the World, by David Lynch
The Bash Street Kids, by Leo Baxendale
The Boondocks, by Aaron McGruder
The Broons, by Dudley Watkins
The Family Upstairs, by George Herriman
The Far Side, by Gary Larson
The Heart of Juliet Jones, by Stan Drake
The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K. by Rube Goldberg
The Katzenjammer Kids, by Rudolph Dirks
The Kin-der-Kids, by Lyonel Feininger
The Lockhorns, by Bill Hoest
The Pain - When Will It End?, by Tim Kreider
The Perishers, by Dodd and Collins
The Phantom, by Lee Falk
The Spirit, by Will Eisner
The Stephen Collins Cartoon, by Stephen Collins
The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffarroo, by Gustave Verbeek
The Wizard of Id, by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker
Tijuana Bibles, by Various Artists
Toonerville Folks, by Fontaine Fox
Tracts, by Jack Chick
Troubletown, by Lloyd Dangle
Wash Tubbs, by Roy Crane
Washingtoon, by Mark Alan Stamaty
White Boy, by Garrett Price
xkcd, by Randall Munroe
Zippy the Pinhead, by Bill Griffith
Zits, by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Steve Canyon
Male Call
by Milton Caniff

I think we need to keep British strips out of it.

I don't! But also, I don't think that was the issue - more that Dennis the Menace (Brit version) and Desperate Dan etc weren't newspaper strips but comic book strips, albeit weekly comic books. Right?

oh, also -- if you get the opportunity to pick out your favorite strip or two for comics you intend to vote for, please scan/photo/copy paste them and send them w/ ballots for inclusion in the rollout

(i'm mentioning this early in case you want to keep an eye out or whatever)

yes, beano, dandy, 2000ad etc are comic books.

If there is a separate poll for them then that's fine by me

How are Sunday-format webcomics eligible but Sunday-format weekly magazine-housed comics not?

(NB I am pass-agg arguing for more exclusion, not inclusion)

Oh, that probably means that Ettamogah Pub is out, as it was part of a weekly magazine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_Post

So the separate poll would be the content of UK weeklies versus Marvel Comics Presents?

i think Sunday-format weekly magazine-housed comics should be eligible

i'm not a UK comic maven so i'll rely on you guys to work that out xp

Barks Ducks ought to get to storm the citadel then

(I think this kind of wild scope would be awesome if we had a broad voter base ftr)

I think this kind of wide scope leads to TCJ top 100. Barks Ducks might meet the criteria but not the spirit (as it were) of the poll.

barks ducks are not newspaper/magazine comics ie. the venue of publication for the most part being non-comics content.

Beano and Dandy I think should be excluded - they are entirely comic books, and (usually, I think) longer form strips. They might not quite be Superman comics or whatever but they are closer to that than my understanding of this poll.

By 'entirely comic books' I mean, as f&wa says, the venue of publication is nigh-on entirely comics content.

just fyi the beano/dandy strips are mostly one-pagers.

i think a one-page comic in a magazine that later transitioned into a full length comic book is fine to vote for, but you're only voting on the basis of the one-page comic, not anything that came along in comic book form.

barks ducks were never in strip format to the best of my knowledge? Did we rule against Tin Tin?

Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, by Gilbert Shelton were originally weekly strips in alt-papers.

I also dig:
Angriest Dog in the World, by David Lynch
Boob McNutt, by Rube Goldberg

Mordy, I think you have the wrong idea about the sort of British comics we're talking about - they're (pretty much) all anthology titles with lengths varying from 1 to about 6 pages (mainly adventure serials).

yeah in light of the rules i shd probably withdraw my nom for Alf Tupper, hadn't really understood the criteria at first

Why I like "Scary Gary".

http://assets.amuniversal.com/fcf90230baaf0130e459001dd8b71c47

(hope that worked)

barks ducks were never in strip format to the best of my knowledge? Did we rule against Tin Tin?

Zillions of duck one-pagers, megazillions of 7-8 pagers (ie same length as Spirit), published more frequently than monthly

barks ducks are not newspaper/magazine comics ie. the venue of publication for the most part being non-comics content.

they are "comic book" comics.

webcomics are not newspaper/magazine comics ie. the venue of publication for the most part being non-comics content.

no, but webcomics for the most part are in the tradition of the newspaper strip.

like newspaper strips, i'd wager most people reading webcomics are not into "comic book" comics, and the webcomics are consumed along with non-comics content daily news feeds.

