Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Very animated

Hi folks! Below you will find a list of comic strips that I view every day (except for some that don't update every day). The descriptions are very very brief, and probably don't really tell you much about them at all, but maybe some. Also, I numbered them mostly for my own curiosity's sake.

From Universal Syndicates (www.ucomics.com)
1. Big Top - Life in a circus with a bear, a clown, and a poodle.
2. Liberty Meadows - An old classic, the tales of those living in Liberty Meadows
3. Bob the Squirrel - A cartoonist and his squirell
4. Kudzu - The life of a preacher and his flock (as well as his parrot)
5. Prickly City - A girl and her friend, who happens to be a coyote
6. Bound and Gagged - A different joke each day
7. Animal Crackers - Life in the wild
8. Adam@home - Adam juggles family life with working at home
9. Hubert and Abby - Abby's life with a Turtle, and an unusual, vaguely Marmoset like creature
10. Clear Blue Water - A woman and her husband deal with raising twins, an autistic son, and life in general
11. Heart of the City - Heart is a little girl in the big city. The city doesn't stand a chance
12. Lucky Cow - Teens working in a fast food restaurant. Or at least, pretending to
13. Calvin and Hobbes - All reruns. Sigh.
14. Doonesbury - Scathing political commentary. Amusing social commentary. Coming soon: director's commentary.
15. Lost Sheep - A little sheep in the big city. Poor sheep.
16. Baldo - A spanish-american teen learning about life.
17. Overboard - Pirates and their dogs.
18. Non Sequiter - Half randomly funny gags, half Lucy, her horse, and randomly funny gags.
19. Pooch Cafe - Little Poncho, a dog with a big mouth
20. Brewster Rockit: Space Guy - I guess not all spacegoers can be as smart as Captain Kirk
21. Shoe - Life in the trees, with the birds (looking for the bees)
22. Stone Soup - Raising a family is not always easy, but when a twelve year old girl is involved, it becomes really amusing
23. For Better or For Worse - The Patterson family is still going strong
24. Tank McNamara - Life through the eyes of a sportscaster
25. Foxtrot - Family life has never been so amusing.
26. Garfield - One sarcastic cat's journey to rule the world...after nap time.

King Features Syndicate (www.kingfeatures.com)
27. Spider-man - The webslinger in a daily strip
28. Baby Blues - How to raise kid's. Or at least, how to survive the insanity.
29. Beetle Bailey - Life in the armed forces has never been so amusing (well, maybe at MASH)
30. Between Friends - Middle-aged ladies, and the exciting lives they live
31. A Lawyer, A doctor, A cop - Umm...it's about a lawyer, a doctor and a cop...
32. Triple Take - Three punchlines every day
33. Bizarro - A one panel strip, a funny gag every day
34. Blondie - Now 75 years old, and he still is late for his carpool every day
35. Buckles - A dog, and those around him
36. Dennis the Menace - Menace? Maybe. Lovable? Definitely
37. Family Circus - PJ, Dolly, Jeff and Billy still see the world as only young children can
38. Hagar the Horrible - The lighter side of heavy vikings (plus there's a duck)
39. Hi and Lois - Raising the kids in the suburbs
40. Funky Winkerbeam - Funky and his friends and their lives. Not always funny, but always relevant
41. Mallard Fillmore - A news reading duck, and his social commentary
42. Marvin - Life through the eyes of a year old toddler, and his best friend, Bitsy (a sarcastic dog)
43. Mother Goose and Grimm - The little yellow dog making his way in the world
44. Mutts - Following the daily world of a dog and his friends
45. Edge City - Raising kids while both parents have a career, stress can apparently be funny
46. Pardon my Planet - Life viewed through a mirror darkly, just to the left of centre
47. Rex Morgan, M.D. - Basically a soap opera, only drawn.
48. Safe Havens - The life of children and their interactions with each other and themselves
49. On the Fastrack - Life in the working world of the techies, and those they love (by the same person who does Safe Havens)
50. Sally Forth - Sally Forth, a working mother, and life with her family
51. Sherman's Lagoon - Follows the life of Sherman, the ferocious great white shark. Um...in this case, ferocious means clueless. And kinda dumb.
52. Tiger - A six year old, and his eight year old brother.
53. Tina's Groove - Life in a restaurant (try and guess why I am amused by this one)
54. Todd the Dinosaur - Todd is a normal 12 year old. He's just a little taller. And bigger. And more Tyranosaurus Rex-ish.
55. Tumbleweeds - Who knew life in the old west could be so sarcastic?
56. Zits - Family life with a teenager can be rough. Being the teenager is even rougher.

