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How can Pogo not be included in any list of comics and cartoons?
Where's Smilin' Jack? Where are Terry and the Pirates? The Katzenjammer Kids? Where especially is The Far Side?
I second Dilbert, but even he is ignored, and he's current.
Going way back there.
Different eras:
When my father and his brothers were kids, they cut out the comic strips and pasted them in albums. As a kid myself, used to like reading them when I visited my grandfather's house. Captain Easy and Dick Tracy stand out. Would have to dredge the memory banks for more.
My parents knew Milt Caniff (Terry and the Pirates; Steve Canyon) at Ohio State.
My own choices, both comic books and comic strips:
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (especially Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge et al during the time of the "good artist" Carl Barks; great adventure themes); Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd; et al); Little Lulu; Nancy; Superman; Batman; The Lone Ranger; Pogo (a favorite of my Dad's too; loved the mangled words).
In later years, liked Far Side; Doonesbury; Prince Valiant (still and always); Blondie; Peanuts; Beetle; Dilbert.
Eventually stopped reading the comic page, coincidentally with not reading the paper so much, transitioning to other news sources. Somehow missed out on the much-praised Pickles. It didn't even ring a bell.
But all the rest were what I recognized as my education, before and even during that more formal stuff