I will try to follow this poll but I don't even follow this argument

i'm cool w/ whatever happens so long as bloom county doesn't win

I would be fine with excluding the Spirit Sunday sections if that's what it took to stay consistent in the rules here. I'm not 100% on board with their inclusion anyway, even though I nominated them.

spirit is so difficult - the pages look and feel like comic book pages, but they did appear exclusively in newspapers of the time, and were only reprinted in comic book form much later.

if the spirit is eligible, then lady luck by klaus nordling deserves a nomination.

thinking abt the spirit has made me think abt jules feiffer and, collective shame, feiffer by feiffer doesn't appear to have been nommed yet.

it was mentioned upthread but I think in the midst of some other stuff.

ah it is under 'iater feiffer' on mordy's list

Bloom County'll come in somewhere in the 3-6 range probably xps

eisner considered the spirit separate from comic books:

Eisner left to create The Spirit. "They gave me an adult audience", Eisner said in 1997, "and I wanted to write better things than superheroes. Comic books were a ghetto.

p much all comic book artists of eisner's generation aspired to have their own syndicated newspaper strip, and get out of the disreputable comic book world. and yes, compared to other comic book content of the time, the spirit is an obviously more sophisticated 'product' than other contemporary american comic book stories. but the spirit is still a guy running around in a mask fighting baddies with a grossly caricatured african-american sidekick in tow.

eventually a grossly caricatured white sidekick tbf
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/0/40/616359-sammy.jpg

eisner's ebony, shall we say, developed as the age did
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/19/23392340_8ad79c0ca6.jpg
http://www.4thletter.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/scan001-0new3.jpg
that said, as a youngster reading the old warren reprints, Ebony's face was so horrifically distorted that I couldn't even recognize him as a black kid; i thought he was some sort of freak

I really love the Spirit and the only reason I have refrained from introducing my daughter to it is the unbelievable racist caricatures of the black characters

like, sometimes I remember I have fond memories of this but... oh yeah, Ebony. :(

i think it's important for people of all ages and backgrounds to understand, with context, how racial identity has been portrayed historically in their country of origin and elsewhere; those who ignore history, etc.
if i had kids i would totally foist the spirit on them but not before a considerable discussion of visual stereotypes of the '40's. same for looney tunes really.

and tbf eisner's women are rendered through the most sexist of eyes
some of the bdsm/sub-dom stuff in those stories left me fucked up for life. wertham was right!
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/main/sites/default/files/pulp/images/TheSpiritEllen.jpg

a hubba!
a hubba!

I agree and am going to have no problem having that discussion with my kids, but she is only 5. She is still wrapping her head around general concepts of identity/ethnicity/national origin. so while I can show her other comics from the 50s/60s that are relatively free of glaring stereotypes, the Spirit is one of those comics (like Little Nemo) where a glaring stereotype is one of the main characters.

Gasoline Alley too!

yeah the spirit is in a gray area, it was in a newspaper section specifically designed in response to the popularity of comic books, and the (masked hero) content reflected that too.

ah it is under 'iater feiffer' on mordy's list

hey!

spirit is so difficult - the pages look and feel like comic book pages, but they did appear exclusively in newspapers of the time, and were only reprinted in comic book form much later.

and magazines first! a double whammy!

Like I said above, if no one has anything against it, I think the Moomin entry in the list should be changed to:

Moomin by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson

Tove only did the strip for its first 5 years, whereas Lars continued drawing and writing it for 15 years after that... And there's no notable change in quality when it switched from Tove from Jans; Lars had already been a co-writer for the strip for the last couple of years Tove drew it. Of course I could nominate Lars's strips as a separate entry, but that'd only lead to pointless vote-splitting.

No it wouldn't, bcz you're the only one familiar enough with Lars' work to vote for it

I thought the English reprints had already moved to the Lars years? He started co-writing the strip in 1957 and became the sole writer/artist in 1959.

Ah yes, looks like D&Q has already published two books of solo Lars strips, with more to come.

Also, there might be some British ILXors old enough to have read the Lars strips when they originally ran in the papers...?

not me guv - what british newspapers did the moomins appear in (in my experience it's the books that ppl in the UK are really familiar w/)?

I'm with Tuomas, purely because I think most people would vote Tove without thinking, so there kind of isn't any point to having the other entry?

yeah in light of the rules i shd probably withdraw my nom for Alf Tupper, hadn't really understood the criteria at first

also, desperate dan and the bash street kids don't belong on the list. (all from brit comic books.)

This is what Wikipedia says:

The main series of Moomin comic strips were made directly for the British market: they were spread by the British Associated Newspapers comic strip syndicate and the original publisher was the Evening News newspaper. The series originally appeared in newspapers from 1954–1975. At its peak, Moomin appeared in over 40 countries and about 120 papers, with over 20 million readers daily, making it the most successful Finnish comic strip ever published.

AFAIK the whole strip came to be because some British newspaper syndicate asked Tove Jansson to produce Moomin comics, it British papers were always the prime market.

Also, apparently the whole idea that the Moomin comic should more adult-oriented than the books, and more a satire of current social phenomena, was something that was suggested by the British syndicate when they first asked Tove to create the strip.

(in my experience it's the books that ppl in the UK are really familiar w/)

same here. i didn't know there had been a newspaper strip until the d+q reprints.

the spirit had daily newspaper strips.

http://www.comicartville.com/spiritdaily1.jpg

maybe that was already mentioned...

The Evening News was a London only paper, although Associated had other regional papers where it could have been published. Associated's Daily Mail was home to the Flook strip by Trog (Wally Fawkes), which also featured a weird animal-like creature (and was written by people like George Melly, Barry Norman, Barry Took Compton Mackenzie and Humphrey Lyttleton - it should be reprinted!)

thanks scott, i'd totally forgotten about those spirit dailies (iirc there's not that much actual eisner involvement but i cld be wrong abt that)

Eisner had 0 or close to 0 hand in them AFAIR. I read some KSP floppy-format reprints, they were not v good

Ah yes, looks like D&Q has already published two books of solo Lars strips, with more to come.

Yes but out of the 7 ppl voting in this poll, you're the only one who's read them, and that's from years before the D&Q books (bcz you've been repping Lars on ILC that long!)

some of the bdsm/sub-dom stuff in those stories left me fucked up for life. wertham was right!

"No, you don't understand -- "a hubba" is my safeword!"

A lot of my favorites have been nominated, but if this is going to be a 50 ballot size, I have to nominate some more stuff

Dinosaur Comics, by Ryan North
Wondermark, by David Malki

keep them coming! any opinions about whether i should leave nominations open another week or just over the weekend?

Nemi FTW

you spelt WTF backwards

blecky yuckarella by johnny ryan

well, in that case, let's throw in Underworld by Kaz

http://goldbergcoins.auctionserver.net/images/lot/794863/0/lot794863.jpg

#dondi4ever

the one daily strip cartoonist i knew when i was a kid. lived in my town. his wife was my high school english teacher.

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/b/berrill/berrill_gt270867.jpg

dondi is good stuff

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rL4ZI-V0fmo/S0TbgpeHu9I/AAAAAAAABAw/Iohg_1wjoJ0/s1600/vices.jpg

struggled to find a SFW George and Lynne

http://www.art4comics.com/garth.jpg

Garth only marginally easier

http://www.billtidy.com/picoftheday/23092010152348.jpg

This is something else entirely

http://cdn.coollinesartwork.com/Images/Category_2/subcat_43203/WoodyA2.jpg

http://stwallskull.com/blog/images/crumbling_paper/crumblingpaper_billybragg.jpg

wait, Billy Bragg???

serious nomination for Apparently by Mike Barfield

http://procartoonists.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apparently_2.jpg

Another Nom:

Sam's Strip by Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas. It's a meta comic strip about comic strips that ran from 1961-1963. I just got the collection a few months ago and it blew me away.

I don't think I've seen Angus Og mentioned yet by the Scottish contingent, and I thought Lobey Dosser was supposed to be the most famous thing ever (it's got a statue ffs which should put it up there beside Desperate Dan and Beryl the Peril, which is heady company).

The Angriest Dog in the World by David Lynch

The Angriest Dog in the World is a comic strip created by film director David Lynch. The strip was conceived by Lynch in 1973 during a period when he was experiencing feelings of great anger.[1]

Kenneth Anger's The Most Lynchian Dog in the World not quite as well known

oh god i loved angus og. I miss it so much even now

ok i don't think we're going to get any more nominations so consider this a last call and i'll post the voting thread tmmrw

post a full noms list first

ok, did i miss anything?

