Hey just wondering if any other snuffers enjoy comic books and the like. My favorite comics are in no particular order: Fat Freddys Cat/Fab Furry Freek Bros., Cherry Poptart, Groo the Wanderer, Grimm Fairy Tales(great newer series), House of Mystery, Mad Mag, wow I’m pretty sure the list could go on for a while. So I guess the question is- I show you mine now show me yours!
Bloom County/Outland/Opus.
Not exactly the same thing, but Charles M Schultz was always almost one of my heroes (as kid I used to faithfully go to the comics section of the newspaper just to study them, not just the little story line but how they were drawn, everything) and I have a few really old (1960’s possibly early 1970’s) Peanuts books which I wonder as I write this if they might even be worth something now.
+1 BradMajors !! I’ll add Calvin and Hobbs for honorable mention. I’ve a Bill the Cat plush toy that has accompanied me in every flat and house I’ve lived in for the last 25 years (-:
anything that Jhonen Vasquez did, like Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Fillerbunny, Squee!, I Feel Sick and graphic novels like The Walking Dead, Watchmen, Marvel Zombies, The Dark Tower series
I’m probably the only one old enough to remember, bu IMHO Pogo is the greatest comic/political satire ever.
Spiderman
And Anything Tod Mc Farlane ( Spawn! )
I collect Spider-Man (pre 1999) , Spider-Girl, Groo the Wanderer, The Tick. I used to collect a lot more, but those are my favorites and I focus on them now. I like the harbound editions of collected comics from the Silver Age (like Marvel Masterworks) as well.
all mentioning greats! Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes are likely my favorite newspaper strips, both brilliantly drawn and written.
Now what about TARZAN? Nobody like/remember him and JANE? Wonder if they ever had kids. What IS known is that Tarzan suffered from a hormone problem. He never had any beard or body hair.
@Nachman Whilst I didn’t fully appreciate the political satire at the time, I did enjoy Pogo! “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Tintin of European comics, Batman of American comics are my favourites but I like all kind of comics in general. And Pogo is great!
Turok the Dinosaur Hunter, TransMetropolitan, Fables (Legends In Exile), and Dr. Strange! Too bad TransMetropolitan is the only one I ever had time to read completely…
My favorite comic is actualy a family circus book me and my girlfriend desicrated by adding additional art as well changing the text. Some of them are funny some are just plain wrong. All are classics. I need to scan that shit in somewhere soon.
@ Pieter For being so close to primates on a daily basis, you would think he’d develop more hair, at least peach-fuzz…or evolve I guess you’d say…never thought of that really Not really a comic, but I watched quite a bit of Felix the Cat and many of the old Betty Boops with Grampy. They don’t make animation like that any more… I guess my favorite is Robert Crumb…anyone into him? MR. NATURAL!!!
Ya, R. Crumb is hilarious! Big Ass Comix!!!
Agree with R. Crumb there! Also got Will Eisner’s Spirit collection lately, brilliant stuff.
The Will Eisner book-New York the Big City is one of my prized possessions. Been really wanting to look into Spirit as well, how many are in the collection?
I’m not sure, one I have is a British edition but I think in US most of Spirit is re-published now. That New York story I also remember fondly, got me interested in comics again.