they’re the best part of the daily
newspaper that’s why they call them the
funnies welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten comic strips for this list
we’re focusing on comic strips of
exceptional quality and popularity
however we’re only including those that
originated as newspaper strips rather
than as a comic book or another medium
number 10 Dennis the Menace this comic
strip about a mischievous five and a
half year old boy may have started in
the newspapers but Dennis the Menace
became so popular it spawned multiple
film and TV adaptations and even a video
game there’s just something about the
title characters innocent curiosity and
uncanny ability to always get into
trouble that really endears him to us
what it boils down to is the dennis
mostly starts off with good intentions
but inevitably especially if it involves
mr. Wilson something goes horribly and
hilariously wrong number nine bloom
County opus the penguin and Friends took
the comic pages by storm in the 1980s
Berkley breads bloom County defined the
decade in the comics world smart
sometimes snide or sarcastic and filled
with social commentary it was also a raw
really funny weather focusing on major
real-life events or the fictional lives
of its cast of engagingly oddball
characters bloom County was always on
target number eight zits teenage comic
strips go back a long way but zits is
more than a modern-day Archie lead
character Jeremy is a 16 year old
dealing with parents school parents
music parents and girls sits manages the
great feat of accurately capturing the
feel of being a teenager without being
condescending or nostalgic even when
satirical the humor is warm and gentle
number 7 BC caveman humor that’s what BC
was about when it started out in 1958
but if it
been about nothing else it wouldn’t
still be going strong more than 55 years
later but creator Johnny Hart filled a
strip with recognizable characters that
know how to work a gag and Hart’s
daughter and grandsons who now handle
the strip inherited the cartoonists know
how to keep it fresh and alive number 6
Dilbert every office worker who has ever
had to stay late to complete a pointless
project or endure a brainless boss who
uses meaningless catchphrases can relate
to Dilbert judging by how immensely
popular Scott Adams workplace comic
strip is there are a lot of people who
can identify and not just in the u.s.
the strip appears in 65 countries and in
25 languages number 5 doonesbury Garry
Trudeau’s iconic doonesbury has been
chronicling the social and political
paths of the US for more than 40 years
Doonesbury is one of the rare comic
strips that lets its characters age but
the strips humor skill perception and
bite haven’t aged at all
Trudeau’s left-leaning politics have
earned the wrath of some but that just
demonstrates how influential the medium
of the comic strip can be in the right
hands number 4 the far side single panel
cartoons can be a challenge to pull off
but Gary Larson’s brilliant far side
managed the trick neatly for 15 years
although many phases and forms popped up
repeatedly this was a gag a day strip
that didn’t really feature recurring
characters just Larsen’s clean crisp
drawing and his unique very off-kilter
sense of the absurd didn’t need anything
else
number 3 Garfield this Curt and
sarcastic cat that loves lasagna has
been tickling the funny bones of readers
since 1978 an overweight orange tabby
Garfield has a human named John who
thinks he is the cat’s owner together
with John’s brain challenged dog Odie
they provide Garfield with the chance to
exercise his snide sense of humor which
is about the only exercise America’s
favourite cat ever gets
number two peanuts Charles M Schulz
peanuts has become such a fixture in
American culture that it’s hard to
remember a day when it didn’t exist for
fifty years Charlie Brown Snoopy Lucy
and the rest entertained readers with
its subtle wit and insights widely
regarded as the most popular and
successful comic strip in history
peanuts managed to make surprisingly
profound observations in its small
four-panel way without losing sight of
its need to entertain before we reveal
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions
number one Calvin and Hobbes for ten
years a comic strip about a boy and his
stuffed tiger ruled the pages bill
Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes is in the
tradition of little kid strips but the
humor could be sophisticated rye and
sardonic as called for expertly drawn
the strip also featured some gorgeous
artwork and layout in its sunday strips
but what it did best was capture the
sheer joy of being a mischievous wildly
imaginative six-year-old boy and of the
special bond between a child and his
best friend do you agree with our
choices what other brilliant comic
strips should we have added to this list
for more enthralling top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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newspaper that’s why they call them the
funnies welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten comic strips for this list
we’re focusing on comic strips of
exceptional quality and popularity
however we’re only including those that
originated as newspaper strips rather
than as a comic book or another medium
number 10 Dennis the Menace this comic
strip about a mischievous five and a
half year old boy may have started in
the newspapers but Dennis the Menace
became so popular it spawned multiple
film and TV adaptations and even a video
game there’s just something about the
title characters innocent curiosity and
uncanny ability to always get into
trouble that really endears him to us
what it boils down to is the dennis
mostly starts off with good intentions
but inevitably especially if it involves
mr. Wilson something goes horribly and
hilariously wrong number nine bloom
County opus the penguin and Friends took
the comic pages by storm in the 1980s
Berkley breads bloom County defined the
decade in the comics world smart
sometimes snide or sarcastic and filled
with social commentary it was also a raw
really funny weather focusing on major
real-life events or the fictional lives
of its cast of engagingly oddball
characters bloom County was always on
target number eight zits teenage comic
strips go back a long way but zits is
more than a modern-day Archie lead
character Jeremy is a 16 year old
dealing with parents school parents
music parents and girls sits manages the
great feat of accurately capturing the
feel of being a teenager without being
condescending or nostalgic even when
satirical the humor is warm and gentle
number 7 BC caveman humor that’s what BC
was about when it started out in 1958
but if it
been about nothing else it wouldn’t
still be going strong more than 55 years
later but creator Johnny Hart filled a
strip with recognizable characters that
know how to work a gag and Hart’s
daughter and grandsons who now handle
the strip inherited the cartoonists know
how to keep it fresh and alive number 6
Dilbert every office worker who has ever
had to stay late to complete a pointless
project or endure a brainless boss who
uses meaningless catchphrases can relate
to Dilbert judging by how immensely
popular Scott Adams workplace comic
strip is there are a lot of people who
can identify and not just in the u.s.
the strip appears in 65 countries and in
25 languages number 5 doonesbury Garry
Trudeau’s iconic doonesbury has been
chronicling the social and political
paths of the US for more than 40 years
Doonesbury is one of the rare comic
strips that lets its characters age but
the strips humor skill perception and
bite haven’t aged at all
Trudeau’s left-leaning politics have
earned the wrath of some but that just
demonstrates how influential the medium
of the comic strip can be in the right
hands number 4 the far side single panel
cartoons can be a challenge to pull off
but Gary Larson’s brilliant far side
managed the trick neatly for 15 years
although many phases and forms popped up
repeatedly this was a gag a day strip
that didn’t really feature recurring
characters just Larsen’s clean crisp
drawing and his unique very off-kilter
sense of the absurd didn’t need anything
else
number 3 Garfield this Curt and
sarcastic cat that loves lasagna has
been tickling the funny bones of readers
since 1978 an overweight orange tabby
Garfield has a human named John who
thinks he is the cat’s owner together
with John’s brain challenged dog Odie
they provide Garfield with the chance to
exercise his snide sense of humor which
is about the only exercise America’s
favourite cat ever gets
number two peanuts Charles M Schulz
peanuts has become such a fixture in
American culture that it’s hard to
remember a day when it didn’t exist for
fifty years Charlie Brown Snoopy Lucy
and the rest entertained readers with
its subtle wit and insights widely
regarded as the most popular and
successful comic strip in history
peanuts managed to make surprisingly
profound observations in its small
four-panel way without losing sight of
its need to entertain before we reveal
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions
number one Calvin and Hobbes for ten
years a comic strip about a boy and his
stuffed tiger ruled the pages bill
Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes is in the
tradition of little kid strips but the
humor could be sophisticated rye and
sardonic as called for expertly drawn
the strip also featured some gorgeous
artwork and layout in its sunday strips
but what it did best was capture the
sheer joy of being a mischievous wildly
imaginative six-year-old boy and of the
special bond between a child and his
best friend do you agree with our
choices what other brilliant comic
strips should we have added to this list
for more enthralling top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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