A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible, by Dale and David
A Softer World, by Joey Corneau and Emily Horne
Achewood, by Chris Onstad
Acme Novelty Library, by Chris Ware
American Elf, by James Kolchalka
Amy & Jordan, by Mark Beyer
Andy Capp, by Reg Smythe
Angriest Dog in the World, by David Lynch
Angus Og, by Ewen Bain
Apartment 3-G, by Alex Kotsky
Apparently, by Mike Barfield
Arlo and Janis, by Jimmy Johnson
Arnold, by Kevin McCormick
Azumanga Daioh, by Kiyohiko Azuma
B.C., by Johnny Hart
Bad Machinery, by John Allison
Barnaby, by Crockett Johnson
Beetle Bailey, by Mort Walker
Berger & Wyse, by Joe Berger and Pascal Wyse
Blecky Yuckarella, by Johnny Ryan
Blondie, by Chic Young
Bloom County, by Berkeley Breathed
Bluey and Curley, by Alex Gurney
Boob McNutt, by Rube Goldberg
Bringing Up Father, by George McManus
Bristow, by Frank Dickens
Bucko, by Jeff Parker & Erika Moen
Buster Brown, by Richard F. Outcault
Buz Sawyer, by Roy Crane
Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson
Captain Easy, by Roy Crane
Carol Day, by David Wright
Cheech Wizard, by Vaugh Bode
Clare in the Community, by Harry Venning
Conchy, by James Childress
Cul de Sac, by Richard Thompson
Curtis, by Ray Billingsley
Dal Tokyo, by Gary Panter
DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary, by Erika Moen
Death to the Extremist, by Michael Zole
Dennis the Menace, by Hank Ketcham
Desperate Dan, by Dudley Watkins
Dick Tracy, by Chester Gould
Diesel Sweeties, by Richard Stevens
Dilbert, by Scott Adams
Dinosaur Comics, by Ryan North
Donald Duck, by Al Talliaferro and Bob Karp
Dondi, by Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen
Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau
Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, by Winsor McCay
Dry Bones, by Yaakov Kirschen
Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel
Ernie Pook’s Comeek, by Lynda Barry
Ettamogah Pub, by Ken Maynard
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, by Gilbert Shelton
Family Circus, by Bil Keene
Fart Party, by Julia Wertz
Flash Gordon, by Alex Raymond
Flook, by Wally Fawkes
Footrot Flats, by Murray Ball
For Better or For Worse, by Lynn Johnston
Foxtrot, by Bill Amend
Frank and Ernest, by Bob Thaves
Funky Winkerbean, by Tom Batiuk
Garfield Minus Garfield, by Dan Walsh
Garfield, by Jim Davis
Garth, by Frank Bellamy
Gasoline Alley, by Frank King
Gaston, by Andre Franquin
George and Lynne, by Conrad Frost
Get Fuzzy, by Darby Conley
Get Your War On, by David Rees
Giant Days, by John Allison
Ginger Meggs, by Jimmy Bancks
Girl Mountain, by Simon Hanselmann
Great Pop Things, by Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death
Guick & Flupke, by Hergé
Hagar the Horrible, by Dik Browne
Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton
Hi and Lois, by Mort Walker
Hogan’s Alley, by Richard F. Outcault
Home-Clubber, by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage
Howard the Duck, by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan
Idées noires, by Andre Franquin
If..., by Steve Bell
Jeff Hawke, by Sydney Jordan
Jim’s Journal, by Scott Dikkers
JL8, by Yale Stewart
Johnny Hazard, by Frank Robbins
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, by Ben Katchor
King Aroo, by Jack Kent
Krazy Kat, by George Herriman
Lady Luck, by Klaus Nordling
Later Feiffer, by Jules Feiffer
Les frustrés by Claire Bretécher
Leviathan, by Peter Blegvad
Li’l Abner, by Al Capp
Life is Hell, by Matt Groening
Little Lulu, by Marge
Little Nemo, by Winsor McCay
Little Orphan Annie, by Harold Gray
Lobey Dosser, by Bud Neill
Loomus, by Steven Appleby
Luann, by Greg Evans
Maakies, by Tony Millionaire
Mafalda, by Quino
Magic Whistle, by Sam Henderson
Male Call, by Milton Caniff
Marmaduke, by Brad Anderson
Mary Perkins On Stage, by Leonard Starr
Maxwell the Magic Cat, by Alan Moore
Medium Large, by Francesco Marciuliano
Menage a 3, by Gisèle Lagacé & David Lumsdon
