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Motley's Crew This is the Mike Motley family tree   Marriage Tom Forman
Motley's Crew was a comic strip by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman that dealt with satirical social commentary. With readership spread among 250 newspapers in America alone, the comic strip acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans...
Career Ben Templeton
Suburban Life
Family
Humour
Peanuts   Humour Charles M. Schulz
Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one...
The Tales of the Vine-Gar   Comedy  
Bloom County Cover of Loose Tails   Politics Berkeley Breathed
Bloom County was an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the lens of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children have adult...
Satire
Humour
The Far Side   Satire Gary Larson
The Far Side is a popular one-panel syndicated comic created by Gary Larson. Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre...
Humour
Urban Trash   Humour  
On May 28, 2008, Nell announced that he is retiring Urban Trash. Urban Trash is a satirical South African comic strip created by Jeremy Nell, originating on 14 March 2005. It focuses on the exploits of urban street life in and around South Africa,...
Opus image:Opus_strip.jpg   Politics Berkeley Breathed
Opus is a Sunday strip by Berkeley Breathed. It is Breathed's fourth comic strip, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland. Set in Bloom County, the strip documents the adventures of Breathed's popular character Opus the Penguin,...
Satire
Humour
Sherman's Lagoon   Humour Jim Toomey
Sherman's Lagoon is a cartoon strip by Jim Toomey that is syndicated daily in over 150 newspapers worldwide. It first appeared in the Escondido Times-Advocate on May 13, 1991. The strip takes place at the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of...
Tom the Dancing Bug The opening panel to one of Ruben Bolling’s comic strips that features Lucky Ducky[1]   Politics Ruben Bolling
Tom the Dancing Bug is a weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling which presents critical commentary on modern life, current events, and conventional wisdom and clichés. (There are no bugs or dancing involved and there are no characters named Tom.) The...
Satire
Humour
This Modern World   Politics Tom Tomorrow
This Modern World is a weekly satirical comic strip by cartoonist and political commentator Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins) that covers current events from a liberal point of view. Tomorrow also runs a weblog that informs readers about stories of...
Humour
Stone Soup     Politics Jan Eliot
Stone Soup, named for the stone soup fable, is an internationally syndicated American comic strip written and illustrated by Jan Eliot. The comic strip, set in Eugene, Oregon, began as a weekly in 1990. The syndicated daily strip debuted in November...
Family
Humour
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer JuliusKnipl   Humour Ben Katchor
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer is a weekly comic strip written and drawn by Ben Katchor since 1988. It is published in The Forward and various alternative weekly newspapers. Katchor embodied his love of the fading small-business community...
Viivi & Wagner     Humour Jussi Tuomola
Viivi & Wagner is a somewhat absurdist Finnish newspaper comic strip drawn by Jussi "Juba" Tuomola. The titular main characters are Viivi, a Finnish woman in her twenties, and Wagner, a mature male pig. Wagner is fully anthropomorphic and...
Little Jimmy     Humour James Swinnerton
Little Jimmy was a newspaper comic strip created by Jimmy Swinnerton. With a publication history from 1904 to 1958, it was one of the first continuing features and one of the longest running. The title character was a little boy who was constantly...
Mutts Earl and Mooch   Humour Patrick McDonnell
Mutts is a daily comic strip created by Patrick McDonnell in 1994 based on the day-to-day adventures of two house pets: a dog named Earl and a cat named Mooch. Earl and Mooch interact with each other, their human owners, and a large cast of...
Brevity   Humour  
Brevity is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. Brevity originally began on Comics Sherpa (a site which helps beginning comic strips make their work public over the web). It debuted in 55 newspapers on...
Calvin and Hobbes Fictional Universe Humour Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin...
Work of Fiction
For Better or For Worse FBorFW Patterson family   Drama Lynn Johnston
For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that began in September 1979. The strip is set in the fictitious Toronto-area suburb town of Milborough, Ontario; it chronicles the lives of a Canadian family and their friends. It is seen in...
Family
Humour
Baby Blues TV Program Humour Rick Kirkman
Baby Blues is an American comic strip series produced by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott since January 7, 1990. Syndicated by King Features Syndicate since 1995, the strip centralizes on the MacPherson family. Initially, this family was composed of...
Jerry Scott
Doonesbury The first Doonesbury cartoon, from October 26, 1970.   Politics Garry Trudeau
Doonesbury is a comic strip by G. B. Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters, of different ages, professions, and backgrounds — from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael...
Satire
Humour
Cathy Cathy, the comic strip character   Women Cathy Guisewite
Cathy is a comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. Featuring a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life food, love, mom, and work the strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. Cathy's characteristics and...
Family
Humour
Mallard Fillmore Fictional Character Politics Bruce Tinsley
Mallard Fillmore is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley. The strip follows the exploits of its title character, a politically conservative anthropomorphic green-feather duck who works as a reporter at fictional television station...
Zits Jeremy from Zits enjoying some quality time   Humour Jim Borgman
Zits is a comic strip written by Jerry Scott and illustrated by Jim Borgman following the life of Jeremy Duncan, a fifteen-year old high school freshman. The comic debuted in July 1997 in over 200 newspapers and has since become popular worldwide...
Jerry Scott
U.S. Acres Fictional Character Humour Jim Davis
U.S. Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States) is a comic strip that ran from 1986 to 1989 created by Jim Davis, author of the popular comic strip Garfield. The comic was launched on March 3, 1986 in a then-unprecedented 505 newspapers...
Hägar the Horrible   Humour Dik Browne
Hägar the Horrible (sometimes referred to as simply Hagar) is the title and the name of the main character of a syndicated comic strip by Dik Browne (and later by Chris Browne), first seen in February 1973 and distributed to 1,900 newspapers in 58...
Agnes AgnesAndTrout   Humour Tony Cochran
Agnes is an American syndicated comic strip written and drawn by Tony Cochran. It was first syndicated in 1999. Agnes chronicles the adventures of an elementary school-aged girl living in a Ohio trailer park called "The People's Court" with her...
Beetle Bailey A page from the comic book version of Beetle Bailey Fictional Character Humour Mort Walker
Beetle Bailey (begun on September 4, 1950) is a comic strip set in a United States Army military post, created by Mort Walker. It is among the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The strip also remains among the most...
Outland   Politics Berkeley Breathed
Outland was a Sunday-only comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995. It was a spin-off of Breathed's strip Bloom County, featuring many of the same characters. On September 31989, a month after retiring Bloom...
Satire
Humour
Arnold Arnold-comics   Humour Kevin McCormick
Arnold was the title of a comic strip by Kevin McCormick that ran in a few newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press, from 1983 through 1988. The main characters were Arnold, a strange, volatile child, Tommy, his well-meaning and clueless friend,...
Dilbert   Humour Scott Adams
Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert, which predates Office Space and all versions of The Office, is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanage...