While I love the iconic swish of Street’s pen, I feel his style puts up a barrier between seeing the reality of his characters, their humanity. Fisher reads like Captain Crunch on the cereal box. And I’m rooting for Street to get closer to the reader’s heart.
Like the much despised (by [...]

Norm Feuti has built his characters so well that even 3 panels of two guys in suits talking has a suspenseful and compelling charm. Because we know the hurt and pain these two guys have caused all the other characters in the strip in the past, especially our main (pregnant) point of view [...]

Both art and exquisitely sarcastic, witty dialogue make Mike Peter’s work always tops. This particular cartoon makes fun of some of the devices of For Better Or Worse, a domestic cartoon of which I am not a fan, trying ever so hard. It’s a ‘read it and flinch’ for me, sometimes giving me [...]

Feeling of reality here you don’t get with most cartoons. I’d hate to call it heartwarming (misused term, that) but it is definitely small town with a caring attitude. All three of my domestic faves have an absence of bratty or know it all or cute kids but simply describe how it is [...]

Domestic stuff again but from a family that might sound dysfunctional to outsiders, but is accepting of all their excentricies. Two dreamy imaginative children: Petey & Alice and their very odd take on the world. Petey is a cartoonist specializing in zombis but not at all in the real world. This one’s a [...]

Brewster is dumb as a box of astroid chunks but good hearted and well meaning as characters in the strip are always pointing out. There is a perennially evil scientist and a kid that is constantly used by him as a guinea pig (but survives), learns nothing and continues trustingly to be the [...]

Keep studying & admiring Jan Eliot’s artwork; the way she brings nature into a large percent of strips, her flawless anatomy drawn comic style with the four fingers, each panel designed with seeming ease giving you a lot to notice, making each one worth several looks to investigate.
Again, as a lover [...]

This is part of a strip to show you the fine draftmanship, character deliniation and playfulness with the language of Barney & Clyde. Often philosophical as well as linguistically able, the strip is right at the top of my Best list.

Finally, here’s an older one about an occasional character, Bunnyneedsahug which [...]

Larson’s take on the unaware suburbanites who park badly in two spaces, swipe all the condiments at their restaurant table and hold up the line wherever they are, trying to get a few cents off, is immaculate and hilarious to those who know them.
Once I’m done noting the BEST, I’m going [...]

This perfect Start-Of-Winter cartoon coincided with a massive ice storm in our town affecting over 7000 people, mostly losing power. I sent it to everyone I could think of and got enthusiastic responses.
Glen has a dry wit that goes with his fine lines. He comes the nearest of any cartoonist I [...]