Comics have this amazing capacity to bring smiles to our faces and make our days better because of their ability to find humor in everyday life activities, challenges, and downfalls of life. They even turn the most ridiculous moments of our lives into hilarious ones and make these moments memorable of all time.
In this blog post, we will explore the most amazing comic strips of all time that have won the hearts of millions of people with their endearing and adventurous characters and funny stories.
1. Peanuts Comic Strips:
Charles M. Shulz is the cartoonist and illustrator behind the comic strip Peanuts. He draws comic strips on a variety of topics, with friendship and childhood experiences being the most prominent. These comic strips are some of the most loved comic strips printed in popular newspapers around the world and have twice won the Best Cartoonist award.
2. Garfield Comic Strips:
The creator of these comic strips is Jim Davis who created these comics about Jon Arbuckle, an ignorant owner of a cynical and lazy cat named Garfield who loves eating and sleeping and does nothing more than this, and a charming, innocent dog called Odie.
These comic strips have been given twice the Reuben award for being the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1981 and again in 1985.
3. The Far Side Comic Strips:
The Far Side is a single-panel comic strip that was published for a short period from 1980 to 1985. These single-panel comics are created by Gary Larson who uniquely and weirdly describes ridiculous moments, peculiarities of human behavior, and humor by using a variety of characters. He uses strange human beings and anthropomorphic animals to describe the above-mentioned themes.
Gary Larson has won the hearts of millions of people with his creative artwork and unique and witty sense of humor. In addition, many awards are given to his single-panel comics including the Reuben Award that was given to Gary Larson in 1990 for being the outstanding cartoonist of the year.
4. Doonesbury Comic Strips:
Garry Trudeau is the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip, which satirically and offensively addresses a variety of issues including political issues, social injustice, changing American society, and the complexities of modern life through these comic strips. Garry created various characters to explore a diverse range of themes humorously.
These characters include college students, political figures, and ordinary people. Doonesbury is featured in newspapers around the world and has won many awards. Among these awards is the Pulitzer Prize, which was awarded to these comic strips in 1975.
5. Dilbert Comic Strips:
In 1989, the Dilbert comic strip was created by Scott Adams who sarcastically and humorously described various issues including the challenges faced working in a business environment, government, and office politics through these comic strips. He describes these themes by creating various characters that include Dilbert and his coworkers having names of the pointy-haired boss, Alice, and Wally.
In these comic strips, Delbert is shown as a stupid and helpless engineer who challenges the absurdities of working in an organization with his strange and weird friends.
6. FoxTrot Comic Strips:
FoxTrot is one of the best comic strips that has amazed a tremendous fan following worldwide because of its ability to talk about the challenges faced by teenagers during their growing age and to explore the themes of adolescence and the family humorously.
The mastermind behind these comic strips was Bill Ahmed in 1988. Bill laid the basis of these comics on a family need fox family in which Andy and Roger live with their three mischievous and naughty children named Paige, Peter, and Jason. Paige is a daughter who has a great love for fashion and styling. Peter is the eldest son while Jason is the youngest child in the family whose mischievous behaviors always make his parents overwhelmed and embarrassed.
These comic strips are published in various newspapers and were given the Reuben Award in 2007 for being the outstanding cartoonist of the year.
7. Archie Comic Strips:
Archie comics are the most interesting and popular comic book series that have won many awards for being the best cartoons including the Harvey Award for their ability to beautifully capture the themes of friendship, romance hardships, and challenges of college life.
These comics are the result of the creation of several different artists including Bob Montona, John L. Goldwater, and Vic Bloom who work in collaboration with one another to show the life and adventures of Archie Andrews with his friends in an imaginary town of Riverdale.
Archie Andrews is the main and most beloved character of these comics while other characters include Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones, and Veronica Lodge. Betty Cooper is a cute, innocent, and sweet girl. Jughead is Archie’s best friend who has a great love for eating while Veronica Lodge is a wonderful, gorgeous, and decent lady.
8. Hagar The Horrible Comic Strips:
The Hagar the Horrible comic strips were created in 1973 by Dick Brown and explore the relationships of a great Viking named Hagar with his wife, Helga, children, friends, and his Viking crew in a humorous and light-hearted way.
9. Calvin And Hobbes Comic Strips:
The Calvin and Hobbes comic strip captures the adventurous life of a mischievous and imaginative six-year-old Calvin and his best friend Hobbes and is the product of the imagination of Bill Waterson, who created the comics in 1985.
These comics have twice won the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1986 and again in 1988.
10. Doodleguy Comic Strips:
The creator behind the wonderful Doodleguy comics is an Indian artist named Doodleguy who himself is the main character of these comics. He is a very creative and imaginative artist with a subtle sense of humor he created comics on a variety of projects and is known for his ability to capture everyday life situations with his humor and creativity. He has millions of fans on different social media platforms who praise his priceless work.