From Comics.com (www.comics.com)
57. Betty - A woman, her husband, and her teen.
58. Captain Murphey - A space opera on the comics page. Will Murphey defeat the forces of evil? Stay tuned and find out!
59. The Meaning of Lila - A group of friends growing into their thirties
60. B.C. - Prehistoric and poignant, a laugh every day
61. Pearls Before Swine - The dumbest pig and the most sarcastic rat have a comic strip
62. Frank and Earnest - Frank and Earnest observe the world
63. The Humble Stumble - Being a single dad is tough, but it's worth it
64. 9 Chickweed Lane - A woman, her mother, and her mother's mother. Never quite what one expects, but often what one needs.
65. Agnes - A sarcastic ten year old girl with big plans and even bigger feet.
66. Rose is Rose - This strip is best described as cute. I like it. Rose, her husband and their child
67. Arlo and Janis - A husband and wife raising their kids
68. Heathcliff - A cat that could take on the world
69. The Other Coast - More political and social commentary
70. Wizard of Id - Life in the land of Id
71. Peanuts - All reruns. Sigh. Charles Schulz, we miss you.
72. Herman - A single panel of fun every day
73. Andy Capp - Sarcastic British humour. Does it get any better?
74. Big Nate - Nate has a very clear picture of the world and his role in it. Too bad the picture is a bit fuzzy.
75. Monty - A loveable loser.
76. Silo Roberts - Being a mix of African-American and Hispanic-American brings its own challenges. Silo meets them head on.
77. Ellington Way - Elllington and Dee Dee are trying to make it on their own
78. The Buckets - Raising precocious children sure can be fun
79. Red and Rover - A boy and his dog
80. Unfit - It's tough enough being a personal trainer, but when your wife doesn't respect you and your chicken doesn't either, then you must be unfit
81. Dilbert - Lampooning PHBs since 1989
82. The Grizzwells - A bear and his porcupine friend laze about the forest
83. F minus - Random FUN
84. One Big Happy - Ruthie doing her best to raise her parents, and to sell her art
85. Grand Avenue - Children doing their thing
86. Drabble - Life with the Drabble family. Also, there's a duck
87. Jump Start - Middle class African-Americans doing their thing
88. Pickles - Life in the golden years sometimes loses its sheen
89. Ben - Now that he's retired, he can amuse his grandchildren. And drive his wife crazy
90. Level Path - Five friends, each seeking the 'level path'
91. Luann - A teenaged girl and the struggles that entails
92. Speed Bump - A single panel of fun every day
93. Barkeater Lake - A small town, the big city girl who teaches there, and the dog that coaches the high school football team
94. Rudy Park - The desperate search for technology, all while working in an internet cafe
95. Over the Hedge - Life in suburbia, as seen by the wildlife forced to the edge
96. Spot the Frog - Spot the frog is a wild frog. Who pays Karl 10 cents a month to live in his house.
97. Get Fuzzy - A man, his dumb but lovable dog, and his dumb but evil cat.
98. Frazz - Frazz wrote a hit song and is rich because of it. Now he works in the local elementary school as the school's best educator. He's also the janitor
99. Sheldon - See my post from a few days ago title "My Favouritest". Also, there's a duck!

Webcomics
100. Unshelved (www.unshelved.com) - Life in a library
101. Starslip Crisis (www.starslipcrisis.com) - Life on an intergalactic museum
102. Count Your Sheep (www.countyoursheep.com) - A little girl and the sheep (singular) that she counts to put her to sleep
103. Commissioned (www.commissionedcomic.com) - Following O and his friends as they try to live life and play RPGs at the same time. Sometimes a bit risque, always a bit funny
104. Nuklear Power (www.nuklearpower.com) - What RPG video game characters are really like. Also a bit crude at times, but very amusing.


Okay, that was more than I thought it was. But I regret nothing. I really enjoy comics and the joy that they bring. If I could draw, it is quite possible that I'd be doing comic strips because I love 'em so. It can't be easy to do, though, coming up with something new every day.

Well, there you have it. More of my passion heaped upon your heads.

Update: The following was posted as a comment - Kudzu, Bound and Gagged, Animal Crackers, Brewster Rockit, and Shoe are not with Universal Syndicate. They are with Tribune Media Services at: http://www.comicspage.com. Universal set up an original deal where they display comic strips from multiple syndicates on one site--making it easier for viewers to see a bunch of comics at once. When Universal did this, some syndicates didn't want to be left out of the views, so they joined.

Thanks to spudart for pointing this out.

1 Comments:

At 7:01 a.m., Blogger Matt Maldre said...

Hi there, thanks for the nice list. It's great to hear about people reading the funnies--and which ones they read too!

You have some of your comics miscategorized. Kudzu, Bound and Gagged, Animal Crackers, Brewster Rockit, and Shoe are not with Universal Syndicate. They are with Tribune Media Services at: http://www.comicspage.com Universal set up an original deal where they display comic strips from multiple syndicates on one site--making it easier for viewers to see a bunch of comics at once. When Universal did this, some syndicates didn't want to be left out of the views, so they joined.

So yes the above mentioned comic strips can be viewed at ucomics.com, but they are technically with Tribune Media Services.

 

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