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This thread is intended to cover comic strips, and anthologies thereof - distinct from Bats' thread on comics and graphic novels.
Comic strips might be considered very very short comics - typically one, a few, or several panels long, and are generally first seen in daily newspapers (which are slowly going the way of the dodo so that's no longer true, with many comic strips now showing up online.)
The more successful strips, both in the past, and today, end up in printed anthologies, typically covering a bunch as first published chronologically, or thematically.
Some comic characters have been represented both in strips and comic books. I can recall a daily Spiderman strip - as one example.
My appreciation of, and love for comic strips probably began with Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace. For some strange reason, as a four year old I could really relate!
My dad was a regular customer of many bookstores, and while he was picking the latest spy novel, I got to take home a Dennis the Menace book. I still have them all.
I soon caught on to Johnny Hart's B.C. and his and Brant Parker's Wizard of I.D. , Dirk Bowne's Hagar The Horrible, and others. What's neat is that high quality anthologies have been published in recent years for many of these.
As I got older I was attracted to two other kinds of strips: those involving social and political commentary (Trudeau's Doonesbury) and those taking a look at what it was like to raise kids (Waterman's Calvin and Hobbes - although there's great "commentary" in it as well, and later Amend's Foxtrot, and Scott and Borgman's Zits).
One of my favourites right now is Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur which covers both social commentary in his one-off panels, and "kids" in the recurring story line(s) involving Joe, Danae, Lucy etc. His anthologies (like "Dead Lawyers and Other Pleasant Thoughts" and "Lucy and Danae") are terrific.
I could go on. But like before, now its your turn. Any other lovers of comic strips out there?
Comic strips might be considered very very short comics - typically one, a few, or several panels long, and are generally first seen in daily newspapers (which are slowly going the way of the dodo so that's no longer true, with many comic strips now showing up online.)
The more successful strips, both in the past, and today, end up in printed anthologies, typically covering a bunch as first published chronologically, or thematically.
Some comic characters have been represented both in strips and comic books. I can recall a daily Spiderman strip - as one example.
My appreciation of, and love for comic strips probably began with Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace. For some strange reason, as a four year old I could really relate!
My dad was a regular customer of many bookstores, and while he was picking the latest spy novel, I got to take home a Dennis the Menace book. I still have them all.I soon caught on to Johnny Hart's B.C. and his and Brant Parker's Wizard of I.D. , Dirk Bowne's Hagar The Horrible, and others. What's neat is that high quality anthologies have been published in recent years for many of these.
As I got older I was attracted to two other kinds of strips: those involving social and political commentary (Trudeau's Doonesbury) and those taking a look at what it was like to raise kids (Waterman's Calvin and Hobbes - although there's great "commentary" in it as well, and later Amend's Foxtrot, and Scott and Borgman's Zits).
One of my favourites right now is Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur which covers both social commentary in his one-off panels, and "kids" in the recurring story line(s) involving Joe, Danae, Lucy etc. His anthologies (like "Dead Lawyers and Other Pleasant Thoughts" and "Lucy and Danae") are terrific.
I could go on. But like before, now its your turn. Any other lovers of comic strips out there?
