Favourite Cartoon Strips

**jebus** · 17/04/2008, 9:24 AM

Leading off someone mentioning Andy Capp in a thread I started fondly remembering the days of flicking through the various papers polluting my family home reading the cartoon strips as a kid. Garfield was and has always been my favourite (I still have both Garfield and Peanuts cartoon strip collections), followed by Peanuts, Andy Capp and more recently Cyanide and Happiness and the various Steve Bell strips in G2.

I could never understand why the Indo printed a James Bond comic strip to be honest, the basic daily newspaper comic strip, or the best anyway, should allow for a quick glance and a chuckle, not try and draw you into a murder mystery story. Anyway, anyone have any favourites or favoured comic strips they can recommend online or otherwise? I somehow can't bring myself to buying the Star just for the Garfield comic strip each day

**Block G Raptor** · 17/04/2008, 9:28 AM

Used to love Haggar the Horrible and Gary Larssons "Farside" in the Herag before my eyes were opened to the evils on The Independent Media Group

**Bluebeard** · 17/04/2008, 10:12 AM

Still a Dilbert and Nemi fan, but I have recently come to love this occasional online strip

**pete** · 17/04/2008, 10:49 AM

Used to read Dilbert daily lost the habit recently.

I know not a cartoon strip as such but really like Martyn Turners work in the Irish Times.

**gustavo** · 17/04/2008, 10:53 AM

I really like the cyanide and happiness ones that are online

Can be hit and miss though

**Pauro 76** · 17/04/2008, 11:42 AM

Andy Capp is always excellent. There’s a football themed one, again, in the Mirror, Cant Kick Wont Kick which hits the spot a lot. Kerber and Black do it, their topical ones are nearly always funny too. i remember in the magazine 90 Minutes, ‘Damage in the Box’ had some classics.

**noby** · 17/04/2008, 11:55 AM

XKCD (Bluebeard's link) is a good one alright.

jebus, if you like Garfield (as I do, myself), you might like Garfield Minus Garfield

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle.

**John83** · 17/04/2008, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by Bluebeard

Still a Dilbert and Nemi fan, but I have recently come to love this occasional online strip

XKCD is updated Mon/Wed/Fri. Occasional seems a bit harsh.

One of the funniest, nerdiest things on the internet too.

http://xkcd.com/c123.html
http://xkcd.com/c212.html
http://xkcd.com/c220.html
http://xkcd.com/c221.html (warning: programming joke)
http://xkcd.com/c242.html
http://xkcd.com/c246.html
http://xkcd.com/c248.html
http://xkcd.com/c252.html
http://xkcd.com/c257.html

Anyone read http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com ?

**noby** · 17/04/2008, 1:07 PM

One of my favourites:

**gustavo** · 17/04/2008, 2:23 PM

That could be the official banner of this forum

**pineapple stu** · 17/04/2008, 4:08 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

ICan be hit and miss though

Very. I like this one though...

I get Dilbert by e-mail every day; usually good for a laugh. Andy Capp's quality too.

Never laughed at The Far Side. I mean, ever.

**osarusan** · 17/04/2008, 4:20 PM

Garfield for me too. I had dozens of books as a kid, and still have a stuffed toy I was given the day I was born.

Recently, I've been a fan of Shoe. Don't know how popular it is in Ireland.

**skitz3** · 17/04/2008, 5:59 PM

Farside!!!!

**thischarmingman** · 17/04/2008, 6:01 PM

I hate Garfield so f*cking much. Everything about it annoys me, The sooner he gets hit by a car the better.

I like Calvin and Hobbes: http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/index.html

...and best of all these ones from the Perry Bible Foundation:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/

Personal favourites include these genius efforts:

There's something about the top hat and toothpaste references in the last frame that I find hilarious.

**thischarmingman** · 17/04/2008, 6:11 PM

**thischarmingman** · 17/04/2008, 6:13 PM

**Bluebeard** · 17/04/2008, 7:51 PM

Originally Posted by John83

XKCD is updated Mon/Wed/Fri. Occasional seems a bit harsh.

One of the funniest, nerdiest things on the internet too.

Ah! I was wondering what days it came up. I'm only a convert since just before Easter, and I have been unable to fathom the days it is upgraded. Perhaps I should have said "Apparently randomly". This is beginning to sound like an XKCD now.

So look at this instead

I too like my hat.

**John83** · 17/04/2008, 8:06 PM

To put that one in context:

**GavinZac** · 17/04/2008, 8:37 PM

XKCD, Dilbert and Cyanide & Happiness are my daily chuckles, and PBF when it gets updated.

To add some not mentioned:

Jesus & Mo
Dinosaur Comics
The Pain