Mickey Mouse, by Floyd Gottfredson
Miss Peach, by Mell Lazarus
Modesty Blaise, by Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway
Moomin, by Tove Jansson (and Lars Jansson)
Moon Mullins, by Frank Willard
Mother Goose and Grimm, by Mike Peters
Mutt and Jeff, by Bud Fisher
My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable, by David Rees
Nancy, by Ernie Bushmiller
Octopus Pie, by Meredith Gran
Odd Bodkins, by Dan O’Neill
Oglaf, by Doug Bayne and Trudy Cooper
Oor Wullie, by Dudley Watkins
Order of the Stick, by Rich Rurlew
Over the Hedge, by Michael Fry & T. Lewis
Peanuts, by Charles Schulz
Perry Bible Fellowship, by Nicholas Gurewitch
Pictures for Sad Children, by John Campbell
Pogo, by Walt Kelly
Polly and her Pals, by Cliff Sterrett
Popeye, by E.C. Segar
Prince Valiant, by Hal Foster
Pros & Cons, by Kieran Meehan
Pupkin, by Bobby Crosby
Red Meat, from the secret files of Max Cannon
Robotman, by Jim Meddick
Rock’n’Roll Zoo, by Savage Pencil
Rockets Passing Overhead, by Steven Appleby
Sally Forth, by Greg Howard
Sam’s Strip, by Mort Walker
Scary Gary, by Mark Buford
Scary Gary, by Mark Buford
Scary-Go-Round, by John Allison
Sick Sick Sick, by Jules Feiffer
Skippy, by Percy Crosby
Sky Masters, by Kirby and Wood
Sluggy Freelance, by Pete Abrams
Something Positive, by R. K. Milholland
Steve Canyon, by Milton Caniff
SuperMutant Magic Academy, by Jillian Tamaki
Tall Tales, by Al Jaffee
Tank McNamara, by Jeff Millar
Tarzan, by Burne Hogarth
Terr’ble Thmopson, by Gene Deitch
Terry and the Pirates, by Milton Caniff
The Adventures of Superhero Girl, by Faith Erin Hicks
The Angriest Dog in the World, by David Lynch
The Bash Street Kids, by Leo Baxendale
The Boondocks, by Aaron McGruder
The Broons, by Dudley Watkins
The Family Upstairs, by George Herriman
The Far Side, by Gary Larson
The Heart of Juliet Jones, by Stan Drake
The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K. by Rube Goldberg
The Katzenjammer Kids, by Rudolph Dirks
The Kin-der-Kids, by Lyonel Feininger
The Lockhorns, by Bill Hoest
The Pain - When Will It End?, by Tim Kreider
The Perishers, by Dodd and Collins
The Phantom, by Lee Falk
The Spirit, by Will Eisner
The Stephen Collins Cartoon, by Stephen Collins
The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffarroo, by Gustave Verbeek
The Wizard of Id, by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker
Tijuana Bibles, by Various Artists
Toonerville Folks, by Fontaine Fox
Tracts, by Jack Chick
Troubletown, by Lloyd Dangle
Underworld, by Kaz
Wash Tubbs, by Roy Crane
Washingtoon, by Mark Alan Stamaty
White Boy, by Garrett Price
Wondermark, by David Malki
xkcd, by Randall Munroe
Zippy the Pinhead, by Bill Griffith
Zits, by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Later Feiffer, by Jules Feiffer

this could just be Sick, Sick, Sick / Feiffer by Jules Feiffer

(the former was later titled just Feiffer)

also THIMBLE FUCKIN' THEATRE, surely that was nommed

bcz it's the best strip of all time

also, desperate dan and the bash street kids don't belong on the list. (all from brit comic books.)

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tt is listed as popeye

Calculus Cat

eh, i suppose that was never really a proper, strip-form comic. citymouth half fits the bill, but i don't love it the same way. ne'er mind

a proper, strip-form comic like 90% of this list of webcomics

oh ffs if we're mainly doing webcomics LEISURETOWN by Tristan Farnon

Or just make up a name for it, as with Popeye

i apologize for the amateurish look of the nomination thread and i hope the staff gets everything into tip-top shape by the time the rollout happens

so stoked for this thread, thanks for doing it mordy!

in fairness 'thimble theatre' did eventually get its name changed to 'popeye,' not till some time after segar's death tho i think.

bump, voting has been happening over at:

golf, amirite? ilx's comic strip voting thread is now open